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Chris Rock tells white people to own the actions of their ancestors
Washington Times ^ | Dec. 1, 2014 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 12/01/2014 12:33:36 PM PST by EternalVigilance

Chris Rock explained in a lengthy interview Sunday that he believes part of healing racial relations in America is by white people “owning” the actions of their ancestors.

The black comedian told New York magazine’s Frank Rich that racial progress in America is “nonsense” and that the only thing that’s changed is white people aren’t as crazy as they used to be.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: blacks; michaelbrown; race; racism; racist; reparations; slavery; trayvons
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To: EternalVigilance

Hey you piece of crap. My ancestors didn’t have slaves, you bastard, so shut your pie hole.


181 posted on 12/01/2014 2:07:11 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: boycott; All

Ezekiel 18:19 “Yet you say, ‘Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live. 20 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

So much for the moral legitimacy of the black reparations movement.!


182 posted on 12/01/2014 2:07:33 PM PST by mdmathis6
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To: EternalVigilance

Most of my ancestors were dirt poor, until they came to this great nation. They worked hard, raised their kids with morals, and my generation owes THEM a debt.


183 posted on 12/01/2014 2:13:07 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: EternalVigilance
Chris, what do you think "Affirmative Action" was? Didn't that work out great.
Moron
184 posted on 12/01/2014 2:14:09 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
That’s supposed to be irony, boy, irony

The original post was borrowed from "The Life of Brian". So I responded in kind. ;-)

185 posted on 12/01/2014 2:17:24 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: FreedomNotSafety
Would you apologize if your ancestors owned slaves and fought for the South?

No. It doesn't matter what my ancestors did, good or bad. I'm not responsible for it and should not have to either apologize or brag about it or, as Chris Rock wants me to do, "own" it.

186 posted on 12/01/2014 2:21:02 PM PST by Nea Wood
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To: Wiser now

Sharpton and Jackson with the rent a mob mentality are the problem. Because until they die off and stop this money grabbing and witnesess for the NAACP lawsuits, we will have chaos.

I say do NOT hire white police in black communities, just give them their own police who are black....and black on black crime is higher....so you can guess how that will work out, but it will show that police do need to kill the criminals who are trying to kill them.


187 posted on 12/01/2014 2:22:49 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: EternalVigilance

188 posted on 12/01/2014 2:31:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: EternalVigilance

While there are many excellent responses here they all fall short. Blacks will never give up their victim cards. That is what “white privilege” is all about. White privilege is something that can never ever be atoned for (according to blacks). Everything you have, everything you do was only possible because of what was stolen from black people by the white system. It is a perpetual ideology that ensures handouts and special treatment ad infinitum. Pointing out that your family fought in the civil war doesnt even address the 150 yrs since then that blacks believe you and your whole family received unearned privilege.


189 posted on 12/01/2014 2:31:52 PM PST by 1malumprohibitum
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To: EternalVigilance; All
When is Chris Rock going to own the actions of all those British sailors who gave their lives on the high seas getting rid of slave traders?

HMMMMMMM?

Chris Rock is dumber than his last name.

190 posted on 12/01/2014 2:32:36 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: grumpygresh

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


191 posted on 12/01/2014 2:33:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Well chris , get off yer “Grand Stand” and let’s , just the two of us discuss the matter in private. I promise to wear one of those bright white teeth as my “bling” for years to come. Message me for time and place and please be timely as I have a job and work for a living.

Snoot


192 posted on 12/01/2014 2:41:04 PM PST by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: House Atreides

Chris Rock is full of himself and full of Chit. If your ancestors did not own any slaves as most people’s did not then what is there to own up to? Even most people in the South did not own slaves. They were too expensive. There would only be a small pool of of whites that had ancestors who owned slaves. And why should they feel guilty as they didn’t even know their ancestors.


193 posted on 12/01/2014 2:45:11 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Chris, own your ancestors selling your ancestors to slave traders to sell in the new world. Chris thank the slave owners your making millions instead of running from lions.


194 posted on 12/01/2014 2:47:34 PM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Mr. Rock, we don’t have to “own” what our ancestors did or didn’t do. That’s what America is all about. No guilt here.

Some community activists and a few ignorant black people are pushing the rest of us with their marching, looting, and burning and open expressions of racism while expecting a payback from guiltless people like me. Don’t blame me. Go find somebody else to blame.

Try to accept me and forgive and forget the past while we can still move forward. The old plantation days are gone forever. Pushing this black racist agenda thing will get you nothing but more of the same. The final push back may result in a civil war.

I used to care, but after 50 years, frankly I don’t give a damn any more. It’s your move.


195 posted on 12/01/2014 2:48:11 PM PST by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Only a tiny percentage of today’s white citizens – perhaps as few as 5% — bear any authentic kind of generational guilt for the exploitation of slave labor in the United States.

Even in the South, more than 80% of the white population never owned slaves. Given the fact that the majority of today’s non-black Americans descend from immigrants who arrived in this country after the War Between the States, the overwhelming majority of white Americans owe black Americans nothing as far slavery guilt goes.

In fact, a large percentage of black Americans of slave descent can claim slaveholder ancestry, so are closer in that way to “the institution” than are most white Americans.


196 posted on 12/01/2014 2:58:29 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: EternalVigilance

Tell you what, Chris.

As a Southerner, I don’t give a damn if my ancestors owned hundreds of slaves.

Smoke on that, why don’t you.


197 posted on 12/01/2014 3:00:10 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: skeeter

My great grandfather fought and survived Shiloh .
Another fought and survived both Guilford Courthouse and Cowpens .
I too am all paid up


198 posted on 12/01/2014 3:03:31 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: 1malumprohibitum

Africa is calling.....


199 posted on 12/01/2014 3:06:23 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: MeganC

Yes, Chris Rock got his acting start in “I’m Gonna Get You Sucka” trying to buy 1 rib for a dollar, and a drink (without a cup) for $.10.


200 posted on 12/01/2014 3:15:41 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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