Wrong.
“Yo, Barry, You Did It, My Nigga!” This was “The Nightly Show’s” Larry Wilmore’s final salute to the President of the United States during an alleged comedy routine at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Here’s what’s wrong with it:
1. The comment was cynically calculated to cause an uproar, even at the cost of embarrassing the President and causing a racial incident. This is neither good hosting, nor ethical citizenship. Wilmore was only aiming at exploiting an opportunity to expand his rating, which aren’t so great.
2. It is disrespectful, no matter how one interprets the word. Barack Obama isn’t “Barack,” “Barry,” “Bro’,” or “Nigga” to Wilborn. He’s “Sir” or Mr. President. His job as M.C. didn’t permit that liberty.
3. It adds to a widespread and societally disruptive belief that Barack Obama is the black community’s President, and the black community has special privileges as a result. It certainly suggests that’s how black America views him. That’s not the legacy the President seeks, and thus the comment was uncomfortable for him.
4. Most white Americans and a lot of black ones do not agree that “nigger” and variations thereof are taboo when uttered by whites but benign when wielded by blacks. Why look, even Al Sharpton objected! “Many of us are against using the N-word period,” Sharpton told the LA Times. “But to say that to the President of the United States in front of the top people in media was at best in poor taste.” “So we end the WHCD by touting the historical implications of 1st black president… and we use the N-word. Not cool,” tweeted ABC producer Sarah Thomas, also an African-American.
5. The comment fed the racial divisiveness that has been the hallmark of Obama’s presidency. “Black Twitter,” as it is called, was full of African American celebrities and commentators making it clear that they didn’t care what white people thought. Mediaite’s resident race-baiter Tommy Christopher approvingly cited many of them, including his own.
I wonder who it was who convinced African-Americans that it was either wise, strategic, fair, reasonable or ethical to simultaneously express contempt for the opinions and feelings of whites while demanding hyper-sensitivity from whites about any word, innuendo, opinion or topic that could be considered the least bit uncomfortable for blacks?
6. “Barry” did what, exactly? What is “it”? Massively increasing the national debt? Dangerously dividing the nation? Undermining the rule of law, free speech and the system of checks and balances? Making a mockery of his promise to be transparent? Nurturing the anger, despair and cynicism that led to the rise of Donald Trump?
Barack Obama’s singular and historical accomplishment was being elected the first black President. Yes, he did that, but he did that almost eight years ago, and it’s old news. After that, his job was to be a good, fair, hard-working, effective, unifying and successful President of the United States, and his color was and is irrelevant to those tasks. He hasn’t been any of those things, so what has he done? Finished his terms? That not a big accomplishment. I guess he created an environment in which a TV personality thought it was appropriate to call him a “Nigga” in public.
He did that, all right.
I’m not applauding.
Ethics Alarms 
That should be The Nightly Show
Well, it’s daily too. Fixed. Thanks.
Am I the only person in the world who thinks the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, certainly in its current over-blown incarnation, is a singularly bad idea?
“Barack Obama is the black community’s President, and the black community has special privileges as a result.” Yep.
So I guess I shouldn’t tell the one about what color would Obama be if you ran him through a hydraulic press?
I eagerly await the kneejerk lobby’s defense of this.
I doubt it will even get their attention.
Unfortunately conservatives have been shoved into a corner like wallflowers at a party. The next step is to lock them in the cellar like the crazy aunt who can’t be let out when company comes over.
““Yo, Barry, You Did It, My Nigga!”
Despite the utter lack of decorum and respect due the office, given the many travesties that can fall under the label “it”, the statement is true- Obama, you can’t pretend like none of the messes are your fault any more.
For most of his die hard fans, it’s still 2008 and what Obama has done is get elected president notwithstanding his father was from Africa and Jesse Jackson wanted to have his nuts cut off. Everything after that is irrelevant. Same phenomenon will occur if HRC is elected president.
Here is one thing Barry did.
http://omnifeed.com/article/www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/05/02/justice-department-any-verbal-conduct-of-a-sexual-nature-that-any-listener-finds-unwelcome-sexual-harassment-that-universities-must-prevent/
Why is his administration doing its best to prove that a Donald Trump administration can not be worse?
The challenge? I doubt they could do it no matter how hard they try.
Well, I can understand the comment coming from who it came from, and it only goes to show that there is an issue as to race no matter what office you’re elected to and it’s more than just an issue, It’s like “You owe me brother!”
The black community forgets all the whites that died fighting for freedom in the south and at all costs. I never hear about John Brown who was white, who fought and lost his life and his two sons, for racial freedom in the South, There should be a John Brown holiday, more than King, King didn’t free anyone, he was more a demagogue, but that’s okay.. and I never hear the Jews raise contempt with anger towards the Egyptians which enslaved them for thousands of years! Is it not true?
Let’s not get carried away. Brown was a terrorist by any definition, and mad as a hatter. We can’t celebrate murderous zealots and get upset about ISIS.
I’m applauding. He did a great job slating the bad and touched on the good. That was the best speech in the whole 2016 political season even if offended those that deserve it