The new host of the Golden Globes minced no words Tuesday night — “I’m here because I’m Black.”
Jerrod Carmichael used his opening monologue to talk about his presence. The traditional kickoff of the awards season in Hollywood wasn’t aired last year because the sponsoring Hollywood Foreign Press Association had so few Black members.
“I won’t say they were a racist organization, but they didn’t have a single black member until George Floyd died. So do with that information what you will,” he said Tuesday in the show’s return to NBC.
So, Mr. Carmichael said in the opening 7-minute routine, he took the job with no illusions, saying he was “torn.