White Man Fools Everyone Into Thinking He's Black

[@kerenpotter9464]

Rob was raised by his black family. He's not imitating negative stereotypes. He's being true to his experiences and his life.

[@percyvolnar8010]

Thats also why you can tell Rob is loved by black peeps in his neighborhood.

[@angelor9211]

Bro was a Crip apparently

[@percyvolnar8010]

@@angelor9211 Yeah, I think you're right !

[@zingger4054]

@@angelor9211 yeah, milk from Hoover crips

[@Aryzo]

theyre stupid tho, theyre talking about rob and hes being mad quiet the whole time, thats mad sus

[@40sandLs]

Milk was literally adopted my a black woman as an infant, he's talking exactly how he talks on a daily basis. He's from LA and also Hoover, no ones pretending. He's a product of his environment, period.

[@ducksfanharris8035]

Yeah Milk is a real one.

[@Vincisomething]

I love how people think accents is strictly an ethnic thing. It's like OK, explain kids who have parents with very different accents. Like, do you think accents is a genetic thing or that only certain ethnicities can have certain accents? Where do you think accents come from....? Do people think we're born with it? There's a KZbinr named DavidSo/GeniusBrain who grew up around black people and his parents owned a black beauty supply store. How he talks, people would stereotype as black or even "hood", but he literally grew up in a black neighborhood. His accent isn't as strong now because he toned it down to sort of conform (anyone with that accent understands lol), but you can still hear it. His parents are from Korea, he was born there and moved to the U.S as a kid. According to some people's logic, he should have a heavy Korean accent. Even Akwafina, if I'm not mistaken, was born in an area that was probably populated by black people because she still has the accent, even if she's just talking cordially.

[@ducksfanharris8035]

@@Vincisomething look up the Asian Jamaicans.

[@Vincisomething]

@@ducksfanharris8035 I've recently heard of them just randomly mentioned in a video a couple days ago lol. And it's a great example of how ethnicity doesn't always correlate to accents. There are Asians with all sorts of accents from English (Hok from Quest Crew having the most Oxford English accent) to what people would stereotype as black to a deep southern accent.

[@Vincisomething]

@@ducksfanharris8035 People would accuse David of trying to sound black because he was this Korean guy with Korean-born parents. He lived in a poor black neighborhood where he was around or knew friends that were gang affiliated (he wasn't gang banging himself) and was around the San Francisco race wars in the 90s as a kid. He didn't know he was poor until he went to college lol. He was talking about how people were talking about vacations and he was like, "what's a vacation..."

[@Roninonymous]

I’m tired of blackness being associated with struggle. Shits embarrassing.

[@moeceesay8201]

Facts

[@dannykstick]

Shits corny. Like black people can't be rich and blessed?

[@cirrus404]

@@baconoftheark law of averages bro, but realistically are successful people going to be wasting their time doing this shit ? No. Especially not people that came from impoverished or struggling backgrounds

[@noimnotakpoppfpsheacy2526]

Well it's not associated... that's the statistics and living situation........ LMAO

[@Drefstudios]

But that's a lot of black peoples reality, No?

[@m_d_l_a3208]

The dudes hair looks like Cynthia’s doll hair, from Rugrats

[@childofgod269]

💯 Cynthia was Angelica’s doll. 😂😂😂

[@carl6909]

Really shows that upbringing is a lot more important than race.

[@TurtleChad1]

Crime statistics say otherwise

[@gilgameshkingofheroes5903]

​​@just_a_turtle_chad Actually crime statistics don't. Carl is right.

[@obsidianbeau4087]

​@@TurtleChad1 new and more updates statistics say otherwise.

[@ianwest1624]

​@@obsidianbeau4087 so what are you saying exactly explain

[@OperationLove2000]

​@Obsidian Beau No they don't

[@supportive_comment]

Another thing I loved about Rob is that Rob never once lied like previous moles do. He never claimed to be black. He never lied about how he grew up, nor did he lie about his thoughts on the black community and how they are represented in America. Rob was straight up with it.

[@ethanpintar5454]

I mean, he was pretty much the only mole that didn’t _have_ to lie, the other ones didn’t have a choice

[@dani09eveline]

They found a good mole. Y’all know if someone was lying and pretending we would’ve gotten mad af

[@SylviaMiao-fw1dx]

@@dani09eveline The wouldn't have had a choice tho

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

Nah, he's lying about being on gang. He's been publicly denounced by his own alleged gang.

[@Theanimeisforme]

​@@justinlast2lastharder749 probably due to reduced prison sentences.

[@USNMelDaria]

I constantly got called a “ white girl” in high school because, my parents were professionals, I dressed “preppy”, spoke correct English (because my parent weren’t having it), we had to have good grades ( no C's) and my suburban parents were strict!!😂😂😂

[@evan258]

I am white but went to a majority black school and saw this, some black kids were called white cause of stuff like you described but I never liked that. There were white kids also who grew up in the black communities and were told they were "more black" then some of the black people lol. Just do you! Never submit to what others want and always be yourself. Wish people would stop with the labels on people like they did to you!

[@nikkey8951]

girl i feel you, except in my case they called me an oreo for being more of a studious, goody-two-shoes person. somehow that hurt more than being outright called white

[@NicheGreens]

How are you doing later in life especially compared to those that talked down to you?

[@dobermanownerforlife3902]

Black women are gorgeous creatures, until they open their mouth and the ghetto comes out. Such a shame.

[@xeedflarian9748]

Same I got called white or trying to be white or white sounding. Because I talked proper and was an honor roll student. My parents work hard to keep us in the suburbs and stressed education. They themselves were not from the suburbs.

[@treasonabledoubt7251]

I'm white but grew up in one of the worst neighborhoods in my city, eventually got out, got my life together, and attended college. At college, almost every black person I met was "whiter" than me, in terms of their upbringing, tastes, whatever. it was a strange experience and it's why I never play around with identity politics. You don't know someone's identity until you KNOW them.

[@jimmy8213]

This is so true, massive culture shock for me when I went to college as an adult and saw black kids with 2 parents from the suburbs talking about how they’re oppressed when they didn’t even have to pay for their own college. It really struck a nerve with me

[@kurogikuzuzuki9790]

​@@jimmy8213 while it's noble to compare others and yourself to people less privileged than you in certain situations, i don't think it's really desirable to draw out of that comparison a justification for any hardship u experience as a result of real or perceived racism. whiteness doesn't mean you have it good in life, but it does mean you have a certain privilege that nonwhite people don't and/or you don't have a certain burden that other nonwhite people don't. this is true across all races and classes, to varying degrees. the US is a superpower and the world economic/govt system is predominantly industrialized liberal democratic, so it has to have some public perception of benevolence and equality among its people, which isn't to dismiss the role actual activists and pro-black policies have played in improving the material and cultural condition of certain black people. black people in the suburbs do suffer from microaggressions, may have to resort to unique/eccentric personalities to fit in, corporate and systematic exploitation and undermining, etc.. the poor white do have the stench of poverty but their whiteness can help create more favorable conditions for them than their black counterparts. it's okay to feel some kind of way but afaik u don't seem to separate your feelings from their implications as thoughts and seem to be getting at the idea that middle class black people have overcome racism, or at least the magnitude of racism u can talk about oppression with, through class mobility, implying that there's this absolute standard for how the social construction of poverty and racism should be linked to oppression. poverty, racism, and how it's experienced are relative to the quality of life in the society we're talking about. some black people, largely due to the momentum of history, are stuck in a situation where they can't afford basic survival necessities like food (not food deserts, or less food to lead a healthy life, i mean, they can't afford food at all) , but that's not a common reality in america, even among the low income, a country with social programs and safety nets, though not enough to get ppl back on their feet.

[@ellea3344]

People attribute way to much value and character to skin color. Bias and ego.

[@Routetherapy10]

​@@jimmy8213well yeah ppl still see them as ppl from the hood, that'll do psychological damage to a person

[@MASKOISHERE]

​@@kurogikuzuzuki9790there's really only two races, human and animal/not a human as in dogs, cats, etc. Until we learn to put aside our differences and work from our similarities to bond with each other like the friends we should be as caretakers of this wonderful world... We are failing ourselves and each other

[@dankanon3785]

imagine a black person, telling another black person, "youre not that black" because they grew up in a stable home with both of their parents in their lives. what kind of standard is being set where something like a stable home, and a strong family structure, makes you less of who you are?

[@psilovecybin5940]

Food for thoughts huh

[@nautilus956]

That’s what Biden said. “If you don’t vote for me you ain’t black.” Yet y’all support him. 🤪🙄

[@napalmsf]

Black Americans are weird af with that sh!t 😂

[@the_Periador]

"and clarence parents have a real good marriage"

[@Polo22546]

BRUH!!!

[@ByeAlicia]

I’ll never forget the one time that I met a new group of friends when I was younger. They came over to my house and were shocked that I knew my dad and lived in a two parent home. Super shocking to me at the time because that was my norm. I got teased for speaking properly, having a curfew and playing in the orchestra. I’m super grateful for my life though.

[@Ricardo242-y2l]

Sounds like you had a nice upbringing. However, if you were on this panel, they would tear you right up because you don't fit the stereotypes

[@ByeAlicia]

@@DivineLogos you’re telling the truth.

[@rosettekalombo3072]

Imagine teasing someone for being raised right 🤡🤡

[@keylovesjae]

You are so right. My cousins also made fun of me and my brother because we had both parents living in a house. It's crazy. I got made fun of because I enjoyed all types of music besides rap. I spoke to proper and sounded white..Hahahahahaha.

[@randomuserame]

same. Even in my upper-middle-class midwest school, there were a few others in my grade who came from (what I now know as) the projects and when I first met them some of the first questions were "why you talk white?" I also remember one time I was doing a phone interview and when I showed up for the in-person... they didn't say anything explicitly, but I knew they were expecting less melanin.

[@antonio.clark.art01]

it's a shame that in 2023 you can be thought of a "not black" because you didn't come from the struggle. it's sad and pathetic at the same damn time.

[@UltraGalacticSuperFantastic]

yes, no one should be able to 'take away' your blackness - or whatever your preferred group is - you are you no matter what someone says. I don't get why people police this so hard like it's theirs to judge. I struggle with this as an Indian woman. I am not Indian enough for Indians, as they think I'm too independent/outgoing/and other things that are bad in their eyes. But I'm too Indian for the average American, who often don't even know the differences between a South Asian and an Arab, which I have been yelled at for ("go home to f---king Iraq!!) and assume that I'm shy and domesticated. They assume I'm Hindu, assume I don't eat meat, assume my language, and if not that, they think I'm Mexican. Literally everybody telling me who to be, nobody getting to know me. Not enough for anyone.

[@chrisdawarlordtriggacollie]

They still black just don't fit into what most black people accustomed to like skateboarding isn't usually seen as something black I don't even think tennis was seen as black eating pumpkin pie, speaking more elegantly but the things seen as black usually revolves around football basketball acting tough being in a gang talking Ebonics and doing shady shit in general but being black is your dna not what you do.

[@royalroyal2210]

Just a good ole product of American Education & Media

[@TheRastafarianStuff]

the only thing thats truly sad and pathetic is you american niggas still contribuiting to this stereotype anyway

[@pbonfanti]

It is clearly a designed system, to keep control, as someone in White House said, You ain't black.

[@K1NG0FW0LV35]

my life mirrored Rob's I was a black kid raised in an all white family. I had different struggles but struggles noneoftheless. Everyone struggles... everyone can relate to someone in some way... we dont gotta worry about the color of our skin we gotta worry about the state of our world.

[@ericortega1745]

Koneng of wolv thirty five. Numbers are not letters.

[@K1NG0FW0LV35]

@@ericortega1745 its 1337 speak or Leet speak... Gamers use it all the time in usernames in which they replace letters with numbers.

[@JuicedUpOyster]

@@ericortega1745 this isn't the beginning of the internet you Neanderthal

[@aeep1999]

Dudes tryna pretend that there ain’t rich black people or black people who go to comic cons or had both mom/dad in their lives.

[@gucciguy3408]

Yea most of the black guys in the panel seemed to wanna portray black culture as that…possibly to seem cool.

[@RaveSault]

my boi gonna physically reeling when he gets to see black weebs

[@pookpook3891]

​@@RaveSaultor black people loving rock. I still remember how that american black woman was called a fake black for loving this lmao

[@itoo4884]

@@pookpook3891 naw, they can't take rock away from us😭

[@sepulcher8263]

​​@@pookpook3891 I got that for liking house music. Lol

[@lobalee1873]

Growing up in white suburbia, I never heard a white person say something off-color about a black person, but I commonly saw the black kids at my school call my friends oreos because they hung out with white kids. It doesn't help our society to punish black kids for having a variety of interests and not fitting a stereotype.

[@s619baby2]

🤡

[@roercula8425]

Sounds like the black kids punishing themselves.

[@Xenix-xb4gw]

I'm the cream with my friends at school. Guy named Tk and Nikeveon

[@colecampbell1906]

NGL alot of black people in America are racist af, for damn sure a higher % than white people in America.

[@Aaron3020x]

​@@s619baby2 found the racist

[@The_Logician]

This video really spoke volumes. Being black was connected to struggle, hardship, poor grammar, criminal activity and other bad ish that we adopt in our culture. We so backwards

[@nr1NPC]

The white dude is just like Mike Perry the nigerian nightmare

[@The_Logician]

@@jamesdoakes4956 so with all this public knowledge why are we still proving their stereotypes right?

[@William0271]

@@jamesdoakes4956 When he says that he's talking about in the present day, he's obviously never denied it happening in the past.

[@papasmurf9205]

@@The_Logicianecause we are less motivated to get out of the struggle now than we were back then aka ignorance and I don’t mean stupidity I mean lack of knowledge…lack of know how….lack of motivation

[@jemhoare2105]

@@The_Logician Because of systemic and institutionalized racism, like redlining for example. Ukrainians have the public knowledge that Russia has invaded but they can't just say "shoo" to the invaders and the job is done. Effort is required to overcome the obstacles of fortified positions, etc. Institutionalized racism is one of the fortified positions that most black Americans have working against them.

[@PureSaji]

It sucks feeling left out your own race, everyone who got voted out definitely cried in the car on the way back.

[@CornpopBadDude]

Only one race. No such thing as "races". Its all a spectrum.

[@hhere2stay]

@@CornpopBadDude this is what people need to understand but we have way to much pride to realize it. racism and classism is man made stuff, we're all the same human in eyes of God

[@vladtheinhaler8940]

Damn. It's even more sad that people have a group mentality.

[@poutineausyropderable7108]

​@@hhere2stay Remove in the eye of god and you're right.

[@IVI4TTH4TT3R]

​@@CornpopBadDude yeah race is a poorly defined concept in general. We have to stop giving it so much power

[@DK-yy2ie]

This proves that there is no such thing as “acting black” or “acting white.” It’s all about environment. Hopefully they put this argument to bed

[@airysm]

Yup exactly that should be the main takeaway from this whole video. I can't believe people are this dense.

[@SOCyak]

That stereotype came from segregation and racism. The “black accent” came from blacks not being able to talk properly because they weren’t able to read or write and had underfunded education. The hood is associated with being black because during Jim Crow and for a lot of years black people only lived in these ran down neighborhoods which turned into the hood. Nowadays you have black people who come from rich families, but it wasn’t always like that so we must respect our ancestors whom came before us. I know this and I’m only a 17 year old black male

[@TeamAurorapk]

​@@SOCyak Maybe that was true for some but the behavior you see or might attribute to racism has more to do with economic class. poor black people who did not live here originally. adopted the mannerism of poor white culture. the cracker culture which white people who did not get educated worked as slaves literally just look up slave insurance laws whites where about 1/5 to 1/2 less to buy and insure. we have records of all the deals in the achives online. don't trust what the Government is teaching you search for the answers yourself. they are always hidden well

[@looper964]

​@@SOCyakYou don't know much as that way of speaking came from poor white southerners. Obviously who most slaves would have been living around and learning English from. What he said has been the truth from the beginning it's all about the money and nothing else.

[@StephenMcmonagle-dv4kf]

as a white dude from philadelphia, i hate hearing anyone from the suburbs adopt our accent but other than that its 100% enviormental, its annoying when u see any race from the suburbs bumping that accent knowing damn well theyre not about that life and never were lol if youre gonna talk shop be prepared to throw hands

[@AbaNPreach]

5:45 in and I think the discussion surrounding racial stereotypes are often inaccurate. What they associate with race is actually just a function of class. Because someone isn't poor or "street", they couldn't be black hence the outcome they got with this game. What do yall think? Do we attribute to race what realize is just about class/geography? Let us know.

