This is the link to the article.
These are my feelings from a conversation with a friend...
"me: his
contradiction comes straight from the text. He should be able
to realize. Rock says, "When Al Sharpton goes down to Ferguson, it
feels like a media ritual rather than an actual civil-rights action. It’s a revival,
where King was doing an original play. It’s a good part. The lead is
open."
me: ok. I agree with that. Anyone who participates in "civil rights movements" today, especially concerning blacks and whites, has a phony feel bc of MLK, but is that not progress? Bc to anyone reading it, it is. Then you follow it with this ignorant statement? "To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before."
Amanda: I guess he needs to address two things there. One is progress from reality and the other is the idea that blacks should "have" to progress from slavery as if it were deserved bc the reality is that blacks were slaves and no matter how you look at it, it happened.
me: and to say that they haven’t progressed?
Amanda: so blacks have made progress in terms of that? Yes. but he's only looking at it from the angle that it shouldn’t have happened in the first place
me: and he proves that by making fun of Al Sharpton.
Amanda: but we can say that about most things. we've all progressed it's a good thing.
me: Exactly. Move forward. What makes it worse is that he doesn’t even get it though. He comes off as whiny and ignorant. Straight up ungrateful to be the person he is - for me to even be caring to read this shit. During work hours, too!?!
me: I’m funny as shit.
where’s my cut?
