Michael Blackson's got jokes about the Detroit music festival's controversial decision to charge white people double.
's got a pretty flip response to a black music and art festival charging white people twice as much to attend -- he says this is how it should be for everything.
The comedian's just joking, of course, when we got him leaving Penthouse Nightclub in WeHo Sunday night, but his roast of Detroit's AfroFuture Fest didn't stop there. He tells us it's obviously not right for the festival to make ticket prices higher for white people, but he uses another word for white people -- the"C" word. But, not THAT one. Watch.
In case you missed it ... Blackson's making light of a situation many people didn't find funny at all over the weekend -- the fest hosted by AfroFuture Youth was offering an early bird ticket price of $10 for people of color, but $20 for"NONPOC."pulled out of the music festival saying the race-based ticket pricing does not reflect her views.
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