[@mrdeadlybootz5414]

I'd change the word class to culture. Rich hispanics and poor hispanics act the same if they partake or were raised in the same subculture for better or worse.

[@charlesriston8972]

Stacy Dash

[@SalemArc]

I can't hang with people who don't know the difference in taste between grape and purple or red and fruit punch.

[@Thiago_Alves_Souza]

​​​@@mrdeadlybootz5414uhh nope. So much nope. In Latin America alone we have so much class discrimination it's not even funny. Rich families in Latin America definitely behave differently and have different tastes in activities than the lower class local customs. Rich Hispanics aren't even raised around poor Hispanics and we live in total different cities, towns and neighborhoods. Now if you mean a lower class Hispanic who grew up poor and became rich? Yeah, maybe.

[@hirvale]

Yes. It's a mostly American thing because a particular race has been relegated to the bottom class for so long that both have became synonymous in the minds of some.

[@frant1cOne]

I dated a girl who grew up in a gated community in a $6M+ house. She said she grew up poor because the others around her had the $10M+ house. She couldn't understand that some people don't have the opportunities to go study abroad, or hit Disneyland a couple times a year, or get a free education (although she earned all her scholarships), or have to work in High School.

[@ST-rj8iu]

it is all relative. Also, some rich people are raised to say they are poor to not be targeted. Kim K. was dumb posting photos showing all her jewelry. It can get you killed.

[@ilikecommenting6849]

That girl you dated is an idiot. 100$ bucks says she's fat as well. Ask me how I know. It's a classic.

[@joogullae3456]

Damn bro she poor as fuck

[@umiluv]

“Grew up poor”. v.v. Lol that girl is crazy.

[@devol3829]

I know a ton of these... It feels like they live in a different world sometimes.

[@jonathandriver1942]

they sounded really white at the beginning and started being more black as soon as the white guy started talking lmao

[@ringtone-sama]

Lowkey😂

[@dingleberry4234]

The imposter gave them imposter syndrome😂😅

[@1monkey1typewriter]

@@dingleberry4234🤣

[@SilencedButNotForgotten]

Ye 😂

[@SebastianRamirez-sm7zp]

His stare down after he says I’m white broke me 😂

[@sdbzfan1]

Its the best

[@roboturtle1429]

man is being devious

[@itz_akuma]

😁😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@garthyahudahandrews8504]

lol it was like a villian reveal or some shit 🤣🤣🤣

[@badrequest5596]

dont know why but that kinda reminded me of dexter 🤣

[@adrianchatman5734]

Just goes to show, black people are not a monolith. We're people like anyone else, we come from all shapes, sizes and flavors.

[@tiffanykim2773]

Everyone is bruh

[@mikey92362]

​@@channel_no_longer_activeAnd at the voting booth

[@chefboiardeeznutz9881]

Jeffery Dahmer: did someone say...flavors?! 😏

[@lanxy2398]

flavors? 😅

[@ubuu7]

nah bro, we are all surrounded by hood rats and gangs

[@BumblebeeKisses]

6:32 The fact that he literally said that Brevin was basically too privileged to be black. And THAT is the problem. To too many people, if you're white, you're automatically privileged, and if you're black, you're automatically a victim of circumstance. What Preach says later about it being about socioeconomic status is absolutely correct.

[@RandomPerson-gf6gd]

Preach is the dude on the left, I think Aba said it first

[@rizkiramadhan9266]

Nope, white privilege is abound the civilized world. You try being brown and applying to be a teacher in Korea.

[@KasparrTV]

As a white kid can confirm, static shock fucking slaps and why he aint never got a reboot leaves me dumbfounded.

[@Krwler]

It’s crazy that the black men see being black as a struggle. There are literally millions of thriving black communities. Being black shouldn’t be synonymous with struggle.

[@Tyler_W]

Not to mention they're hardly unique to the concept of struggling in life.

[@iamsheron7408]

Not at all

[@Welsh-Trials-Enduro]

I think being poor makes life more of a struggle, regardless of skin colour.

[@iamsheron7408]

@@Welsh-Trials-Enduro Yes but that doesn’t change the reality of how black people may view other blacks people

[@ryanmiller3330]

name 5

[@TheWasher18]

I think this just really goes to show you... hood is hood, poor is poor, rich is rich, country is country. You're a product of your environment, color is just something you choose to correlate to struggle or privilege.

[@x2PUNKx]

I am a "white boy" from the hood and if you talk to me blind or on the phone you will bet you last dollar I am black. I do have a "white voice" I use sometimes BUT when I am comfortable you will only here the dialect I got from my hood.

[@AS8643]

EXACTLY!!

[@umiluv]

I’m Korean but grew up in the hood. I loved reading books though and spoke proper English. So I was never hood enough for my friends and I was always considered too “white”. I thought it was dumb that speaking proper English, doing well in school, and reading books was related to race. I just wanted to get out of the hood by doing well in school. 🤷‍♀️ Edit: when I get angry, the hood rat does come out. And if you piss me off, I do not give AF, I will get ghetto. This one chick thought she could cut me in line bc I’m a Korean woman and so I wouldn’t say anything. I put up such a fuss calling her out for cutting and being loud that she had to roll out. I was NOT having it.

[@salasyk8708]

​@@x2PUNKxbet send a link to audio tape 📼

[@x2PUNKx]

@@salasyk8708 ummm u ALREADY know I’m White

[@FoolishMortal500]

I just wanna give a little story. I am a black man, when I was 6 my mom and brother told me, "people are gonna treat you different because of the color of your skin. It's not right, but we have to prepare you for the real world". Facts. But I didn't realize that they meant by my own people too. I grew up in the bay area hoods, Stockton, Richmond, Hayward. And because I wanted to be educated and well spoken, just so I could be seen as more than just my skin. I was called white-washed, a pretender, the white man's B#!$%. By my own people. When people hear my voice online they think I'm white, not because the tone or bass in my voice, but because I sound too smart. Aba n Preach, y'all hit the nail on the head hard. My ears are still ringin

[@Hextin]

Let's be honest youve experienced discrimination more from your own than anyone else.

[@nr1NPC]

@@Hextin Probably true. The most racist people I've seen is black people lol

[@johnchampion2040]

Say this shit

[@hoodhippychick]

@@7ilverIt’s not human nature to dehumanize other humans. That’s a lie. I’m this current matrix we are living under this death barbarically culture it is. Most humans over the course of history have never been this vicious to one another- one culture dominated and it’s barbarism is what became normal.

[@jshway7827]

It must really suck. I grew up in the country but was raised on the internet, I don't sound country at all and nobody really cares. It's easy to adapt to where you want to be and who you spend your time around, if I was shit on for that it would be annoying as hell.

[@gregerlandson7193]

The white guy was raised by an adoptive black mom. So, hes basically the Michael Jordan of white guys seeming black. Trained from birth. Like an anime hero.

[@randosavage1459]

He's the wigga Neo. Morpheus is smiling hard RN 😂

[@abstraktdrey]

​@@randosavage1459 this is the greatest comment I've ever read.

[@mrflyingcow5423]

Man fuck you i spit out my drink on the crouch. God damn funny.

[@stevey8481]

They nailed it. It was never about race but always about socioeconomic differences. Those who make it about race do so to promote division and empower themselves (typically politically, but also for fame/money as well).

[@spk1121]

Never say never, but overwhelmingly, yes! One of my favorite moments related to this topic is from a clip involving Daryl Davis, when a K .k .K _wizard,_ one of their top guys, shook Daryl's hand and then said to some white folks nearby, "I have more respect for this black man than I do for you white [n~words]!" It's a pretty amazing clip, I recommend looking it up if you haven't seen it 😅

[@paymentspace2968]

this part!!!

[@pixpusha]

This is something medicine has struggled with and is just starting to realize. A lot of conditions were mistakenly attributed to race when it has nothing to do with that. It's socioeconomic status. A larger proportion of impoverished folks are comprised of black folks. It's unfortunate but many doctors allow their eyes to lie to them. They think certain conditions are prevalent in the Black community when it's just the impoverished community.

