Wealth Won't Buy You Whiteness

[@lilbilliam]

So two things I wanna address. Firstly, the subject of the video is cishet black men. Accordingly ion know at what point, but there's a throwaway line where I conflate sex with gender identity. In hindsight I should've been clearer about who I was talking about to avoid invalidating y'all who identity as transmasc. Secondly, I made a joke like 2 minutes in that could be interpreted as stereotyping understanbly. That being said, if y'all have followed me for a minute or even get to the point in this video where I explain what makes a joke work, then you'll (hopefully) see the goal of the joke was actually mocking the stereotype itself. That being said, if you feel some type of way, I understand why now. Thanks for bringing it to my attention

[@NattiNekoMaid]

I guess as one of the women here (for the most part, I am genderfluid), I have to say that I just felt confused by your joke at 3:50 with pictures of kind of absurdly proportioned women as being severely desirable. I guess I don’t know how to write the joke better but to me it just doesn’t land and is slightly alienating. Like your stuff is good I just feel like there’s some perspective missing on how to positively sexualize women without feeling alienating to people who’ve grown up with absurd imagery being pushed onto us as we should look like it. And this is coming from me as a trans SWer. Not upset, just trying to provide some perspective on why your content may not resonate as often with women.

[@TheMightyWalk]

wtf is cishet ...

[@Eightminusfive]

@@TheMightyWalk a straight male in simple terms

[@garianarnold3754]

@@TheMightyWalk straight people i belive,i had to look it up lol

[@ittixen]

@@TheMightyWalk Het = heterosexual. Cis = cisgender = *not* transgender.

[@jayDee92133]

What gets me is his parents told him not to fight in front of white people but he has no problem clowning black people in front of white people...

[@brucepower3429]

That's the norm with blk people for some reason they know how to behave towards anything that doesn't look like them but as soon as they are around their "own" the tough energy comes out. - This is why i can't help it but to say that i only interact with BM/BW i have to because before you know it they start something either verbally or physically. - Neely fuller jr has a video about it.

[@JohnHVet]

👏 Exactly!

[@mrcead]

Exactly. Anti black proxies live in the cut

[@TheDsLeet]

Part of a comedian's job is to roast people not get into petty fights. Should he care who he roasts?

[@cv8499]

@@TheDsLeet Comedy doesn't exist in a vacuum. He can do whatever he likes, but he can't comment on racism all the time while also acting oblivious to how his own work feeds into it. Dave himself said that part of the reason he walked away from his show was because he saw white people laughing at his race-based jokes and realized some of them were laughing at Black people not with them, and it gave him a bad feeling. So the audience for the jokes became something to keep in mind. But money seems to have changed that perspective.

[@ittixen]

I remember as a teen being told by a white guy that Dave Chappelle was the GOAT and I thinking "nice, he's not racist". The bar is low, let's keep raising it.

[@lilbilliam]

This is interesting because I hear a lot of the same from the same kinds of ppl, and I'm always curious what makes them think that? And 9 times out of 10 it's some shiid from Chappelle’s Show that would get a white comic canned in a heartbeat. Shocker, I know

[@ittixen]

@@lilbilliam Yeah, I think your video leaves no room for mistake, they love him because he does the anti-blackness they can't, while letting them feel progressive somehow. I fell for it myself smh...

[@hjblacdes61]

The reason he quit the show in the first place is because he noticed this very thing. What happened man

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

@@hjblacdes61 he got rich. now his solidarity is with the upper class. good chance you're being rhetorical but thats my 2 cents.

[@ghostexits]

@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 But how could it be any other way? The notion that some multimillionaire celebrity/entertainers are still "keeping it real" can't be anything but a put on, intentional or unintentional. Probably some of them think they are keeping it real. But if we look up to millionaires and celebrities as political leaders and/or allies, we're putting ourselves on.

[@isawasquirrel9422]

Gonna be super honest. When I dropped christianity, started listening to heavy metal, went through an emo phase, and started exploring my sexuality, I got A LOT of passive aggressive shit from family, the church, and some old friends. Growing up, gun shots would be a normal thing to hear going to sleep, cops would come into my school warning us about gangs and telling us not to join them, and the neighborhood just wasn't pleasant to be in. All that combined lead me to distance myself from black culture and I did have the mindset that leaving the hood was a measure of success. Today, I know that the neighborhood is how it is because of historic and ongoing racism. Same with why gangs are a thing, same with why cops were all over. I also understand that, while I don't think it's rational, it's kind of a defense mechanism from trauma to want to gatekeep and preserve the culture. I'm not as expressively proud as other black people are, but the idea of disowning my blackness is extremely immature to me. I still hate when black people want to take my blackness from me because I still don't exactly fit into the traditional culture, but the black people that go so far as to agree with racist stereotypes are insane to me.

[@lilbilliam]

I had a similar experience minus the gunshots. It's the reason I didn't go to an HBCU which I instantly regretted once I was in a predominately white environment for the first time since elementary school

[@victorjordanjr1109]

haha i have been dealing with that for 40 years. i always and still get the your not really "black". i oddly dont get it from black people who are more hippy, LGBT, into metal/hardcore community or new age spirituality. Those blacks generally like my bohemian look. my mom grew up in the 70s and she played lots of 60s and 70s rock when i was growing up in the 90s and i have always loved that asthetic and look. After i left pentacostal christianity, i hung out more around cystal and spiritual stores and got into beads and crystals. However, i later reverted to Islam and became salafi so accesories for men was frowned upon. I left that fundamentalist sect and became a more spiritual muslim into sufism. My turkish iranian future wife is a shia muslim and just sees me as an American muslim. I guess as you get older its best to be around people who accept you for the person you are.

[@slickrick8046]

@isawasquirrel9422 Your neighborhood is how it is because of all of those section 8 baby mama’s.

[@slickrick8046]

@@lilbilliam HBCU’s are hood schools. The average SAT score composite at a vast majority of the HBCU’s are below average.

[@isawasquirrel9422]

@@slickrick8046 So the victims of bad economic policy are the reason for the bad economic policy?

[@stxnflwr]

"I'm not black, I'm OJ"

[@Abbot3663]

iconic but the quote Was taken outta context

[@tuesday2675]

"OK"

[@chinobiii]

​@@tuesday2675W Jay Z

[@jamalwalker]

​@@Abbot3663He never even said it but he 100% connected with the statement so it still fits

[@youngprofessor]

Okay…

[@Janna_Ash]

I’ve heard someone say that women are keepers of the culture, so we tend to protect it more and pass it on to our kids. Then think about the ways Black women are usually encouraged to have this loyalty to “our men”/community, and we experience at least double oppression. So we typically aren’t going to be delusional enough to think we can just shed our blackness lol. Now I’ve seen some Black women that seem to HOPE they can, but a lot of times they’ve been the fly in the milk or have struggled with lots of internalized antiblackness for whatever reasons.

