Actor and comedian Chris Rock reappeared this weekend with a show on Netflix where he talked about the controversial slap he was slapped a year ago by Will Smith and touched on other topics such as the controversy with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Rock, 58, took advantage of his new special ‘Selective Outrage’, to comment on the British royal family and Meghan Markle. In particular, he referred to the statements made by Prince Harry’s wife in the popular interview she gave with Oprah Winfrey in 2021.
What was Chris Rock’s joke about Meghan Markle?
It should be recalled that in the first interview of the Sussex since their resignation from the royal family Meghan revealed, among other things, that there was racism in the monarchy, noted that in the British royal house, there was some curiosity to see how dark their son Archie’s skin was going to be.
On his show, Rock criticized Meghan Markle’s victim role.
“Everybody trying to be a victim,” Rock said. “Meghan Markle, seem like a nice lady, just complaining. I was like ‘Didn’t she hit the light-skin lottery?'”
The comedian also joked that Markle was “acting like a fool” as if she didn’t know anything.
(She) would go on Oprah and say, ‘I had no idea how racist they were.’ That’s the royal family, didn’t you Google those sons of P…? They’re the original racists. They invented colonialism,” he said on stage, adding, “They invested in slavery like it was ‘Shark Tank.'”
Rock then claimed to know what Markle was “going through” and said, “I know her dilemma: a black girl trying to be accepted by her white in-laws.”
“Some of the shit she went through wasn’t racism, it was just some in-law shit.”
Finally, Chris argued that the royal’s question about Archie’s skin color is not racist because black people ask the same questions.
“That’s not racist because even Black people want to know how brown the baby going to be,” he said.
His comments have not been well received. Some fans have expressed their discomfort with the jokes Chris Rock said on stage and have accused the American of racism and sexism. They have also reproached him for being insensitive for using slavery as a joke topic and making light-hearted comments about the royal family’s role in it.
