“And When the Cops Came Through, Obama & Larry Stood Next To a Turnt White House”: Black Out at Nerd Prom

[quote_simple]”Say we ain’t come to paint the White house Black. Let’s say we wrap it in slave ship. You mutha fuckas don’t want no trouble”- Falu[/quote_simple] I’ve never been one to immerse myself in the world of politics. I always preferred to care from arms’ length because I’ve always found the atmosphere too stuffy. I hate the whole “Let’s use pretentious rhetoric to bury the fact that somebody fucked up or we’re about to fuck shit up.” Suffice to say, that wasn’t as much the case during Obama’s reign. So when I saw Larry Wilmore, Host of The Nightly Show, and avid believer in keeping it ? come to the stage at the White House Correspondents Dinner, my immediate thought was, “Fight or flight — what’s he going to chose?” Meaning, to be Black on such a grand stage (on any stage, if we’re being real) you often have two choices: you can play it safe, or you can use that platform to the fullest and be unapologetically Black about it. Which doesn’t mean doing the most as much as it means having no fear in being real enough to tell it like it is. No sugar coating or preservatives; if we’re here to roast, then let’s roast. “What’s Larry’s play going to be?” I thought.

Oh? Ooooh, we ’bout to be Black as fuck about this? Larry Wilmore wasn’t giving a speech, he was playing Call of Duty and going on an epic kill streak. The savagery! Wilmore went for the media as if he were The Punisher. It was as if he was saying to himself,”one batch, two batch, penny and a dime” before letting…