[@remigal899]

I agree completely.

[@solarmoth4628]

I agree that fly in the milk black women are the most likely out of black women to try and shed their blackness out of a desire to conform. Even then by the time they become adults, they’ve gotten past it and that period of time becomes funny tiktok content.

[@carrington2949]

I feel as women there are just certain beliefs and habits you take on simply for self-preservation period. We know not to park in certain areas especially at night. We don’t take the shortcut if it is too late. We have a key pointed or mace on our chains. Those are just a few examples . No matter our personality, persona, ideology, race, or age - we know that there are certain things you do as a women. For black women race factors into this. We have to prepare to move through the world in certain ways for self- preservation. Thus we cannot shed our blackness because our blackness makes us an even more vulnerable target than our womanhood.

[@shannond1511]

Stacey dash

[@ReaperCet]

I think it has more to do with women being less likely to taste enough power to make them think that getting even more will make them immune to blackness. And that's just a product of the intersection between blackness and womanhood. BW aren't *magically* more culturally competent

[@zainmudassir2964]

Dave Chapelle bringing Elon on stage was surreal. Luckily the audience didn't bite and booed them off stage

[@fbafoundationalbuck-broken6011]

Them? They weren't booed, Elon was.

[@5324man1]

@@fbafoundationalbuck-broken6011nah both of them were, Dave started calling everyone booing broke lol defending a billionaire

[@alim.9801]

​@@5324man1 oof he called them broke like with those words??

[@5324man1]

@@alim.9801 yessir 🤣

[@MalikIsmailAliRaymond]

I think what is especially weird is that Chappelle was on Oprah after he quit his original series, and he lamented the type of fans who came to his shows to see him be "the joke", specifically citing the "I'm rich b'tch" line as an example. Yet he lets Elon Muskrat do that very thing, use that very line, and it's cool now? Ugh....

[@JothanGurr]

You have no right being this funny talking about such bleak topics. I'm laughing and crying equally

[@hjblacdes61]

Dry humor is rare to see but always kills for me. The bad thing though is you have to either explain yourself a lot or just be fine with going over the heads of those waiting for the laugh track

[@zeedon]

I have awful memory. But the time my old white boss repeated the Chris Rock’s, “2 types of black people” joke, verbatim, it’s still burned into my memory.

[@richiesworld1]

😂 goddamn! Verbatim?!😂

[@sasookay514]

lol this was a skit in The Office too

[@jimmyalfonda3536]

Oh fuck

[@JohnHVet]

Not passing judgement, but did you express your displeasure with it in some form. Sadly, the first time I heard that joke I knew racist white folks where going to run with it.

[@mrcead]

Yep, a gift-wrapped n word pass

[@thevirgologychannel6215]

Just in defence of Idris not wanting to be know as being a black actor. I believe his reaction was more about the stereotypes he’s faced in his career and was one of the reasons he fell out with Tyler Perry for perpetuating these stereotypes. You have to remember he’s British and of African decent which does have its own problems but in his BBC TV show Luther it was praised because it was a show where his race wasn’t relevant or referred too. His character wasn’t a black police detective, just a detective.

[@deeeeeeezzzzaaaa]

Thank you for making the distinction and pointing out that Idris is a Black Brit, it's very different to the African American experience.

[@toomuchinformation]

Preach.

[@stalfithrildi5366]

Referred here by FD Sig. White British male. I was wondering what the news was from Elba as I remember about a decade since, him getting A LOT of flak from British Tabloids for saying he had gone to America cos Black actors barely ever got characterisation in a lead role in Britain. He'd heard enough behind the scenes at Luther to think it was never gonna happen again in the UK. British papers did not appreciate that.

[@homelesshannah50]

I guess he forgot about all the WHITE PEOPLE angry cause he got the role of a Norse god in Thor and all the crybaby bitches mad cause he was just SUGGESTED to play Bond by Daniel Craig. MISS ME with the excuses when it doesn't matter WHAT side of the fucking pond he's on plenty of white folks think he has no business being anywhere near their "white roles".

[@Yvanehtnioj2000]

Also Black is an American term and has historic ties to American as it pertains to an identity and so foreigners do not resonate with it because that’s not the system they grew up in, yet Blsck people constantly try to force that on them it’s so weird smfh obviously if they have some exposure to a American culture they will begin to refer to themselves as Black but those who don’t abide by that American custom do not call themselves Black. Just an FYI lol

[@ariw9405]

Hey I’m a black woman and I’ve been here for a very long time so happy to be ahead of the curve. No really everyone should watch your channel it’s informative educational and funny as hell.

[@TheLadyBlerd]

Thank you for posting this... it made me check my subscription status, could've sworn I was already on the team... then again I've heard of YT unsub people. I'm legit SHOCKED he's not over 100K already.

[@Amaling]

The vast majority of people in the world don’t exactly have much ties/interests with black America, so I don’t agree with “everyone”. But yes his discussions are great

[@jordanmoore-ce9yc]

As a black woman I can say you reached the target audience with this one

[@gollossalkitty]

Yay :)

[@radien239]

One thing that needs to be addressed is how quick the black community is to ostracize (you ain’t black) black people who don’t fall within the generally accepted black norms. We’ve seen it happen to many intelligent black people

[@WanOlDan]

Like they did with Kamala Harris (and, by extension, me) in 2020? When they said she wasn't "African American" because she's half Indian and half West Indian? That, without a doubt, is the single, most STUPID thing I've heard from the black folks in this country. I don't even know if I want to stand by them anymore if they're going to separate that granularly.

[@WanOlDan]

Another thing I've seen recently is people coming out and actually calling other people racial slurs, including the hard R. So, let me make this perfectly clear: If you want to be a CCDD (Chocolate-Covered David Duke) and call your own people "coons", hard-R's, and any other words used by the white man against us, you should get your ass beat the same way they would. Sadly, these people just do this behind screens, like a bunch of pussies on 4chan. -.-

[@shadowdagoat999]

Exactly like why do you care who another person sleeps with or what they do if they aren't harming you?

[@TheLadyBlerd]

Gawd.... thiiiiiiiissssss.

[@TheLadyBlerd]

I agree with you if wasn't clear.... especiallly as a now, over 40 Autistic Black woman... the policing stays demoralizing.

