Chris Rock Questions Meghan Markle's Racism Claims In His 'Selective Outrage' Comedy Special
Chris Rock had his first-ever livestreamed standup performance on Netflix on Saturday evening (March 4).
The 58-year-old comedian took aim at Meghan Markle and her claims of racism within the royal family.
In his special he noted that everybody was “trying to be a victim.”
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“Going on Oprah, ‘I didn’t know, I had no idea how racist they were,’” Chris said of Meghan‘s thinking when she had her interview with Oprah Winfrey. “It’s the royal family! You didn’t Google these motherf—–? What the f— is she talking about, she didn’t know? It’s the royal family! They’re the original racists!’”
Chris likened it to “marrying into the Budweiser family” and then realizing, “they drink a lot!”
“Sometimes it’s just some in-law s—,” Chris continued. “Because she’s complaining, I’m like, ‘What the f— is she talking about? ‘They’re so racist, they wanted to know how brown the baby was going to be…’ I’m like, ‘That’s not racist,’ cause’ even Black people want to know how brown the baby gon’ be. S—. We check behind them ears.”
“Like, didn’t she hit the light-skinned lottery,” Chris said about Meghan‘s skin color. “And she’s still going off complaining?”
The comedian also joked that he was sympathetic to her “dilemma” as a “Black girl trying to be accepted by her White in-laws.” But Chris also said it wasn’t “as hard as a White girl trying to be accepted by her Black in-laws. Now, that s— is really hard.”
“If you Black, and you wanna be accepted by your white in-laws, then you need to marry a Kardashian. Because they accept everybody. Kris Jenner is like the Statue of Liberty,” Chris joked.
During the Netflix special, Chris also made many references to his heated encounter with Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars.