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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: skeeter

The slaves were captured by the various tribes in Africa then sold to whoever around the world. Still goes on today.


221 posted on 12/01/2014 4:06:19 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: EternalVigilance
Chris....my ancestors owned slaves and some even became outlaws after the Civil War after fighting for the South.

Chris, a small white family does not live out in the middle of nowhere outnumbered and surrounded by slaves with no one to help you survive and uprising or sabotage if they hate you. If they were not treated well.... you die. They only farmers or plantation owners that could afford treating their workers horribly were large operations. Do you even understand how few and far between that type of operation was compared to the normal slave owner?

After the Civil war do you know how many "slaves" stayed with the families they served on those country farms?????????? The houses around our family farm still had descendants in the 80's.

You want to live your life as a down-trodden group who never out grow your slave mentality that is your choice. I personally am not keeping you there and could care less my ancestors owned slaves so many generations ago I never met one.

It is time complaining blacks either go back to Africa or take charge of being productive members of society because I am tired of the productive workers today, being the slaves to a group of people who sit on their ass collect a subsistence, destroy their families and society and then complain they are not wealthy or treated as good citizens because the rest of us are racist instead of just afraid of their lawless neighborhoods and are watchful for danger.

I feel sorry for the blacks that are productive members of society being pulled down by a community that can not see what they have today in the USA if they only took the opportunity to grab it and work their tail off for the American dream. It is not past slave owner families harming those good people it is the black cry-me -a-river, thug, welfare community.

I am sick to death of the race baiters in the USA....guess to a liberal that makes me racist.

222 posted on 12/01/2014 4:25:02 PM PST by Lady Heron
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To: EternalVigilance

Okay, my ancestors on both sides of the family, who worked their own farms and NEVER owned a slave, fought against the invasion of South Carolina. I picked cotton on the little family farm alongside my mother and my older brother, sometimes we had some black people helping, they were hired and paid by the pound. My father weighed what they picked and paid by the pound for every ounce of cotton, he did not cheat anybody, he also often gave them sweet potatoes from our harvest or other food items given as bonuses, not deducted from their pay. He also did not call them names, unlike Chris Rock who goes on stage and calls white people all kinds of names, the nicest of which is honkie. I own that, now it’s Mr. Rock’s turn. Chris Rock often displays more pure racism in one performance than I ever saw both my parents display in all the years I knew them.


223 posted on 12/01/2014 5:20:03 PM PST by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: Nea Wood

My ancestors never owned slaves either but they had to fight against the North on their own home land. Only a small percentage of whites in the South ever owned slaves, many were worse off than slaves before the war and a huge percentage of both black and white were worse off after the war than slaves were before the war. I never heard of a black person who shared my last name until I saw one on television. I have never heard of one who came from my state even though the county in which I was born has more people with that surname than any other county on Earth except one county in England. I have never once heard of a black person anywhere who carries my mother’s maiden name. In short my family worked their own land, they did not own slaves.


224 posted on 12/01/2014 5:36:12 PM PST by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: DCBryan1

“My ancestors were too damn poor to own slaves.”
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Mine too, in fact MOST people in the South were too poor to own slaves. We all have suffered because a very small percentage of people in the South owned slaves, there were slave owners in Northern states too but that is almost never acknowledged now just as the fact that there were black slaveowners is almost never acknowledged.


225 posted on 12/01/2014 5:41:27 PM PST by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: EternalVigilance
Yo, Chrissy, STFU.
Your voice grates.
Your "comedy" sucks. Always has.
Your ignorant, stupid racism is beyond obnoxious.
226 posted on 12/01/2014 5:48:48 PM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: RipSawyer

Will Chris Rock acknowledge that Africa’s “slave-catchers” were all black men of the same ilk as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson?

No?

The exploitation of blacks BY BLACKS has a long, sordid history that continues in Africa to this very day.


227 posted on 12/01/2014 5:51:48 PM PST by pfony1 (Let's welcome some Democrat congressmen into the Republican party and OVERRIDE!)
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To: Kenny Bunk

“Lawyer Benjamin Algonquin J. Crump”
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Never heard of him, must be from Detroit, could you possibly have him confused with attorney Algonquin J. Calhoun of Chicago who sometimes represented certain unfortunate members of the Mystic Knights of the Sea?


