“They kept bringing up Shaft like that was the black Spider-Man. It’s not. He has no superpowers whatsoever. He’s just a black guy. White guys get this dude who swings from building to building and saves people. Black guys, you get this dude who slaps women sometimes. That was the compromise. You couldn’t have a Shaft ride at Universal Studios. It’d be like they put you in a car with five women mannequins and you slap them all.â€
Community’s Donald Glover performed at Vulture’s west coast launch party a couple of nights ago, and they posted a couple of the jokes he told, including this gem: