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Chris Rock on the Obama presidency: 'That's not black progress. That's white
progress.'
In 2008, the election of President Obama was roundly hailed as a major step
forward for race relations in America — but in a lengthy interview with New
York Magazine, Chris Rock explained that the term "race relations" doesn't
capture what's really happening. "When we talk about race relations in
America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations,"
he said. "White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy. To say that
black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened
to them before."
So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that
is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white
progress. There's been black people qualified to be president for hundreds
of years. If you saw Tina Turner and Ike having a lovely breakfast over
there, would you say their relationship's improved? Some people would. But a
smart person would go, "Oh, he stopped punching her in the face." It's not
up to her. Ike and Tina Turner's relationship has nothing to do with Tina
Turner. Nothing. It just doesn't. The question is, you know, my kids are
smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated
, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that
my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white
people that America has ever produced. Let's hope America keeps producing
nicer white people. [New York Magazine]
Rock concluded his answer by encouraging white Americans to honestly grapple
with the actions of their ancestors. "Yeah, it's unfair that you can get
judged by something you didn't do," he said, "but it's also unfair that you
can inherit money that you didn't work for."
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