>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. >