[@thedangerwich5476]

The part at the end where you went over how when these actors hate being referred to as black actors, how they don’t do it out of any altruistic reason they do it because they’ve been conditioned to see their blackness as a limitation or a ceiling, a negative. and they hate having the blackness attached only because they see it as a limitation on the status or power they want to achieve. That was spot on. I always knew statements like those annoyed me but you putting it in words really put it to light just why the “don’t call me black” crowd can be annoying. And what really annoys me is when other ethnic groups join in and seal clap in approval when they just don’t understand all of the dog whistles and underlying anti blackness that can go along with statements like “I’m not black I’m just ____.”

[@ashleyjohnson1129]

Okay, so for Idris Elba, who, being from the UK, has a different experience of blackness, is it possible that he honestly looks at it as a qualifier to keep from paying him a real compliment? Like, "you're so pretty, for a girl your size!"

[@andreabrown4541]

@@ashleyjohnson1129 Please don't tell me another category has entered the oppression Olympics!!!!!!

[@MissTeaq]

But it was okay when he was in Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s girls 🙄 I guess 😏

[@rejectionisprotection4448]

They understand the anti blackness and dog whistles that’s why they’re clapping and weaponising that saying.

[@christopherbrown5409]

​@Mys Teaq one potboiler gig invalidates him not wanting to be seen AND TREATED BY PEOPLE WHO MATTER as "a Black actor"?

[@andreadarby4898]

Newer woman viewer! 👋🏽 Found you through my engagement with F.D. Signifier's work over a month ago, but I have enjoyed your content before your shout-out in this one trying to reach a woman audience. I'm a biracial Black Filipino woman where my father is the Black parent, and growing up my dad was on some Uncle Ruckus shit. My father always always would emulate OJ's Im not Black I'm OJ energy. He'd be on some Sammy Sosa stuff too wishing he could bleach his skin white. And often would encourage me and sister to pass as Asian instead of Black (which I understand now as a survival defense mechanism knowing how horrible this world treats Black women). But yt people read me as Black so there's that. But it was so interesting growing up hearing my dad talk about the horrible racism he experienced and in the same breath denounce his Blackness in favor of being white. I definitely feel like he was so anti-Black despite not having any privilege aside being born a man in this society. I definitely wonder whether him denouncing his Blackness was his own way having power despite never having any. To be better off than those "other Blacks" and be chummy with yt folks. He always would laud how much yt people love him. I definitely appreciate you and your channel and getting more into Black radical feminist thought with intersectionality. Always love seeing more and more Black men understanding and engaging with this more.

[@shinykafkaesque13]

Relateable. Also mixed. Black dad, who was "not like other Black guys." The antiblackness he emulated was and is breathtaking.

[@miriamhavard7621]

My heart goes out to you and thanks for sharing. 💗

[@fireprooff9922]

I remember that time I saw that clip of Morgan Freeman saying that the way to end racism is to not talk about it. With all due respect to the man, I couldn't disagree more. Have you ever heard that the first step to solving a problem is to acknowledge it exists? He said to stop calling him a black man. Neil deGrass Tyson feels the same way. He doesn't want people to see him as a black person but as a science guy. It's like those guys don't identify as black. Even though these guys are smarter and more successful than me, I think that it's a dream that will never be achieved. As long as there are black people and there are white people, some people will always see color. I remember this Black British actor named John Boyega at a black lives matter rally in Britain talk about how every one there remembers the first time someone reminded them that they were black. It was crazy because, in the American continent, blacks are always reminded of their blackness. It must be different for Black Europeans. Imagine one day you're going about your life forgetting your skin color and at some point you run into someone who judges you for it. Things like this happen because racists are always thinking about race. It's not just black people who are always thinking about blackness. Our haters do it to. You can pretend that your skin color doesn't matter as much as you want but one day someone will remind you that you are black. I'd rather be ready for it then be blindsided out of nowhere.

[@brucepower3429]

Nah it's the same for europeans i live in the netherlands they will remind you quick of your color if they see you as quiet or militant. - You even had a famous rapper/singer here named frenna complaining about not standing on the front of a cover with a WW some of these famous or non famous BM still believe if they speak "nice" or got money and fame that they will get a better treatment untill those WW/WM wake them up. - A lot of them don't understand it that the more our group takes up space in a positive way the more WS will show up to shut it down.

[@rickyjames4228]

When morgan freeman said you know who was pushing his cheque's I fell of him the day he said that.

[@dynamic3708]

​@@rickyjames4228Nigga, I am 100% sure when he said that, he wasn't just aiming at black people, but white people too. No one should be leading off and judge with race

[@username-mk4qv]

That sounds like “colorblind” talk. I understand why people feel that way, because they conflate sameness with equality. It’s misguided at best, racist and oppressive at worst. They don’t realize that sameness breeds intolerance. To achieve equality, and better yet equity, differences need to be seen and celebrated.

[@buckchile614]

It's like Glenn Lowery, Clarence Thomas and John M.'s opposition to Affirmative Action; pulling up the ladder because they think it makes them look badly. Talk about lack of confidence or Confidence Man?

[@t_ylr]

Louis C K was really just out here being an agent of chaos. Like he was trying to unlock all the yt male privilege achievements lmao

[@hild-demongoddess7498]

And he never will THATS the craziest part. There gonna hand him the third controller that you hand to your nephew to let him “play” the game too 😅😂🤣🤣

[@synesthesia.aesthetic]

Bloody hate that bloke

[@matholomewbrooksopoulos7085]

​@@hild-demongoddess7498 Then he'll snag a fourth and give it to Nick DiPaolo

[@falconeshield]

I wish he didn't treat women like sh*t, he'd have been the heir of George Carlin

[@andiralosh2173]

@@falconeshield LOL, like he made half the points or had anysuch things to say besides self-deprication and misogyny. I only remember one joke of his I liked

[@nednoodlehead]

I’ll be 100% honest, I held a lot of thoughts that you speak out against. It’s hard to unlearn things that makeup a lot of my mindset, but i’m trying. You and FD’s videos have helped me massively, and I really appreciate it.

[@bemusedobserver6476]

Just keep de-conditioning yourself. It will take some time and you will get there and NEVER go back!

[@newjumpcityjosh9333]

It warms my heart to see this

[@TheMightyWalk]

Fd is gay

[@drksideofthewal]

To be honest, I thought it was kind of weird how many people were calling for Will Smith’s arrest over the slap. Like damn, I’ve seen more violence than that on a playground. Jail time doesn’t seem like a proportional response… unless it proved people’s preconceptions about his “violent nature.”

