In a rare breach of silence surrounding Obama’s 50th birthday bash at the White House in 2011, comedian Chris Rock described a party where entertainers Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder led the dance floor in an electric slide and the president’s daughters did the Dougie.
“I felt like I died and went to black heaven,” he told a Los Angeles audience in 2012. “Think about this [expletive] moment: A bunch of black people doing the [expletive] Dougie in the house that slaves made.”

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