Chris Rock opened up about a situation that still haunts him in a soul-baring interview with The New York Times.

Asked about forgiveness ― and who gets forgiven ― during an appearance on Times’ “The Interview” series, Rock replied: “Hey, man, I’m Black. When you’re Black, white people believe every accusation is a conviction.”

He then shared a personal anecdote. “A guy named Roger Logan, who I grew up with and was one of my best friends’ brothers, went to jail for years for a murder he didn’t commit,” the comedian remembered. “And here’s the weird thing: His brother used to plead with me to pay for a lawyer for Roger, and I never did it.”

Rock said he “always had a no-lawyer thing,” even though he’d always “pay your mortgage.”

“There’s a bunch I’ve paid for — education and all sorts of shit,” he said. “I always stay out of lawyers because it’s so open-ended.”

“And it still fucks with me,” Rock said of his decision. “I had the means to help him and I didn’t. I don’t know if we could’ve got him out or not, but still.”

“So all that to say, Black men get accused of shit they didn’t do all the time, every day,” he explained. We let Black men out of jail and go: ‘Whoops! That Black guy just did 30 years — too bad.’”

Rock has often spoke about the reality of being Black in America, and the incredible inequalities and hardships that still exists for Black people.

“Here’s the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense,” the “Misty Green” filmmaker told Vulture back in 2014.

“There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy,” he shared. “To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.”

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