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Actor/Comedian Chris Rock isn’t about the laughs these days when it comes to race in Hollywood. Rock, who is promoting his latest film The Top Five, penned an essay with The Hollywood Reporter surrounding race in Tinsel Town. In the Dec. 12 issue of the trade magazine, Rock is brutally honest about the system for minorities and his experience being in Hollywood. According to Rock:

It’s a white industry. Just as the NBA is a black industry. I’m not even saying it’s a bad thing. It just is. And the black people they do hire tend to be the same person. That person tends to be female and that person tends to be Ivy League. And there’s nothing wrong with that. As a matter of fact, that’s what I want for my daughters. But something tells me that the life my privileged daughters are leading right now might not make them the best candidates to run the black division of anything. And the person who runs the black division of a studio should probably have worked with black people at some point in their life.

Rock goes on to discuss how not only is Hollywood lacking forging relationships with Blacks, but how it tends to overlook Mexicans as well. According to Rock:

But forget whether Hollywood is black enough. A better question is: Is Hollywood Mexican enough? You’re in L.A, you’ve got to try not to hire Mexicans. It’s the most liberal town in the world, and there’s a part of it that’s kind of racist — not racist like “F— you, nigger” racist, but just an acceptance that there’s a slave state in L.A. There’s this acceptance that Mexicans are going to take care of white people in L.A. that doesn’t exist anywhere else. I remember I was renting a house in Beverly Park while doing some movie, and you just see all of the Mexican people at 8 o’clock in the morning in a line driving into Beverly Park like it’s General Motors. It’s this weird town.

You’re telling me no Mexicans are qualified to do anything at a studio? Really? Nothing but mop up? What are the odds that that’s true? The odds are, because people are people, that there’s probably a Mexican David Geffen mopping up for somebody’s company right now. The odds are that there’s probably a Mexican who’s that smart who’s never going to be given a shot. And it’s not about being given a shot to greenlight a movie because nobody is going to give you that — you’ve got to take that.

Tell us how you really feel, Chris.

Chris Rock Ethers Hollywood’s ‘White Industry’ In Essay  was originally published on hellobeautiful.com