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“We've made strides in employment, but no strides artistically. Now, in a way that's a good thing. That's when you know you're free -- when you can be as bad as the white man. The true strides are when you see a black guy doing a shitty show just like white people do all the time. It's like Bill Fitch -- the losingest coach in N.B.A. history, and yet people keep hiring him! When you see a black man lose a thousand games and still get a job, that'll be progress.”
-- Chris Rock, commenting on the plethora of mediocre to poor black TV sitcoms on channels like Fox, UPN and WB. From the August issue of Vanity Fair.

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		`Q U O T E--O F--T H E--D A Y` Progressing backwards “We've made strides in employment, but no strides artistically. Now, in a way that's a good thing. That's when you know you're free -- when you can be as bad as the white man. The true strides are when you see a black guy doing a shitty show just like white people do all the time. It's like Bill Fitch -- the losingest coach in N.B.A. history, and yet people keep hiring him! When you see a black man lose a thousand games and still get a job, that'll be progress.” -- Chris Rock, commenting on the plethora of mediocre to poor black TV sitcoms on channels like Fox, UPN and WB. From the August issue of Vanity Fair.