| | So the other night Chris Rock said on SNL that black men have had a much rougher history than white women and therefore you should vote for Barrack Obama and not Hillary Clinton. He also said that white women don't vote for women (although only a few have run, the most recent I remember was Carol Moseley-Braun, though she was black, and I was split between her and Dean in 2004) yet he somehow forgets to also say that black men don't vote for black men either and that both parties (black men and white women) are under appreciated in society (along with all other minorities of men and women.)
Now I take major issue with this because he sites the 'fact' that "white men love white women and black men REALLY love white women" and says that no white woman has never been lynched. I realize that he's a comedian but unless you want to be called a fucking idiot, you shouldn't say shit that is completely inaccurate and push it across as fact the way he did.
I'll say it now: black men have been suffering from [non-black created] oppression since Africa began being explored by other races. White women (and virtually all other women) have been suffering from [non-female created] oppression for as far back in history as human records go. Women have been owned by their husbands from the time we were Neanderthals until the '60s. This, of course, does not take away from the oppression dealt upon black men - the two should honestly not be compared as they're both unexpressibly awful.
Women have been lynched and killed violently for virtually ever. Some of the specific lynchings I know of where in the Salem Witch Trials where both men (6) and women (14) were lynched. The accounts of violent murder of women that span the Earth and eras are too many in number to even begin to get into but another account of it that has touched me over the years was how King Henry VIII had some of his wives murdered because they didn't give birth to sons, yet later it was found that the gender of a child is dependent on the male and not the female.
If you don't want white women making racist jokes against black men (as I also don't) then don't fucking make sexist jokes about white (or otherwise) women.
I'd also like to say that we should vote for those of whom we think will represent us politically, not culturally.
I won't be seeing the appropriately titled "I Think I Love My Wife". What an ass hole.
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| | Posted 3/19/2007 2:37 PM - 75 Views - 6 eProps - 3 comments
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