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In spite of everything I may or may not write out, I\u2019m a fan of Chris Rock.\u00a0 I have enjoyed most every one of Rock\u2019s standups, and I think he\u2019s a step above most other comics out there; dare I say almost on a Seinfeld-like plane in which he makes observations and turns it into material that most people can relate to, but just don\u2019t think about, until presented in a routine.<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t view him as \u201ca black comic,\u201d but as \u201ca comic,\u201d and one that is funny, witty, intelligent and genuinely good at his craft.\u00a0 Furthermore, as he\u2019s aged, he\u2019s flexed his creative wings and done some solid writing, as well as being pretty much the token A-list black guy for Adam Sandler (Tim Meadows being the B<\/em>) films throughout the last few years.<\/span><\/p>\n But his choice of material at the Oscars, where he basically\u00a0made several tasteless jokes towards Asian stereotypes<\/a>, was pretty pathetic.\u00a0 They reeked of strawman deflection, where Rock attempted to distract attendees and viewers away from the elephant in the room, which is the purported black boycott of the Oscars, and make wise cracks about Asians as a means to draw attention away from the elephant.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Honestly, it was sad as well as disheartening, and Chris Rock\u00a0should be<\/em>\u00a0better than that.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if it was his way of trying to think he could strawman his way out of the looming black boycott, or if this was his way of coping with all the monumental pressure that the royal all black people put on Rock, as he was the host of the Oscars.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m not going to go full dark side and say that I now hate Chris Rock or anything, but this pathetic display does make me lose a bit of respect for him, and it\u2019s always going to sit in the back of my mind that he\u2019s no different than so many other people who think it\u2019s mortal sin to make fun of black people, but completely okay to make fun of Asians.<\/span><\/p>\n I won\u2019t get into so much into the Oscars because I really don\u2019t care about a whitewashed celebrity circle-jerk, but more of what was said in the previous sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n But if there\u2019s ever been any reason why I\u2019m so critical towards black people who pull the race card, is because all throughout my entire life I\u2019ve witnessed this perplexing double-standard in society that is exactly what I stated: black people who cry foul when they feel they are being racially mistreated, but have no problem with making fun of Asians (or Hispanics, for that matter).<\/span><\/p>\n I knew guys in school who accused or theorized that their supposed mistreatment from particular teachers was on account of them being black.\u00a0 But would also have no qualms with making \u201cching-chong\u201d remarks or calling me, or any other Asians names like \u201chop-sing\u201d or \u201cBruce Lee.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n When I worked at my parents\u2019 barbecue restaurant in the middle of the hood, every now and then I\u2019d get a disgruntled customer, because they were unhappy with the portion size, or worse, the ones who tried to swindle my parents.\u00a0 The unhappiest of the unhappy had no qualms with muttering their grievances as they walked out of the restaurant, and I lost count how many times I heard the word \u201cchink\u201d amidst their grumbles.<\/span><\/p>\n Living in Atlanta the last 13 years hasn\u2019t helped my rationale, seeing as how I\u2019ve heard numerous things from adults, but mostly kids, that goes to show just how tomorrow\u2019s black adults are being raised to acknowledge the existence of Asian people in modern society.\u00a0 And these kids are getting their biases from their parents, or television, or peers, it\u2019s hard to say which is really the worst, when kids today are still mocking slanty-eye gestures, making broad-sweeping generalizations that all Asians must be Chinese, or the tried and true ching-chong remarks.<\/span><\/p>\n The Oscars were a joke, an unfunny one, but that\u2019s nothing really out of the ordinary.\u00a0 I give more shits about the caulk coming off my walls than I ever would about the Oscars, that is until\u00a0my boy Joe<\/a>\u00a0is up for one.\u00a0 But the fact that on such a grand stage, a famous and influential black celebrity goes on national television to exhibit the same behavior as \u201ctypical\u201d black people, was just really pathetic, and gives a little bit of justification that regardless of skin color, status, celebrity or not, everyone\u2019s still the same:\u00a0shitty<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In spite of everything I may or may not write out, I\u2019m a fan of Chris Rock.\u00a0 I have enjoyed most every one of Rock\u2019s standups, and I think he\u2019s a step above most other comics out there; 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