BECAUSE OF A PHOTOSHOPPED IMAGE THAT SHE TWEETED ON HER ACCOUNT.

THE IMAGE IS ONE OF USAIN BOLT.

THESE A FAST RUNNER, EVERYONE KNOWS THIS, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE

WERE MAKING MEMES ABOUT IT BECAUSE, AS HE WAS FINISHING A

100 M RACE, HE TURNED AND SMILED AT THE CAMERAS, LIKE

LITERALLY BEFORE HE CROSSED THE FINISH LINE, AND PEOPLE

THOUGHT IT WAS HILARIOUS BECAUSE HE'S SO FAST HE LITERALLY

HAS TIME TO STOP AND SMILE AT THE CAMERAS.

USAIN BOLT HAS BEEN THE FASTEST MAN IN THE WORLD FOR A LONG

TIME, HE WINS THE HUNDRED BEEN A RACE IN THE OLYMPICS.

HE SO FAST THAT OFTENTIMES HE WILL START SLOW BECAUSE HE

DOESN'T WANT TO GET THIS WHILE FIGHTING THE BEGINNING FOR

STARTING WRONG, AND THEN HE'LL LIKE ñ IN THE MIDDLE OF THE

100 M, WHICH IS NOT A LONG RACE ñ HE'LL GO, OKAY NOW I WILL

WIN, AND HE'LL JUST POWER PAST THE OTHER GUYS, AND HE'LL

SOMETIMES LOOK AT THEM AND SMILE AS HE'S GOING PAST THEM.

I KNOW THAT IS UNSPORTSMANLIKE BEHAVIOR BUT I KIND OF LOVE IT.

OF COURSE YOU DO, YOU'RE THE QUEEN OF, WHAT NOW?

ISN'T THAT A STRATEGY IN A RACE WHERE YOU START OFF SLOW ñ

NOT IN A 100 M.

YOU GO AS FAST AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY GOAT.

IT WOULD BE IN A LONGER DISTANCE RACE.

ANYWAY, THE WHOLE POINT OF KNOWING USAIN BOLT, OR WHAT

HE WILL BE KNOWN FOR, IS THAT HE'S SUPERFAST.

OF COURSE ALAN IS GOING TO MAKE A JOKE ABOUT IT.

SHE TWEETED THIS IMAGE OF HER RIDING ON HIS BACK AND SAID

THAT THIS IS HOW SHE WILL BE RUNNING ERRANDS FROM NOW ON.

USAIN BOLT APPEAR WE RETWEETED THAT, BUT PEOPLE FELT THAT IT

WAS RACIST FOR HER TO SHOULDERS OF RIDING ON THE BACK OF USAIN

BOLT.

ONE PERSON WROTE, "YOU THOUGHT IT'D BE FUNNY TO POST A

PICTURE OF YOURSELF RIDING ON THE BACK OF A BLACK MAN?

NOPE.

DELETE THIS RACIST GARBAGE."

BY THE WAY, I WENT IN AND I READ A LOT OF THE TWEETS MYSELF,

BECAUSE I THINK SOMETIMES THE MEDIA IS SALIVATING OVER A

NON-CONTROVERSY, SO THEY WILL FIND ONE OR TWO TWEETS AND

MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT IT.

BUT NO, A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE REALLY ACTUALLY ANGRY AND

OUTRAGED ABOUT THAT IMAGE.

ANOTHER PERSON WROTE, "WRITE THAT BRUTHA LIKE A HORSE ALAN, I

KNOW YOU SECRETLY LIKE THE D."

NO, SHE DOESN'T ACTUALLY LIKE THE D, THAT'S A WELL

RECORDED FACT.

THOSE WERE A FEW OF THE TWEETS WHO STOOD OUT ñ

WHICH STOOD OUT FOR ME.

HOWEVER A LOT OF PEOPLE DEFENDED HER.

ONE PERSON SAID, "YOU ALL KNOW DAMN WELL THAT ELLEN ISN'T

RACIST BUT Y'ALL -- "

I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK LIKE THAT BECAUSE I DON'T SPEAK LIKE

A CLOWN.

