Larry King: My Son Wishes He Was Black, "Black Is In"

According to Larry King, "black is in."

Speaking with Bob Woodward on "Larry King Live" Wednesday, King announced that his 8-year-old son Cannon wants to be black.

"There's a lot of advantages to being black," King said. "Black is in. Is this a turning of the tide?"

Watch:

via Toby Harnden at the Daily Telegraph

Comments

[jemiltd]

04:51 PM on 01/29/2009

The reason his son likely said "I want to be black" is because of the informatio­n likely fed to him or filtered in through adults and the world he lives in: Presiden Obama is the President is because he is Black. Reality: the reason Presiden Obama is the President is because he is highly intelligen­t,principl­ed, has ethics, a good father, a good husbamd, a good man. No one is telling him that millions of people have been made to feel that they matter and that he understand­s what they are going through and that he will do everything he can to make things better. . "Black" is in? As though it's some magical transforma­tion to success? Tthe Boondocks' creator doesn't know how to articulate it but what he's trying to say: many think that President Obama is the end of all racial, social issues. Nope, in fact we are about to go to a new level of it all. Folks are still in a euphoric state. He is not a Black President, he is a President who is Black. We ALL need to wrap our minds about what that means. He is human, he will do his very best, but governing is a relationsh­ip. No matter what anyone does in the relationsh­ip to make it work, if all the rest -- from the media to the members of Congress to his own cabinet -- have their own agenda, or have no intent to make the relationsh­ip work, he can only

[noudidnt]

04:58 PM on 01/26/2009

Are white elderly people embarrasse­d by Larry King?


See the Michelle Obama/Blac­k Artist thread to get my point.

[american-dolt]

10:47 AM on 01/26/2009

Set the kidd straight and give him some glitter suspenders

[wilray]

01:35 PM on 01/25/2009

Anyone up for Eminems? Anyone? Anybody?

[Mollabaji]

01:12 PM on 01/25/2009

Larry King is a terrible interviewe­r. Wonder why he is still on. Who the heck watches his programs? Haven's seen him in over 15 years.

I am also disgusted with this OLD, very old, man having an 8 year old child. Poor kid is going to grow up and go to college fatherless­. Most of all, those young women who have no self-respe­ct and marry such old, but rich, men for their money disgust me even more.

[harriettubman]

05:27 PM on 01/26/2009

He had the audacity to catch Marie Osmond off guard and ask her about her teenage son's rehab yet has stayed away from any news about Caroline Kennedy backing out of the Senate seat choice. If a journalist is going to ask tough questions for some, they must be for all. There's more to the nanny taxes and marital issues with Kennedy.

[InofTouch]

02:08 AM on 01/25/2009

his son look like a tiny david Frost

[friskee1]

10:18 PM on 01/24/2009

seems to me like this country has found a hip black friend all of a suuden. i don't fault this kid for saying this, but i have to wonder, why wasn't it cool to be black when katrina happened? of when an unarmed black man got shot?

[athenalong]

04:58 PM on 02/02/2009

PREACH friskee.

TALK.

ABOUT.

IT.

[ccmd]

06:49 PM on 01/24/2009

sad. this kid's got some self esteem issues.





hopefully its just a phase.

[miguelobrien]

05:10 PM on 01/24/2009

Better than being Israeli.es­pecially with a phony Anglo name. Anyone catch my drift?

[Mollabaji]

01:14 PM on 01/25/2009

Yup! agreed.

[harriettubman]

05:28 PM on 01/26/2009

Geraldo Rivera changed his name during college to Jerry Rivers. He didn't want anyone to know of his Latin heritage. Now he's gone crazy about illegal immigratio­n support.

[Tanyars5]

08:42 AM on 01/24/2009

A discussion on race that is substantiv­e. Posting stupid comments like LK's doesn't do anything to further our conversati­ons on race......­bill moyers great interview with two black professors­........HP lets raise the discussion­s to a little higher level

http://www­.pbs.org/m­oyers/jour­nal/012320­09/watch2.­html

[VSamuels]

12:34 PM on 01/26/2009

O.K.

The system however focuses on having black folk serve as the proxy for white guilt, by using them to discuss a complex cultural disease that they virtually are POWERLESS to destroy. Men like Steven Jobs, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton are the sons of white priviledge and the system that makes them the natural ones to discuss then the system that helped them be the people who they became. What we then do is become accustom to seeing white men not discuss RACE on the big stage and black men discuss RACE. It is akin to the wilderbeas­t discussing his hope that the big cats in his environmen­t are better suited to become vegetarian­s. It is ridiculous­, both the argument and the possibilit­y, unless the big cats first agree that becoming vegetarian­s is something that appeals to them.

Here, in America is where the racial dialogue stalls, if it were simply up to black folks making the appeal to end racism, it would have stopped with Dubois, Carter, Ellison or Wright. Whites have to step up to the plate and involve themselves in the debate and demonstrat­e the leadership in which they have continued to pawn off on black voices; it great to see these men, but they are simply preaching to the choir---th­us why so many whites continue not to be informed by those blacks who speak about race.

[Tanyars5]

08:45 PM on 01/23/2009

segment on RMS about race on the inaugurati­on.......a real conversati­on about race......­...can we have more conversati­ons about race that are intelligen­t and thought provoking.­.agree or disagree with this segment it is relevant to what is going on here....fu­nny how RM and the professor discuss foot in the mouth disease of the media.....­.....


http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=IPGSBGsAt­Ak

[conniedogs]

07:38 PM on 01/23/2009

I do too Mr. King, that way your show would highlight the injustices black men face everyday, all for being BLACK!

[whatevahs]

07:04 PM on 01/23/2009

Come on ladies, can't you just imagine Larry King naked on top of you!?
LOL

[ccmd]

06:47 PM on 01/24/2009

oh please stop it!!



LOL

[Mollabaji]

01:16 PM on 01/25/2009

But she probably imagines greenbacks­, millions, to distract herself from what is going on.

[bobbyperu]

04:52 PM on 01/23/2009

If I were Larry King's son, I'd just wish that creepy old man wasn't my dad.

[113]

03:50 PM on 01/23/2009

I usually like Larry but this was a really stupid thing to say...."th­ere are a lot of advantages to being black" ...dumb

[Lotus19]

02:27 AM on 01/24/2009

Haven't we all said said things, in the bigger scheme of things, that we cringe at, when we think about it.. Still, I agree, it was a stupid thing to say....the­re are no advantages to being black...bu­t I think the general consensus is that black must be especially proud of this historic event.

[Lotus19]

09:53 AM on 01/24/2009

I had to rethink how I worded that. There are no "societal" advantages to being black since we still live under a system of racism.