“Late Night” writer Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey Lamar returned to Seth Meyers’ NBC show this week to talk about racism.
Lamar recalled one time a car dealer refused him a cash discount, only to have a white family friend show up minutes later and be offered a $4,000 discount on the exact same vehicle.
When confronted, the dealer offered it to Lamar some cash back, but only $1,000.
Needless to say, he didn’t end up buying the car.
The harrowing encounter is just one of the details in the sisters’ new book, The World Record Book of Racist Stories.
It is a sequel to their 2021 book, You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism, which documented the racism Lamar experienced while living in Omaha, Nebraska.
“I still live there and so these things happen to me all the time,” Lamar told Meyers.
“Part of the reason I wrote the first book is because of the sheer volume of this stuff,” Ruffin said. “It’s an unpleasant life of a young woman and it’s so funny because she’s not special in any way … she’s not angry or mean in any way, she’s just a nice, happy guy and that’s what’s happening to her.”