[@KirinWT]

@@spk1121 white n-words is fucking wild 😂

[@Dracon7601]

To be fair though race plays a role, like there was a study comparing resumes where the only differences where stereotypically black names and criminal records and they found that a white guy with a criminal record had the same chance of getting a job has a black guy without. Class matters, but race does as well.

[@DanBrown96]

The saddest thing about racial prejudice and stereotypes are when we impose them on ourselves. As a black woman, I identified with about 2% of what these guys talked about. So to THEM that means I'm not black, so narrow is their view of blackness and of people.

[@Lucky13Ravens]

You aren't alone. Stay strong.

[@airraverstaz]

I always keep that quote from Carlton in the back of my mind. "Being black isn't something I'm *trying* to be, it's what I am." I couldn't possibly give less of a damn about how 'black' I'm perceived to be by the black community. I don't even agree with a majority of what's considered black culture as is, so the feeling is mutual. We don't live in a hive mind.

[@frenchgirl5878]

This video was about black men not black women, of course you can’t relate to everything being said. Having the same skin colour doesn’t mean your experiences are the same.

[@domino3023]

Right. But you see what these guys associate with being black themselves

[@bstanley6146]

I'm with you.

[@tomblanckaert4089]

"If you took away motherfuckers eye's , you realise they don't relate on a skin basis, they actully relate on a socio-economic basis" that is one powerfull sentece there

[@Calmacalma11]

As a South African this is true. I'm white/Korean and I grew up in a very poor area over here, so whenever I see other Koreans or Whites I can never relate to them because they are completely different to me. Since I was small most of friends have been black or have been from similar circumstances to me. It's not about race, its about class. Rich black kids and white kids get along super well, and the same goes for poor kids of all races

[@BradfordJohnston777]

As a poor white man im not wanted by either communities

[@thetruthhurtsmany]

@@BradfordJohnston777 Idk why i laughed so hard on this we aint poor just temporarily broke! remember that. Work & Grind mind-set is most important in shit circumstances.

[@igraffitdotcom7335]

Democrats will kill to stop people from understanding this statement

[@BrownBeautyAbroad]

He said that right as I was reading this comment

[@foxracer1703]

You guys are the only people i can watch for 20 minutes or longer. Love your friendship, your humor, how you talk about issues and analysis of tnem. Great channel and i hope you continue to bring people together for a long time.

[@mcrodosn]

I love this: "once you take away someones eyes, you're not relating on skin colour but on social economics and familiar upbringings/experience". This is why I always say everything has context and not every black person grew up without stability and not every white person grew up with a silver spoon.

[@rizkiramadhan9266]

Yeah but the moment a white person comes here they get treated like kings. You ever noticed how people treat them better than how they treat locals?

[@rammingspeed5217]

Ummm.. Lady... Wanna become my preggo wifey?

[@SunnyDaysAOK]

This is how ethnic groups form based on common culture and shared experiences. In the US, there is the greater Black American ethnicity. But then there are the subcultures based on class, population size, geography, dialect, etc. within that ethnicity. There's this mistaken belief that the majority of Black American live in urban areas and are poor. In fact, the majority live in the rural south and 50% of Black Americans are middle class or higher.

[@TimZoet]

exactly. Most of racism is being fed through media to people who dont personally experience people outside of their bubble. Stereotypes and exaggerated stories are easy to spread to people who don't interact with other communities. It is in coming together and judging people on their character and share values that'll get us forward

[@brentrichards1200]

Very few white people grow up with a silver spoon.

[@titanblade3706]

I’ve been accused of being “too white” because I didn’t talk slang, parents didn’t struggle as much, and I lived in suburban areas and went to a mostly white school. I think it’s not only stupid but racist to associate blackness with struggles and poverty and white with success and wealth.

[@Rov-Nihil]

I come from one of three dutch colonies that speak a creole language. Every colony has its own flavor of creole but is distinct. I speak from one of the blackest and that's a very strong accent, yet I'm white passing and for that people from the all colonies confuse me for the way whiter colony... Like dude I don't speak with a clear Latino accent 💀

[@bizarro20daves]

Crabs in a bucket

[@zzzzf99309]

@@bizarro20daves barrel*

[@turtlepowersf]

​@@zzzzf99309 bucket*

[@Tyler_W]

It's incredibly racist. Hot take, but I think a lot "white supeemacy" in America is largely self-imposed.

[@NathanSynth]

As a teacher who used to work in the hood in Texas, I know this is actually not far-fetched. I've had numerous Hispanic and Asian students who fit into the stereotypical "black kid from the ghetto" image. Environment is definitely huge factor. I agree that most people tend to adapt to the behaviors that are common and/or praised in their environment.

[@OMAR-vk9pi]

Only people from the south see it as a stereotypical black thing or outside the us in NYC it was a ghetto/hood thing most of those environments were filmed with black/Latino family’s

[@verlax8956]

bro my city here in georgia is ridden with poverty and a shit ton of immigrants and refuges from many countries fit into that image as well

[@Reub3]

grew up in east houston poor. I from a neighborhood back in the 90s with blacks, hispanics, desi's and whites. We act and speak the same just different accents. I like to refer to it as The Impoverished Bayou Slang and wall ball was our game of choice. Until ol'karry show up with the garter snakes he found in the ditch. Then it was time to go home lol.

[@SilentHotdog28]

@@Reub3 Desi as in Indians?

[@Okra_winfrey]

@@OMAR-vk9pinot true. I’m from Dallas and there are lots of neighborhoods where Mexican people and black people live side by side and though there weren’t many white kids, it wasn’t uncommon for them to talk just like us.

[@LS-sx5qo]

As a european I still can not wrap my head around why the people in the united states are so obsessed with race

[@TheKat-y2d]

Check out the some US history books. The country was founded on racism.

[@faasnuhind8578]

Because there is an agenda that is based off who suffered more, so they can basically become a protected class.

[@TheKat-y2d]

@@faasnuhind8578 false. Race has been the foundation of America since its inception. You Europeans need to read history books. And yall created race

[@Igknighton]

Always the Europeans with this moronic question 🙄

[@ItsKayJeyD]

You gotta look at the cause not the effect. If racism wasn’t around race wouldn’t be a topic. Racists make race a big issue, that’s the cause. The effect is race being a big factor of life

[@nightingaleofficial3604]

6:37 is sooooo sad. Having a family made him “privileged” and so he was wasn’t black 🙄🙄🙄😩😩

[@adrianchatman5734]

Yeah it is sad.

[@jabreakitjubawdit6391]

When I heard him say that I was like damn.

[@BusinessSkrub]

Sad how Amerikkka has brainwashed people into that asinine line of thinking

[@pookpook3891]

​@@timileyindestineexoxoexactly ! I'm a black woman from europe and every black people around me have two parents. Ive seen afro americans call someone " not black enough" or being white for being well read, well spoken and having a family, that's just crazy

[@RSJerelle_]

@@pookpook3891mannn I remember my friend group in high school made fun of me because I wanted to be an engineer… they said I’m tryna be white,,, I ain’t friend with them anymore

[@JuliaMarieH]

I’ve been saying this forever and no one wants to have this conversation. Many “black” struggles are actually socioeconomic struggles, and it’s important to tell the difference because the solution for each is very different.

[@moahdakka6887]

Amen. Poor is poor. Just sold to masses as a racial thing. Real issues are not racial but monetary. If we normies actually came together the rich would quake.

[@bleeem]

Thats a big reason why 3rd world countries love shows like Everybody hates chris, a lot of the things that go on the show are super relatable, my whole generation grew up on that shit and we all loved and felt represented, not because of color but because poor families dont really change that much around the world

[@vanessamw1140]

The powers that be (the government) doesn't want us focusing on socioeconomic issues because if we were all focused on that, we'd be more likely to unite and rise up against them and/or demand change. So they keep us divided by making people's struggles and differences about race.

[@junk1308]

In comes retard socialist to whine about "class reductionism" and how because the socioeconomic struggles are related to generations of oppression, we need to fix the "white supremacy" causing the poverty.

[@bellacortez]

All my cousins on one side grew up super wealthy. Living in the same neighborhoods as Celebrities. They always had to prove their " black" while actually being black ( both parents are black). It lead one of them to gang banging and doing over 10 years for murder.

[@Mariahdaynell]

Milk is legit … he grew up as a newborn 2 months old , in a black home.. black cousins , black mom black siblings , they accepted him completely. And he can’t change who he is.

