Josh Lesnick's Blog, page 138
December 2, 2014
Chris Rock Talks White People, Racism, What "Racial Progress" Really Means, and Isolation
Frank Rich: What would you do in Ferguson that a standard reporter wouldn’t?
Chris Rock: I’d do a special on race, but I’d have no black people.
Frank Rich: Well, that would be much more revealing.
Chris Rock: Yes, that would be an event. Here’s the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.
Frank Rich: Right. It’s ridiculous.
Chris Rock: 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. If you saw Tina Turner and Ike having a lovely breakfast over there, would you say their relationship’s improved? Some people would. But a smart person would go, “Oh, he stopped punching her in the face.” It’s not up to her. Ike and Tina Turner’s relationship has nothing to do with Tina Turner. Nothing. It just doesn’t. 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.
Frank Rich: It’s about white people adjusting to a new reality?
Chris Rock:Owning their actions. Not even their actions. The actions of your dad. Yeah, it’s unfair that you can get judged by something you didn’t do, but it’s also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn’t work for.
Frank Rich: Would you seek out someone to interview who might not normally be sought out?
Chris Rock: I would get you to interview somebody, and I would put something in your ear, and I’d ask the questions through you.
Frank Rich: You’d have a white guy.
Chris Rock: And I would ask them questions that you would never come up with, and we’d have the most amazing interviews ever.
Frank Rich: And we’d be asking white people and black people?
Chris Rock: Just white people. We know how black people feel about Ferguson — outraged, upset, cheated by the system, all these things.
Frank Rich: So you think people can be lulled into saying the outrageous shit they really feel?
Chris Rock: Michael Moore has no problem getting it. Because he looks like them. But the problem is the press accepts racism. It has never dug into it.
Frank Rich: When Obama was running for president, a certain kind of white person would routinely tell reporters, “He’s just not one of us.” Few reporters want to push that person to the wall and say, “What do you mean he’s not like you, unless you’re talking about the fact that he’s African-American?” Where else besides Ferguson would you hypothetically want to interview white people?
Chris Rock: I’d love to do some liberal places, because you can be in the most liberal places and there’s no black people.
Frank Rich: I assume one such place is Hollywood.
Chris Rock: I don’t think I’ve had any meetings with black film execs. Maybe one. It is what it is. As I told Bill Murray, Lost in Translation is a black movie: That’s what it feels like to be black and rich. Not in the sense that people are being mean to you. Bill Murray’s in Tokyo, and it’s just weird. He seems kind of isolated. He’s always around Japanese people. Look at me right now.
Frank Rich: We’re sitting on the 35th floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel overlooking Central Park.
Chris Rock: And there’s only really one black person here who’s not working. Bill Murray in Lost in Translation is what Bryant Gumbel experiences every day. Or Al Roker. Rich black guys. It’s a little off.
But the thing is, we treat racism in this country like it’s a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You’ve got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it’s immune to and what breaks it down.
November 30, 2014
November 29, 2014
hey guys i have a fun comparison for you
try doing a google search for “ferguson censorship”
seems pretty standard, ok
how about yahoo (the company that owns tumblr?)
yeah this is totally a fucking coincidence lol
we see you, staff
reblog this
dear new followers… this really is a sketch blog, honest
dear new followers… this really is a sketch blog, honest
fandomshatepoc:
filth-e:
cayenaleva:
postwhitesociety:
Captio...
Caption: RIOT POLICE WALKING THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS SHOOTING GAS AT PEOPLE ON THEIR OWN PROPERTY
This vine got taken down.
I think that’s fucking important to note, that this vine got taken down. I saw it and it languished in my drafts for a while because it fell through the cracks.
Remember this. Remember that they’re taking down protest videos. Remember that they’re trying to control the narrative. Remember, keep posting, keep sharing, keep talking about Ferguson. Don’t let the story die.
remember
I’ve said it before I’ll say it again, remember to back up these videos on multiple places, not just cellphones/harddrives but also dropbox, external harddrives, and if possible upload to multiple platforms (vine, g+, facebook, instagram as well as tumblr). If they get taken down reupload and if you don’t have access to external harddrives and you need help backing up your videos add that to description when uploading. As a community we need to take responsibility for keeping these records when others are being censored.
erdsthenerds:
femmewitchqueen:
queertodaygonetomorrow:
atane:
...
Remember.
his life was totally in danger.
^^^^
True story; this officer (John Pike) got a settlement of $38,000 because he said he got depressed after pepper spraying these kids. Oh, the depression wasn’t for feeling remorseful for pepper spraying a bunch of college kids peacefully protesting. He got depressed because he said since the media kept playing the video of him pepper spraying peaceful kids without cause, he got threats and didn’t feel safe. He didn’t feel safe. I’m not making that up. This motherfucker collected nearly 40 grand on worker’s comp after assaulting a bunch of college kids.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/pepper-spray-cop-settlement_n_4152147.html
This is beyond a fucking joke. Destroy the police.
Change the police. Make the police accountable. Hold the “balance of power” in check. Change policies. Educate civilians. Expose the truth. Make change.
November 28, 2014
onlyblackgirl:
unite4humanity:
URGENT ACTION ALERT!!!
Please...
URGENT ACTION ALERT!!!
Please send your support to this Superintendent. We care more about dead black people, than how police officers feel. Why should she apologize? School district contact info:
Email: communications@spps.org
Call: 651-767-8100And have fun on the ST. Paul Police Facebook Page.
She’s in trouble for not supporting Darren Wilson? The fuck?
Ever since Ferguson I’ve been wondering where on the scale of garbage the MSP police are, and lately I’ve been getting an idea.
Things like this seriously make me wonder how many police in the area are also guilty of murder, and we just haven’t heard about it.
nopenis4me:
Please don’t forget Darrien Hunt, a 22 year old...
The cops tried covering this one up too:
He was shot from behind, running away and fleeing like we see in the surveillance tape where he is running for his life
The police originally claimed that he was swinging his sword and lunged at him before they begun shooting him. The police chief ruled the shooting justified. This is contrary to the evidence which indicates he was shot in the back
They allowed a police chief to make this ruling outside of a court of law, the investigation was carried out by an “officer-involved shooting protocol team”
The sword was bought from a gift shop and did not have a sharp edge, yet in the report they claim he swung it at them and they were afraid of getting sliced
The two cops who shot him are both reinstated: Schauerhamer and Judson
The area is 93% white, 0.5% black
The questioning of the cops was delayed and they’ve now altered their story (that Hunt lunged at them and that is why he ultimately died)
The shot that killed him, though, was the shot in the back that he received while fleeing. He was shot a total of 6 times.We are allowing police departments all over the country to get away with murder. They are held unaccountable for their murder. This is genocide. People are justifying this just like they justify Brown’s murder. Question everything. Don’t believe a word these genocidal police departments say all over the country. They are held above the law. This will keep happening if precedent is not set.
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