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        <title><![CDATA[Chris Rock: Jimmy Fallon ‘didn’t mean anything’ with blackface impersonation]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chris Rock wasn&#8217;t hurt by Jimmy Fallon&#8217;s <strong>use of blackface</strong> while impersonating him on &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; 20 years ago.</p><p>&#8220;Hey, man, I’m friends with Jimmy. Jimmy’s a great guy. And he didn’t mean anything,&#8221; Rock, 55, <strong>recently told the New York Times</strong>.</p><p>The &#8220;Everybody Hates Chris&#8221; star added that he believes Fallon&#8217;s performance — which went viral after resurfacing online over the summer — wasn&#8217;t meant to be malicious.</p><p>&#8220;A lot of people want to say intention doesn’t matter, but it does,&#8221; Rock said, adding, &#8220;And I don’t think Jimmy Fallon intended to hurt me. And he didn’t.&#8221;</p><p>Rock was a cast member on &#8220;SNL&#8221; from 1990 to 1993.</p><p>This summer, Fallon, 45, apologized after the &#8220;SNL&#8221; skit resurfaced online.</p><p>“I had to really examine myself in the mirror this week because a story came out about me on ‘SNL’ doing an impression of Chris Rock in blackface,” he said on the &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; in June. “And I was horrified. Not of people trying to ‘cancel’ me or cancel this show, which is scary enough. The thing that haunted me the most was, how do I say I love this person?”</p><p>Earlier, he had also <a href="https://twitter.com/jimmyfallon/status/1265386757958389768">apologized over Twitter,</a> saying &#8220;there was no excuse for this&#8221; after social media users <strong>called for his cancellation</strong>.</p><p>Fallon has since <strong>come out in support</strong> of the Black Lives Matter movement.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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