He wants to know why white cops never shoot white kids
BarkGrowlBite | December 1, 2014
CBS Sunday Morning had a Q&A segment between Mo Rocca and standup comedian Chris Rock. When Rock said he would like to work on the CBS TV show 60 Minutes, Rocca asked him, “If you did a story on 60 Minutes and you could interview anyone, who would you want to interview?”
Here is Chris Rock’s reply:
I would go to Ferguson right now and I would just interview white people. Whenever they do stories on race, they always interview black people. We know what black people feel about it. I would love to just interview white cops. The question isn’t why they shoot so many black kids, which is horrible. The real question is, how come you never shoot white kids? That’s the question.
Now if I were that cop, I would answer the question this way:
Chirs, we do shoot white kids. The trouble is that you never hear about it because when we do, it only makes the local news. But whenever we shoot a black kid, it sets off a national media frenzy that implies the shooting was racially motivated. No cop wants to shoot anyone – white, black, brown or purple – and especially not any kids, but sometimes our perception of their actions leave us no choice. Put yourself in our shoes. As a cop, what would you do if you feared that some kid was about to take your life?
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