"Niggas vs. Black People" is the title of one of Chris Rock's most famous and most controversial comedy routines. This bit, which appeared as track 12 on his 1997 album, Roll With the New, as well as his 1996 HBO special, Bring the Pain, is widely considered to be the breakthrough routine that established his status as a permanent comedy fixture after he left Saturday Night Live. Chris Rock (born February 7, 1966 (sometimes given as 1965[1]) in Andrews, South Carolina) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. ... Look up Controversy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks distributed to the public. ... Roll with the New is a 1997 comedy album by Chris Rock. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... For other uses, see HBO (disambiguation). ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. ...

Essentially an eight-minute rant about behaviors that Rock sees within the black community; he describes "niggas" as a certain segment whose behavior is usually detrimental to the image of other black people. He describes the condition succinctly as being a "low-expectation havin' muthafucka." The "niggas," he said, glorify ignorance and sloth, and show excessive pride for any bearing of token responsibility. Rock rejects the view that this image of African Americans is purely cultivated by the media. An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... Nigga is a term used in African American Vernacular English that began as an eye dialect form of the word nigger (which is derived ultimately from the Latin word niger meaning the color black). ... A Masai man in Kenya Black people or blacks is a political, social or cultural classification of people. ... Motherfucker (also existing in countless contracted forms e. ... Tokenism refers to a policy or practice of limited inclusion of members of a minority group, usually creating a false appearance of inclusive practices, intentional or not. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ...

The controversy caused by Rock's constant use of the word nigga led him to remove the piece from his act, although the word was prominent in both of his subsequent specials. In a 60 Minutes interview, Rock said, "By the way, I've never done that joke again, ever, and I probably never will. 'Cause some people that were racist thought they had license to say n-----. So, I'm done with that routine." ^[1] In the course of the routine, Rock's tone alternates between sarcastic glee at the idea of joining the KKK, and rage at people who refuse to educate themselves. Chris Rock has also been accused of racism against whites for this routine. He says that America is filled with "broke-ass white people" that have sexual relations with their sisters. Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ...

Excerpts

• "Who's more racist, black people or white people? Black people. You know why? 'Cause we hate black people too!"
• "Fee, Fye, Foh, Figger, boy I hate a nigga"
• "Everytime black people want to have a good time, ignorant-ass nigga's fuck it up"
• "The other fourty states is filled up wit broke ass white people. Broke ass livin in trailer homes, Eating mayonaise sandwiches, fuckin' they sista's, listening to John Melloncamp records!

References

External links

• Video of the routine on YouTube.
• Bennun, David, "Chris Rock," The Guardian, 2000.
• Chris Rock: Bring the Pain at the Internet Movie Database