[@Likelyfairy]

It was more of them using him as an example in their games 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@jimmyalfonda3536]

He's lucky he's will Smith. If he was a black man no one knew, they'd be fantasizing about shooting him. Hell, some of them still might have

[@joeyhoward-williams8853]

People were calling for that cuz assault is illegal(and for good reason), just cuz you've seen far worse occur with no real repercussions, doesn't change that fact

[@squarebear619]

​@joeyhoward-williams8853 please stfu. Whtes do worse and never receive any punishment but a slap is supposed to warrant jail time. 😂

[@Yvanehtnioj2000]

@@joeyhoward-williams8853exactly. He still assaulted someone wtf lol

[@astabaker9421]

My dad (white, voted for trump twice) once showed me that chris rock "black people vs n*ggas" clip and thought it was the Funniest and Truest shit.... couldnt articulate at the time why it made me uncomfortable. Thanks for this video

[@dpeasehead]

@astabaker9421: How many kinds of white people exist? Can or should they be boiled down into two categories.?

[@kharithagoddess6591]

The wealth to whiteness pipeline is a hard ass title ngl

[@josephalcindor61]

Wow an entire lifetime of Chris rock fandom wiped out in about 17 minutes. Kudos sir

[@tuttyusbuttyus]

kinda why I was glad he got punched. Wish it had happened sooner, but for so many other reasons.

[@availanila]

I used to love him, he was huge out here in Africa along with Eddy Murphy. Then I started learning about the "c**n theory" and stuff; he fit so perfectly into it I can't hear his voice without feeling a certain amount of Pan-African shame.

[@Loch1210]

I still love Chris Rock.he been funny my whole life and a part of classics

[@superdupeninja8149]

@@availanila Really? Most of his stuff still rings true…

[@bunnywavyxx9524]

These black comedians go hand in hand with the ones who make fun of black women or do stereotypical shaniqua bits, I wonder if there's a correlation...

[@kayellejay9608]

Something I hate about the idea of blackness in American culture is that it is something that it can easily be given away. If a nonbkack person can dance, play a sport or sing they are "invited to the cookout." We have to admit that most black people actually do think of blackness as something that can be easily given or taken away with a change of habit or gaining of a certain skill.

[@Yvanehtnioj2000]

But we give it away to people who look like us too and allow them to weaponize their proximity to us for profit. They don’t respect our culture and have taught our youth to do the same and y’all tell our youth these people are their representations simply because they look like them and y’all wonder why…

[@lilbilliam]

I really hope this comment doesnt get buried but I made an editing error in regards to blackness and poltical alignment. Originally I said 74% of black Dems consider blackness "very" or "extremely" important. That’s actually the total black electorate. The number for black dems alone is 82%. In the video I edited the wrong section but the graph is in the video also so hopefully that will clear up any confusion

[@zeedon]

I was LITERALLY just having this same thought. How black women always seem to light the way towards progress in this country. Google is for sure reading our minds.

[@dullknifefactory]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@blaquenguni9249]

What a crock of bs

[@somniatic]

One more comment to help the algo. I’m a woman, of immigrant parents from Cuba and Guatemala, Spanish was my first language cause my mom had no one cause my dad was always “hustlin”. So we were poor and later he got a better job that let us be lower middle class. A lot of the jokes and points you make hit the nail on the head. I always learn something when watching you. Keep up the good work!

[@ibnhe9024]

As a 17-year-old who grew up in mostly poor Black Neighborhoods, in and out of Homeless Shelters and then moved into a wealthy white suburb when I was 11-12 (where I became a Leftist) then Homeless again at 16 and back into the hood, I completely agree. The few black people in these wealthy Suburbs have an extremely antagonistic relationship with their Blackness. I remember walking into class in 6th grade and seeing only two black kids and thinking we could hang, I was wrong. The unfiltered White Supremacy with no Black Community to protect against it has horrible affects on Black People (Glad I was mostly raised in Black Neighborhoods), aswell as a Classist superiority complex of them being a model minority type. Black leftist who grew up in white neighborhoods also have this problem, its weird how many people complain about Black people "rejecting" them, not realising that half the times its largely imagined and is more of there own personal anti-blackness popping up, or a natural or even good response to some people being weird asf. The current Leftist space is a direct consequence of Black political power in Black neighborhoods being rooted out during the Red Scare, Its a very weird situation where a lot of Black Leftists are Labor Labor Aristocracy or even Petite Bourgeoisie themselves and there experiences and opinions are in the minority when compared to most Black People.

[@tah385]

Well said😊

[@kidawesomeness123]

Whats crazy is that I had the exact opposite experience. Maybe its because im a girl (you may also be a girl idk) but i was the only black girl at my white christian private school for years. Every other year one other black girl or guy would come but it was mostly just me. As a kid i was excited seeing other kids that looked like me however,,, half the time the excitement wasnt returned. I can count on two hands the amount of other black students that were in my class the entire 11 years i was there. And the most damaging experiences came from the other black girls, and like the standard black guy thats into white girls shenanigans. My reasoning i made up for this is that they were scared they wouldnt have an identity and in order to save face with these new people was to separate themselves from me. Which is literally what you said but uno reverse. I will say your comment on how no black community may adversely affect black youth is poignant. Without the internet i wouldnt know half the stuff i do now, my parents never really had the talks with me. However i would re examine the point about it being their own antiblackness that excludes them from community. Remember black people tend to be very exclusive with blackness for some reason, anyone too nerdy too gay or too quirky gets ostracized anyway

[@ibnhe9024]

​@@kidawesomeness123I'm a dude so that affects things, but I have to disagree with Black people being exclusionary, I would actually say the opposite. I've always been a huge nerd and I personally never had a conflict with that and my blackness in black neighborhoods at least. It's quite the opposite experience for me, I remember multiple white kids asking me about : insert racial stereotype, why I did or didn't do this or that, how I was apparently not black enough for them, and or assuming that I was only better at sports or whatever because of my genes or some shit. Most White people don't talk or see real black people, their entire perspective on us is based on what they consume. The commodity that is blackness is the perversion of reality, I hate using this term but black people are not a monolith, we are people with differing personalities, likes and dislikes, hobbies, ambitions, etc. I have only ever felt pressured to act in a specific way in white neighborhoods, not the black ones. Actually why I prefer Black neighborhoods even considering the structural problems. I'm not trying to be exclusionary if that's what you meant, I understand the struggles of being black in pwi.

[@bunnywavyxx9524]

exactly lol I go to a white school and live in a middle class mostly white suburb with other, probably equally antagonistic poc and I'm glad I had that black upbringing, cannot attribute my confidence and self worth to anything else and even I have doubted it at periods of dark times.

[@bunnywavyxx9524]

whats also interesting is how white politics align perfectly with wealth and upperclassness while for black middle class or rich people there's a distinct conflict and dissonance in their opinions that they have to conflate, but wealth has certainly an impact on perspective even know we know race is the #1 factor, so they almost always choose the politics centered around their wealth rather than blackness. Also most people grow up seeing themselves as individuals and they would probably see themselves as wealthy first and black second if at all.

