Chris Rock: It's not black people who have progressed. It's white people.

[JustAnotherGen]

54. Maybe this can help you understand - Imagine you are five years old

And an older white woman in America says "You expect me to take a mint from that bowl (at a restaurant) after THAT child did". Then mutters under her breath 'nigger'.


These days - she just won't take candy from the bowl and keep her opinions to herself.


That's less crazy. That woman has progressed.

In 1978 - maybe her new version was in her 30's at that time - and is now into her 70's. She's the progress of white America. It doesn't mean she doesn't THINK it - but she doesn't say it.


I don't think that's racist on Rock's part to point out that indeed - those of us who are old enough to have had those experiences - do indeed hold that view of white America as dominant culture/monolith.


It's a compliment.


The harsh reality is that having spent my first 5 years in West Germany - with many elderly and older Germans who were total sweet peas to me . . . the older white American as a CULTURE - has caught up with their former Nazi peers in the 1970's. And to that I say "right on Christ Rock!" and bravo to the majority of white Americans.