When writer Michael Harriot asked Twitter, 'Who is the most 'Blackfamous' person in America?' the many names suggested in the replies outlined a category of Black celebrity to which the country's non-Black audiences are often blind.
Michael Wright, Bern Nadette Stanis and Wendy Raquel Robinson walk into a bar …
OK, the first thing you should know is that African Americans generally don’t tend to patronize “bars.” Secondly, if any of the above-named people walked into a nightclub, aor any place where more than half of the patrons could do the kick-pivot part of the Electric Slide without looking at their feet, a riot would immediately ensue. During the melee, someone would scream, “Can’t nobody sing like Eddie Kang Jr.” as Tasha Mack was swarmed with people taking selfies.
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