[@MicMecca]

Another banger. Kinda sad that marriage as an institution is about dead but then as you pointed out it was never about love but more about finances. And I'm just happy that women don't have to settle. Thank you for also pointing out that more than 70% of black men that vote, vote for Democrats. Even while being mostly conservative on a lot of issues and power starved in society, those of us who know how important voting is, don't vote to undercut our own communities and families.

[@TheDCbiz]

Bruh. Voting democrat or republican in the US is voting for your own demise. What have black people gotten from Democrats since the civil rights act? They have harmed us just as much as Republicans, they just aren't obnoxious about it as much

[@availanila]

I used to think I could never willingly be a single mom until Octomom oddly enough. I'm not planning on marrying, but if my finances align, _I am doing that._ (The being a single mom.)

[@davruck1]

If you’re still talking about politics you’re lost

[@TheDCbiz]

@@davruck1 wdym?

[@beezusHrist]

​@@TheDCbizhe will NEVER tell you lmao

[@hardlo7146]

Not even Black but the algorithm is working well today, been getting more and more black creators recently. Just wish I could find more of mine (Mexican, or just Latino/Hispanic). Great video! We got something similar in the Hispanic community that once people become wealthy enough they make a HARD turn to the right, even immigrants.

[@dustind4694]

Want you to know the "We don't have an Emperor" thing nearly killed me. Well played.

[@djb903]

If you put a limiter on the audio, you can get loud without the clipping.

[@wdrcinsantodomingo]

thank you i, t was hard to listen

[@ATTACKofthe6STRINGS]

You may not be a minister on KZbin but you sure as hell preach. I am so appreciative to have found creators like you. Your explanation of Chappelle’s relationship to his hometown really helped me understand what is meant when the black community talks about “authenticity” in styles like Hip-Hop, and a video I watched a minute ago from Fiq went into what that “Apollo theatre experience”was well enough for me to recognize and understand you speaking about it now. I’m just a white passing mixed kid with a black dad that grew up in conditions that motivated him to protect his family from them. He clearly deals with a lot of trauma, unfortunately passing on some of those on to me. I know it’s not black creators’ jobs to help teach white, and white-passing, folk this ish, but I appreciate that you guys do. The lessons I learn through the content you all make has helped, and is helping, me to understand my own, personal, relationship with my blackness in a way that, for reasons that ultimately don’t matter, I was not given the tools to understand.

[@HiroZephyrr]

The more I see conservative Black men trying to lean on the patriarchy, the more glad I am we still have Black women and femmes in our corner despite it all

[@lilbilliam]

If the comments in this jawn are anything to go by, we got a helluva ways left to go

[@bamafencer12]

But what's wrong with conservatism though? As a black woman that gets shit for voting that way, I still can't get an answer from our people with this. Democrats and white liberals are viciously racist towards minorities in America. They don't want you at the table. At least with conservatives they want me to have guns.

[@MC-oo4pk]

Can you elaborate on "lean on the patriarchy"? This seems like a vague phrase used in liberal spaces that doesn't actually describe a phenomena that can be discussed with nuance.

[@mrjonsey]

@@MC-oo4pk He’s basically saying these black men don’t want equality, they want privilege. They want to be the black versions of these men. Their only association with black folks is because you can’t hide your skin complexion.

[@davruck1]

@@lilbilliamyou “educated” negros need to question your beliefs.

[@dariusdixon2189]

4:00 I fell the hell out when you played that sound bite from that infamous “I’m not gay no more” video.

[@bishoptatum8737]

Idris Elba comments were way more nuanced than what you reduced it too. It’s like some Black folks read the title and instantly got triggered instead of reading the context in full. He was speaking from the perspective of his profession. I mean this has been a common theme among Black actors and actresses for decades when it comes to the industry boxing them in and pigeon holding them into one category because of their Black ness. He never denied he wasn’t Black, simply put Im more than just a Black actor. Not the same as Morgan Freeman. Black folks obsessive possession of this social construct created by their oppressors keeps a significant amount of us short sighted when it comes to identity in this country.

[@smonkedweed7414]

That’s the thing, a lot of black people hold blackness as something to hold onto when the premise of blackness is a tool of oppression

[@sepulcher8263]

I hard agree with this.

[@rbiznezz2]

Facts

[@Krwler]

Thanks for this comment. You have to see the nuance in this conversation rather go on the attack immediately

[@d2dar459]

​@@Krwler "Nuance". Ha! I've missed seeing that word. 💯

[@de2588]

" Ninja what do you want me to call you, obsidian? " LMAOOO

[@xbabu142x]

My brain jumped to the My Immortal Harry Potter Fanfic.

[@tacrewgirl]

💀💀💀 I laughed so hard at that comment.

[@Alpha9n7]

Obsidian does sound cool, not going to lie

[@eldraenpharr8222]

Your wit is on another level. Thank you for taking the time to sit with these topics.

[@MidTierVillain]

We don’t get the option of individuality, but we also don’t get the benefit of doubt, nor judged by our best either.. because, that’s the point of racism, and upholding a racist system that keeps a certain group to feel privileged.

[@cedricwilliams4817]

Def need to do a video on what race is. Because even (the majority of)“black” people don’t even know what it is. That’s why when a person with the physical traits we associate with African American likes alternative media or “talks white” they don’t “fit in”with black people or even white people. When a person doesn’t look “black” or isn’t black and shows the cultural traits we associate it’s confusing ie hispanic, white talking black, or creole…. It’s because race is fake like money. I came here to ask for a video exploring if Black Greeks are problematic

[@ethansteele6366]

Algorithm boost

[@chrissy916]

+1

[@fuarkYT]

Boosed

[@gabriellarena2256]

That pfp fits perfectly with the comment lol

[@romantherger3518]

+2

[@bencrb5020]

+3

[@NextChapterRapper]

“Bottling that scare the maiden energy” 😂 killing me

[@wildcatste]

Algorithm put this before me a little late, but just commenting to say I'm one of the women you were trying to reach and I'm subscribing. Black men creators like you, FD Signifier, T1J, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land are so very necessary and are the kind of Black male voices I want speaking into my life.

[@mikezey9742]

That Wilt Chamberlain joke got me rolling dude. Love it

[@PurpleM70]

Those Chris Rock clips were so hard to watch 😭

[@side1981]

I have to admit back in college I knew more than one white guy who would quote that Chris Rock bit as causally as they would quote the Jeff Foxworthy 'You mite be a redneck' punchlines. In hindsight it was pretty awful and racist.

[@superdupeninja8149]

So that invalidates Chris Rock’s commentary?

[@side1981]

@@superdupeninja8149 No, it says that college white guys used as a pass to say the n word.

