Chris Rock is gaining a lot of attention following the release of his Netflix special over the weekend.
His comedy special, “Selective Outrage,” was full of Jokes, including those about Will Smith and the Royal Family.
The comedian even made a couple of jokes about Meghan Markle, 41, and her in-laws. At one point, he claimed that “some of that s— she went through was not racism,” but rather what he called “in-law s—.”
He also called the royal family the “OGs of racism” and “Sugarhill Gang of racism” during his Saturday night special. He said they “invested in slavery like it was Shark Tank,” PEOPLE reported.
“Sometimes it’s just some in-law s—,” Rock said during his part about Meghan. “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.”
Rock, 58, got into his spill about Markle after claiming “everyone is trying to be the victim, including people who know g–damn well they’re not victims.” Then he mentioned Meghan specifically, adding that she “seems like a nice lady, just complaining.”
“Like, didn’t she hit the light-skinned lottery,” Rock asked. “And she’s still going off complaining?” But then he said he understood Meghan’s “dilemma.”
“Black girl trying to be accepted by her white in-laws,” Rock said. “Oh, it’s hard. It’s so hard, it’s very hard — but it ain’t as hard as a white girl trying to be accepted by her Black in-laws. Now, that s— is really hard.”
Two years ago, Markle sat down for an interview with Oprah Winfrey and discussed the alleged “concerns and conversations about how dark” her son Archie’s skin would be “when he’s born” by members of the royal family.
Rock agreed with the belief that the royal family may be racist, but he questioned Markle’s own acknowledgment of it–Meghan was “acting all dumb like she didn’t know nothing. Going on Oprah, ‘I didn’t know, I had no idea how racist they were.’ It’s the royal family! You didn’t Google those motherf—–s? What the f— is she talking about, she didn’t know?”
“The f—? It’s the royal family, they’re the original racists,” he continued. “They invented colonialism. They’re the OGs of racism. They’re the Sugarhill Gang of racism. Like, ‘a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip hip hop-a don’t stop — the racism.'”
