What is "The age of Montel" in The Ladykiller ?

Question

Anybody knows what is "the age of Montel"?

Here is the line in movie, The Ladykiller:

"Do you know what they call colored folks in them songs?" she harrumphs for Sheriff Wyner (George Wallace). "Niggors: I won't say it twice. Two thousand years after Jesus, 30 years after Martin Luther King. The age of Montel! Sweat Load of mercy, is that where we at?"

Answer 1

It is not a Biblical reference.

I think she is merely making a reference to the Age of Montel, being Montel Williams  (the talk-show host), and how he uses that ugly word (a lot).

She won't say the word twice (it's distasteful to her):

Sweet Lord, have mercy, is that where we (the world) at?

Of course this is just my take on the dialogue!

Edit: it was a reference to Williams:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335245/movi...