This is in regard to Kevin Hart’s roast show on Netflix. Over the past couple of years, I’ve read comments that Kevin Hart can be, um, problematic, by being, let’s say, careless how he speaks, or doesn’t call out others’s speech. I don’t go looking to see more about why, though, because it has read as celeb clickbait. I ran across this, and thought I’d share; it’s not celeb clickbait. So, if someone has watched or will watch Kevin Hart’s show, please let us know a counterpoint, or confirm!
Pastor Jamal Bryant Speaks Out Against Kevin Hart’s Netflix Special
Kevin Hart’s celebrity roast continues to garner more backlash and now, activist and Pastor Jamal Bryant is calling out the foul jokes!
If you haven’t pressed play on Kevin Hart’s Netflix roast yet, consider yourself warned. As more people check out Kevin Hart’s celebrity “G.O.A.T. Roast” that recently aired on Netflix, they are failing to find the humor due to the overwhelming amount of racist jokes that were lobbed across the stage from a myriad of white comics. And now, Pastor Jamal Bryant is calling Hart onto the carpet for letting it happen in the first place.
As we previously told you, the event was home to a plethora of shocking racial and stereotypical jokes targeted towards Hart and other Black comedians who were present. The “punchlines” were wide-ranging, from calling Hart a monkey, a slave, a crack baby, and burnt, to likening comedian Sheryl Underwood to a donkey and more. There was even an egregious George Floyd “joke” that was spoken, which soon prompted multiple members of his family to speak out in protest of it.
And all the while, Hart stood by laughing through it all, never once attempting to say when the jokes had gone too far.
Since then, fellow comedians like Michael Che and Lil Rel Howery have shared their two cents of disappointment with what took place. And now, Bryant is also airing out Hart and the other white comics for behaving the way they did.
Writing in a post to Threads, Bryant said of the event: “The Kevin Hart roast wasn’t comedy it was disrespect dressed as jokes. In this climate for it to go unchecked is to give consent.”
In the comment section, many couldn’t help but side with the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church leader and activist.
“I’ve watched Roasts before but this was outside of a roast, it went way over the line in racism period,” said one user.
“Yeah I missed the joke!!! To mock George Floyd was beyond racist! It was disgusting and when we laugh we allow them’ to think it’s ok!!!,” said another.
One other user agreed, adding: “We need to make it known that its unacceptable. I’m tired of Black ppl’s pain being the butt of jokes. I remember hugging my father so tightly after watching George Floyd’s unaliving. To know that the country we live in is ok with treating Black Men in such a manner will never sit right with me.”
Noted another person, “I think they went way too far! For the love of money !!”
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