"I AM ABSOLUTELY BAFFLED BY PEOPLE CURRENTLY CALLING

ELLEN DEGENERES RACIST BECAUSE SHE, MORE OR LESS, CALLED

AN OLYMPIC SPRINTER FAST."

ARE YOU READY?

ELLEN, NOT RACIST.

I GET THE SENSE THAT YOU AGREE ANA.

YEAH I AGREE, THAT'S RACIST?

BUT LET ME GIVE IT CONTEXT, AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO BRING OUR

BLACK CORRESPONDENT IN, AND THEN ANA WE'LL GET ON HIS SHOULDERS

AND THEN THEY'LL HAVE A DISCUSSION.

LOOK, THERE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE YOU CAN USE THE

STEREOTYPES OF THE PAST THAT YOU WOULDN'T NORMALLY THINK

MIGHT BE RACIST IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT CONTEXT.

SO OFTEN TIMES, AS WHAT'S HAPPENED WITH GUYS DRESSING

UP AS BLACKFACE ON HALLOWEEN, IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOU'RE LIKE,

WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL MAN?

I WOULDN'T CARE IF A BLACK GUY WORE A WHITE FACE.

WHILE YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE DRESSING IN

BLACKFACE, AND YADA YADA.

SO HERE, THEORETICALLY YOU COULD BEGIN TO MAKE AN ARGUMENT ABOUT,

YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE A BLACK MAN CARRYING A WHITE WOMAN, BUT

I DON'T EVEN REALLY KNOW QUITE WHAT IT'S REFERRING TO.

THERE'S THE REFERENCE TO THE HORSE, THE REFERENCE TO RIDING

HIM LIKE A MULE, BUT THAT WASN'T REALLY A THING EITHER.

I JUST FEEL LIKE CONTEXT MATTERS.

ELLEN DEGENERES IS NOT TOMMY LAUREN, ELLEN DEGENERES IS NOT

SOMEONE WHO HAS A QUESTIONABLE HISTORY OF MAKING QUESTIONABLE

STATEMENTS ABOUT MINORITIES, ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE.

IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.

IT WAS OBVIOUSLY MEANT IN FUN, IT WASN'T MEANT TO BE MALICIOUS

IN ANY WAY.

ELLEN DEGENERES IS NOT RACIST, SHE'S NOT RACIST OKAY?

IF YOU ADD THE CONTEXT OF LIKE RUSH LIMBAUGH DOING THIS, AND

SAYING WATCH ME RIDE THIS BOY LIKE CATTLE, OKAY, THERE'S A

CONNECTION THERE THAT IS UGLY AND INAPPROPRIATE.

HERE, WHO REALLY THINKS ALAN MEANT IT?

OKAY, NOW YOU CAN STILL BE WRONG EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T MEAN IT, SO

WE GO TO JAYAR JACKSON, WHO IS JAYAR-RATE, SO WATCH YOURSELF.

WHAT DO YOU THINK HERE JAYAR?

THE LAST THING YOU SAID IS THE ONE CAVEAT.

I DON'T BELIEVE SHE HAS RACIST TENDENCIES, BUT PEOPLE WHO

HAVE RACIST TENDENCIES DON'T ALWAYS SHOW IT IN THEIR HISTORY.

SO IS NOT THAT THAT IS THE FACT, IT'S JUST THE SIMPLE THING OF,

SOME PEOPLE DO SOMETHING SILLY, AND I DOUBT THAT EVERYONE WHO

SAW IT HAD THIS IMMEDIATE REACTION, WORK BEING VERY

HONEST ABOUT THEIR FEELINGS.

I'M SURE A LOT OF US WERE LIKE, I DON'T LIKE THE WAY THAT LOOKS,

BECAUSE THERE'S A HISTORY OF BLACK MEN BEING CALLED STUDS AND

BUCKS AND ALL THAT SHIT, SO WHEN YOU SEE SOMEONE RIDING THEM

THAT MIGHT HEARKEN BACK TO THAT.

SO IT'S OKAY THAT PEOPLE FELT THAT WAY.

AND THEN AFTER THAT, YOU CAN EXPLAIN YOURSELF.

