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During the dramatic swirl of last summer, as newborn activists hit the streets to protest the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and scores of other Black Americans, members of Congress (including the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi) were photographed kneeling in Ghanaian kente cloth, and Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben abruptly reached retirement age. Throughout, the twenty-nine-year-old comedian Ziwe Fumudoh, who lives in Brooklyn, interviewed defendants plucked from the court of “cancel culture” on Instagram Live. Her guests included the actress Rose McGowan, the food writer Alison Roman, and the influencer Caroline Calloway. One hardball question: “How many Black friends do you have?” It almost always made her interlocutors stutter and squirm.
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April 27, 2021Updated 2:24 p.m. ET
Ziwe, the mononymic master of the viral âgotcha!â moment, swears she isnât out to get anyone.
Sure, the 29-year-old Nigerian-American comedianâs largely white guests on her YouTube and Instagram Live show, âBaited With Ziwe,â have a proclivity to make cringe-worthy comments when it comes to race. (The Instagram influencer Caroline Calloway couldnât correctly identify the Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton, and the cookbook author Alison Roman was nearly stumped when asked to name five Asian people.)
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