‘Saturday Night Live’ Sketch Sees Issa Rae Voting for ‘Everybody Black’ — But ‘F’ Kanye West - Variety

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The sketch, which also featured Kenan Thompson as the “Your Voice Chicago” talk show host interviewing Rae’s Jamele Demmings and Ego Nwodim as a journalist, in part seemed to be a play on Rae’s infamous comments that she was “rooting for everybody Black” at the Emmy Awards in 2017.

Soon enough, the Black candidates weren’t so easy to back, though Rae’s Demmings found ways as best as she could