[@pixpusha]

I'm sure he has issues. Never belonging. That does something to a person.

[@penuji7981]

@@pixpusha nah milk gets a lot of love, he too old to worry about who he fit in wit or not

[@MikeBarbarossa]

He Steve Martin 'The jerk'

[@octoberwildsmoke9065]

​@@pixpusha sounds like you're talking more about your own issues there bud.

[@natashka1982]

​@@pixpusha I'm the only Russian I know in my city. I have no one to speak it with, to talk about our culture, food, movies. And I'm doing perfectly fine. I've been the only immigrant in a room, the only white person, the only female in a room and never felt outta place. You only don't belong when you feel like you don't.

[@crazyman1905]

Thats one of the greatest things my father did. He wanted to see the world and he brought his kids along. At the time I remember hating how we had to go to a museum in every country we went to but, now I look back and getting to experience someone else's culture is so enriching.

[@DS-wl5pk]

I’m with Aba, an Afro or just having a lot of bushy hair, even if it’s unkempt, is not the same as whatever the fuck is going down in Florida. Mfs got palm trees growin out they head.

[@patrickwillis13]

Bro fr. That freeform bullshit is not cool

[@jamesdagmond]

Most guys got short hair here. But when you see some long hair it's wild as hell you are right.

[@BWolf00]

That hair shit is stupid ugly.

[@smiles4u92]

Not palm trees🤣🤣🤣

[@YungNic]

Nah fr doe, we call em Wicks or Palm Trees real Flawda Shit 💯

[@davidhardy4419]

As a black man with the voice of Kyle living in the deep south (Savannah) Suburbs, whose parents are still together after 35 years, whose parents also have higher education one with a Master's and another with a PHD, I can understand EVERYTHING that Aba and Preach said about race and class is true to my experience. Now living in Atlanta, I often have to prove my blackness in order to be accepted by other black people. I sometimes don't tell people how a grew up because of the perception other black people will see in me. I may have dark skin tone but I'm too white or too privilege to be black and its so frustrating. Racism still exist no matter how you grew up.

[@spk1121]

Sorry to hear you've struggled in this way. My dad is a (retired) pastor and his first church was an all-black congregation in NC (in 1973), so he & my mother were the only white members. Mom has mentioned about how she would be in a group setting and they'd be talking about "white women," but everyone understood that didn't include her, including my mom! 😄 I was born there, making me the third white person in the church, but my folks moved when I was still less than a year old. I have occasionally wondered who I'd be if they had stayed there longer, if I'd have some of the issues you're talking about. Anyway, they still speak very fondly of the people in the congregation & the positive impact they had on both of them. 😇

[@TheAmateurEditor]

I'm Greek and moved to Scotland when I was 16. I speak with a southern English accent (what they call 'posh', I just adopted it from watching BBC programs growing up) and as Scotland is like 95% white Scottish, most discrimination is based either on sectarianism (the Catholic vs Protestant divide) or the Anglo-Scottish animosity. The abuse I got for being perceived as English was so bad and constant, that I had to adopt a very gruff Glaswegian accent to 'blend in' and get by. When I moved to England at 30. I just reverted back to my 'natural' accent, but living in a multi-racial area (mostly Pakistani Asian), I started getting loads of abuse for being a 'white boy' and people assuming that because of my accent I was both English and have lived a life of privilege. I understand where you 're coming from and both our experiences prove that racism and classism are a struggle for all people. Stay strong my friend.

[@luciq1007]

The self-hate in your own community is wild. It's why I don't claim anything, I am what I am, my community othered me a long time ago. That old saying of a child not being embraced by the village will burn it down to feel it's warmth, is true. It can all burn down, bc I'll always be an outsider to my community 😂

[@JimboTheCrackSmoka]

I have a regular London accent and I'm well-spoken. According to people around me that means not sounding black. Didn't know there was a "sounding black"... I just speak well.

[@noircat5]

I feel this, I grew up in different classes from the hood to the suburbs. But either way I was always interested in school and reading and trying fit is with other black people who usually found gang culture more interesting

[@Real_2Phase]

Its crazy that I used to judge my sister in law for how she acted and saying she "wasnt black". Then my white friend asked me. "Well how is a black person supposed to act?" I couldnt give him an answer that didn't sound ignorant haha

[@bombomos]

There ya go dude. Welcome to the White Man struggle. Either you tip top on what you say, or you just make everything you say funny

[@louyork8379]

Says there is a reply but I don’t see one. Do you?

[@imaboisir7227]

​@@louyork8379 no

[@D4llast]

​@louyork8379 it got del eted

[@thedeviouspanda]

I had a white coworker years ago who was talking about the singer Adele trying to sound black, and a black coworker asked him "What do black people sound like?" Dude was absolutely stopped dead in his tracks 😂 The fear in his eyes was hilarious.

[@Ventanty]

"I wasn't rich, they was poor." 😂

[@Rasbiff]

It's harsh but it's true

[@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer]

This is why being so obsessed with skin color only makes one miserable. The people around you are your brothers and sisters. Not some stranger with the same skin tone as you.

[@Rov-Nihil]

Its always something you have in common but in the most shallow sense. Latinos hear me speak fluent Spanish and suddenly we're best of friends... Like dude I don't know you and I'm just giving you the courtesy to speak more freely in your own language instead of broken x language. Speaking over six languages is freeing but also makes you wary because not everyone should know you speak their language and if they do, you might get pulled into things you don't want to be involved in!

[@frenchgirl5878]

I don’t think anyone is obsessed with skin colour.

[@wrongthinker843]

@@frenchgirl5878 Your sentence ended at "think".

[@wrongthinker843]

Skin color matters, when describing someone's appearance.

[@B3BOP]

I agree, we are all just different shades of melanin and variations in features but we’re all the same. The environment changes people more than anything

[@3425040]

I'm black. Born in Montréal. Haitian parents. This conversation really strikes home for me. My father was home every night. My parents did not have much. But they made huge sacrifices to give us the best they could. And they were a little more open minded than most haitians. I went to a really good public school that always competed against some of the best private schools. Ski trips performing arts (music & acting classes) swimming classes (became a lifeguard) traveled to U.S.A and Europe Most of my life other black people thought I was rich...I grew up in one of the poorest areas in the country (Parc Ex...for those who know)

[@JescaML]

Even Haitians came from Africa at one point before or around the 1700. I’m white and My 3 great grandfather lived in Haiti in the early 1800 and escaped to Cuba with help from black workers who worked under him during the riots or wars in 1820-40 but I’m not either of those as they came from France.

[@unacceptablesisterpeter3431]

I lived in NY Long Island. The area was poor and run down but if you went off the main street the neighbourhood was beautiful. Haitians had moved in (with nothing) and bought the properties because they were cheap and rebuilt the homes and made them beautiful

[@jodiarias3073]

That’s third base. Kids grew up on two meals a day and substandard housing where you could see your kitchen from your bathroom through holes in the walls. You had it pretty good compared. The only other country I saw was Mexico because it was close and groceries was cheaper. And we still had to pass tanks and military outposts to get there. You sound rich. For me, traveling to Canada or Europe would cost half my parents yearly income. There’s a reason Drake is clowned on

[@FreddyFuFu]

Salur mon ami. Content que tu apprecies le Quebec

[@stephanieann9770]

​@@jodiarias3073Drake is obviously mixed race.

[@godsbabeborn-again5945]

As a black South African who grew up in a community that had almost all families having mom and dad, it freaks me out that being black in America is associated with single-mom families, jail/prison, poverty and all the negativity. It makes me upset. And it looks like the "trend" still continues today.

[@salmahahmed4672]

Fellow South African 🤝

[@HarrisonSim]

Drug war in action.

[@password6025]

It's because it's embraced by them and the very people who hate them. Who paid for and advertised gangbanging rap music? Who put the laws in place that incentivized and enabled the destruction of the black family unit? Who pumped their communities full of crack and redlined the homeowners? The black experience is the most successful psyop in American history and they fall for it to this very day.

[@ihateallofyou8460]

Well for the white guy in the video he said that he was adopted by a black mom and actually is from south central La. that was really just his experience.

[@MosesMatsepane]

Cap! 🧢 It’s the same in South Africa stop capping. 68% of birth certificates in SA have no fathers in them. It’s the same fam, unless if you grew up in the Suburbs or “traditional” Rural areas. In Townships only 20% of guys had present fathers growing up. It’s changed a lot with millennial parents, they’re more present. But the previous generations were taken from their kids by Apartheid.

