White man taunts black comedian: Trumps victory entitles me to call you a ni***r

[still_one]

"Comedian Jon Laster was performing at the Gotham Comedy Club in Chelsea, Manhattan just a week after the election when he reached “a boiling point” of personal frustration, Rolling Stone reports.

Laster recounted how at the end of the night’s sets, a white middle-aged individual approached him at the bar and said, “Man you were really funny, and you’re black!”

The man continued, “Since Trump won the election, there’s a lot America needs to reconsider. We need to put that ‘politically correct’ stuff to bed; now I should be able to call you ‘n-word.'”

Laster then recounted how he had to hold himself back from punching the man. After the incident, he wrote on his Facebook, “I’ve spent the entire weekend disgusted that we have to deal with this and disgusted that I didn’t break his jaw [and] it’s not an Alabama problem.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/white-man-taunts-black-comedian-trumps-victory-entitles-me-to-call-you-a-nir/

This is becoming more common place.

To borrow a phrase from the New York Sun editorial of September 21, 1897,

Yes, Virginia, racism is alive and well in America

[underpants]

1. Trump got votes from 20% of the population so, yeah, EVERYTHING changed

[Hekate]

2. Amazing what crawls out when you lift up a rock, and Trump lifted up a big one.

The *holes feel emboldend.

[still_one]

12. It is really disgusting and depressing

[ck4829]

3. Another stupid thing connected to the right's "political correctness" strawman

What this man said, not the article itself.

[niyad]

4. and I should be able to call that ignorant white asshole a racist piece of filth and a complete

waste of oxygen and resources. pity I wasn't there, my purse would have made quite an impression on him.

oh, wait. . . I can already do that!!

[progressoid]

5. They wear the label "deplorable" with pride. n/t

[niyad]

7. it is really going to piss them off when people start fighting back now that their leader looks

to be getting the green light to hand this country over to the russians.

[mopinko]

6. second city here is sick of their shit.

they had several cast members leave because they couldnt take it any more. they just put out a public statement, and are putting signs up at the theater that they will not tolerate hate.
trouble w improv is that it is about not thinking, just blurting it out.

sad fucking days.

[lunasun]

27. That's is sad they have a diversity outreach program and have been around for ever

sick audiences are making the comedians sick and they are quitting . The place has to have a security guard for this shit now

http://chicagoist.com/2016/10/26/comedian_tells_us_why_he_quit_dream.php



I now have post-traumatic stress disorder from being on stage. I'm taking a step back and concentrating on writing. The climate right now is unlike anything I've ever experienced before. It's coming to a boiling point, and I knew i had to get out of it before things got too ugly. I had the same exact physical and psychological manifestation as when I was abused as a child. It felt exactly the same. It felt like I was helpless and powerless. But I put all this aside because this was the dream. I thought, I can't be knocked down by these haters. But this isn't about me, and I need to preserve myself and get out of an abusive situation while I can.

Chicagoist: You were one of four cast members out of six who left the show, "A Red Line Runs Through It." What was that like?

[brer cat]

8. A lot of this came out in the open

when we elected a President of color, but trump has really emboldened them. As a white person, I feel that I must be alert and speak out loudly and forcefully. Chastisement and anger from the victims will not make the same impression as it would coming from a fellow white person. I have no illusions that I could change any minds and hearts, or even induce shame, but I would like to drive it underground instead of having them spew their filth in public. We are in this together, and maybe together we can deflect a lot of the blows.

[mac56]

9. Wow. A drunk dude at a bar, speaking obnoxiously.

Who'da ever thought?

[tom_kelly]

10. I don't call it being "Politically Correct"

I call it being civil.

[sheshe2]

11. Well then I can call him White Trash.

[world wide wally]

14. How about asshole?

[resistance2016]

32. That would be too "politically correct"

This guy doesn't want "politically correct," he said so himself. He chose to say the wrong thing to the wrong person, he chose for his body to be found in the woods somewhere. It might not happen tomorrow, but it will very likely happen one day. But it's what he chose.

[erpowers]

13. Call Someone The N-Word

Do not be surprised if you get your butt kicked. If you have the right to call someone the N-word they have the right to brutally kick you butt.

[NCTraveler]

15. "It's not an Alabama problem."

[still_one]

16. yup, the most important sentence from the report

[kacekwl]

17. If people wanted change from a anti-establishment candidate

they would have voted for Bernie. The reason they voted for trump is because they are racists , homophobes , sexist etc. The country is WAY more racist than people think.

[JCanete]

18. The level of aggression and hate is disturbing. It can't be easy to have to put up with it.

There is one silver lining in my opinion. People are emboldened to show you who they are. Granted, they might have been somebody different, and could still change if we had a kinder, gentler, more nurturing society...But this is who they were before Trump.

The only difference is they were hiding it in polite society..not its effects, just the root of those effects. It was hard to know who you were talking to, nor was there a chance to directly address that racism or its underlying assumptions. In the wake of Trump, its a little harder to pretend as a society that we've moved beyond racism in this country. as ridiculous as that always was. Maybe some redress will come out of this, as people who don't think they themselves are racist--they just manage to miss all of the micro-aggressions and institutional biases that they themselves are immersed in and contribute to on a daily basis--wake up to the reality that it is very much still alive and thriving.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

19. It's a truly pathetic group of people whose greatest aspiration is to call people

ni***rs. Who feel their quality of life is greatly diminished by the fact that a lot of other people object to their racist, misogynistic, homophobic hate speech.

Poor excuses for human beings.

[3catwoman3]

20. This is repulsive and...

...heartbreaking all at once.

There are many days I like animals much better than most people.

[Raine]

21. How about being just plain civil & polite? I learned good manners from my parents

seems that lots of people weren't raised by parents who had taught them anything.

[lunasun]

28. Taught them to hate and be racist. Parents probably installed the we don't have because they do

instead of encouraging manners and love of knowledge and fellow man
that would of got these people a lot farther than their bigotry and anger gets them today

[ailsagirl]

22. The new normal??

Sickening

[still_one]

23. That is the most troubling

[ailsagirl]

24. Gleeful racists are coming out of the woodwork

Like cockroaches

Thanks, drumpf

[JI7]

31. yes, just as Trump's bigot attacks were equal to Clinton and emails

[coco22]

25. I guess that makes him powerful now..

For people who think like this don't let Trump get your ass kicked or worst..Everyone is not going to hold back.

[Buzz cook]

26. But if we call that person a mother fuckin racist bitch

They get all upset, even though they are by definition mother fuckin racist bitches.
Ending political correctness only goes one way in conservative world.

[resistance2016]

30. Call him the n-word then, coward!

And when you get your sorry, white-trash ass beaten up or worse, DO NOT DARE ask me for help, as I am NOT your brother!