You're listening to Comedy Central. Well, hello, welcome to CEP Time, the only show that's for the culture. Today, we'll be discussing the history of black governors. And I know when you think of governors, you think of old white man and big mansions, with the top hat and that weird monocle. Just with some glasses. Governor, you can afford the frames.
But in fact, America has a history of unknown but meaningful black governors like Pps pitch Back, America's first black governor and the only politician in US history brought to you by viewers like you. Pitchback was born in Georgia to a black slave mother and a white plantation owner who emancipated his baby mama, which would have made for
one hell of a Maoria episode. During his life, Pitchback, who could pass as a white man of Latin descent, leaned into his blackness, something that is known today as draking. Pinchback got involved in politics and rose to the third highest office in the state of Louisiana, which is pro tempt of the Senate, not as some people believe, the football coach of l s U. Then, in eighteen seventy two, after the lieutenant governor died and the governor was impeach.
Pitch Back became governor because sometimes the best way for black people to take power is to just wait for somebody else to die. Kamala Pinchback would unfortunately only hold the office for thirty five days, but during that brief step he enacted ten laws proven it's not about how long you last, fellas, it's about how efficient you are. Were you in there? And don't let anybody tell you otherwise, which brings us to our sponsor, gas station sexual enhancement peels.
I don't know how they work, I don't know what's in them, but I do know they make my chest hurt. After PBS Pinchback's governorship, America would not see another black person serve in that role for over one hundred years. That man would be Douglas Wilder. Wilder grew up in
the segregated itself of the nineteen thirties. During his time at Virginia's Union University, he experienced so much racism working at a dinner he considered poison in white people's salads, which may sound harsh, but if you order a salad at a dinner, you deserve to be poison. After graduating, Wilder was drafted into the army and served in the Korean War. He would go on to win the Bronze Star for his heroism during the Battle of pork Chop Hill.
Now pork Chop Hill, that's what you want to order the dinner, whole, big pile of pork chops, saltat and butter and garlic, and it's just the graven deepicious. Wilder returned to Virginia and got into politics after serving in the Virginia Senate. In nineteen eighty nine, he became the first black person ever elected governor of Virginia, and he owed it all to his campaign slogan, don't make me poison your salad. Move it on. Our next black governor
is Duval Patrick. Patrick was raised by a single mother on Chicago South Side after his father, a jazz musician, left his family because everybody knows that jazz is all about the kids who don't raise. After graduating from Harvard Law School, the Vault spent the early eighties working as a lawyer for the A c. P. During that time, he sued then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and impressed him
so much. During the case, Clinton later hired him, which I get you gonna get your azz beat by somebody playing pick up basketball so bad you'd be like, yo, you've got to be on my team. And then he hates playing with you because you gotta bust it knee and a bad heart and you won't stop slapping people's asses because that's what we did back in the day. It was nothing sexual about that. Call call me back
carl Let's bowl. Anyway. After serving in President Clinton's Justice Department, the Vall spent some time working in the private sector before returning to politics, and in two thousand and six, Dvall became the first black governor of Massachusetts, succeeding the whitest governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney. It was like going
from watching Frasier to the BT Awards. It's jarring. Moving on to our final governor, David Patterson, who was not only New York's first black governor, but also the first line governor in American history. He was like a political Stevie wonder If you're one of those people who actually believe that Stevie Wonders blind, I know you can see Stevie. I was at the concert and seventy eight, you're turning
ran from me. I want my money mother. In two thousand and eight, then Lieutenant Governor Patterson took over the governorship from Elliot Spitzer after Spitzer was disgrace from having numerous affairs with high end escorts. But once Patterson took office, he proved that black governors could also be plagued with scandals. A previous affair with a co worker came to light. He was accused of giving Jay Z a sweetheart investment deal.
He was found for unlawfully accepting Yankees World Series tickets. All in all, he was having a pretty good time as governor. But that's all the black governors we have time to discuss today. We there there are no more black governors. That is all the black governors. Damn black people who produced less governors than Predator movies. It tells me two things. One America must do better and two I need to watch Predator again. That was a damn
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