228 posted on 12/01/2014 5:52:06 PM PST by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: EternalVigilance

my ancestors weren’t here until 1925.

how are today’s blacks owning their actions?


229 posted on 12/01/2014 5:57:59 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Nea Wood

Then why make a point of posting that your ancestors served the Union Army and did not own slaves if not to separate yourself from those whose ancestors did?

Your not alone. Many on this forum do what you did. It sounds like you are saying, “it doesn’t matter but if it does than I am not guilty”.


230 posted on 12/01/2014 6:05:34 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: EternalVigilance

Before Chris points his nasty finger at whites for slavery in history, he should pull the log out of his own eye. He must take on the guilt of all the dead people Africa who dealt in slavery in history AND then he must take on the guilt for all the sins of Africans in MODERN DAY who continue to deal in slavery. You first, Chris.


231 posted on 12/01/2014 6:19:28 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: EternalVigilance
Oh, Chris...you are better than that, aren't you?

We don't even have the same vocabulary.

My ancestors immigrated during the 1840s...just in time to fight a war...on the Union side.

That doesn't make me eligible for VA benefits...any more than it makes Barack Obama a descendent of slaves.

You and various race hustlers are the only ones who care. The rest of us are getting pretty tired of your cr@p.

I'll bet you live in a lot nicer house than I do...which one of us is oppressed?

232 posted on 12/01/2014 6:22:04 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Let’s have this idiot own the actions of John Muhammad and Lee Malvo.


233 posted on 12/01/2014 6:23:51 PM PST by DPMD
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To: xzins

+1


234 posted on 12/01/2014 6:24:47 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: EternalVigilance
Maybe even more likely.

Much more likely.

235 posted on 12/01/2014 6:32:13 PM PST by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: zeugma

I’ll bet that the overwhelming majority of Americans, black AND white, have one or more slaveholders somewhere in their family trees.

And not a soul alive today, black or white, is responsible for any of that.

People can’t change the past, and no one gets to choose who their parents and forebears are.


236 posted on 12/01/2014 6:44:33 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: RipSawyer
“Lawyer Benjamin Algonquin J. Crump”

Holy Mackel, Sapphire, I done confused myself. Andy, what I gonadoo? Now I gots to stick wit Crump!

237 posted on 12/01/2014 6:45:15 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (The fate of the Republic rests in the hands of the '15 -16 Congress. God help us.)
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To: maine-iac7
My belovèd POTUS, Barack Hussein Obama Jr. (or II) is on his reputed Daddy's side, a member of the feared Luo Tribe of East Africa. The Luo were employed by Muslim slavers to capture and transport members of other East African tribes.

This isn't very ancient history. The Kenya/Mombasa Slave trade was only almost completely suppressed by the 1920s. Records show an Obama or two arrested, tried and imprisoned for slaving. Unfortunately, slavery still exists in both East and West Africa. Slave traders still supply local markets and the Islamic world.

Our exalted Leader makes much of his Luo heritage, including his family ties to the Marxist/Jihadi Raila Odinga, for whom he campaigned (illegally) in Kenya. After Odinga's loss in the elections of 2006, Odinga led an insurrection in which thousands of Christians were massacred. Cousin Barry, then led a Soros-financed Campaign in the UN and our own DoS to have Odinga made Prime Minister, despite his election loss. He was an honored guest at the first Inauguration.

Slavery? The Obama Family knows all about it on the wholesale side.

PS: You won't read about it anywhere else but on this site. Wonder why?

238 posted on 12/01/2014 7:05:40 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (The fate of the Republic rests in the hands of the '15 -16 Congress. God help us.)
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To: EternalVigilance

As recently as my great-grandparents, we were dirt-poor sharecroppers in MS. My family certainly weren’t slave owners. And that’s going back almost a century. Let’s look at some violent crime stats from the past couple of months, shall we, Mr. Rock?


239 posted on 12/01/2014 7:09:12 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: PeteePie
I've never really understood this until now.

"The slave does not dream of being free. The slave dreams of being the master."

Chris is confused.

240 posted on 12/01/2014 7:18:03 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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