A thoughtful interview by Chris Rock!<\/p>\n
Let what drop?
\nJust let the country flatline. Let the auto industry die. Don\u2019t bail anybody out. In sports, that\u2019s what any new GM does. They make sure that the catastrophe is on the old management and then they clean up. They don\u2019t try to save old management\u2019s mistakes.
\nThat\u2019s clever. You let it all go to hell.
\nLet it all go to hell knowing good and well this is on them. That way you can implement. You hire your own coach. You get your own players. He could have got way more done. You know, we\u2019ve all been on planes that had tremendous turbulence, but we forget all about it. Now, if you live through a plane crash, you\u2019ll never forget that. Maybe Obama should have let the plane crash. You get credit for bringing somebody back from the dead. You don\u2019t really get credit for helping a sick person by administering antibiotics.
\nOne thing that was so exciting to many people, including you and me, when Obama got in was the hope, however delusional, that his election signaled some kind of racial progress in America. When, in fact, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s been much at all.
\nGrown people, people over 30, they\u2019re not changing. But you\u2019ve got kids growing up.
\nYour own kids are all girls, right?
\nAll girls. I mean, I almost cry every day. I drop my kids off and watch them in the school with all these mostly white kids, and I got to tell you, I drill them every day: Did anything happen today? Did anybody say anything? They look at me like I am crazy.
\nAnd you think this change is generational? That maybe it has nothing to do with Obama?
\nIt\u2019s partly generational, but it\u2019s also my kids grew up not only with a black president but with a black secretary of State, a black joint chief of staff, a black attorney general. My children are going to be the first black children in the history of America to actually have the benefit of the doubt of just being moral, intelligent people.
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