[@SteakCutFries]

"Im supposed to be the franchise player, and we're in here talkin' about practice." Most people don't remember Iverson's best friend had been killed a few months before this and he was getting sh*t on by everyone over a rough season - a young, hurting black man on camera for the world to see, who was villainized and criticized for this iconic diatribe cuz he wasn't "performing his blackness" the way everybody thought he should be for that type money. Practice is both "practice" and so much more in this ... practice is the nonsense people want to talk when there's literally life and death outside your front door, or people making terrible choices to make ends meet cuz it's like there's no real hope of any other answers or solutions, practice is going back to jail cuz your drug test came back positive for weed ... or worse cuz the PO dont actually know how to read the results of said test, practice is the sound of helicopters over your house and it doesnt even phase you anymore cuz you still got kids to raise and still gotta walk to the corner store and get to work and not live in fear every second of your life, practice is being 35yrs old and you're the only one left alive in your last photo of you and your HS friends, practice is grandma being 62yrs old and raising a generation of kids at home doing her best to keep up and keep everyone in school and out of trouble. It's too easy for people to turn away and make jokes about it cuz nobody wants to deal with these levels of trauma and hurt and need. And this is me saying this from Philly, in a forgotten corner of the city that probably won't be gentrified for another 10yrs, if ever. And yes me saying this as a white person, my apologies, but your shirt got me thinking thru this whole 40min video about what Practice truly is

[@Fleeqness]

As a black middle class person who grew up on (honestly) a lot of anti-black media, I understand that there is a clear and deep anti-blackness within me. My criticism for you is what defines ‘blackness’ - You say multiple times throughout the vid that black ppl don’t really mess with this or that, but I find that limiting (like you discussed) to the breadth of what blackness can be. - The criticisms Chris Rock makes, while deeply imperfect, face head on the impacts of systemic inequality. I’ve been a critic of ‘the culture’ for a while, but I get mad when we don’t address the problematic shit and desire to oppose whiteness that so deeply pervades black spaces. We don’t start culture as much as we think we do, we just resist what we find corny frl. And to conflate respectability with anti-blackness is a great way to avoid the depth of the issues we face and the work that needs to be done. Esp bc there’s a huge world outside of ‘Black America’ that deserves to be engaged with similarly with evaluations of the good and the bad, please critique me, I want to better understand your argument:)

[@radien239]

It’s a self fulfilling prophecy. We call people acting white for the most harmless and asnine shit which makes people disassociate

[@ibnhe9024]

Its a by product of blackness being a commodified product, Its literally just people whos only idea of blackness in from the Internet or TV. I don't much see black people who are secure in themselves actually say shit like this though

[@ibnhe9024]

@@radien239 Not really, feel like thats only an internet thing. Most black people live in mostly black or largely black neighborhoods a lot of the shit you see online is from people who don't interact with regular black people

[@radien239]

@@ibnhe9024 how old are you? Because it definitely was and is a thing that happens in our community. Its a lot better now but it definitely happens

[@Fleeqness]

@@ibnhe9024 I think my frustration comes from my experiences growing up in a diverse environment. I went to a high school that was 55% nonwhite 35% black. - I felt there was a real difference between black kids in that environment vs. those who grew up in those all black environments. There seems to be cultural norms, taboos, and a fuller sense of belonging in blackness that wasn’t apparent for me growing up. And still don’t make sense. I didn’t even know what a coon was until a few years back. To be black for me just meant the skin color frl. But I’m starting to understand this other set of viewpoints rooted in a worldview of being black being a huge part of folks’ identity and understanding of the world. Where I grew up I just happened to be black, nothing else really to it. I wonder if this is flawed? I want to have a better understanding of what growing up in an all-black middle class environment teaches you.

[@KeeliaSilvis]

Here from FD Signifier's OJ video, now a subscriber.

[@younghan3573]

I always thought that Chris' act was "white thought" thru a "black voice", and Dave's comedy was "black thought" thru a "white voice".

[@_Fountain]

I liked your breakdown on what happens when your success finally "makes up" for your blackness 💯 Just my two cents why your demographics might look like that, You made an overwatch reference while discussing your hope that more women will enjoy your channel one day. If you want more female engagement I say start with references (outside of video games) and change your thumbnails (having a consistent theme/font/style). This might make a difference. A lot of KZbin channels that appeal to women have orange/purple/blue/pink in their thumbnails, as well as some kind of glowing white outline of themselves. You also need a header - preferably something colorful that mentions what your channel is about (empty space gets you nowhere) You aren't making any shorts out of your content (you need to give people a sample of your work man). The shorts that already have captions generally tend to do well! Ultimately, your content isn't the issue. Your marketing is. Good luck!

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

I guess that's the better problem to have? Marketing seems like the easier side of the coin over making the actual content?

[@GudetamaSit]

Honestly I think he's doing good as is, and more women will come with his growth in general. A lot of the lefty/socialist types I follow I've learned of by recommendation. I've come from another creator (Tirrrb) recommending this dude, and I'm here to stay. Also follow F.D Signifier even though he's got neutral coloured thumbnails and does a lot of male focused videos. Again, I came to know of him through KZbin recommendation (this time a fellow whitey SuperEyepatchWolf). The only thing I could say about this video thumbail is that the hazy dark green outline gets a little lost with the dark grey background. As for gaming references, I don't necessarily think that's it. Idk about others, but I would've thought nerdy people in general like watching long video essays and there's a big crossover with gamers of all kinds. I'm not into PvP, but mentioning Overwatch isn't gonna be alienating for me. I'm no expert and maybe it is worth trying little tweaks, but personally I think keep doing what you're doing 👍

[@mateusmachadomartinsjunior4309]

Just wanted to ad how ironic the overwatch comment is even tho blizzard tries so hard to apeel to woman and minorities

[@blaquenguni9249]

If he wants to appeal to black women , all he has to do is like , kiss their , assert that black men are the problem and that black women have been our saving grace forever. He'll grown exponentially

[@YouTubeUniversityALUMNI]

⁠If this wasn’t sarcasm , it probably should be. OP. Engagement already exists with BW. Satirical commentary on socioeconomic impacting events/political topics for communal engagement + analysis is thought provoking for us- -, fym 🫴🏾

[@user-bh2fz5sf5e]

We dont call white actors "white actor's" so i think idris and Morgan just wanna be referred to as actors as well. Not differentiated as "black actors"

[@KwameFly90]

This man is an underrated podcaster

[@Lin10uson]

I'm loving the video so far, but in step with commenting as the points arise for me personally, Zoe Saldana is not a good example of a Black woman marrying a white man because she is Afro-Latina and barely claims the 'Afro' - which is why (aside from her skin-tone) she was shamed, along with the directors of the production, for being cast as Nina Simone in an upcoming picture.

