In the “damnit, why did I let D.L. Hughley beat me to this shit” category, we have Damon Wayons.
Damon Wayans riled up the ladies on The View Wednesday morning by saying he had no issue with Don Imus for using the phrase “nappy-headed ho’s” and suggesting women should get back to fulfilling men’s “basic needs” – like cooking for them.
“Freedom of speech, what happened to that? What happened to expressing yourself?” Wayans, 47, said in reference to Imus, the shock jock who was fired in April for making derogatory remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team (and was recently hired by a rival radio station).
Wayans added: “At least I know where he stands. And you know what? When he called them nappy-headed ho’s, I went, ‘Wow, he’s right!’ ”
That got the co-hosts and the audience shouting over each other, but Wayans said a person’s reaction to a statement like that all depends on his or her perspective. “Black people at home are laughing right now,” he said. “White people are going, ‘That’s not right!’ It’s all cultural.”
Moving on to another contentious issue, Wayans said fewer women tend to men’s “basic needs” these days.
“Women today, most women I run into, don’t want to do the fundamentals,” he said. “They don’t cook. … I make the money so she can make something to cook.”
Amid the ensuing cacophony, Joy Behar managed to ask: “What if she makes as much money, though, and she says, ‘You do the cooking’?”
Wayans replied: “Then we can talk. But I haven’t met her. Beyoncé is taken.”
“Freedom of speech, what happened to that?”
What happened to freedom of speech? Nothing. That’s why when you exercise your freedom to express stupid shit, I am free to call you out for saying stupid shit.
“When he called them nappy headed ho’s, I went, ‘wow, he’s right!’ “
Allow me to use my freedom of speech to say, “you just said some stupid shit.”
“but Wayans said a person’s reaction to a statement like that all depends on his or her perspective. “Black people at home are laughing right now,” he said. “White people are going, ‘That’s not right!’ It’s all cultural.”
Interesting, because I’m black and I’m not laughing at all, especially when you say remarkably stupid shit like this:
“Women today, most women I run into, don’t want to do the fundamentals,” he said. “They don’t cook. … I make the money so she can make something to cook.”
Let me reiterate: you just said some stupid shit.
[tip o' the fedora to Blackfolks]
thankyou thankyou thankyou.
Kevin, have I mentioned lately that I love you? Because I do.
It’s funny how these debates only go on among black folk. I never hear about jews or any other groups fighting over allowing people and themselves the right to degrade each other. Damon Wayans and all of those black comedians are coons in the tradition of Bert Williams and Stepin Fetchit, and it seems like the masks of our wretchedness is not coming off. White people are still amused at us acting like clowns.
Jews don’t embrace negative words to describe them, and they just simply attack anyone who uses such language against them.
Then n-word is so powerful because it’s such a fascinating word that just won’t go away. I don’t know what gives it so much power, other than it can be a term of endearment, and word of hate all depending on who says it and how it is used. If we say as a nation no more use of n-word, then someone will use because they know it’s the ultimate hate word. If we say let’s embrace it, then someone will use it against the grain because they know it’s the ultimate hate word.
I’m almost ready to say let’s try a different approach and teach people that there is no such thing as “n-word” in the first place.
Thanks for your support, Kevin.
Sorry, Jews and all other ethnic groups have various slurs that they use within “the family”. It seems to me that the difference is corporations don’t collect the self-loathing bits of their culture and market it back to them. Damon Wayans was probably trying to be ironic but I agree, he really said some stupid shit, yo.