Nick Cannon denounced the Democrats as ‘the party of the KKK’ and praised the Republicans for having ‘freed the slaves’ in an interview with Amber Rose.
He also spared warm words for Donald Trump, crowing: ‘Motherf***er’s cleaning house!’ and added with a laugh: ‘I f*** with Trump.’
The 45-year-old comedian made the remarks while hosting the outspoken Republican Rose, 42, on an episode of his web series Big Drive.
Rose, an ex-girlfriend of Kanye West who became a figurehead for the Los Angeles branch of the feminist SlutWalk marches, shifted towards conservatism in recent years and gave a speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention.
Meanwhile, although Cannon criticized the Democrats and complimented the Republicans, he clarified that he himself is not aligned with either party.
He invoked a quote from the renowned black intellectual WEB Du Bois, who abstained from the 1956 presidential election on the grounds ‘that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.’
Rose noted that she had evolved politically, describing herself as a ‘former Democrat, former liberal. I was a liberal Democrat my whole life.’
Cannon, who used to be married to Mariah Carey, slyly asked if Rose had switched parties because she had earned enough money to join the ‘elite.’
Rose denied as much, saying that she had crossed the aisle because ‘Democrats don’t care about black people and they don’t care about people of color and the Republicans do, and that’s the misconception.’
‘I agree with you 100 percent,’ said Cannon. ‘People don’t know that the Democrats is the party of the KKK. People don’t know that the Republicans are the party that freed the slaves. I mean, both you and I have some conservative views. You just a little bit more outspoken about it than I am.’
Cannon was referring to the fact that the Democratic Party controlled the American South in the antebellum period, when slavery was the order of the day there, as well as during the post-Civil War era of racial segregation.
The Ku Klux Klan was founded just after the war by six Confederate veterans – one of whom spoke at the 1868 Democratic National Convention – and became the paramilitary wing of the apartheid apparatus imposed by the Southern Democrats.
In 1937, the sitting Democratic president Franklin D Roosevelt appointed erstwhile Klansman Hugo Black to the US Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party was launched in the 1850s with an abolitionist platform, and the first president it seated was Abraham Lincoln, who prosecuted the Civil War that resulted in the emancipation of the slaves.
While speaking to Rose on his web series, Cannon confessed that ‘honestly, I don’t subscribe to either party. I rock with WEB Du Bois when he said there’s no such thing as two parties. There’s just one evil party with two different names.’
He was alluding to Du Bois’ 1956 piece Why I Won’t Vote, which was published weeks before that year’s presidential election between the Republican incumbent Dwight D Eisenhower and his Democratic challenger Adlai Stevenson.
Explaining that he had voted in the past ‘for the lesser of two evils,’ Du Bois, at the age of 88, declared: ‘In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered.’
He added: ‘I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. There is no third party.’
Du Bois argued that any ‘third-party movement’ with an eye to ‘significant reform’ would ‘of necessity be Communist’ and would thus place its adherents at risk of unemployment, loss of ‘social status’ or imprisonment.
Rose responded to the Du Bois reference by saying: ‘I’m not married to any party. I voted for Donald Trump ’cause we had two options and he was definitely, by far, the better option for us, and as of now I agree with a lot of things that he’s doing.’
‘Motherf***er’s cleaning house!’ said Cannon, roaring with laughter. ‘He doing what he said he was gonna do. We got the Gulf of America now.’
Cannon, who has 12 children by six women, joked: ‘He’s like the club. He charging a $5 million bottle service fee to get into the country. I f*** with Trump.’
