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Dr. Umar Goes Off On Chud The Builder, Rick Chow, Karmelo, Kevin Hart Defending Roast & FBA - P2
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Dr. Umar Johnson returns to It’s Up There for Part 2 and takes the conversation far beyond comedy, controversy, and viral headlines. Loon presses Dr. Umar on Kevin Hart’s Breakfast Club response after the Netflix roast backlash, the responsibility of being the face of the roast, Sheryll Underwood, Black celebrity silence, and whether comedy is being used to make Black people laugh at their own humiliation. The conversation also moves into Rick Chow being acquitted after the shooting death of Cyrus Carmack-Belton, the comparison to Latasha Harlins, the Shell boycott conversation, Asian-owned businesses, Black infrastructure, Black parents raising sons in white suburbs, and why…