Sunday, 9 December 2018

Kevin Hart fueled a dangerous trope: the unenlightened black homophobe | Steven W Thrasher

It’s easy for white liberals to imagine homophobia as the fault of a cartoonish black character even though black people hardly wield the power that drives it

He lasted less time as an Oscars host than Anthony Scaramucci did as Trump’s White House director of communications. On Friday, Kevin Hart withdrew from his role as hype man of the mediocre awards show. He did so on Twitter, writing that he wanted to “sincerely apologize to the LGBT community for my insensitive words from my past”. This atonement came after he had refused just the night before to apologize for past homophobic jokes and tweets.

Related: Oscars host Kevin Hart's homophobia is no laughing matter | Benjamin Lee

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