Posted on 09/16/2020 2:18:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Chris Rock wasn’t hurt by Jimmy Fallon’s use of blackface while impersonating him on “Saturday Night Live” 20 years ago.
“Hey, man, I’m friends with Jimmy. Jimmy’s a great guy. And he didn’t mean anything,” Rock, 55, recently told the New York Times.
The “Everybody Hates Chris” star added that he believes Fallon’s performance — which went viral after resurfacing online over the summer — wasn’t meant to be malicious. “A lot of people want to say intention doesn’t matter, but it does,” Rock said, adding, “And I don’t think Jimmy Fallon intended to hurt me. And he didn’t.”
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If you take all their logic to their reasonable conclusions, every late night host right now should give up their post to a woman or person of color. Practice what they preach?
Hey Chris, that ain’t how it works.
Dont like the rules, use your platform to stop it.
He's a coward for not just coming out and saying that it's okay to insult people with blackface if you're a Democrat like Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Ted Danson, and Virginia Governor Ralph Northam as well as Socialists like Canada's Prime Minister Trudeau.
It's either offensive or it's not. The selective outrage only exposes the hypocrisy.
Unfair impersonation of Karl Malone, who is a good guy.
Meant to add that Jimmy Kimmel is COMPLETELY awful as Oprah and Karl Malone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPau1pLm3jQ
Only racist if it’s a Republican.
(btw, /sarc)
“I give him a black pass!”
Situational ethics lives.
-PJ
Yes, those just weren’t funny.
Okay, John Mayer.
Shut up Chris black face matters.
What about all those black women wearing 'white women's hair' wigs? That's as bad as blackface and just as insulting.
STOP WEARING OUR HAIR STOP WEARING OUR HAIR. STOP WEARING OUR HAIR.
Are black people ashamed of their hair? Is that the excuse they use for wearing OUR hair?
Same with black men and the chemicals they dump on their heads to look like they have white men's hair.
NO more blackface, no more white people's hair. (it's time to be just as thin skinned as the professional victims)
It’s only offensive based upon a person’s political preferences.
“Hey, man, I’m friends with Jimmy. Jimmy’s a great guy. And he didn’t mean anything,” Rock, 55, recently told the New York Times.
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“Looks like Fallon is attempting the extremely difficult maneuver of canceling the cancel culture vultures! Yes! He’s invoking the black friend gambit! Haven’t seen that since 2002. ...And there the pitch! Ohh! So close!”
Michelle Obama does a real good Karl Malone too
Michelle does a great Mike Singletary also.
Linebacker
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