[@alexsimper4153]

all they needed to do was touch the white's dude arm and feel the hair

[@koyjonplaysguitar]

Rob didn't have to lie or pretend he was anything other than himself.

[@IKnowHowItEnds]

There is no such thing as "his" truth or "your" truth.. It's either "the" truth or it isn't..

[@C0medySeniorz]

​@@IKnowHowItEnds they are just emphasizing that he's speaking truth that he knows and the truth he's come to realize

[@_simplyjake_]

​@@IKnowHowItEndsPerception is reality so yes everyone has their own truths

[@Sam-df9rs]

Milk 74

[@Lucky13Ravens]

​@@_simplyjake_ Perception is not reality. There is literally a physics equation to prove that. Reality is reality, perception is flawed.

[@donstarlancer]

Man I’ve been not black enough my entire life, especially in family. Now admittedly, some of the jokes ARE funny. And I’m ok with simple teasing and you still want to be my friend. But the gatekeeping is a major problem. I can’t even begin to describe how often I’ve been rejected by my own kind for not fitting into their little box. We really have got to stop this.

[@tonysamosa1717]

It’s fucking frustrating man. Like I am not allowed to like John Mayer just because I grew up in a low income black area? I’ll throw on John Mayer and the next song will be project pat; I have diverse taste and don’t limit myself because of my skin color, you know, cause I’m not racist

[@austinjrb]

What's wild is our community does that to the most intellectually promising ones within it. They outcast the very people with the potential to improve and change the culture. And then when those outcasts are successful and surrounded by the people OUTSIDE of their community that provided them an opportunity and gave them encouragement all outside the community... those outcasts are seen as sellouts. It's a rough dynamic to navigate.

[@BlueRuki]

Boy can I relate. You know how much BS I got growing up watching anime and playing fighting games instead of basketball and playing 2K?

[@calistafalcontail]

I am not american and I always wondered about why black people in the US do this to each other. I mean on one hand they are out there fighting not to be seen as monoliths...but then they expect their own to live up to stereotypes and its mostly negative ones. What is corny or bad about having a little sophisticated speech, or dressing well and not like a teenage boy as a grown man...what is bad about not wanting to be involved in crime crap or being good at school. It really seems like some people want to keep themselfes down.

[@nbeatty5137]

It's very unfortunate. Blk ppl love to say we aren't a monolith however whenever someone steps outside of the "stereotypes" and do things that aren't "inherently black" then we're criticized and shame for it. We have the one, narrowed minded way of thinking and how you must act to be "Black"

[@Jazzforyoursoull]

Rob is a real one. Can't fake those experiences, affectations, and how deep they all relate to eachother. Wish we'd all come to an understanding like they had

[@Madi_Ernar]

Actors can fake it, i've seen many similar videos where the mole is an actor

[@AP.h24]

@@Madi_Ernarthe difference is that Milk was a certified 52 Hoover crip. He was raised by a black family from infancy

[@Madi_Ernar]

@@AP.h24 i know, i watched the video

[@PancakeDiaries]

Little homie from the Welch's commercial ended up playing Spanky in The Little Rascals

[@BeanCasserole-wg7wu]

Yeah that's what I was thinking, classic movie.

[@BoldBoC]

Always fascinated me that our people fought to get "For whites only" signs taken down but we hold them up on each other so quickly. SMH. I remember being told how I talk white, like I had no right to speak how I wanted.

[@scribesarchive289]

Hurts

[@Tential1]

Bars....

[@jessevaughn4986]

Same here, my mother moved back to Mississippi from Minnesota, after my father died of cancer. First day of school teacher told me to introduce myself from my seat and kids asked me why I talk white??? I was like wtf is talking white, speaking without a southern accent and pronouncing words as they are supposed to be pronounced isn't talking white, anymore than doing the later is talking black. And for some reason the kids in my class would get offended when I would correct the teacher when they made mistakes during grammar and geography lessons. You'd think they would appreciate not going through life possibly looking like fool thinking Texas is larger than Alaska, because that's how it looked on the map, but nope.

[@lightkira4119]

@@jessevaughn4986 if you did the bare minimum and pronounced every letter in a word, you were too white. You had to speak like Will Smith from fresh prince or you were Carlton. Sometimes I think it was the TV influence that corrupted people.

[@proudson3409]

You still don’t

[@lbs]

This is a great social experiment as it shows how us as black people stereotype ourselves w/ standards that were basically placed on us (poor, uneducated, incomplete home, etc.). We just continue to perpetuate this all amongst each other where we will call others out for not being "black enough." Getting both back & white to reject/push against those that are outliers to those stereotypes, but those outliers ofter those evolving & progressing the culture where it should go, vs. those that are complacent. Trust me, you can be just as black if you're part of a 2-parent household, are well-educated, live in good neighborhood and positively impact society.

[@187onaPigeon]

That's why the left are the biggest racists. "Ah you poor black person, don't worry, I will help you, because you can't do it on your own..."

[@gasserhegazy1267]

Preach

[@notursavior1861]

You mean like Carlton Banks?

[@wrongthinker843]

It's almost like all the "equality programs" didn't really help, huh?

[@jimbayler4277]

Truth !

[@smithryansmith]

You gotta admit, Rob voting against himself was the blackest thing he could have done.

[@AaronSmith-my2dh]

It really was though, and he didn’t even hesitate with it 🤣🤣

[@princetriton1308]

😂😂😂

[@helena_5456]

I think he forgot that he's the mole and trying to figure out the white guy

[@armadilis4198]

lol

[@Romy---]

Dude I don't understand the voting system, how does it work? I only see them raising their hands.😂

[@Spectrum0122]

Yo Preach calling out Aba for his Dax cut is comedy gold. Preach was so pressed about you disses florida hair

[@_Lunanella_]

This video shows how many black people associate blackness with poverty and struggle. Which is sad but real. If I was on the panel I would've gotten voted out instantly just based on my own personal experiences. Whenever I was around other black kids, the differences were painfully and awkwardly obvious. Combine that with the fact that I am lighter skinned with somewhat racially ambiguous features and that basically solidified it.

[@Superbatmanbro]

I as well because my parents that adopted me and my younger sister from Haiti are white and I’m pretty well educated and speak English very well and my parents are white siblings and I are not rich but pretty well off

[@Alex-dh2cx]

If I told my family history, without my accent getting in the way, they'd have never voted me off xD

[@rezq9109]

I actually don't think every person there had such stereotypes. You really judge by accent and confidence mostly. Rob wasn't voted out, because he was telling the truth all along.

[@bk1ll]

Good example of things being more about upbringing. Ask any white guy from Jamaica with a Jamaican accent how often people accuse them of cultural appropriation.

[@-blank-]

The day I see a fellow Jamaican accuse someone of cultural appropriation, I'll have seen it all😂

[@drak1559]

​@@-blank-Nah its always the white liberals

[@vladtheinhaler8940]

That sounds like something that would happen in the ridiculous US.

[@poutineausyropderable7108]

​@@-blank- No one is gonna see someone appreciate their culture and call it cultural appreciation. Only people who gets offended for others do it.

[@shoozu]

Jamaica has come to tolerate the reason white Jamaicans even exist so that's not a thing. Never heard of 'out of many, one people'?

[@kevino204]

Poeple hatin on Milk who was steeped in the culture like he's posing, but was raised by people who weren't his blood but treated him like nothing less - I love that. Feel bad for Rosebud and his blood that doesn't accept him.

[@pavlovsdogman]

Milk is accepted by most members as one of the few white crips, he grew up with and hung out with crips all day everyday so of course he's gonna sound like them? People don't seem to know his full story?

[@tdollazswag]

Holy sh*t I just realized the kid from the Welch commercial was spanky from the little rascals

[@Jonderlei]

The chappelle skit with the grape drink will never ever get old

[@TheFunctioningInsomniac]

I want that purple stuff

[@curtisjackson4090]

Oh sundee FAR OUT.... lmao 🤣

[@V4Now]

"Ain't no vitamins in that shit!"😂

[@erenjeager5290]

“Ingredients: sugar, water, purple. In that order.” 😂😂

[@Voodooray007]

" THE FUCK IS JUICE"?

