Was Chris Rock right...?

Tommy Monk wrote:The thread is about what he said in the OP link...

As you well know...

Tommy Monk wrote:



The thread is about what he said in the OP link...


As you well know...

Original Quill wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:The thread is about what he said in the OP link...

As you well know...

I thought what Chris Rock said in the Dogma link was much more significant and direct.  But really, both are saying the same thing: they both are a parody about how whites won't let blacks into modern society, and how people of color have to find other means to become relevant.

We agree about one thing: Chris Rock is prophetic.

eddie wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

I thought what Chris Rock said in the Dogma link was much more significant and direct.  But really, both are saying the same thing: they both are a parody about how whites won't let blacks into modern society, and how people of color have to find other means to become relevant.

We agree about one thing: Chris Rock is prophetic.

Well, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphey, Bill Cosby, Denzil Washington, Morgan Freeman, Samuel L. Jackson.... etc etc etc etc...seem to have done okay.

Ben Reilly wrote:I saw that clip ages ago, it's just Chris Rock saying that decent black people look down on black people who make them look bad just as anybody else does.

The problem is when society judges a minority group by its worst offenders. You can't judge people with black skin by the criminals who are black any more than you can judge people with white skin by "trailer trash" or Eastern European human traffickers.

The problem is mainly the media. Because many people don't live around many people of different races, they judge them by what they see on the media, and so it falls on the media not to only highlight the criminals.

Then again, when the media tries to do stories about minorities doing good things, they just get derided as lefty PC propagandists ... the media can never really win, that's always been the case.

Ben Reilly wrote:Sorry, I meant more the news media. For decades, American TV news was basically an endless litany of black people committing crimes. They owed it to the American public to tell a wide variety of stories about black people, but then again, they got big ratings by featuring 'scary black people' stories, so they followed the profits.

eddie wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:Sorry, I meant more the news media. For decades, American TV news was basically an endless litany of black people committing crimes. They owed it to the American public to tell a wide variety of stories about black people, but then again, they got big ratings by featuring 'scary black people' stories, so they followed the profits.

And therein lies the rub. If people started looking and seeing the world around them and stopped listening to the media, we may have a better world, in some respects anyway.