Yeah the reason he doesn't get to play around with the terms "field n****** vs house n******" is he by definition can never be either onehttps://twitter.com/deray/status/871053585395712001 …
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Him mocking Obama for being too respectable was grotesque precisely bc white "Bad Boys" can be bad as they want & not lose respectability
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Al Franken - whom I love - was an incredibly foul-mouthed vicious satirist who turned around and became a Senator
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He had to put Comedian Al in the time-out box for a couple years to prove he was Serious but none of his old shit was "dirt" that hurt him
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Obama COULD NOT DO THAT. The most successful Obama comedy riff, the Anger Translator, was about how he CAN'T DO THAT
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Larry Wilmore, e.g., will never hold elected office precisely bc he said the N-word on TV in a positive context
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(I'd love to be proven wrong on that in my lifetime but I doubt it)
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The tightrope of "Too respectable? Too authentic?" is nerve-racking and insane and painful to watch
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Hence GOP posters simultaneously calling PBO an arugula-nibbling elitist AND a thug from the hood
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And for a supposed ally of the President to get in on the game for a laugh -- "He's no Suge Knight!" -- is infuriating
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"I didn't mean anything by it, I support Obama, I just reflexively laugh when I see a Black man perform respectability" Christ fuck you Bill
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