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“I was the one black writer there,” Cenac recalled. “When you’re the one—whether you want to or not—you wind up speaking for everybody.”
The argument was so intense that afterwards, Cenac remembers, he was told that some dogs that were in the office that day and could hear the argument were shaking. Stewart apologized to the staff, but Cenac was devastated. He stayed on for another tense year as a correspondent, but then he quit. The two have patched things up via email since then (we’ve reached out to Stewart for comment and will update if we hear back), and Stewart invited Cenac to the final taping. But Cenac told Maron, “I still don’t know if I’m going to show up.”
“I was the one black writer there,” Cenac recalled. “When you’re the one—whether you want to or not—you wind up speaking for everybody.”
The argument was so intense that afterwards, Cenac remembers, he was told that some dogs that were in the office that day and could hear the argument were shaking. Stewart apologized to the staff, but Cenac was devastated. He stayed on for another tense year as a correspondent, but then he quit. The two have patched things up via email since then (we’ve reached out to Stewart for comment and will update if we hear back), and Stewart invited Cenac to the final taping. But Cenac told Maron, “I still don’t know if I’m going to show up.”