ThatTruth777
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I never liked the joke because it falls under 'divide and rule' creating nothing but useless division
His audience was damn near all black.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.....
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Man fukk the "other" peoplebut 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.
too bad.Man fukk the "other" people
Rock was talking to his people, he didn't go up there on some "it's all good in the hood" bullshyt knowing it's a lie.
But was it true?too bad.
the joke took a life of its own
Not in my eyes and its not something I want to even lend credibility toBut was it true?
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.
Some kid in your class who took the rap when you both were caught stealing chips from the cafeteria, because even he sensed your future was brighter than his and you couldn’t afford to get in this type of trouble. Some assistant principal who wouldn’t allow you to play football your sophomore year because you were failing social studies. Some church that organized a bookbag drive so you and the other kids in the neighborhood would be prepared for the first day of school. Some drug dealer who’d tease you about being a nerd, but told the other drug dealers not to mess with you because you were going to college.
The real “dirty, dark secret” is this: the n–gers helped us survive. It’s all of those welfare queens, dope-dealing cousins, liquor store-robbing uncles, cable-stealing aunties, drunk granddads, and fast-tailed grannies who have made any of our relative success possible. It was those dope-dealing cousins who were able to buy someone’s kids’ school supplies. It was a good-for-nothing-drunk-of-an-uncle who fixed cars that helped folks get to work. It was an aunt who had five kids out of wedlock who did someone’s hair and made alterations on their suit for a job interview. It was those fight-at-the-drop-of-a-dime thugs who made it safe for their younger brothers and sisters to walk through their neighborhoods unmolested. It was the money from a grocery store robbery pulled off by an illiterate grandfather that kept the lights, gas and water on.
and he cant help it new blacks took it as a declaration of war instead of just a joke![]()
Man fukk the "other" people
Rock was talking to his people, he didn't go up there on some "it's all good in the hood" bullshyt knowing it's a lie.
And that was the tail end of the crack era, shyt was about as bad is it could get for working poor blacks living between the junkie and the drug dealer.
I've always said that chris rock & david chapelle was on sum c00n shyt with some of their jokes