Writer; Chris Rock's Poisonous Legacy: How to get Rich Bashing "Bad Blacks"

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You won’t go broke by taking up the chastisement of “bad blacks” as a career. You may lose your soul, but you can just go buy a new one with the cash from your book deal/radio show/TV pundit gig/speaking fees.

What bothers me just as much, if not more, than the profitability of this line of thinking, is that anyone who engages in it (Barkley, Lemon, Riley or whoever) positions him- or herself as some sort of exalted truth teller, revealing the secrets black America is too afraid to face. They won’t touch the truth of how white supremacy has dictated the contours of black American life, but telling kids to pull up their pants and stop acting like “thugs” is right up their alley.

Is this true for every black person? Of course not. The only universal constant in the black American experience is racism. But it’s that racism that produced a situation whereby people were forced to go into survival mode, and more often than is comfortable to admit, survival techniques look like outlaw activities. And even more uncomfortable to admit is that black survival techniques become criminalized. Still, someone in our community persists along those outlaw lines because they understand there is no hope for anyone else if they don’t.
But instead of asking why the options for black survival are so limited, the proselytizers of respectability politics would rather reify the theories of black inferiority that excite the white racist imagination.

I don't even know why I'm quoting segments anymore, great writing.

 

[JayGatsby]

I've always said that chris rock & david chapelle was on sum c00n shyt with some of their jokes

 

[Still Benefited]

He really gon try to add the 'er on the end like thats what Chris Rock said....let the man stand who has never uttered the words "nikkas aint shyt".....if you black it really shouldnt need to be explained...i know u dont really hate "nikkas"...Chris is a conedian and was using hyperbole,this dude is not a comedian so his hyperbole is just him doing bullshyt writing at parts....it was a great bit until wbite people and new blacks came along to hijack it....even "nikkas" applauded this bit back when it happened,an ahdience full of black people applauded it....we not lettin u new nikkas rewrite history like chris rock was wrong for doin it....obviously in hindsight knowing how it is used now its not as funny no more.

 

[YourMumsRoom]

Been saying this.

 

[African Peasant]

This is good.

I never liked Rock. I've always seen him like a black neo-bourgeous making fun of poor white people with his sophistocated new friends.

Chapellle is another story, I tkink.

 

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@No_bammer_weed

 

[Steve Piffler]

everytime i hear that joke come up on Pandora, i get the . i get what he was trying to do, but when your audience is mostly white, you have to be careful. white people went to work the next day like ITCHING to tell that joke to someone.....

 

[Slimkid07]

In Chris Rock's defense, he acknowledges the damage that joke has done and he doesn't do that set anymore.
He realized how that joke gave racists and self-hating black folk a reason to gleefully use the n-word and disparage blacks.

As much as I dig Chris Rock, I hated that joke and the Michelle Obama one because of the stereotypes they evoked.
It gives the green light to weak minded fools to run with the bullshyt.

 

[keon]

The main reason why chappelle quit his show was due to him realizing his c00n antics were embarrassing

" The third season hit a big speed bump in November 2004. He was taping a sketch about magic pixies that embody stereotypes about the races. The black pixie--played by Chappelle--wears blackface and tries to convince blacks to act in stereotypical ways. Chappelle thought the sketch was funny, the kind of thing his friends would laugh at. But at the taping, one spectator, a white man, laughed particularly loud and long. His laughter struck Chappelle as wrong, and he wondered if the new season of his show had gone from sending up stereotypes to merely reinforcing them. "When he laughed, it made me uncomfortable," says Chappelle. "As a matter of fact, that was the last thing I shot before I told myself I gotta take f_____— time out after this. Because my head almost exploded."

 

[PewPew]

everytime i hear that joke come up on Pandora, i get the . i get what he was trying to do, but when your audience is mostly white, you have to be careful. white people went to work the next day like ITCHING to tell that joke to someone.....

Like in the office when the boss wouldnt stop saying that joke, N-words and all. Season one i think

 

[Still Benefited]

everytime i hear that joke come up on Pandora, i get the . i get what he was trying to do, but when your audience is mostly white, you have to be careful. white people went to work the next day like ITCHING to tell that joke to someone.....

Wheres this audience of mostly white people yall speak of....that's what im sayin on folks rewriting history based on who Chris Rock is NOW vs back then....It was audience full of black folks who loved the joke and iddnt need it explained,no uncomfortable moments...Chris Rock gets demonized and somehow Chapelle and Patrice still get nothing but love around here...somehow its like Chris is more than a comedian and should be more responsible

All Chris did was go thru that so nikkas aint have to go thru that....his joke should show that you DEFINITLY should not be saying negative shyt about black people among white people because they will incorporate it into they own racist rhetoric....CHris wasn't safe telling his joke among black people becuz he blew up....but I don't see how the Barkleys,Stephen A's and Cosbys and blacks of the world cant see what happened with Chris Rock and NEVER speak on OUR shyt to cacs.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

This is good.

I never liked Rock. I've always seen him like a black neo-bourgeous making fun of poor white people with his sophistocated new friends.

Chapellle is another story, I tkink.

I like Chris Rock, but this joke did irrepairable damage to the black community.

I've heard so many white people use it to justify their bigotry its astounding. Sometimes they claim to not even think its a bad thing. They just really think theres a "difference"

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

On point. Some CAC friend I used to have in HS tried that "******s vs black people" shyt with me. He's a Jew so I played it off like "yeah just like there's greedy money hungry war mongering hook nosed kikes and then there's the good jews"


We not friends no more.

I won't lie but when I was younger and in high school I've had people try to say that shyt to me and actually said "Rock said it" as a justification as if to say I was a "nice guy"

shyt didn't really hit home until a few years later why that joke was so harmful.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Wheres this audience of mostly white people yall speak of....that's what im sayin on folks rewriting history based on who Chris Rock is NOW vs back then....It was audience full of black folks who loved the joke and iddnt need it explained,no uncomfortable moments...Chris Rock gets demonized and somehow Chapelle and Patrice still get nothing but love around here...somehow its like Chris is more than a comedian and should be more responsible

All Chris did was go thru that so nikkas aint have to go thru that....his joke should show that you DEFINITLY should not be saying negative shyt about black people among white people because they will incorporate it into they own racist rhetoric....CHris wasn't safe telling his joke among black people becuz he blew up....but I don't see how the Barkleys,Stephen A's and Cosbys and blacks of the world cant see what happened with Chris Rock and NEVER speak on OUR shyt to cacs.

but this is the problem.

comedy itself doesn't just stay in that room.

If rock made that joke in a room with no cameras it'd be a different story.

 

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