Also, I don't think Rogan is racist...but at the same time you never know. I know when it comes to the UFC and black fighters (particularly Silva, Jones, Ngannou) he's always on they're dikk nh, especially when Silva was in his prime..
He also considers Jones to be the GOAT and most MMA fans I see online hate his guts because he's black and dominate. They call him a drug addict and a cheater to discredit him.
He also is a Cornell West fanboy. This is actually one of the best Cornell West interviews out there:
Non racists say this breh?
i want to hear the juelz defense around this.
I don't think anyone can make that joke unless they were raised in a racist environment and thus have some racist tendencies or are at least pandering to racists. It's one (of many) reasons that I've been on his fukking case in every thread where Joe Rogan has come up. Even if he has some good guests, he has repeatedly exposed that he is ignorant and naive when it comes to issues that affect Black people and I don't like the way his show gives a forum to way too many a$$holes.
That being said, people who post that clip out of context are doing a disservice. This is the actual sequence of events:
1. He talks about going to see Planet of the Apes and ending up by surprise in a theater with almost all Black folk. Right off the bat he makes a clearly racist joke.
2. Immediately after saying it he says, "Wait, Planet of the Apes didn't take place in Africa. That was a racist thing for me to say." and walks it back.
3. He goes on to describe his experience in the theater, getting dapped up and having conversations with people who knew him from one thing or another, and talks about what a positive experience watching a movie in a theater with a Black crowd is, where people are talking back to the movie and legit having a good time. Sometimes his way of talking about it gets a little cringey you can tell he's being legitimately respectful.
4. He then says that that makes him realize that every fukking preview was White movies starring White people. He talks about when the preview for some Jonah Hill movie comes on and Jonah Hill slips into Black mannerisms while talking to a Black guy so that you "know he is cool". He says that watching that alongside a black audience made him realize how cringeworthy it is when White people appropriate Black culture and he was really embarrassed to be White at that moment.
Actual quote:
"Wow, this is fukked up. No wonder why Black people are angry and they feel disenfranchised. They're completely removed from the mainstream cultural experience in a lot of ways. There's a tiny percentage of Black people who are included in movies."
5. Then when Planet of the Apes comes on, the whole movie is White people except for one token Black character. And that Black character is some foreign guy with an accent AND he's a bad guy. He says it made him feel uncomfortable seeing how all these Black folk had basically just these all-White movies available, and how the Black community has a legitimate complaint when it comes to Hollywood and their representation.
A lot of the shyt is says in the clip is insensitive and non-PC and kinda makes you want to punch him in the face. At the same time he is using that forum to push some of the most anti-racist agenda about media that a lot of his audience has probably ever heard.
I looked up all that shyt when I was trying to shyt on Joe Rogan in the Joe Rogan thread. And I still ain't feeling him. But if THAT is the most racist thing people can credit to him, when the whole time he's going off on the lack of Black representation in Hollywood, and when he's having Cornell West on his show for two hours to spit his anti-racist game and
clearly is a fan....it's tough for me to call him an "open White Supremacist" or some of the other dumb shyt people are saying. Like Obama said, he's a "typical White person" who has gained some experience in the Black community (he used to work with Richard Pryor and is a massive Pryor stan as well) and still has some racist tendencies. He doesn't understand how toxic some of his guests like Jordan Peterson or Alex Jones and their fans can be to the Black community. But he's not a White Nationalist.
