Last week we saw the final White House Correspondents Dinner—or “Nerd Prom” as some refer to it—for the last year of the Obama presidency. Following that gala event, many couches have been fainted upon (by those who remain irony and humor-challenged) over the controversial code-switched last statement—and particularly the last word used by host Larry Wilmore in relation to the very first African-American president. When I was a kid, I lived in a country where people couldn’t accept a black quarterback.