WASHINGTON — Disgusting sketch wherein shock jock Howard Stern posed in blackface and repeatedly used racial slurs, resurfaced forward of Stern’s assembly Tuesday with Vice President Kamala Harris.
In a video from a 1993 New 12 months’s Eve particular, Stern seems in darkish make-up with exaggerated white lips as she cracks a sequence of racist jokes.
The skit was meant to poke enjoyable at actor Ted Danson’s rough-and-tumble efficiency earlier that yr on the Friar’s Membership roast of his then-girlfriend Whoops Goldberg.
In a 90-second clip reposted by former first son Donald Trump Jr., Stern makes use of the n-word 5 occasions.
“WTF!?!?” Trump Jr., whose father was a frequent visitor on Stern and attended the radio star’s 2008 wedding to his wife Bethreact to the video.
Stern beforehand expressed remorse for the sketch, addressing the controversy throughout a June 2020 episode of his SiriusXM radio present following the general public outcry over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
“What I did was loopy, I will be the primary to confess it,” Stern mentioned on the time. “I am not going to return and watch these previous exhibits; like, who is that this man?
“However that was my stupidity, that is what I did and I personal it. I do not assume I used to be embraced by Nazi teams and hate teams. They appeared to assume I used to be in opposition to them too. Everybody had a bone to select with me.
Whereas admitting the sketch was supposed to “make enjoyable of Ted Danson, a white man in blackface,” Stern admitted he “most likely” would not don the offending make-up once more right this moment.
“Yeah, I used to be taunting him and saying, ‘I will shine a light-weight on it,'” he mentioned. “However would I do the identical now? In all probability not. Unlikely, I would not.
Harris, the daughter of an Afro-Jamaican father and an Indian mom, was scheduled to affix Stern on Tuesday afternoon.
The Democrat’s marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
