Dear Mr. Rock:
Did you know there were both black slaveowners and white slaves in post colonial USA?
My mom’s side of the family was sold into slavery by they Crown because the took up arms alongside native Americans during the colonial era French and Indian War. Wars are expensive, so an unpopular stamp act and a tax upon tea was enacted for repayment of that war debt. Afterwards, the unique concept of “We The People” defeated the most powerful professional army on the planet and created a land of opportunity.
Without that “3/5 compromise” allowing continued slave ownership, when the empire struck back in 1812, we all would have become Crown slaves. Got it?
Anyway, it seems that after a very bloody war between the US states, Quakers offered former slaves transportation for resettlement in at place now called Liberia; given not everyone of obvious African origin was certain from exactly what part of Africa their ancestors originated. My ancestors probably could have departed the USA at that time, but unlike yours, it would have been at their own expense.
Thinking we’re relatively in the same category, Mr. Rock; your ancestors, just like mine, made a conscience choice of remaining in the USA. Probably because it was, and despite progressive Fabian socialism, still is the land of opportunity.
Equal opportunity, not equal outcomes, is what the USA is about. As far as fame goes, you’ve done better than I have. No doubt you worked hard for that, and for that achievement alone, I can respect you.
But as a descendent of former slaves, I do have unsolicited advise for you, Chris. Get real. Nobody owes you, or me anything.
OLA
My ancestors fled Poland in the late ‘20s on one side. On the other side, A French Canadian trapper married a Mohawk woman before drifting down to the States.
As soon as Chris accepts responsibility for the feral cousins he is protecting...
The Shocking Data on Black-on-Black Crime:
Should I be concerned about the actions of long dead individuals I may or may not have a link to (or none at all in the case of recently immigrated kin) or the murderous rampage of feral monsters from yesterday?
Chris Rock - you're funny, but it's because you're a fool.
-PJ
Who, in Africa, offered up, and sold/gave, the people to the Westerners to become slaves? Clue: It wasn’t whitey!
Chris, own the actions of your contemporaries, then we’ll talk about mine who arrived in the 1900’s. Get over it, its over 100 years ago! Say something like stay in school! Oh, you left HS, didn’t you? You were in the same HS as Ruth Ginsberg, Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders and you left??? They gave you the opportunity to attend probably the best HS in NYS and you left?? I guess being a joker makes you an expert on civil and social issues?
My ancestors did not come to America until 1914 so I don’t owe anybody anything.
I had family that fought in the civil war too... NOT ONE FAMILY MEMBER OWNED SLAVES.
Black people need to take responsibility for what happened in Ferguson... ALL of them - not just the rioters and looters and those who burned the city down. ALL blacks are responsible. How does that feel Chris Rock? You want us to blame YOU for Ferguson?
Time to grow up and get real Chris Rock - you’re coming across like a fool.
I am proud to own the actions of my ancestors, all twenty-three of them, who fought in the American Revolution, for a constitution that gives Chris Rock the right to get paid for being a vulgar, immoral, racist, loud mouth entertainer.