Magic Johnson wanted to fight Howard Stern over race, AIDS jokes

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Howard Stern has more recently cozied up to the progressive establishment, repeating his desire for COVID-19 austerity, but there was once a time that his jokes were so off-color and insensitive th…

, but there was once a time that his jokes were so off-color and insensitive that Magic Johnson wanted to “hit” him.

Stern was apparently particularly merciless in mocking the show on his radio program, and Johnson’s producers responded by booking him as a guest. “The thing you need to work on, in my estimation, seriously, is you’ve got to stop trying to talk like the white man,” Stern told Johnson. “It’s the truth.”

“I grew up in a black neighborhood,” Stern continued, after suggesting that Johnson’s speech coach should be hung from the rafters. “I’m blacker than you are. Trust me. I’m the blackest black man you’ll ever meet, and I’m telling you right now, when I lived in Roosevelt, Long Island, which is a black ghetto, everyone talks like this [pantomiming ebonics]. And I think you should talk like that.

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