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D.L. HUGHLEY PROTESTED IN FORT WORTH: Comic halfway agrees with Don Imus; local black leaders say joke isn’t funny.
*He didn’t agree that they were “hoes,” but comedian D.L. Hughley said to Jay Leno during a recent “Tonight Show” visit “there were some nappy headed women on that [Rutgers women’s basketball] team.”
The comment prompted black leaders in Texas to protest his recent stand-up gig in Fort Worth.
"It's not only that comment, he has a history of demeaning our community in such a way that it's not funny anymore," said Pastor Kyev Tatum of Servant House Baptist Church, according to Fort Worth’s CBS 11 News.
Tatum joined a number or local black ministers, community leaders and local citizens to protest Hughley’s appearance Saturday at a Juneteenth show at Bass Hall.
Not only did Hughley say the team members were “nappy headed,” but he also referred to them as “some of the ugliest women I’ve ever seen in my whole life.” [See clip below.]
Hughley, whose NBC series “Studio 60 on Sunset Strip” was cancelled, has responded to community outrage in a statement released to the media.
He said:
"I believe that freedom of speech is a zero-sum proposition. Too many times I have watched clowns like these pretend to speak for the masses. I can only speak for me. Isn't there a child you can help teach to read, a war to help stop, an unjustly accused man you can help out of jail? I will not apologize for telling a joke about the world as I see it."
D.L. Hughley addressing Don Imus comment with Jay Leno
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