"And we (black people) love to give ourselves the luxury of feeling like we are the only ones watching—even if we empirically know it is not true! And I believe if Leslie Jones had done her bit on 'Comic View' or 'Def Comedy Jam' or at a random Sunday on Hannibal Buress’s night at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn—where there are a ton of white people, but the lens through which they watch is BLAAAAAACK!—she would have killed! And she may have been heralded as one of our (black people’s) favorite types of comedians, one who goes there! But because of the venue and the audience, it felt weird."
In Salon, W. Kamau Bell reacts to the controversy over Leslie Jones on Saturday Night Live.
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