"Your last line has launched countless think pieces. What were you thinking when you said, “Yo, Barry, you did it, my nigga”? You addressed on your show the difference in meaning for some African Americans between n-i-g-g-er and n-i-g-g-a. But take us into what went into shaping that line.
Thank you for actually saying it. What I wanted to do in the end was to say how meaningful the president’s term was to me as an African American and to African Americans like me. That’s why I started it off by talking about how it was an anathema when I was growing up to even have a black quarterback, and how I appreciated what the president had achieved — the pride I felt.
As African Americans, if you’re not in our shoes, you don’t get to have that experience. I wanted to express what it feels like. When you’re inside of it — this is what you get to experience.
And when I think of the words that have been used against us and how we have turned them around, I thought of Obama and how he as an icon has turned upside-down [ideas of] black leadership and the conceptions of that. For me to turn this word upside down on this occasion was almost like a private moment we would share in this very public way."
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