before i lose my style

blackamazon:

“One of his most controversial bits, “Niggas vs. Black People” from his 1996 special “Bring The Pain,” is also one of his most beloved, though he has backed off of performing it since. As Rock later told 60 Minutes, “By the way, I’ve never done that joke again, ever, and I probably never will. ‘Cos some people that were racist thought they had license to say nigger. So, I’m done with that routine.””

- From this HuffPo article

And this is why living while black is hard. Because everything you say will get twisted and taken from you. 

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everything you say will get twisted and taken from you

everything you say will get twisted and taken from you

everything you say will get twisted and taken from you

EVERYTHING YOU SAY WILL GET TWISTED AND TAKEN FROM YOU

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Relatedly, I seem to recall Dave Chappelle explaining why he quit doing Chappelle’s Show by telling a story about being somewhere with his wife and kids and some white person came up to him and his family and made specific reference to a particular sketch in which Chappelle plays a milkman. 

(Source: youngbadmangone)