Race man

Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show, stand-up comedian): "My race is a part of who I am. In one sense, it's very easy to get mired in that. At the same time, the reality is if you look at me, you see a black person, so in that way race will always be there no matter what. It's like, 'Oh it's the black correspondent.' Well, no, I'm just a correspondent, but regardless of how I present it, people will always attach a racial element to it. But this is my story: A kid who's black, who grew up in Texas, who is of West Indian descent. There are very specific aspects of my experience that are not the 'black experience' and to me, that's what transcendent is."