[@Anna-ug8cq]

This video’s really testament to the fact that we relate to people who are similar through personality, upbringing, struggles, culture - not necessarily to people with the same labels. Shows how crazy it is to fixate on one label to define who we are, who we associate with, how we act towards others

[@GeometricPidgeon]

That's why the class struggle is what truly divides people.

[@Anna-ug8cq]

@@GeometricPidgeon Prob has a large impact yes but people who are in lower classes can still share similarities/ get along with rich people regardless based on other variables 🤷‍♀️

[@GeometricPidgeon]

@@Anna-ug8cq of course, I won't argue that, but it is so that age, ethnicity, religion aren't as divisive as class, even if class and ethnicity (can) play a role. This topic is pretty complex

[@Anna-ug8cq]

@@GeometricPidgeon Think it really depends on the area / history. In my country, religion is the biggest divider

[@Smokey348]

@@GeometricPidgeon yes and no. Different class divides people on a socioeconomic basis but the mindset with the race bs is what divides people the most.

[@jessieo5757]

I just don't get why the white guy has a blindfold on.

[@joanna0988]

Good point 😂

[@ThisDique]

I think the blind fold is an advantage for him. Make him see all the other contestants. Add an element of fear or see if it manifests.

[@guhadabdulghani8695]

@@ThisDique yeah if he didn’t have it on he could manipulate the game more

[@lindaostrom570]

bwahaha!!!

[@myman9566]

@@ThisDique Milk was a legit hoover crip, I dont think he's gonna be scared of these guys

[@berrymint6384]

It is almost like personality is UNIQUE and depends on the PERSON and have NOTHING to do with skin color.

[@paulanderson2963]

Figuring out who is pretending to be black is not the problem, the true hardship is getting to the point where we wake up to the realization that our genetic makeup/skin tone doesn't define who we are. We are products of our individual environments for the most part and then we define ourselves by our choices and actions. Resist the temptation to let others define you because many people you encounter will attempt to place you in a box due to their own issues and insecurities.

[@Patrick-857]

Genetics are the seed, culture is the flower. In my opinion your genetics play a huge role but it's not everything. You are absolutely shaped by your family, your community, and your environment.

[@justsomenamelesssoul8097]

@@MrRandomgamer only american issue

[@justsomenamelesssoul8097]

@@MrRandomgamer I'm in Ukraine and still, thank god I'm not in America 😂

[@inkwyvern5171]

Individualism is the mantra of grifters and cowards

[@Unclejamsarmy]

@@Patrick-857 genetics are entirely separate from culture but black Americans largely treat it as if culture gets passed down genetically. It has all sorts of racist implications when you think about it but it’s a super popular belief

[@antonydrossos5719]

As a fellow Black Canadian, I’m watching this the same way Aba and Preach probably are; we’re as different from Black Americans as we are from each other

[@ImTitan16]

Whats diffrent about u guys im curious

[@oregolelefinger]

​@@ImTitan16 as a south african looking from the outside , I agree with him and I'm also different from my neighboring countries matter of fact I'm considered white by people around me

[@BWXNB]

Yall still dark

[@ohsnapsonbro4260]

​​@@ImTitan16ot indoctrinated with identity politics as much Same goes for Dutch black people. Though it's been changing the last 10 years. We now have stuff specifically for black people.......voluntary segregation baffles me.......

[@joeess517]

@@ImTitan16 theres a lot less victim mentality here in canada, also obviously the cops arent ass racist (not saying they arent but not as bad), so interactions are a lot different

[@TurtleChad1]

I really respect how Rod did this, he never lied once or said he was black. All he did was speak the truth and that got him the win.

[@humanoidfrog4645]

Shut up

[@8YoHoJo]

😂 This guy copy/pasted the top comment from the original "Odd One Out" video.

[@mikescherrer4923]

@@8YoHoJo Yeah, he's a bot.

[@spk1121]

​@@mikescherrer4923: He actually isn't, much to my own surprise. He replies occasionally, too.

[@NidokingOtsutsuki]

@@mikescherrer4923 turtle isnt a bot. i believe in him.

[@CJ-wj6fd]

I totally agreed with him about the Florida hair for guys haha! That it crazy!!

[@classyrobot5648]

Static Shock was more than just the "first black superhero on tv". That show... it was REAL. It dealt with actual issues in a mature and decent way. The episode where he visits his friend's house, only to find Richie's dad is racist? And the episode with the homeless girl with ice powers... no pun intended, but damn that show gave me chills. The writers for that show genuinely loved the character, and it really shows

[@SkaterChick1972]

💯💯💯💯

[@phoenyxhydra8020]

Preach!

[@saucymongoose7246]

Dwayne McDuffie was one of the people involved in creating Static Shock in both comic and animated forms. Dwayne had worked on a primary black focused superhero comic company before DC got a hold of it.

[@brandonjays9051]

The badass episode where he teams up w. Batman. The delicate episodes of his dead mom live rent free in my head!

[@rayvintankerson6818]

They ever make a static show or movie live action they have to do it right cux they’ll disappoint a whole generation of young black kids. I remember watching vhs tapes of that show smh

[@LightYagami-ik1cg]

Loved this episode. Exposed a very sad way of thinking that I still try and convince my friends and family to let go of. Not every black man is cursed to struggle and people are so much more relatable to each other when you “take away their eyes” than they realize. And I’m glad to see how many other people in the comments feel the same. Stay positive yall❤

[@josefraticellimaldonado8137]

It’s not race, it’s the environment and the culture. I like what you guys said about taking someone’s eyes out and they wouldn’t know certain people are not black. We all can suffer, we all can live the same way.

[@pixpusha]

The next time the media tries to sell you something about race, please understand it's a tactic to divide poor people. If the 99% were to ever discard race, and unit solely based on inequitable access to healthcare, justice and education, it would be game over. We would run this show, and there would be far less needless death.

[@FlowerOfSloth]

Good points on the gatekeeping of image. Good take.

[@melitajay]

As someone who's black but not American, it's always interesting and funny to see how these videos play out because a black British person would stick out like a sore thumb here

[@deeznutz8320]

Yo was goin on fam😂

[@Mztrue87]

Facts culture is just too different.

[@AOMartialArts]

That's what's crazy. Some of the most "gangsta" black Brits still speak with a broader vocabulary and clear enunciation. That on it's own would get you booted.

[@nickroth593]

​@@AOMartialArtsI am American white and the first time I went to England and heard a black person with a British accent it threw me off. They could give the most proper gangster talk ever, like dam thats sounds like a college educated gangster. Much different then American gangsters

[@amonnanjaku]

As they say. Real wisdom is knowing when to keep your mouth shut, and when to speak. He played it well.

[@rutho.6282]

That's the real street smarts

[@leonlysak4927]

I was put into foster care at 14 and raised by a black family in a predominately black area. Accents, mannerisms, interests, etc all of that changes when you're in a different environment especially when you're young and more impressionable. I remember I used to rap with my foster brothers (that's what everyone did in the area when I grew up) who would make CDs and pass them around school. Jaws would drop to the floor when they found out I was white lol. Looking back at everything I think it's definitely a class thing and not so much a racial thing. Shit most of the racism I've seen from all sides were from the perspective of middle class people. Poor people generally don't seem to give a fuck where you're from / what color you are, same with most rich people I know.

[@calistafalcontail]

I was either a very special child, or this theory about people always being shaped by their environment so much that they cant shake it, is just wrong. I never liked what was around me, I never talked like people around me, I didnt dress like them and I grew up to have totally different values, interests and mannerisms... peer pressure never worked on me and I was impressionable in certain ways but not by my surroundings. I was impressed by things that were different than what was around me and I couldnt wait to get away from what I was born into.

[@xelaander8429]

​@@CcReap3r great question, because while said person wasn't coopted by the environment around them, they most likely had a aspirational content they consumed that they built a dream scenario for their life off of and that shaped them. Peer pressure and influence is not only about the immediate physical environment especially when computer and TV screens are much more pervasive these days

[@kujjeil5527]

​@@calistafalcontail were your parents a large influence? Because my dad was a big influence for me, to the point that other kids didn't change me too much. I was also introverted tho

[@timblahblahblah4904]

This is still one of my favorites that you guys did.

