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Larry Wilmore is probably best known these days as the Senior Black Correspondent on The Daily Show. He recently released a book titled I'd Rather We Got Casinos, which I finally got around to reading today. Wilmore uses this book to humorously discuss race in America, and it's pretty damn hilarious.
He talks about re-branding black people as Chocolate (this is followed by a series of fake letters to the NAACP, asking them to change the "C" in their name to "Chocolate").
He considers becoming a black leader, and lists the ridiculous requirements for becoming one (ie. being called "Reverend" even if you don't have a church, no one being able to figure out exactly what he does for money, and being able to peg anything as simple as school lunches as racist).
There's the transcript of an interview he did with The Man (turns out The Man had nothing to do with Rodney King's beating, but he was the one who got the cops acquitted).
His chapters about fat black weathermen were just brilliant, and surprisingly true.
He even says it's okay to hate black people, so long as they work at a McDonald's in an airport.
It's a little over 200 pages, so it's not a heavy read. I thought it was a knee-slapper, and I suspect anyone who enjoys his segments on The Daily Show would find it funny as well, regardless of whether you're Chocolate, white, or whatever. And yes, I'm definitely using "Chocolate" to describe myself from now on. Everyone loves chocolate, and it doesn't take as long to say as "African-American."
He talks about re-branding black people as Chocolate (this is followed by a series of fake letters to the NAACP, asking them to change the "C" in their name to "Chocolate").
He considers becoming a black leader, and lists the ridiculous requirements for becoming one (ie. being called "Reverend" even if you don't have a church, no one being able to figure out exactly what he does for money, and being able to peg anything as simple as school lunches as racist).
There's the transcript of an interview he did with The Man (turns out The Man had nothing to do with Rodney King's beating, but he was the one who got the cops acquitted).
His chapters about fat black weathermen were just brilliant, and surprisingly true.
He even says it's okay to hate black people, so long as they work at a McDonald's in an airport.
It's a little over 200 pages, so it's not a heavy read. I thought it was a knee-slapper, and I suspect anyone who enjoys his segments on The Daily Show would find it funny as well, regardless of whether you're Chocolate, white, or whatever. And yes, I'm definitely using "Chocolate" to describe myself from now on. Everyone loves chocolate, and it doesn't take as long to say as "African-American."
