I think Chris even came out later on and expressed regret over this joke.
[...]at home, his mother raised Rock to believe he was better than everybody else. "My mother can be a ghetto snob," says Rock.
"She thought she was better than everybody else," says Bradley.
"Yes," says Rock.
And how does that play out in his comedy?
"I guess a routine like 'n------ and black people' is something a ghetto snob would write," says Rock.
This controversial routine on HBO's "Bring The Pain," made Rock a star back in 1996: "There's, like, a civil war going on with black people, and there's two sides. There's black people, and there's n------. And n------ have to go."
Why does he think it got so much attention?
"I think a lot of people were thinking in those terms and hadn't been able to say it. By the way, I've never done that joke again, ever, and I probably never will," says Rock. "'Cause some people that were racist thought they had license to say n-----. So, I'm done with that routine."
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