Within the phrases of our man D.L. Hughley, “When you’re a single, wealthy, straight white man — you don’t have any youngsters and also you’ve obtained some huge cash — there’s nothing that Trump can do or has achieved that impacts you on the margin.” That was his newest sizzling take whereas speaking to TMZ Dwell not too long ago on why males like Invoice Maher might be “glib” of their assist of the polarizing President Donald Trump.
The subject got here up following the Actual Time host’s latest go to to The White Home for a gathering that, as you would possibly’ve guessed, didn’t sit too proper with D.L.
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The principle subject D.L. has with Invoice — previous acquaintances, as you’ll see within the picture above of the 2 at Hughley’s fortieth birthday celebration again in 2004 — is his dismissal of the “woke” motion. As many Black folks would agree, the ideology has all the time been a reminder for us as a neighborhood to all the time concentrate on our environment in a world that has confirmed time and time once more to be unequal with regards to race. Maher then again has considered it, very similar to his new pal Trump, as an out-of-hand technique of racial division that makes each subject in America about race. Whereas it’s by no means a successful battle to say who’s proper in a debate over politics, you may’t deny that D.L. is spitting when he mentioned, “each time a Black particular person, or a girl or a homosexual particular person will get one thing, there are males who consider they solely obtained it due to some put aside program.” Whether or not you agree with what he additionally mentioned — “I feel Invoice Maher was integral in amplifying that message” — nicely, simply watch the clip beneath and decide for yourselves.