Celebrity Networth estimates comedian, actor, and screenwriter Chris Rock has a net worth of $70 million.
But Rock, a big Obama supporter, thinks the America that’s made him fabulously wealthy is an unregenerate racist country.
Yesterday, this was how Rock greeted the 236th birthday of America. He tweeted this message to his 858,051 Twitter followers:
Actor Don Cheadle re-tweeted Rock’s message and added a “haha” to the end. Nominated in 2004 for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the movie “Hotel Rwanda,” Cheadle has an estimated net worth of $30 million.
Jewish actor Zach Braff, best known for his role on the television show “Scrubs,” also chimed in by tweeting: “Slaves weren’t freed for another 90 years. So maybe just enjoy some of the fireworks.” Braff’s net worth is estimated to be $22 million.
The U.S. annual average per capita income is $41,663.
According to a March 2003 report by the U.S. Census Bureau, “Net Worth and Asset Ownership of Households: 1998 and 2000″ by Shawna Orzechowski and Peter Sepielli, the median U.S. household net worth in 2000 was $55,000. Given the Great Recession and especially the crash in the real estate market, the median U.S. per capita net worth is probably in the $15,000 – $20,000 range today. [Source]
It is astonishing how Chris Rock and Don Cheadle, both blacks, manage to have done so astonishingly well, becoming so fabulously wealthy in the appallingly racist United States of America!
H/t Daily Mail
I will NEVER EVER watch ANYTHING with Chris Rock, Don Cheadle, or Zach Braff in it. Even if it doesn’t cost me a penny.
That’s my “Happy White People’s Day!” message to them — and I’m not even white.
~Eowyn
Yes, racism in this country has certainly kept Chris Rock repressed. Not!
Well if this weenie feels that way, he can just fork some of his unearned filthy lucre over and put his happy ass to work for a change
Ah well, these jerks got so rich sucking some Jewish c*** and this is part of the payback.
MLK would be ashamed of these tools.
Everything is always trumpeted by race by these people. Disgraceful.
Sad fact is all the slavers over here bought their slaves from… drum roll, please… other Africans who made an industry and mad $$$ out of selling-off folk they conquered. (Bet Chris Rock won’t talk about that one.)
And shipped across the Atlantic on Jewish owned vessels and sold in the USA by Jewish slave traders…….
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Which party fought to end slavery in America? Certainly not the party he supports. What countries still allow slavery and what is Rock doing to stop it?
Point is Rock probably needs an extensive history lesson and shouldn’t bash the racist country that made him so wealthy. He should take the great fortunes he has and fight to end slavery in other countries if he truly believes its wrong. But I would expect nothing less from an uneducated, wealthy, hypocritical member of the one percent crowd.
Slavery of anyone by anyone is reprehensible to say the least! But to single out America as the only or at least worst offenders is TOTALLY wrong! If “America was built on the backs of slaves” as some declare then what of Africa, itself and the Arab world where, “Most historians estimate that between 11 and 18 million African slaves crossed the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Sahara Desert from 650 AD to 1900 AD [to Europe and the Arab world]”?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_slave_trade
Black Africans captured/kidnapped BY black Africans and sold throughout the world for OVER A THOUSAND YEARS before North America became a customer!
And an even sadder fact is that slavery continues today, largely unreported, in many African countries. That embarrassing fact is largely ignored by those who make a big deal out of their supposed ancestors’ enslavement by my supposed ancestors, (My great-great-grandparents were German farmers who arrived here in 1859 and settled in the North where slavery was illegal; I have no “white guilt” and I’m sure I’m not the only one.) But these same “civil rights” loudmouths completely ignore the current, ongoing enslavement of their racial brothers and sisters in South Africa, Chad,, Ethiopia, Mali, Sudan, Mauritania, and Ghana.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_modern_Africa
If Chris Rock were serious, he could direct his attention and money towards groups like http://www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com/hieroraf.htm trying to actually alleviate that problem.
Chris Rock has been shooting his racist mouth off every since his “black hero” got elected. He managed to control it long enough to suck millions out of the whiteys, though. Why don’t they just leave? Plenty of Socialist/Communist countries to live in where I know everyone is treated with great respect (eye roll). Just go, and take Zach Braff and most of Hollywood with you.
Just another warped cokehead who made his funny money in the sick world of the leftist mutant comedy clubs with his white sicko buddy Bill Maher. Ironic that he owes his fortune to a white Republican who freed his ancestors from the Democrats. This stupid leftist sycophant mindlessly follows the party line, supports the first gay president Big Time, and makes political comments to suck up to his mutant base. Pathetic.
U people deserve death. F’n amerrrrica ruuuules!!! Shut the shit up. Rock is funny wealthy and successful at pointing out how shit heads like U are idiots and don’t really have the facts straight, or hear a fact on the tee vee and believe it as gospel. So who Should live in North Amercia?? Pasty white mars bar eating fat men and their jizzim filled pie baking wives? Blacks were slaves, Jews were and still are slaves etc… What about Native First Nation peoples??? We stole and enslaved, nay, Killed off almost all of them, they were here in balanced for centuries before whites/blacks/jews/spainards…. So WE should leave, not anyone else. Dummys.
“U people deserve death.”
Rick, just so you know when you get a knock on your door:
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Thank you Dr. Eowyn for this informative post about pure hypocrisy and idiocy! I will do the same thing you are doing: I will never watch him again on television. Frankly, I never liked watching him anyway-he is too arrogant-I could never figure out why people watched him. He made such an idiotic and stupid statement!
Racism is alive and well because of ASSHOLES like Chris Rock, Jessie Jackson and Jr., Al Sharpton, Bama, and his BITCH, if all these BASTARDS hate America so bad, PICK a country and get the hell out of this one that has treated them so bad! Semper Fi.
Well, yes he is smarter then you white people ; you see he knows who you are and you don’t . You white people , you gentiles , ARE the lost sheep of the House of Israel and you do have the right to call yourselfs ISRAELITES but you do not have the right to call yourselves Jew’s because they have their own name and vis-versa . The people that rule over us is Satan’s seedline the Edomites (Esau/Edom} and they are the teachers in our churches as well . There is more to the story but you figure that out for yourselves.
I will try to be polite. But are you friggin’ insane? Do you even understand the comment you wrote? – ’cause I sure don’t.
Chris Rock is racist, that’s all I need to know…because what you wrote makes no sense…
Wealth and racism are not related; you can be wealthy and still face discrimination and you can be poor and be racist.
Truth be told 4th of July celebrations were not thought of with Black or Indian folks in mind, so it was for white folks. That’s true no matter how much money you have.
I agree with some of conservative positions, but one problem is pretending that racism doesn’t exist and casting every mention aside as “whining” or “complaining”. I agree, the PC multicultural stuff has gone waaay too far, but that doesn’t mean that there’s not truth in the apparent need for it.
If you cast stones, you must be prepared to also look at your own shortcomings, too.
“If you cast stones, you must be prepared to also look at your own shortcomings, too.”
That bromide most certainly applies to you.
One, do you suppose for one minute that if we remained a British Colony slavery would not exist? Europeans loved all that cotton they could import from the New World.
Two, (and most, glaringly, obvious) is that you can be black and be racist!