Eboni K. Williams Claps Back At HBO For Canceling Black-Led Shows For Jerrod Carmichael’s ‘Anti-Black’ Series
Eboni K. Williams is standing on business when it comes to what she calls "mockery" HBO chooses to uphold when it comes down to Black-led programming.
During an interview with 'The Breakfast Club' last month, Jerrod Carmichael addressed his "offensive" comedy set when he compared his white partner to that of a slave master and himself as an uneducated slave.
"I sometimes joke to him that like, our relationship is like that, a slave and the master's son who teaches me how to read by candle light," Carmichael, 36, said, to which the audience groaned with disapproval.
Despite his claims that his words were misconstrued, making "it seem like I'm into some type of race, sexual, slavery role play with my boyfriend, which is untrue, it's so false," TV personality Eboni K. Williams didn't buy his reasoning.
Williams, 40, spoke on her podcast 'Holding Court' to discuss her disappointment in the canceling of "at least three major Black shows" while upholding what she called "mockery" in the Black experience of the 'Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show.'
"Not that Jerrod Carmichael shouldn't have a show...but the content and the nature of the show is anti-Black. I just think there's a mockery of homosexual lifestyle that's been happening right before our very eyes," the 40-year-old lawyer stated.
"He's meeting dates on Grindr, which is a gay dating app, and he's getting dates on there and bringing them on camera as this young Black talent is getting ready for the f*****g Emmys and asking these randos 'do they want to attend the Emmy Awards' with him," the former 'Real Housewives of New York' reality star said.
Williams cited the cancellation of Black-led shows; 'Black Lady Sketch Show,' 'Rap Sh!t,' and 'Sweet Life: Los Angeles,' are "all gone, so that we can instead watch Jerrod Carmichael suck on a white man."
"What you're doing in this particular editorial choice by platforming and greenlighting this type of s**t, instead of all the other Black stories that could be told and need to be told and have yet to be told...you are advancing a scenario where this is the only education," she said. "This is the only correlation."
Carmichael, who starred in NBC's 'The Carmichael Show' for three seasons, has not responded to Williams' remarks.
