Rapper Lil Jon
said Friday that Donald Trump referred to him as "Uncle Tom" when the
hip-hop star appeared on "Celebrity Apprentice."
Lil Jon said
in a statement posted on Twitter that "several of my castmates and I
addressed Mr. Trump immediately when we heard the comment ... [and] he did stop
using that term once we explained it's [sic] offensiveness."
— LILJON
(@LilJon) October
15, 2016
The phrase
"Uncle Tom" is a derogatory term used to denote a black person
thought to be deferential to white people.
The Daily
Beast reported Friday that Trump referred to Lil Jon as "Uncle Tom"
after hearing that the rapper had dressed as Uncle Sam to advertise a hair
product as part of a competition on season 6 of the star-studded NBC reality
show.
A show staffer
told the website that "there are several takes in the footage of the
dailies that has [Trump] trying to figure out the difference between ‘Uncle
Tom’ and Uncle Sam. He just couldn’t grasp that it was offensive."
Another
staffer told the Daily Beast that "multiple producers" tried to keep
Trump from using the term, but "somehow none of it stuck."
Lil Jon said
in his statement that he "can't say if [Trump] knew what he was actually
saying or not" before adding that "I don't agree with many of the
statements Mr. Trump has said during his current run for President."
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