Chris Rock’s racist joke about Meghan Markle that caused controversy in his last special

The name of Chris Rock was irrelevant in the world of entertainment, until Will Smith did not slap him during the ceremony Oscars 2022after making fun of his wife’s alopecia, Jada Pinkett.

Throughout the year he devoted himself to cracking jokes about the incident which filled his shows just to hear how he pokes fun at the subject and nearly a year on he continues to joke about it.

“Now I watch Emancipation, just to see how they beat it,” Rock said on a TV show. netflix which aired live last Saturday and where he used the last few minutes to poke fun at both Will and his wife. In the movie you mention, the actor plays a man who is enslaved and forced to work for the Confederacy against the backdrop of the Civil War.

After the slap, Will Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciencesin addition to the fact that the Academy banned him from attending the Oscars for a decade.

During 2021, Megan Markle and the Prince Harry gave an interview to Oprah Winfrey where they claim British royalty were concerned about their son Archie’s skin color.

This was used by Chris Rock during the special netflix where, due to the incident with Will Smith, he clarifies that: “he is not a victim; You’ll never see me on Oprah or Gayle, crying. You will never see it. It’ll never happen,” which sparked more controversy by poking fun at Markle and her husband.

In addition, the comedian took the opportunity to talk about the royal family, who they accused of being racist for the incident with the couple’s baby, but Rock assures that Meghan “behaved like a fool who did not knew nothing”. “Going to Oprah: ‘I didn’t know, I had no idea how racist they were.’ It’s the royal family! Didn’t you google this family? What are you talking about, I didn’t know?

Not content with that, he quipped that the Royal Family were “inventors of racism”, saying they had invested in slavery as if it were “shark tankbut he played down Megahn’s situation, saying the bad thing she got wasn’t because of racism, just because she had “shit from the in-laws.”

“She claims, ‘They’re so racist, they wanted to know how dark the baby was going to be. It’s not racist, because even black people want to know. I know your dilemma: a black girl trying to be accepted by her white in-laws,” Rock said in his introduction.

He even called the former actress a ‘complaining good lady’, suggesting she had no right to complain and calling the British Royal Family racist because of their ‘light-skinned lottery’, concluding his comments suggesting that If a black person wants to be accepted by his in-laws, then he should marry a black person. kardashianssince they accept everyone: “Kris Jenner is like the Statue of Liberty.”

The comedian’s remarks caused unease on the part of Internet users, who expressed Chris Rock It’s racist and sexist. – They also criticized him for making jokes with sensitive topics like slavery or commenting on Markle’s role in the royal family.

When Prince Harry was asked if his family were racist, he dismissed the idea that he and his wife accused them of it, not even when interviewing Winfrey.

Recently, in an episode of the animated series South Park over the past month, Meghan Markle was also the subject of teasing and there were several rumors that the star of Combinations she was upset by said content.

But it was the couple who came out to deny those rumours, who even claimed they were considering continuing the program, and they described it as “absurdity”.