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Chris Rock mocks Rick Ross, Donald Sterling and white people in BET Awards monologue

"Now let me understand: An 83-year-old white man doesn't like black people. Is that news? C'mon!" he joked

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(AP/Chris Pizzello)
(AP/Chris Pizzello)

Chris Rock was the perfect host for the 2014 BET Awards, an event he referred to as “the Black World Cup” — a night where “you’re going to see something you never see … black artists getting credit for something they created,” he joked. No one was spared in Sunday night’s opening monologue, from Donald Sterling (“Now let me understand: An 83-year-old white man doesn’t like black people. Is that news? C’mon!”), to civil rights movies (“If you make a civil rights movie and white people like it, it’s not a good movie”) to, of course, white people (“The real reason ‘Scandal’s’ a hit, is cause every Thursday at 10 o’clock, there’s a white president. White people get to tune in and feel good!”). Watch the whole routine below:

By Prachi Gupta

Prachi Gupta is an Assistant News Editor for Salon, focusing on pop culture. Follow her on Twitter at @prachigu or email her at pgupta@salon.com.

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