Ellen DeGeneres defends her Usain Bolt tweet some claimed was racist

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154. Is there anything white people can say that isn't, at the very least, unintentionally racist?

If someone says, good job on your athletic accomplishment, is that not at least unintentional racism? Good job on your high grade in whatever class. Is that in some way at least unintentionally racist? White people can't say I understand your pain and actually mean it, so that's not even an option.

If black people can't trust that anything white people say to them isn't in some way rooted in distant or recent history, and the best white people can ever be is unintentionally racist, how is anyone supposed to talk to anyone, or move beyond distant or recent history?

Like the whole The Nightly Show cancellation. Even Wilmore joked about it being the unblackening of latenight. Is the show done because of the white system? Is the show done because it wasn't good? Is the show done because not enough people watched? Did people not watch it because they're racist, or because the show wasn't good? Was his show good? Was his show bad? How can anyone ever know for sure either way? Maybe it's just another in the long line of cancelled shows. Maybe he's a black man being too real for white people.