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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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.
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Sad to say, but Chris Rock may be too generous to white America as a whole here. If I saw Ike and Tina Turner sitting together, I probably wouldn't think "Oh, he stopped punching her in the face." I'd more likely think "I hope he's stopped punching her in the face, but I'm worried that he's just being nice for a little while and will turn out to be the same shit he always was."
When Obama was elected (and before that, when people I never expected to be capable of voting for a black man told me they wished Colin Powell would run), I thought "maybe this means we're getting over some things." But I'm afraid I should have thought "but maybe we're just being nice for a little while, and a bunch of the old ugliness is going to come back out again."
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