Chris Rock is promoting his upcoming film, Top Five, but judging from his recent interview in New York magazine, it sounds like he’s ready to run for office. The comedian sat down with columnist Frank Rich and shared views on everything from the Obama administration to Ferguson, with his biting humor dripping from every quote. Below, read Rock’s most hilarious and truthful observations and discover why you’ll want him to be leader of the free world. How Rock would cover Ferguson as reporter, using New York‘s Rich as a decoy: “I’d do a special on race, but I’d have no black people. I would get you [Rich] to interview somebody, and I would put something in your ear, and I’d ask the questions through you. And I would ask them questions that you would never come up with, and we’d have the most amazing interviews ever.” The difference between George W. Bush and Barack Obama: “There’s an advantage that Bush had that Obama doesn’t have. People thinking you’re dumb is an advantage. Obama started as a genius. It’s like, ‘What? I’ve got to keep doing that? That’s hard to do!’ So it’s not that Obama’s disappointing. It’s just his best album might have been his first album.” On Obama’s governing strategy: “When Obama first got elected, he should have let it all just drop. Just let the country flatline. Let the auto industry die. Don’t bail anybody out. In sports, that’s what any new [general manager] does. They make sure that the catastrophe is on the old management and then they clean up. They don’t try to save old management’s mistakes.” On the U.S.’s racial problems: “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. “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.”
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:51:56 +0000
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