Larry Wilmore Slams Bill O'Reilly's “Horrible, Racist Statement” That Blacks Are “Ill-Educated And Have Tattoos On Their Forehead”

Wilmore: Tattoos Aren't The Problem, But Rather “Separate But Unequal Education, Red Line Housing, Banks That Will Not Provide Us Loans, And A Criminal Justice System Designed To Keep Us In Chains”

From the April 19 edition of Comedy Central's The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore:

LARRY WILMORE (HOST): So last week Bill O'Reilly was trying to explain why poor blacks couldn't get jobs and he blamed it on the tattoos on their foreheads. Yes, it was a horrible, racist statement, and a bunch of people took offense to it. And Bill O'Reilly actually doubled down on that last night.

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O'REILLY: Now, the race hustlers who apparently have not walked the streets of poor neighborhoods lately, immediately accused me of “racism.”

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WILMORE: No, regular people accuse you of racism.

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Now you preach a message of lack of hard work and motivation, Mr. O'Reilly, but what you fail to see is that black people who work twice as hard to get half as much. 

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It's not tattoos on our foreheads that condemn us, it is separate but unequal education, red line housing, banks that will not provide us loans, and a criminal justice system designed to keep us in chains. Those are the proverbial forehead tattoos that consecrate the beast for black people in America.

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We don't need tattoos on our foreheads when all people like Bill O'Reilly see is our inky black skin. Did Eric Garner have a tattoo on his forehead when he was strangled in the street? No. Did Trayvon Martin have a tattoo on his forehead when George Zimmerman decided to end his life?

AUDIENCE: No.

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WILMORE: Now lead not into temptation, but away from Bill O'Reilly. Let us cast him out from these airwaves, cast him out. Cast him out. You don't hear me. Cast him --

AUDIENCE: Out. 

WILMORE: Or just don't watch Fox News, even though I realize your option of quality news programs are limited. 

Previously

O’Reilly Tells Trump Blacks Are "Ill-Educated And Have Tattoos On Their Forehead”

Bill O'Reilly Defends His Claim That Black Americans Are “Ill-Educated And Have Tattoos On Their Forehead”

Roland Martin Slams Bill O'Reilly For Saying Black Americans Are "Ill-Educated And Have Tattoos On Their Forehead”