Roy Wood Jr. Sets Off Hilarious #WhenITurnedBlack Trend to Mock Trump
Former Comedy Central star Roy Wood Jr. is spinning Donald Trump’s latest nonsensical dog whistle towards Vice President Kamala Harris into a creative clap back for Black Americans.
We now know Kamala’s brave story. When did the rest of you “turn” black? How old were you? Where were you when the blackness finally took over your body? Share your stories. This is a safe space. #WhenITurnedBlack pic.twitter.com/URBx3fqcbh
— Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi (@roywoodjr) July 31, 2024
“All in all, I still believe that this is an election that is about Kamala's ability to win voters (undecided and apatheic) than it is about Trump losing voters,” Wood told The Daily Beast in an exclusive statement. “Biden handed her a baton, and Kamala must now run like the wind because it doesn’t seem like anything will trip up Trump—not even honest questions from great NABJ journalists who gave push back when they could.”
Trump made headlines Wednesday for insisting that Harris only promotes her Indian heritage, and that she “happened to turn Black” just a few years prior.
“I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black,” Trump said. “And now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”
“Kamala’s team had a reply ready faster than a Kendrick diss,” Wood added, referencing that Harris campaign statement that denounced Trump’s “attacks and insults” and demanded he “stop playing games and actually show up” to the next presidential debate on September 10.
Harris is both Black and South Asian, with an India-born mother and Jamaican father. She graduated from the historically Black Howard University in 1986, and became a member of the first Black Greek sorority the same year.
Even though most Americans understand the concept of being interracial, and Trump’s new twist on his Barack Obama birtherism rumors are easy to fact check, users still took his words and ran with it, making #WhenITurnedBlack trend as high as #3 on X.
Some users claimed they finally “turned Black” once they mastered the card game Spades.
I turned Black the first time I played the big joker in spades. It was quite a momentous occasion #WhenITurnedBlack pic.twitter.com/kMD0MXEIkv
— Write Life (@TheQueenMuse1) July 31, 2024
You know, I was a late bloomer. For me it happened when I learned how to play spades finally in my 32nd season of life. Truly unlocked my full potential in that moment #wheniturnedblack https://t.co/96JBdVxU60
— ? T.F. Sabin? (@TFSabinWrites) July 31, 2024
Others made the transformation after putting dinner leftovers away in recycled grocery tubs.
I remember it like it was yesterday...
I must have been about 7 or 8, and my mother told me to put the food away after dinner. I looked in the cabinet where the Tupperware was kept and grabbed the empty Country Crock tub. That was when I knew...#WhenITurnedBlack— Mrs Caesar Que (@MsAlphaMu) July 31, 2024
Some “turned Black” because they instantly knew that any request to spend money outside the house would be answered with, “Do you have money for that?”
I asked my mother out the womb if I could have McDonalds. She replied, “do you have McDonald’s money?” That’s when I knew… #WhenITurnedBlack https://t.co/G6zYhQxQ0H
— Shem (@Shem) July 31, 2024
Other’s think their Blackness was fully realized once they came to terms with Church being an all day event.
When I realized that the preacher saying “I’m almost finished, I ain’t gone hold y’all all day” meant we had another two hours to go. #WhenIturnedBlack https://t.co/k3Qx5L6F9S
— lilburn/snellville apologist (@EagleEye1906) July 31, 2024
Realizing that being “ashy” is really only a people of color problem.
2nd grade. I’m the only black student in class. We have to let the class guess the object we are describing w/o seeing it. I forgot an object but had a purse-sized lotion in my desk. I describe it as “you use it when you’re ashy.” *Blank stares* And that is #WhenITurnedBlack
— damita jo (@KiaSpeaks) July 31, 2024
When you realize there’s a valid reason why you can’t invite just anyone to the cookout.
The moment I turned black was when I ran away from someone's potato salad because it was too pale. #WhenITurnedBlack https://t.co/iyTNVVkKvN
— Rafael Walker (@raf_walk) July 31, 2024
For more, listen to Roy Wood Jr. and Jordan Klepper on The Last Laugh podcast.
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