[@sisandamatomela3272]

I like this guy...he spits knowledge in a very witty way !! I'm learning a lot

[@remyboyzz399]

Better make sure these tips aren’t reversible or else Derek Edward Rotherham Daniel III from New England is going to suddenly develop a personality 💀

[@lawrencescales9864]

Not Derek Edward Rotherham from New York 😭😭😭

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

::drops dead::

[@itzel6698]

3:55 love the segway☠I also appreciate how even though the topic of the video wasn't about indigenous people that you still gave attention to them around the four and a half minute mark, thank you!

[@kenzie615]

You’re always making me laugh when I shouldn’t but I kinda feel like that’s your goal 😂 such good content!!

[@wren6311]

37:00 Oh god this set... Bad core memory unlocked. I grew up with a super racist white dad (I'm half Korean) and I remember seeing this set on youtube in the early days or maybe I saw it on TV since I watched a lot of comedy central. I remember being pretty young, 9-10. I remember telling my dad that set in a kroger parking lot and my dad laughing and then telling me I can't say it inside and to tell him the rest at home. (Lesson being racism is okay but just behind closed doors) So the anti-blackness in that set was something that remained unchallenged for me until my early 20s when I decided to start unlearning some of my racist tendencies. The lesson I learned challenging that racism as an adult is: if you make racist jokes, even if you are of that race, people who aren't of that race will still be watching and they will see your racism as acceptance and approval.

[@rbiznezz2]

Silver Spring, MD has its areas of struggling families. I remember Dave in high school, he grew up with us. He’s definitely DC/DMV raised at least when I saw him around. We weren’t all dirt poor but the money wasn’t flowing like Georgetown residents either.

[@tacrewgirl]

This was very good and made me reflect on the those old sets by Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock and how I viewed the sets then and now. Great video. Definitely watching again.

[@theoddsheep5]

Love your work and perspectives, stay hydrated.

[@bobbylee_]

I can wait to see this. When Black Excellence Goes Broke (Dave Chappelle) looks intriguing.

[@achannel.4619]

I agree this does look interesting

[@weeb6316]

wym

[@uncleshumagorath534]

Black excellency is not going to fall... because they know how diversify and play the game.

[@redgreen2453]

“A lot of men have nothing to offer but their money….” Not even that, honestly

[@kahlilbt]

I didn't know white people knew Dave Chapelle until I was in college and a white man quipped "I'm Rick James, bitch!" to me... I was in shock 😂

[@robmoney]

You did not hang out with the kids that watched Half Baked way too many times

[@kahlilbt]

@@robmoney lol fortunately for me

[@adamprice3466]

White people loved Chappelle way before black people did

[@lexa_power]

Wish I had your videos in college when I was studying and teaching Pan African Studies. I TA’ed a class called The Black Male and would have loved to show this to my students! Really great research and much appreciated.

[@thamsanqathesonsinxezi]

I love seeing black men do this kind of social commentary 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@andysawyer647]

I feel like this is way more of a generational thing then what people acknowledge. This video is really thought provoking. I'm woth you on wealth changing people, but more often then not people don't change as much as silo themselves off from people out of their income group. Historically, we been less than broke and that allows for capture by the dominate society. The "American Dream" is still alive and well in our community unfortunately. As incomes go up your exposure to the many shades of melanated people drops. This is often for safety purpose as well which is the saddest truth.

[@gaillewis5472]

Hi, Billiam! Happy Father's Day, Juneteenth, and Summer Solstice. I have oodles of Caucasian acquaintances. They often tell me that they love me when we hug goodbye. This changed the second one of my inner circle boyz was interested in a fellow Caucasian woman. Not only did he not pause to introduce us, he changed his tune to, "That's why I like you..." This is a prime example of how quickly Black women can be sold out the millisecond it serves somebody. Since she ditched him quickly, he returned to "loving" me and actually told me he doesn't deserve me when I spent nine bucks on a toilet paper dispenser for him. He cemented his position by dismissing me in front of a potential piece of @$$. Trouble is, Black men will do the same thing by never letting on that they are dating or married to a Caucasian woman. You won't ever see their women because I, as a Black woman, am an offense to her sensibilities. I wonder how their mothers, aunts, and sisters feel about this. I'm eager to know.

[@roxas_brook_skys_7063]

Nonbinary but Lady energy here! I appreciate all your content even though you can initially come off as abrasive I figured that comes from your voice not being heard or dismissed so thank you for the videos you make!

[@MrThefall3]

i'd also state that it's not just wealth but education or going through the education system is another equally powerful factor in this. Because it's based in the idea that accomplishment through the education system is not only a skeleton key to opportunity but also definitive proof to shut down racist statements and ideas

[@billbradley4878]

It's all about materialism. A persons material conditions influence how they interact with the society at large and thus alters their perceptions of the system within which they exist. Some people dont fall prey to that reality but in general you can largely predict how revolutionary versus reformist someone will likely be without speaking to them if you know their material conditions.

[@mcfrisko834]

This video should be longer...amazing job brother🔥

[@PapaMidnite__]

I guess a year late is better than never. This is damn good content

[@JiveCinema]

Yeah I'm late too. this is good.

[@relaxlibrary4249]

This is an interesting conversation. My issue with DC is that he let the show turn into a minstrel show. Do Black people who come from affluent backgrounds allowed to shape Black culture? Of course, but we have to look at who's controlling the narrative. Kinda like what has happened with hip hop. When hip hop was political, the music faced bans and censorship. Once hip hop became commercial, we got music promoting misogyny and violence. I think that's what happened to DC. His show became a parody of blackness and Black culture instead of celebrating blackness and Black culture and non-black people flocked to it in droves. Once that starts happening, it should make us question are they laughing with us or at us.

[@spliffsforbreakfast]

“We don’t have an emperor!” cuts to FD 😂 my boy 💀

[@SuperSwavor]

You and FD are the guys

[@juninhoxsouza409]

Face! It has a vibe of not settling into stereotypes, like because there's always a reference. Our color before our talents or personality is not about moving away from blackness, but it is about Be singular and respectful of what you work with, ildris is right when he said that, he is not a Black actor, and only an.actor, why would no one say white actor 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@homelesshannah50]

He was BLACK stupid when white people got angry that Daniel Craig merely *suggested* he play James Bond, he found out he was BLACK real quick then fool

[@chreeess]

It’s always wild to see Seinfeld be the voice of reason is a conversation

[@SnowQueene]

Good point about Chappelle's background and roots; it makes total sense now that all the things I once found hilarious about the man seem to have withered away into entitled bitterness - he was probably just parroting what Paul Mooney and other conscious Black comedians were writing for him. And now that Paul is gone, all that's left is the hubris and the capitalism...

