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Chris Rock: ‘We Ignore the President’s Whiteness, But It‘s There’
- Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:27pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Comedian Chris Rock made a crack about President Barack Obama’s “whiteness” on Thursday, saying most people ignore it “but it’s there.”
Appearing on NBC’s “Today Show” Thursday to promote his new animated movie “Madagascar 3,” Rock said he’s portrayal of the zebra character is “in honor of our zebra president.”
“I’ll take the zebra, you know, in honor of our zebra president, you know, black and white, white and black,” Rock said when asked which animal he would most want to be. “I love our president, but he’s, you know, he’s black and white, he appeals to all and that‘s what I’m going for….we ignore the president’s whiteness, but it’s there, it’s there.”
Watch below, via NBC:
(h/t Drudge Report)
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Comments (236)
The-Monk
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:52pmMaybe Chris Rock and Harry Reid should do a comedy skit together?
Remember this Reid statement? (‘light-skinned’ African American ‘with no N e g r o dialect, unless he wanted to have one”)
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/09/reid-apology-for-*****-dialect-comment/
I can’t find the video.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:57pmHi Monk………I saw where you mentioned Sam Stone and the wonderful John Prine yesterday. I’ve been singing Sam Stone since then, it brings back some great memories of my younger years.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 2:00pm@momrules
You’re welcome. I couldn’t get it out of my head that whole day.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 2:10pmIf… someone says something Mean & Ugly… then luaghs… Does this make it a Joke?
Report Post »aChameleon
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 2:19pmCan the liberals go one day without talking and thinking about color? It’s never the first thought I have when I wake up in the morning. How sad for them.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 2:39pmWow, words of wisdom from the racist in chief. Not many blacks hate whites as much as this guy.
Report Post »lapitup
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 2:42pmaChameleon: Because “the black” (I don’t want to be politically incorrect here) would say to you, you have no idea what is like to be black, you probably have never faced racism or discrimination of any kind, You live in a bubble. I “know that’s what they say because I have been accused of that myself for other postings on other forums. However: they don’t know me, I grew up in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. I was one of 3 male white kids in my elementary school in Washington state in the late 70′s and early 80.s They don’t know that I grew up on the west side. Where I live that matters. Till this day my street smarts i use more than my book smarts. It has kept me alive. yet all that for them it is only an EXCUSSE.
Every individual has the power to think differently whether you are raised in it or not. I chose early on to think differently. Just as other people like Allen West has. It is sad that most of the liberal thinkers think this way. You are right I don’t think like that it is probably the last way I would think. It is sad to see other people think this way every day in and out. Yet, using logic it is no excuse to think that way and even portray yourself in that light.
Chris I know that your Black but i just choose to ignore your acting carrier, But i know it’s there. Just spells stoopid with two o’s…
Report Post »antiprogressive
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 2:42pmjudge a man by the content of his character – not by the color of his skin…
liberals may REPEAT it – but seldom ABIDE by it.
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 3:06pmThats good Chris Rock, we won’t ignore the fact that you are a racist…
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 4:41pmNo double standard there…………right? It‘s so amazing what you can get away with saying when you’re a liberal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ovzRxR4PI0
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 4:48pmDidn’t he get caught with a tranny prostitute?
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 5:56pm@sue That is no surprise to Chris.. Ever see his stand up? “who are the most racist people? Black people! Because black people hate black people too!” -Chris Rock
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 7:05pmWe ignore your stupidity, but it’s there. You racist pig.
Report Post »db321
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 9:36pmWe don’t ignore anything about Obama and his Racist, Marxist and Communist side.
Report Post »1947
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 10:50pmChris, all this time you’ve been USED by the GAY PRESIDENT
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 5:59amWOW!!! Blatant racism shows it ugly head once again. Just because you laugh, doesnt make it any less hateful.
