Murphy was the first example I encountered in life of somebody milking black victimhood. I was totally race-blind as a kid growing up in a melting pot inner city area, with friends from Nigeria, Trinidad, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam... So it was jarring and shocking to me when I saw the cool funny guy from Beverly Hills Cop in interviews, insisting that he was looked down on for being black. I remember him insisting to an interviewer that 'when you look at me, you think "black" - you don't just see a man you see a "black man"'. It didn't make any sense at all to me as a kid.
Welp, I grew up and Eddie got what he wished for, although he helped the prophecy fulfil itself.
Murphy was the first example I encountered in life of somebody milking black victimhood. I was totally race-blind as a kid growing up in a melting pot inner city area, with friends from Nigeria, Trinidad, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam... So it was jarring and shocking to me when I saw the cool funny guy from Beverly Hills Cop in interviews, insisting that he was looked down on for being black. I remember him insisting to an interviewer that 'when you look at me, you think "black" - you don't just see a man you see a "black man"'. It didn't make any sense at all to me as a kid.
Welp, I grew up and Eddie got what he wished for, although he helped the prophecy fulfil itself.