D.L. Hughley Comments on White Complaining: ‘You’ve Wasted Your Whiteness’

During the Dec. 21 edition of comedian D.L. Hughley’s radio program, Hughley comments on conservatives claim that the Left wants to strip power from the white establishment.

The outspoken comedian and writer said that white people have essentially wasted their white privilege for wanting to return to the “good old days.”

“If you are broke and you are white, you have wasted your whiteness … [And] it’s spoiled. You’ve tainted it.”

His rant aimed at the white working class was sparked by Bill O’Reilly’s claim that the Left wants to get rid of the Electoral College to weaken the “white establishment.”

“Talking Points believes this is all about race,” O’Reilly said during the Dec. 20 telecast of “The O’Reilly Factor.” “The Left sees white privilege in America as an oppressive force that must be done away with. The Left wants power taken away from the white establishment. … Taking voting power away from the white precincts is the quickest way to do that.”

However, Hughley believes white people’s frustration and commitment to upholding white supremacy is a reflection of their own personal shortcomings.

“But your assertion is to make America great is to roll it back to the industrial age. You want to bring factories back rather than learn,” Hughley says. “If your a– can’t buy a house in the Rust Belt, you did something wrong. They talk about the white working class, … You blew it.

“If the white working class is not working, they weren’t working when they were supposed to. In other words, they weren’t educating themselves.”

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