Chris Rock’s attack on cops had no place at the Hollywood awards ceremony
BarkGrowlBite | February 29, 2016
In his skewing of the Oscars for a lack of diversity, Chris Rock also made a crack that this year's ‘in-memoriam’ recognition was "just going to be black people shot by the cops on the way to the movies."
Rock wasn’t joking, but had he been, that was not one bit funny!
Rock also concluded his appearance by shouting “Black Lives Matter,” another reference to police shootings of blacks.
Rock has long criticized the police for shooting black men. He’s entitled to his unwarranted criticism, but the Oscars was not the place for it. Just like Beyonce’s performance at the Super Bowl honoring the Black Panthers who advocated the killing of cops, Rock’s performance at the Oscars clearly crossed the line when he made his crack about cops shooting black moviegoers.
Rock conveniently fails to consider that most black men killed by the police posed an imminent threat to the lives of cops or to the lives of some citizens. And his concern for black lives should start with killer blacks rather than killer cops, since killer blacks murder black men, women and children nonstop every day.
Here’s a little reminder to the asshole: Cop Lives Matter too!
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