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12976274, What do you think of this Chris Rock quote?
Posted by legsdiamond, Fri Feb-19-16 01:03 PM
http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/12/1/7313467/chris-rock-interview
When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before…
So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress. There's been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. If you saw Tina Turner and Ike having a lovely breakfast over there, would you say their relationship's improved? Some people would. But a smart person would go, "Oh, he stopped punching her in the face." It's not up to her. Ike and Tina Turner’s relationship has nothing to do with Tina Turner. Nothing. It just doesn't. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let's hope America keeps producing nicer white people.
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12976281, Pretty spot on but I think white folks in general haven't changed
Posted by Atillah Moor, Fri Feb-19-16 01:08 PM
it's just become safer for the ones that aren't violent towards non whites.
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12976282, RE: What do you think of thid Chris Rock quote?
Posted by Tiggerific, Fri Feb-19-16 01:10 PM
This. Shit. Right. HERE....
Makes me want to watch the Oscars.
Unapologetically BLACK History Month continues...with Chris Rock going IN at the Oscars.
I'm just wondering if he's going to say something to get his ass thrown off the air. Probably not, but I guarantee he's going to say something to have white people protesting the next day. And for that...I'm dvr'ing that ish right now!!!!! 😎✊🏿
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12976287, i will watch his opening act but that's it.
Posted by legsdiamond, Fri Feb-19-16 01:15 PM
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12976445, nah some of the best shit will be written on the fly during the show
Posted by Damali, Fri Feb-19-16 04:42 PM
he will snark after acceptance speeches, etc...it will be epic
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12976582, Cant do it
Posted by legsdiamond, Sat Feb-20-16 09:47 AM
I will have to watch the recap....
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12976605, i hope he goes completely IN all night
Posted by LAbeathustla, Sat Feb-20-16 12:46 PM
make em not een want another nigga up there..
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12976283, it's fantastic
Posted by Ashy Achilles, Fri Feb-19-16 01:11 PM
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12976285, Pretty accurate and puts things in the right terms.
Posted by ConcreteCharlie, Fri Feb-19-16 01:13 PM
The Ike/Tina analogy is outstanding.
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12976289, i'm with it.
Posted by SoWhat, Fri Feb-19-16 01:15 PM
though i understand what ppl mean when they say we blacks have made progress, i agree w/Rock here.
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12976446, spot on.
Posted by Damali, Fri Feb-19-16 04:42 PM
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12976470, i loved this quote. I will definitely use it on white people
Posted by legsdiamond, Fri Feb-19-16 05:14 PM
can't wait either..
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12976520, Extremely clear and lucid.
Posted by NoDrawls McGraw, Fri Feb-19-16 08:01 PM
Even the most naive of naive ofayes should be able
to understand that shit.
Sun jewel'd it as usual.
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12976556, NAIL. HEAD.
Posted by astralblak, Sat Feb-20-16 12:26 AM
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12976607, It'd take a self-hating negro to hate on that.
Posted by Boogie Stimuli, Sat Feb-20-16 12:52 PM
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12976620, Excellent.
Posted by MME, Sat Feb-20-16 01:44 PM
>http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/12/1/7313467/chris-rock-interview
>
>
> When we talk about race relations in America or racial
>progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations.
>White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy. To say that
>black people have made progress would be to say they deserve
>what happened to them before…
>
> So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he's the first
>black person that is qualified to be president. That's not
>black progress. That's white progress. There's been black
>people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. If you
>saw Tina Turner and Ike having a lovely breakfast over there,
>would you say their relationship's improved? Some people
>would. But a smart person would go, "Oh, he stopped punching
>her in the face." It's not up to her. Ike and Tina Turner’s
>relationship has nothing to do with Tina Turner. Nothing. It
>just doesn't. The question is, you know, my kids are smart,
>educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart,
>educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of
>years. The advantage that my children have is that my children
>are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever
>produced. Let's hope America keeps producing nicer white
>people.
>
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