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Eddie Murphy’s “Saturday Night Live” joke about Bill Cosby evoked much laughter but the response from the disgraced comedian’s publicist who called Murphy a “Hollywood slave” has ignited a firestorm and resurrected a long-standing debate about “black people pulling one another down.”
The reverberation of Murphy’s joke remains in the ether more than a week after he took the pointed swipe at the imprisoned Cosby during his first “SNL” monologue in 35 years.
Public opinion and social media have been split on Murphy but have been in step that Cosby’s publicist Andrew Wyatt was out of bounds. At the same time, the controversy has brought the larger issue of black men publicly criticizing black men back into the public spotlight.
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