The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama wasn’t offended by comedian Larry Wilmore’s use of a racial slur at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he talked with Obama, and Obama appreciated the spirit of racial progress Wilmore was trying to convey.
Wilmore, on his Comedy Central show Monday, noted: “Like the president himself, the reaction was mixed,” a joking reference to Obama’s black father and white mother.
He said one critic, former CNN host Piers Morgan, had misquoted him by saying Wilmore used the word ending in “er.” Instead, Wilmore pointed out he used it ending in “a,” which he said was a term of endearment some black people use between each other to take back the power of the word to denigrate.
source: WTOP.com