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Chris Rock on Ferguson & racism in America

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Comedian Chris Rock is on a publicity tour, promoting his new film Top Five. In multiple interviews Rock is asked about his reactions to the recent events in Ferguson and his take on racism in America. Missouri School of Journalism professors Earnest Perry, Mike McKean and Amy Simons discuss the issue.

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In an interview with Frank Rich from New York Magazine, Chris Rock said the way America talks about race is “all nonsense.”

"There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before."

Professor Earnest Perry said he agrees with Rock that the media need to have more diverse coverage when talking about race.

"We need to have more reporting done about how whites feel about these things as opposed to when the issues of race we usually go to blacks. Well, most of the time we know what those answers are going to be."

Professor Perry said he thinks comedians have an easier time communicating these problems because they use humor to “tell us things that we already know.”

Hope Kirwan left KBIA in September 2015.
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