I GET YOUR FEELINGS BEHIND IT, I UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED, BUT

THAT WASN'T WHAT I WAS TRYING TO DO AND NO HARD FEELINGS, I DON'T

MEAN TO COME OFF THAT WAY.

I'M NOT GETTING THE BEST WORD FOR IT, BUT TO GET ANGRY AT

PEOPLE FOR THEIR AUTOMATIC REACTION DOESN'T REALLY

HELP EITHER.

BUT IT'S, WHAT ARE YOU DOING, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?

BUT IF THE AUTOMATIC REACTION IS, THIS PERSON IS A RACIST.

I MEAN, THICK ABOUT THAT.

THAT IS THE THING THAT IS REALLY DIFFICULT AS ANYONE WHO'S IN THE

LIMELIGHT, OR WHO IS A PUBLIC FIGURE.

YOU DO SOMETHING WITHOUT ANY MALICE OR BAD INTENT, AND

PEOPLE START LABELING YOU AS A RACIST AND IT JUST SUCKS

BECAUSE IT'S DEFAMATORY AND IT'S NOT WHO SHE IS, IT'S NOT WHO SHE

ñ IT'S NOT WHAT YOU MEANT.

ANOTHER THING IS, LOOK, THIS IS WHAT MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS,

ASIDE FROM ELLEN BEING CALLED RACIST.

RACISM DEFINITELY EXISTS, AS WE ALL KNOW, SERIOUS CASES OF

RACISM WHERE BLACK PEOPLE AT DISTORTION ONLY TARGETED BY LAW

ENFORCEMENT; WHERE YOU HAVE MORE BLACK PEOPLE BEING THROWN IN

PRISON FOR THE EXACT SAME CRIMES THAT WHITE INDIVIDUALS ARE

DOING, AND WHEN SO YOU HAVE ñ SO WHEN YOU HAVE STORIES LIKE THIS,

THESE ARE THE STORIES THAT UNFORTUNATELY GET MORE

ATTENTION, THEN THE DISPROPORTIONATE TARGETING

OF POLICE AND ALL THAT.

SO PEOPLE WILL SEE STORIES LIKE THIS AND GO, YOU SEE THAT?

WE HAVE CONQUERED RACISM, THEY ARE MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF

NOTHING.

AND I DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN, I WANT PEOPLE TO TAKE REAL

INSTANCES OF RACISM SERIOUSLY.

LUCKILY I'M GOING TO RESOLVE ALL OF THIS.

JAYAR IS RIGHT WITH HIS HISTORY OF STUDS AND ALL THAT, ETC.,

BUT, ELLEN IS LESBIAN, SO DOESN'T QUITE FIT, SO AGAIN

CONTEXT MATTERS.

BUT I THINK THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE A VISCERAL REACTION TO IT, I GET

WHAT JAYAR IS A SAYING, OKAY YOU HAD A VISCERAL REACTION TO IT

BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU KNOW AND WHAT OTHERS MIGHT NOT KNOW, AND

THAT'S THE REACTION YOU HAD.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME MIGHT ASK YOU TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT THAT A

LITTLE BIT BECAUSE OF WHAT ANA SAID, WHICH IS, PEOPLE ARE GOING

TO KNOW THAT BLACKS GET ARRESTED FOUR TIMES AS MUCH FOR MARIJUANA

USE THAN WHITES DO, EVEN THOUGH WHITES AND BLACKS USE

MARIJUANA AT THE EXACT SAME RATE.

IF EVERYBODY IN THE COUNTRY KNEW THAT, AND YOU KNEW WHERE THE

REAL RACISM WAS AND HOW MUCH IT MATTERED AND HOW MUCH IT

DESTROYED LIVES, AND THEN YOU ADDED THIS ON TOP, OKAY THEN

THAT'S LESS OF AN ISSUE.

BUT MORE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO FIND OUT ABOUT THIS ELLEN

DEGENERES THING THAN THE MARIJUANA FACT, AND THEN

THEY'RE GOING TO GET TO GO, SEE I KNEW IT, IT'S ALL A BUNCH

OF NONSENSE.

