“Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren’t free but I’m sure they enjoyed fireworks,” wrote Chris Rock to his Twitter followers on July 4.
CHAIN REACTION: Rock’s comments caused quite a stir as David Burge responded, “”Good one! I bet your Guatemalan house staff got a good chuckle.” Then Jeff Schreiber, managing editor of libertarian-conservative blog America’s Right, tweeted “Slavery existed for 2000yrs before America. We eradicated it in 100yrs. We now have a black POTUS. #Go (expletive) Yourself.” Schreiber later followed up with, “I’m not saying we’re blameless for that horrid practice, but for @chrisrock to indict theUS as he did is inappropriate at best.” Don Cheadle then came to Rock’s defense when he tweeted, “”Where exactly is the bigotry in that joke? Who is the victim? 18th century whites?”