"Yo, Barry, you did it, my nigger": Larry Wilmore choque au WHCD

l'hmoriste Larry Wilmore a terminé son intervention au "White House Correspondents' Dinner" en soulignant à quel point il était touché par le symbole de l'élection d'un premier noir à la présidence. Pour marquer le coup il a terminé par une formule particulièrement familière. Le choix du mot "nigger" en a fait réagir plusieurs dont Jonathan Capehart. Voici donc ce qu'il en pense. Je vous laisse également la performance de Wilmore.

 "But never before has the n-word been used to address the president. At least, not in public and most definitely not to his face. That’s why Wilmore’s use of it was as shocking as it was disrespectful. And that’s why many African Americans in the room and watching on television were appalled by Wilmore’s excessive and inappropriate down-home familiarity with the leader of the free world in front of the world.

Even before he walked into the Oval Office in January 2009, Obama’s detractors had questioned his authority and done everything possible to erode the legitimacy of his presidency. From unprecedented snubs of the chief executive to heckling him at a joint session of Congress in the year, the president’s critics have done everything but call him the n-word. But they don’t have to now that Wilmore has done it for them.

Sure, there were and are blacks who loved what Wilmore said. They think that by “keeping it 100,” a latter-day “keeping it real,” Wilmore expressed the undeniable pride African Americans have for Obama, the first lady and everything the first family means and represents to them. But the White House Correspondents Association dinner was neither Wilmore’s barbershop nor his momma’s house. Obama is president of the United States and should have been accorded the respect that comes with the office — especially by someone who considers himself family."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/05/02/why-larry-wilmore-is-not-my-n/