THAT WASN'T RACIST AND NOTHING IS RACIST.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME WE ALL NEED TO BE CALM TOO, AND AS JAYAR

SAID, GO, OKAY THEY HAD A VISCERAL REACTION TO IT,

THEY ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE A VISCERAL REACTION TO IT.

IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD EITHER WAY.

I DON'T THINK ELLEN IS RACIST, I DON'T THINK SHE MEANT

ANYTHING BY IT, BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT'S OKAY TO SAY TO

THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAD THAT REACTION, LET'S TALK IT OUT.

INSTEAD OF BOTH SIDES BEING ANGRY WITH EACH OTHER.

BECAUSE THERE IS REAL RACISM IN THE WORLD AND THERE ARE

REAL RACISTS IN THE WORLD, AND THEY HAVE GOT TO BE CALLED

OUT AND WE DO NOT WANT TO DIMINISH THE POWER OF THAT

BECAUSE THEY HAVE A REAL EFFECT IN THIS WORLD, SO THAT THE

CONVERSATION I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE.

FINALLY, I DO WANT TO GIVE YOU ALLEN'S REACTION TO THE

CRITICISM BECAUSE SHE DID TWEET SOMETHING AFTERWARDS, AND

SHE SAYS, "I AM HIGHLY AWARE OF THE RACISM THAT EXISTS IN

OUR COUNTRY.

IT IS THE FURTHEST THING FROM WHO I AM."

OKAY, GOD BLESS, THAT'S HER NOT FREAKING OUT OVER IT AND

SAYING, IT IS WHAT IT IS.

I FEEL A TONE OF, I KNOW, I KNOW, IN THAT TWEET.

I'M JUST SAYING, YOU HAVE TO SAY SORRY BECAUSE I THINK SHE

DID ANYTHING PARTICULARLY WRONG, BUT JUST BE COOL.

YOU ARE IN THIS PLACE OF NOTORIETY AND YOU HAVE AN EFFECT

ON PEOPLE.

YOU UNKNOWN, IT COMES WITH THE TERRITORY, SO JUST

UNDERSTAND THAT.

THAT'S WHERE I DISAGREE WITH YOU, I THINK THAT TWEET WAS

TOTALLY FINE, BECAUSE I WOULDN'T HAVE APOLOGIZED BECAUSE I

DON'T THINK SHE DID ANYTHING WRONG.

I SEE THE TONE THAT YOU ARE IMPLYING IS IN THERE JAYAR, BUT

I THINK THAT'S WHAT SHE AT ñ WHAT SHE INTENDED.

I'M GOING FULL PARDONÖ RIGHT THOUGH, WE HAD THE CONVERSATION.

BECAUSE IS NOT ALWAYS THE PERSON THAT DID IT, AS WE ALL KNOW

THERE'S RACISM IN AMERICA.

THAT WE TALK ABOUT DONALD TRUMP AND HOW HE IS RISING UP

RACISTS, AND HE IS A RACIST TOO, BUT HOW MUCH HE IS RILING

UP FOR HIS OWN ATTENTION.

AND EVEN WHEN YOU ARE NOT TRYING TO, THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THIS

COUNTRY WHO WILL GO, YEAH, RIDE THAT N-WORD, AND IT'S NOT

GOOD IMAGERY TO SEE ALL THE TIME.

EVEN IF SHE DIDN'T MEET IT.

AND I DON'T THINK SHE DID, IT'S A FUN IMAGE, IT'S A DARKER GUY

WITH WHITE TEETH SMILING SYLLABUS LIKE ALL THESE

OLD-SCHOOL IMAGES THAT YOU SEE OF CARICATURES AND MAKING

THEM THE BUTT OF THE JOKE.

JAYAR I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HEARD EARLIER, I ALREADY MADE A

RULING.

I KNOW, I'M DONE.

THOSE ARE ALL GOOD POINTS, AND FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER

WATCHED THE SHOW BEFORE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THIS, IF I

GIVE A RULING, IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING.

WE ALL GIVE OUR OPINIONS AND THEY ARE ALL JUST AS VALID

MINE MAY BE A LITTLE BIT MORE SO.