Chris Lilley Roasted For Reposting Wildly Insensitive “Squashed N***a” Video

Chris Lilley is absolutely copping it for reposting an insanely insensitive video just days after the man who killed Indigenous teenager Elijah Doughty was found not guilty.

As he bloody well should, quite frankly.

The video, titled – we’re sorry to say – “Squashed N***a“, is from Lilley’s ill-advised days as S.Mouse, his African-American character from TV series ‘Angry Boys‘. The video opens with a shot of a black boy apparently dead on the ground after being struck by a car, and features heavy use of the N-word. It was first made public in 2014, but for some reason, Lilley reposted it to his Instagram account this afternoon.

The reaction was swift and furious, with many high-profile Australians, Indigenous and otherwise, calling him out for his racist bullshit.

https://twitter.com/NatalieCromb/status/891137292236070912

https://twitter.com/BriggsGE/status/891131616763953152

It’s not the first time Lilley has caught shit for his determination to play characters from other racial backgrounds, complete with skintone-changing makeup and offensive accents, but it is the first time it’s been so widespread, so quick and so vehement.

Lilley has responded by deleting his Instagram (but not before the video racked up over 30,000 views), and briefly taking down his Twitter account before posting this weak shart of a non-apology:

https://twitter.com/ChrisLilley/status/891203760361357312

Come on, mate. It’s time to do better.

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