Report Post »CrawfishFestival2
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 7:52amdon‘t forget about Joe Biden’s comments during the democratic party’s primaries.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 8:11am@lukerw
Wow, you just described my Mother in law….saying ugly things then laughing to make it a joke. She once told a bunch of ladies at the church that my whole family was in-bred.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 10:34amAh Chris, you mean just like we ignore you, yet you are still there?! Racist!
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 1:21amWhere do these people come form?
Report Post »Oh yeah; Nazis
13th Imam
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:51pmDidn’t the pervert M. Jackson write a song about Barry?? Like to see Barry in black face, shuckin and jivin to Black or White.,
Report Post »MrSunshine
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 4:08pmBO is the answer to the old riddle, “What’s black and white and red all over?”
Report Post »MasterJoshua7
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:51pmOpen mouth and insert foot.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:54pm@MasterJoshua7
“Open mouth and insert foot.”
Hoof….
Report Post »The Sergeant Major
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 4:12pmCankle!! Oh this is not about hillary
Report Post »momrules
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:47pmI call Obama a lot of names………socialist, fraud, even evil but it truly takes a black racist to call him names that would get a white person *lynched* in the media.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 4:57pmAgreed! Had any of us said the same thing, we’d be labeled racists. What a queer world, darn if you do, darn if you don’t.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:44pmhe darn sure don’t appeal to me
Report Post »JimL
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:44pmPhilosophically- very Euro.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:44pmHere’s another GOOD LAUGH about our liar in cheif! hahahaha working in a bicycle shop qualifies as one of those Green jobs” Obama helped create with stimulus? They are diggin really deep here.. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/06/issa-obama-administration-classifies-jobs-with-political-purpose/
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 2:06pm@EqualJustice
I thought the “all bus drivers” (including gasoline powered buses) and the “guy who pumps the gasoline into the bus” were “Green Jobs” was the worst joke on us.
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:42pmI prefer nappy headed *******
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:47pmHigh yellow or Mullato..
perfectly acceptable
Report Post »ArcticDodge
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:41pmLiberals are racists. Can they form any thought that doesn’t include some reference of race or sex?
Report Post »Marci
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:47pmChris Rock’s entire existence in Hollywood is based on his “racist” act. He can’t crack a joke without using the words “black man” or “brotha”.. He either is a full on racist himself or can’t function without making the distinction of everything in the world based on black or white.
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:56pm@ARCTICDODGE
I find racist to be too harsh a word.
A racist is prejudiced toward a particular race; believing that one race is better than another. A synonym would be ‘bigot’.
Some on the Left may or may not be racist, but there certainly is a tendency to divide the world into white, black, brown, yellow and red. It is an easy way to pit us against each other.
We cannot disagree with Obama, Holder or Waters without being called racist by the Left, when in reality we disagree with their principals. They see color, we see character.
I know that’s what you meant. I don‘t know if there is a word for ’it, but I don‘t think ’racist’ is it. Can someone help me out?
Report Post »KeithOlberdink
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:40pmMore racism from the left.
Report Post »mastice
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:39pmRock is a funny man. The definition of hypocrisy and a racist to boot (by liberal definitions of conservatives)…. but still a funny man I think. (doesn’t mean I agree with his hypocrisy or racism)
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 5:02pmI am of the opinion that the funniest thing about chris rock is his face. No matter how dumb the joke you look at him and laugh after all he has a guilty rather ugly appearance that I just find humorous.
Report Post »Just in time
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:39pmThe POTUS sure does ignore it. He panders to the Black side
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:46pmWhen he chose to be called Barack Obama and when he married Michelle Robinson he made a statement !
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:38pm“…he appeals to all…” Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »DisposableWorker
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 9:42pmDitto
Report Post »Uechi
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:38pmCan you imagine the furor if a white person said “We ignore Obama’s blalckness but we know it is there? Why are white people that make such comments crackers and racists, but if your black you can dump on white people all you want. In my experience, some of the most racist and prejudice people I have ever met have been blacks. I guess that makes me a racist too. What horse manure.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:48pmDon’t forget those who vote for Obama because he is black .. over 95+ % of blacks last I heard. Racist indeed!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 2:06pm“he’s black and white, he appeals to all” Purely racist! Rock is saying that if he was all white, he wouldn’t appeal to blacks. Reverse that and have a white man say it and you have a firestorm from the left.