[@mrcead]

Yeah, it's a shame. His black excellence pedigree should have guaranteed him a path to using his griot style delivery for something more positive but the call of the bag won

[@akaspon1]

"he was probably just parroting what Paul Mooney and other conscious Black comedians were writing for him".....Wow. The levels of which we will create things to disrespect or discredit someone just because we disagree with them. It's easier to just gravitate towards the things you align with instead of this. Just wild IMO.

[@DanSolowastaken]

Alright yeah that joke about Wilt gettin' more international strange than a U.N delegation was pretty good.

[@willywonka7812]

How many little old ladies can claim That they climbed Wilt the stilt's well-built physical frame

[@Pjazz1]

The way you stay on Candace’s hair 🤣🤣

[@williammartinez840]

Say it Loud I'm Black and I'm proud!

[@jnyerere]

To be fair to Dave Chappelle, he still went to a very black inner city high school (Eastern) before transferring to Ellington School of the Arts but any teen in the entire metro area with any type of talent sought admission at Ellington regardless of whether they lived in DC or not. SN: Today Silver Spring is more the "lower tier" of the Upper Middle class suburbs. And considering that Montgomery County is incredibly wealthy, many racist white folk today refer to Silver Spring as "the hood" due to its diversity alone.

[@lilbilliam]

I hear you but as a hood nigga, "lower tier upper middle class" means absolutely nothing to me 🤣

[@jnyerere]

@@lilbilliam I hear you. And I didn't wanna come off like I was defending Dave. Just to give a little context as to why he might feel like he still has a stake in the black community.

[@lilbilliam]

@@jnyerere I didn't take it that way, was just saying that upper middle class is just upper middle class to me. And yeah even if Dave grew up in Beverly Hills he would still have stake in blackness, that's kinda what I was getting at bringing him up

[@KingJT80]

Aside from the t-shirt that my wife bought me that says black fathers matter and buying me another Father's Day present that said black father with all kinds of different nice things on it which, I do like.... She knows she's marrying a black man coming from a black community with black parents and I know that I married a white woman with European descent. But what I never did ever is tell her that I don't see color because that would be silly as hell and she knows that as well I wouldn't have married her if she thought that I would never see color or that it wasn't ever an issue in this country She understands the importance of it but also has her own identity as being swedish descent and a white woman in America But here I am, on this channel, found you through FD and finding more black people who are in this circle , which I can say in real life, can be very complicated and seems.non-existence because a lot of black men do not think about stuff like this in depth But We know they mostly watch more liberal stuff or stuff like Kevin Samuels...

[@DarthSidian]

That's what you get for marrying a Swede. Shoulda stuck with your own lmao

[@RNBsingersarehiphopheadstoo]

The 76’ers hat being thrown away 🤣🤣🤣

[@noebodywashere]

Love the video and also love the love, support, and communication going on in the comment section 💕

[@Shade04rek]

You sound right about alot of this, but damn tbh I don't care much about thinking about my race and the implications of it anymore like when I was young(16-26), so I can see that side. I really just want to be left alone to care for my family, I have better stuff to worry about than what strangers and celebrities think about what I should take pride in and label myself. I or other black men/women don't need to be anything other than what they want to be, and if it's not expressing blackness or whatever by someone elses standard, so be it, that's them. Lame af that we go around judging others for that. It literally doesn't mean anything for most of us just trying to live a fulfilling life anyway. Avoid assholes, welcome friendly people, stay out of other's business/in your lane.

[@buckchile614]

My all-time dream Presidential ticket is Nat Turner/ John Brown. Granted, I don't get out much

[@js1741]

Damn. Fomenting violent revolt, amassing arms, beheading white people, and that's just John Brown!

[@yxseph777]

The FD cosign was a nice touch

[@spurdosparde7949]

great video. the everybody hates chris outro was hilarious 😂

[@Doomer253]

Always on point.

[@penburger]

The hard truth is there's no such thing as white or black. Skin tone is a spectrum. we say black, white, half cast but there are hundreds of different skin tones

[@lexonimous]

Personally I think based on the actions of Idris Elba wanting to start a film studio in Ghana, he would prefer to align with Africanness rather than blackness since the word black has negative connotations that African does not have.

[@reneedailey1696]

That's part of the issue though- Blackness isn't inherently negative, it wasn't us who created the idea that it was. Allowing those forces to win by clinging to Africanness (When racists definitely still see them as Black- And all that comes with such thinking) doesn't seem to be the right tack, but that's only because my personal belief is that everyone in the Diaspora thrives when we band together.

[@lexonimous]

@@reneedailey1696 I think the main problem is that terms like black or African is not a loan word from one of the many African Languages. My point was that the word black already had a negative connotation, before Europeans even colonised Africa. It would even be better to identify our race as a word a word from a word that exists in an African language (even if it translates to black in English), since the power to define yourself with your own terminology is more empowering and revolutionary than just trying to make an already tainted word mean something positive.

[@ElleDiablo]

Steve Harvey is black Dr Phil. The bald head... The moustache... The conservative views... The "profound advice" based on nothing... Ever seen them in the same room at the same time?

[@1876MURDA]

As always your facts are always on point, i would like your opinion on a touchy subject on black firearms holders no not the “infringe type of people” just regular black folks in high violent areas trying to protect themselves. My questian is why does it seems like the majority of black people want to side banning guns and not do actually research on the reason y they needed them back then in the first place because the only public figure actually sayin something about black gun owners is colion noir and thats bad bc hes a drifter

[@dumpsta-divrr365]

I watched 5 lil bill videos today, never before have I heard the word "bucko" so much in my life

[@lucapulcina]

I enjoy these videos. I don't entirely agree with all aspects of the video but I love hearing analytical takes on society. My understanding of protest behaviour is that gendered participation in protests is roughly equal, with some differences in the types of issues. I think some studies have suggested that men are more likely than women to participate in protests related to economic issues, such as labour rights and income inequality. Men may also be more likely to participate in protests related to political and civic issues, such as government corruption and civil liberties. On the other hand, women may be more likely to participate in protests related to social and cultural issues, such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and LGBTQ+ rights.

[@bebopnola]

My sociology professor was on food stand and WIC in college. She told us in class how much she was paid & worked it into the material about social aid. It happens. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@jetstez7971]

I appreciate your platform as well as your perspective on Black topics but fam you gotta get a better camera.

[@lilbilliam]

I know

[@WordsofHarmony]

@@lilbilliam I hope those who come for you about camera quality are financial contributors to your channel.

[@lilbilliam]

@@WordsofHarmony I mean they not wrong tho 🤣

[@MsMizz1]

The effort put into the finger snap and eye roll 👏🏾 ❤