Ari Lennox voiced her issues with the classic sitcom back in July.
Legendary comedian Martin Lawrence has responded to Ari Lennox’s previous comments about jokes on the ‘Martin’ show. Lennox’s said that Tichina Arnold’s character, Pam, received most of the ridicule due to her “chocolate” skin complexion.
“The thing that pissed me off about Martin was how much he was goin’ in on Pam,” she says. “And this is coming from a girl who loves a joking a– movie and even when the joking movie is like ‘Damn, that was f**ked up.’ There are some things where I draw the line.”
Lawrence addressed Lennox’s colorism take on his recent catch up with Fox 5 DC on Jan. 12.
“No, I never had that concern because I knew they were jokes,” said Lawrence. “That’s the way Black people. That’s the way we joke. We go hard. And me and Tichina were just having a lot of fun and we were keeping it real. And I was keeping it real. That’s why we got a lot of laughs out of it. She has a right to have her own opinion and everything, but there was no malicious intent.”
Tichina Arnold echoed Martin Lawrence’s sentiments back in December during an appearance on Deon Cole’s podcast, Funny Knowing You.
“Those jokes were never written from malice,” Arnold said. “It was written from who’s got the best jokes. Never about colorism. Ari, we understand how you feel. But it wasn’t meant [like] that. Maybe, Ari, you need to talk to your friends and the people you were around during that time who made you feel that way.”
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