Report Post »Ded-Bred
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 2:20pmThat’s because blacks, per capital, are far more racially prejudiced than any other race. Chris Rock is typical; we just hear him more due to his ‘celebrity status’. I loathe him: ignorant, ungrateful & untalented. Bought “New Jack City” (VHS) just so I could watch him portray a crackhead(he was awfully good in that role, maybe a little too good?), & then get blown up. LOL, Oh, & Wes Snipes ‘do? Great comedy flick!
Report Post »HuckleberryFriend
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 2:53pmMaybe it is just me, but I ignore both his blackness and his whiteness. I see no reason why race, heritage or color should have anything to do with how I judge his abilities.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 3:07pmHuckleberryFriend
Report Post »It’s his REDness that makes him an abomination.
Nemo13
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:36pmTrust me Mr. Chris Rock, I never ignore your blackness. It’s there.
Report Post »A MERICAN
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 2:41pmI choose to ignore Chris Rocks blackness. Which means that to me, well, he doesn’t even exist.
Report Post »krispy01
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:35pmI prefer calling him an oreo.
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:41pmHa, ha….good one.
Report Post »A MERICAN
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 2:39pmOr you can call him a cocoanut – dark on the outside/white on the inside. And thereby including his “so called” hawaiianness? Or whatever.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:34pmAnd I ignore Chris Rock’s complete stupidity.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:58pmIgnore what Chris does…. yes
Report Post »Ignore what Obama does…. no
Ironeagle
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:34pmNo sh_t Sherlock. And when did this revelation hit you?
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:33pmHe has his intelligent side and his ignorant side too.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:33pmYes….Chris Rock is a great sage. We all need to know what he is thinking. It is soooo enlightening. Obama may be half white but he is black to the core. Like most black/white boys….he embraces his black side and ignores the white side. So…obama is black as africa….and just as racist.
Report Post »bereal
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 5:36pmNo Carnac, Chris has no wisdom that he can share. What should be seen in OBUMMER is: an ideologue who’s sole purpose is to dismantle this nation. Both sides have been doing it in slow steps but it took OBUMMER to bring it on full strength. We the people let him in, stick his foot in the door, you see the results.
I’ve said it many times, both house need to be washed and the floors bleached. Romney, hopefully, will have 4 years, then he should go also. It‘s going to take many years to straighten out the mess that’s been created in the past; we need to start from the ground up, locally, state then federal, all branches.
It’s going to be interesting to see who Romney brings in to key positions if elected. Vet these new comers and scrutinize their ideologies, voice your opinions loudly with the vetted info you gather, that is, if the information gathered is negative to the ideals of this nation.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:33pmCan you imagine if ANY of this had been said by a non-black person. All H would break loose! btw .. Chris he is RED (Marxist) .. and that is what I base my dislike of the President on … not his skin color.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:49pmCATB is correct
Obama is neither black nor white; he’s just a communist plain and simple.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:54pmI said pretty much the same thing CATB………I don’t think Chris Rock likes anything about white people except the color of their money.
Report Post »Best_Patriot
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:56pmOMG, can you imagine? CAN YOU IMAGINE!
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 5:01pmRight on! Who really cares about the color of a person’s skin? Why do I love MLK and the sensible things he’s said? (the content of your character)
Report Post »SilverBlaze
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:31pmAnother 1% Liberal Obama Kool Aid drinker.
Report Post »dawnmichael
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:30pmHe just ignores it.
Report Post »dawnmichael
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:30pmHe just ignores it
Report Post »Best_Patriot
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:29pmBlaze readers will be happy to hear this!
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:42pmThat would be YOU, you moron. Geeez you are so stupid!
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:47pmBut he is the Best Moron.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 2:11pmShouldn’t you be sitting in a tub of bath salts down in Florida?
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