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Monday, December 8, 2014

"The Nicest White People that America Has Ever Produced"


(Courtesy of my brother-in-law.  Thanks, Mic!)

From an interview of Chris Rock, by Frank Rich in New York magazine.  Excerpts in the first link below, full interview in the second.
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So, to say "Obama is progress" is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years...The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.

http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/12/chris-rock-daughters%20
http://www.vulture.com/2014/11/chris-rock-frank-rich-in-conversation.html

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