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Kam Patterson's Snape Roasts Harry Potter's Bias

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Kam Pattersons SNL Snape sketch brilliantly calls out racial biases in the Harry Potter universe, exposing stereotypes and slavery, leaving viewers rethinking the magical realm.

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Kam Patterson's Snape Roasts Harry Potter's Bias

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Entertainment & Celebrity News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!Kam Patterson's Snape Roasts Harry Potter's Bias. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

It's April 5th, this is Entertainment and Celebrity News, today, powered by AI, your front-row to the latest buzz. I'm Cory with the story. Cam Patterson lit up Saturday Night Lives Weekend Update as a Black Professor Snape, straight nodding to HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series casting, Papa S.E.A. Do, and the role originally played by a white actor. Patterson Snape kicked it off with some code switching flair, then roasted Harry Potter himself as a straight-up racist kid who profiled the only. Black teacher at Hogwarts as the bad guy behind stealing the sorcerer's stone. Fans and viewers cracked up at the sketch calling out biases by folks ignoring the white dude with the villain on his head while pinning it on. Snape, or assigning him to teach dark arts right off the bat, despite his background in African studies, Snape kept dropping truth bombs on the Wizarding World's other black characters, clowning their stereotypical names and outfits that screamed. Her shop bives instead of wizard robes. The bit-wrap with Snape exposing house elves as straight-up slaves hidden in plain sight,

flipping the whole magical realm on its head and leaving. Everyone rethinking those old stories.

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