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Remember When Chris Rock Used To Be Funny?
More proof that the “new racism” in America is false allegations of racism.
According to this Poltico post, Chris Rock told Esquire Magazine that Tea Partiers are racists (he’s not even original in fabricated criticisim, is he?).
Before I get to Chris, look at this question from his interviewer Scott Raab:
“Like many nice Caucasians, I cried the night Barack Obama was elected,” said Raab. “It was one of the high points in American history. And all that’s happened since the election is just a sh—storm of hatred. You want to weigh in on that?”
I’d like to weigh in on that. What was historic? Barack Obama isn’t the descendent of slaves, he’s the descendent of slave owners like the rest of the white presidents before him. Call the historians when we elect an African American who doesn’t know his roots because of the barbarity of slavery instead of a first generation Kenyan American who does.
And your crying was based upon being a “nice Caucasian?” Only “mean Caucasians” control their emotions? Even the Democrat folks who didn’t cry are meanies? Man up, Scott. It was an election.
Now to you, Chris Rock. Let me analyze this incessant left-wing fabrication that I’m only a Tea Partier because I’m a racist. I’ve not supported a Democrat or left-wing policy in my nearly 50 years on earth. That being the evidence you are working with, do you sincerely conclude that the ONLY reason I oppose President Obama is because he’s half black? Wouldn’t it be rather predictable that I would oppose him based up party affiliation and policy?
Let’s discuss and discard this idea that President Obama is being opposed more vigorously than white presidents before him. When President Clinton tried to pass a healthcare reform, we killed it, and not because he was white. Doesn’t our success in killing ClintonCare, and failure in stopping ObamaCare, suggest that Clinton was more vigorously opposed than President Obama?
Chris Rock asserts we are looking at the last vestiges of racism in America in the Tea Party, and the good news is that racism will be gone soon.
Chris is wrong about the Tea Party, and unfortunately even more wrong about racism being gone soon. So long as there are still political race hustlers whose livelihood depends upon the continued misconception that widespread racism still exists, false allegations of racism will keep “racism” alive and Chris Rock will always have a job.
My apologies to Ricochet if my tone is a bit more sober than usual. I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood and went to predominantly black schools, but the only time in my life I’ve been referred to as a racist has been since President Obama was elected. I’m not faulting him, but his supporters continually cross this line.
Being a racist is one of the worst things you can be because it calls into question your morality, religion, compassion – your very being. A false allegation of racism is such a serious charge one is compelled to meet it with appropriate vigor.
That will be the case at least until the time comes when folks like Chris Rock overuse ”Racist!” so much they are met with rolled-eyes of fatigue and ostracized for being as much a symbol of racism as Democrat Bull Connor’s fire hose.
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I never thought Chris Rock was funny. I thought his humor was about inferred racism and I didn’t find that funny.
I’m just gonna answer the question in the title : Remember When Chris Rock Used To Be Funny?
No. Who is Chris Rock?
I’m really not joking. I’ve heard the name, but … what? Who is he?
“Doesn’t our success in killing ClintonCare, and failure in stopping ObamaCare, suggest that Clinton was more vigorously opposed than President Obama?”
Maybe it suggests that Democrats dared stand up to Clinton, who after all was a Southern good ol’ boy with an Ivy League education, but did not dare stand up to Obama for fear of appearing somehow racist. Reverse racism — the soft bigotry of low expectations — is alive and well.
Chris Rock had a grand total of one bit that I found funny, where he compared black vs. white murderers. Verdict: If someone does something really sick and disturbing like raping and dismembering a nine year old, it’s probably a white guy. If it’s something stupid like pushing an old lady down a flight of stairs and running off with her purse, it’s probably a black guy.
The term racism is sold these days in the same fashion when Snake Oil salesmen pulled into town with wagons, put on a show and sold useless, dangerous tonics.
Both Sharpton, Jackson and those of the same ilk have found it profitable.
Sadly, that is one tradition that continues…
Forgive one here, Obama tries and just lacks the talent even to be a salesman.
Chris Rock has a great joke about this trend that’s really just the latest manifestation of gentrification. Rock remembers a white guy moving into his neighborhood during his youth, and thinks to himself “Aw Hell, Here Comes The Neighborhood.” – The Rise Of The Local Suburban Ghetto
If I recall correctly, that was from his appearance on Rosie O’Donnell’s old VH1 Comedy Show a couple of decades ago. They were both much funnier when they did feel the need to demonize people they didn’t like.
Rock has a funny skit called “Blacks vs Niggas” which I won’t link to because of the cussing. I figured someone willing to recognize those cultural differences wouldn’t fall for race-baiting, but I guess I was wrong.
Oh well. If I ignored delusional and immoral entertainers, there would be little left to enjoy.
You don’t remember Chris Rock. Chris Rock doesn’t remember Chris Rock. I remember Chris Rock, before he became wealthy and furtive, when he grew up fearing for his life from the same sorts of things that just might concern any, ordinary citizen.
I’m going to attach a link that is extremely foul, in language, but is exactly the way I remember him, when he was fighting his way out of the projects. It’s ugly, but on point. Please do not click on this link if foul language is offensive to you. However, that is the takedown of the modern Chris Rock…in his own words.
Same person, but now he is comfortably rich and insulated from the horrors he used to make jokes about.
You don’t remember Chris Rock. Chris Rock doesn’t remember Chris Rock. I remember Chris Rock, before he became wealthy and furtive, when he grew up fearing for his life from the same sorts of things that just might concern any, ordinary citizen.
I’m going to attach a link that is extremely foul, in language, but is exactly the way I remember him, when he was fighting his way out of the projects. It’s ugly, but on point. Please do not click on this link if foul language is offensive to you. However, that is the takedown of the modern Chris Rock…in his own words.
Same person, but now he is comfortably rich and insulated from the horrors he used to make jokes about.
I’m not with Chris Rock on the Tea Party, but that’s not going to change my opinion that he is the funniest comic alive today.
Was, fullfrontal, was. Haven’t heard anything funny out of him since Bring the Pain and that was already sliding.
Like a battery on an old car, racism as a meaningful charge has been drained dead and is ready for the junkyard. Al Sharpton (who incited a mob to murder) and Jesse Jackson (not seen so much since his second “secret” family came to light) made a pretty good living from the racist racket, but those days are on their way out. Read Shelby Steele’s argument that much of what is wrong in this country today is the result of the white guilt that spawned a political correctness that has sickened our public and private institutions and made us stupid.
I agree with YG. “Racist” has become meaninglessly vague as it has been re-defined and used generously in situations in which it did not apply. It’s the last desperate plea of someone who has run out of arguments. It is very rarely a charge with any proof or evidence to back it up. Much to the chagrin of the Woodstockers and Baby Boomers, “racist” doesn’t really mean that much any more.