Damon Wayans Jr. Backpedals Like a Mofo

The standard operating procedure of your D-list celebrity virtue troll is to post something intentionally provocative, when pressed ask how nobody noticed it was an obvious joke, and conclude by pulling the post and insist you made your point. Before social media, the same types of self-righteous people did this very same thing, but in person, and got punched in the face regardless of their message. The good old days.

Damon Wayans Jr. who has refers to himself as a multi-hyphenate, meaning he has acted, written, and directed material his famous father made happen for him, unleashed an unnecessarily gratuitous Tweet about the racist history of America on the 4th of July:

“Happy white people proud of their racist ancestors day.”

It’s the kind of poorly thought out black injustice one-liner you might hear at a Farrakhan rally if Farrakhan had a stand-in that day due to bloating from bean pies. We get it. A trailer moment. Plymouth rock landed on you. And not far off, since Wayan’s Jr. was born in Vermont, before attending private arts schools in Los Angeles.

And the backtrack:

“A joke some took too personally. So what. Jokes aren’t illegal.”

Is the Fourth of July the day to bring up the history of racism in the United States, or any other country where it exists, which is every single other country? Perhaps. But most certainly a privileged kid in entertainment with no standing credentials is not the one to do it. Therefore, it’s merely cheap, weak, and counterproductive. 

Wayan’s Jr. is 34. He didn’t land a project not involving his father until he was 28. That’s choice he made. Similar say, to how people choose to celebrate the 4th of July and American patriotism. Some people like to wave flags. Statistically, most of those people probably came from immigrant families long after America’s Civil War era. Probably none of them celebrated racism on the Fourth.

Generalizations are the foundation of bigotry. Somebody should’ve Tweeted that. Carry on Wayans, Jr. 

_{Photo credit: Damon Wayans Jr. Twitter}