By Dr. Goddess, aka Kimberly C. Ellis, Ph.D. She hurls some righteous fury at Chris Rock for depreciating humor about Oprah Winfrey during the Kennedy Center Honors (Oprah was a well-deserved honoree).
Dear Chris Rock,Like America’s conscience, I want to erase this moment in history but I can’t.You’ve disgusted me to no end. I cannot believe I just witnessed your tasteless, callous, immature, disrespectful and unfunny “comedic tribute” to Oprah Winfrey. It was already borderline for you to joke about her money on such an occasion but you went way too far by cracking a sex joke about Oprah on the day she received her highest honor for the arts in the nation, by the President of the United States of America, in the Kennedy Center Honors……How dare you disrespect a woman who has given America and the world so much spirit, hope and humanity even with the cars, sweaters and ipads via her medium of communications? How dare you, the only Black man, aside from Sidney Poitier, allowed to even give her such a solitary honor, take your short period of time in which to honor her and choose to focus on her body or make ANY type of sex joke to her at all, let alone in front of her peers and the world!!! You inappropriate imbecile!Not only would that have been inappropriate to do to ANY woman but to be so disrespectful to Oprah Winfrey (!!!), under the guise of comedy…??? I don’t even have enough adjectives to describe the depth of Oprah’s beauty and humanity and how you trounced upon it. I’m aware Oprah is not perfect; but in the hour of her ultimate tribute, why, why, why did she have to be made to feel uncomfortable and why did it have to be YOU to do her so wrong? Were you somehow UNAWARE that Oprah is a survivor of child sexual abuse and that, MAYBE, just MAYBE your sex joke might be inappropriate? Did you, for a fleeting moment, give any thought to America’s sordid racial history and abuse of Black womens’ bodies, in particular, to consider that making an interracial sex joke about someone with whom she’s clearly not engaged, would be unacceptable?…
Amen!
Here's a video that captures the heart of being a Kennedy Center honoree:
And I am so glad she did. Thank you Dr. Goddess for loving Oprah - for loving Black Women – indeed for loving Women and shouting out loud your distaste for these celebrated “comics” like Chris Rock, when they shout out their distaste for us (Women) – all in the guise of “it being in jest”.
ReplyDeleteI have to believe that they knew, inviting Chris Rock, that things would get weird. Bill Cosby, he's not!
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed the post very much. Love your point of view.
Pearl
p.s. Sherry sent me. :-)
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