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What happened to class and civility?
Chris Rock said, “Sit your a**** down!” And people laughed? This passes for comedy these days. Rock is his own man and what he says or does is no reflection on me. But I’m embarrassed by his behavior, his very persona, nonetheless. His antics are the sort that should make a mother bow her head in shame that she’d raised such a fool.
Ignorant and vulgar men are considered funny in some circles. Not mine.
This is my first and last comment on the Oscars because I think the whole thing is a monumental waste of space and time. Hollywood’s godless tripe is all the rage, and I’m shocked that conservative bloggers were watching and “live-blogging” this garbage. To each his own, I suppose. Check out Rock’s “comedy”:
We have, like, four black nominees. It’s kinda like the Def Oscar Jam tonight,” he enthused, in a reference to the HBO comedy series “Def Comedy Jam,” a springboard for many black performers.While flirting with network censors in his choice of words as he urged the star-studded studio audience to take their seats, the opening minutes of the broadcast bore no signs that ABC was forced to bleep put any of his remarks….
Turning again to race for laughs, Rock complained that Hollywood makes movies “for white people to enjoy — real movies, with plots, with actors, not rappers, with real names, like, ‘Catch Me If You Can,’ like ‘Saving Private Ryan.’
“Black movies don’t have real names,” Rock continued. “They get names like ‘Barbershop.’ That’s not a name. That’s just a location. ‘Barbershop,’ ‘Cookout,’ ‘Carwash,’ … you know ‘Laundromat’s’ coming soon, and after that, ‘Check-Cashing Place.”‘
Read more about the comedic genius. A New York Post writer says Rock used the word a** a lot. Smooth, Chris.
Under Hollywood’s de facto affirmative action policy, this is what they come up with. Such behavior would be unacceptable for anyone else, but when a black big-mouth does it, people snicker. They’re not really laughing with him; they’re laughing at him, but he’s too busy clowning to the know the difference.
They couldn’t find a dignified black person, one who exuded grace and charm, for the occasion? Or one who wouldn’t dream of playing to the stereotype of the ignorant Negro in a monkey suit, loud and obnoxious, profanity spewing out of his mouth?
How fortunate we are that better men built this country and better men keep it going.
Update: FYI, I didn’t watch the show. Haven’t in years.
Update II: The schtick worked. God bless America!
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Update III: For every one derogatory comment or e-mail I receive, I get several uplifting comments and e-mails that really make my day. Thank you.
Update IV (3/1): I have a message for those squawking, “But she didn’t even watch the awards show. How can she judge?”
You can’t really be that obtuse, can you? If anybody’s seen Chris Rock’s stand-up just once, you know all you need to know, and I’ve seen and heard his act before. And I can read. Knowing what he does and how he sounds, combined with news reports about what he said, I was able to form an opinion.
If the new standard (or the one just for me) is that we must actually witness an event in order to make comments or draw conclusions about it rather than rely on common sense, other witnesses’ accounts and the ability to read news stories, will someone please let me know?
By the same inane logic, none of us should be talking or writing about events we didn’t witness, such as WWII. I certainly wasn’t around, but if I’ve read books on the subject and seen documentaries, I have an adequate basis from which to draw conclusions about WWII.
To my regular readers and friends, I apologize for insulting your intelligence, but this update, unfortunately, is necessary.
