Kelly Clarkson was one of the first stars to speak out against trolls who tried to downplay Michelle Obama’s powerful message about the slaves that built the White House during the First Lady’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night. But after some controversial comments from Fox News talking head Bill O’Reilly — in which he claimed that the slaves were “well-fed and had decent lodgings” — Roots drummer Questlove appears to have gotten the last word on the matter.
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“Slavery was inhumane. Slavery was sadistic. Slavery was uncomfortable. Slavery was unjust,” Quest wrote in a lengthy Instagram post on Wednesday. “Slavery was a nightmare. Slavery was a despicable act. Slavery is the pebble whose ripple in the river still resonates on and on and on and on.” And while he didn’t mention O’Reilly by name, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon bandleader made it very, very clear who he was taking aim at.
The comments came after O’Reilly’s reaction to Michelle Obama’s eloquent narrative about her family’s journey to the White House. “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves,” Obama said. “I watch my daughters — two beautiful, intelligent, black young women — playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.”
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“I’d like to think most of you have common sense,” Questlove continued in his post. “But there is nothing more dangerous than a man in a suit pretending to be a journalist giving revisionist history on the ugliness that was slavery. What’s so fun and lighthearted about being shackled? being separated from your loved ones? Being molested and raped HOURLY, being branded with hot iron? being property? being castrated? being flogged? being malnourished?”
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