[@hyunovalentino]

I never before have listened to another black person talking about the experience of feeling less of a black person or being treated as such because of more opportunity or a proper upbringing. Now I don't feel so alone and more validated. Thank you for this video. Now I know that the attitude other black people gave me and my parents in my hometown is very common. They used to badmouth my family for allowing me to go to a private school, having english classes or even for buying food from good brands. I always felt like I was an excuse for a black person, cause I didn't went through the same struggle other blacks were going through. And once Imet black people on my adulthood, most of them would mock me or give me dirty looks when I expressed I didn't go trough the same experiences they did. But being black in Brazil... You'll always will find struggle or it will find you. Now I acknowledge that we can't treat struggle as something totaly specific and that being black is way mite than the difficulties you face, the way you talk, the way you walk or where you live. It's about being truthful to yourself, your heritage, your past and recognizing that we are still mistreated by society and that it has to change. Being black is about swing value on each and everyone of our equals and defending our rights to live, have dignity, have our religions respected and our voice heard. Again, thank you so much.

[@thisbetterbeNICE]

Interesting. You might enjoy Colson Whitehead's novel "Sag Harbor". It touches on similar issues and is quite an enjoyable read.

[@jctheii]

my boi Milk had me crackin up cause i know he thought everyone was lame asl🤣

[@acebones1971]

Gilligans 😂😂

[@Teagod77]

They were all Gilligan's

[@sayyestolife333]

He's lame. Acting all judging cause the black guy liked power rangers as a kid when he was naming the most stereotypical hood movies.

[@jctheii]

@@sayyestolife333 lmao i don’t think they were wrong at all for saying Power Rangers cause that shit was lit, but where he from i totally understand why he reacted that way😂 he a street dude so it’s hilarious seeing him mingle with civilians lmao

[@Mariahdaynell]

Gilligan slayer 😂💕

[@amritashar9592]

What Aba said about what people identify with is profound! (Environment vs. ethnicity). When we talk about diversity, this is such an important point which sadly looks overlooked too often

[@NoeticInsight]

The Florida hair is 100% clown hair. Aba is correct.

[@darkdudironaji]

I made the socioeconomic argument to a Mexican girl a long time ago. Basically told her, "You think Eminem, who grew up in a poor black part of Detroit, has less in common with the average American black person than a black kid that grew up in the suburbs? You're crazy."

[@Captain_Insano_nomercy]

Fr, compare a white guy from the trailer park to Jaden Smith

[@liquidsnake6879]

​@@Captain_Insano_nomercy I mean i don't seriously believe anyone believes that all black people are just hood from birth like this is somehow related to their skin color or that all white people are preppy because they're white lol it's absolutely a matter of how you were raised, where you were raised, etc. Social class

[@ocsjc13]

​@Ser Jack Burgundy a Knight of the Patriarchy lol fr as a Mexican I can say without a doubt jayden would stick out like a sore thumb around other everyday black ppl and eminem even tho he's been rich for so long would easily be able to fit in

[@user-eu3uy9pt8p]

@@ocsjc13 The “every day black parson” is the just a stereotype of a black person. There’s no prototype to being black 😂

[@Captain_Insano_nomercy]

@@ocsjc13 yeah I honestly didn't realize that my low class upbringing made me more at ease with black people or Latinos over rich whites until I was older

[@aaronkeefz5815]

As a white guy i grew up going to school with 70% black, the rest Hispanic and Asian. We grew up in the hood, that's just how it was. Did i get picked on, fuck yeah. But as i moved out as an adult to whiter places, people definitely noticed how i talked and acted.

[@juniyananajukyu]

Where in California did you grow up in??😂😂 I'm just messing around but that describes how schools can be in my area of California.

[@marloncolarte735]

​@juniya79 South Florida is similar in the way that blacks and Hispanics get grouped together in the bad areas. I myself am hispanic. So for me, I grew up in the ghetto of SFL, and it wasn't until I became basically a full grown adult that I changed a lot of things about myself as I outgrew my environment

[@aaronkeefz5815]

@@juniyananajukyu Sacramento lol

[@kaylar.8126]

Northeast City and I was one of 3 white girls in middle school. Never quite adopted street lingo, though. Only got along with the kids who acted too "white" basically just nerdy. As for the other two, they did pick it up and were not picked on. One ended up as tough ass bully and the other a slut who got pregnant. The boys either got into trouble or got off on their money or sports abilities.

[@321lainez123]

They got 6 white black guys and 1 black white guy 😂

[@icalotdonthide2646]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sepulcher8263]

HAHAHAHHAAA

[@lindaostrom570]

wow that is so well said!

[@rhondaparr5739]

Fucking done with the internet today🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sylvannaberkowitz3792]

☠️☠️☠️☠️

[@toportime]

You two made many valid observations. so glad I found your channel.

[@ik7578]

The worst prejudice I have ever saw was black on black when I was in the military. It was always "you ain't dark enough" or "you ain't black enough" It baffled me. We were all soldiers and brothers in arms in my mind.

[@creativeamerican8811]

Thank you both. Been saying it’s about class and not race for the last 5 years and been called a racist nonstop. So thank you.

[@somekid7]

It's the way you say it that makes you sound racist. You gotta sharpen your tongue and get educated on the origins of racism so you can explain to people why race is a construct. That being said, race as a construct still holds immense power that affects millions of people's daily lives, so you can't go around saying that like it's that simple.

[@somekid7]

There's this one book by a Trinidadian author named CLR James who studied Haitian history after finding documents in France, and he wrote a book called 'The Black Jacobins'. In the first few chapters he lines out the specific history of how race was created and how it became used as a tool of the system to this day. You can't erase that even when you talk about class. Cause you grab one white dude and one black dude from the same hood, the black dude still got it worse and is more likely to get fucked up by the police. That's not even theoretical; it's documented fact. Another book full of hundreds of research documents on that is 'The New Jim Crow' by Michelle Alexander.

[@P07AT0]

​@@somekid7 race is a biological feature and definitely exists, lol

[@andrewcook2625]

​@@somekid7 its not even the way you say it... people struggle with critical thinking and challenging their bias, so many people just throw out shaming tactics like calling someone racist as a means to discredit those views

[@tatskamaster]

Those people are the racists, not you.

[@justjoy080]

I’m half black half Puerto Rican. Was never “black enough”, never “Puerto Rican enough”. I still struggle a bit with that feeling of wanting to fit somewhere but overall, the key is to not give af and just aim for being a good person. So much of America is mixed today anyway so it seems stupid to keep trying to point out race. At the end of the day, good ppl are good ppl, and azholes are azholes 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@smakajo400]

Black, White, and Native American. Needed to "go back to where I came from," wasn't able to say "Nincompoop," and wasn't able to join a tribe at the same damn time. Not-Enough Gang, Woop Woop!

[@AaronTheWolfos]

Yeah I'm half black half Puerto Rican too and I got that shit too. Or shit like "you sound so educated" and shit for not talking in ebonics. I can care less about skin color, I only care about the person, not that superficial shit.

[@pixpusha]

Race shows up in terms of who is being denied access to education, healthcare, justice system. The implications of the denial leads to a lower life expectancy of a subset of the population. When surveyed, the people who say race is not important, tend to be the ones who have access. The people who sit in the clinic waiting room and witness their white counterparts obtain better access to care understand why they get the short end of the stick. When you say race is not important and we should all ignore it, we're all with you on that, however, why doesn't the justice system? Why doesn't the profession of medicine, or the school districts? Why do darker people get less access?

[@frankom2862]

I tell you something, Puerto Rican is not a race, you know that tonto

[@jaymoney7984]

Rope vieja tho 🔥🔥🔥

[@TedThomasTT]

man you guys really killed the vibe right at the end lol

[@__-vu8io]

Wayne Brady talks about how it is aggravating to be told you're not black because you don't fit into a very specific cultural stereotype that is particular to the united states and urban areas. It really is weird how so many people in the US think there is only one way to be black, or that there needs to be "A" way of being black.

[@spk1121]

It's even more bizarre when you consider the USA literally spans a continent. Imagine expecting the Spanish, Greeks, Swedes, and Hungarians to all be approximately the same! Seems like Louisiana, with its deep Creole and jazz influences, might be one of the very few exceptions.

[@tonyg490]

Whats funny to me about that is if somebody say Black's are a monolith, they think the same and act the same, you would be condemned by the very people who support/enforce the monolithic thinking.

[@strawpiglet]

And so much of that supposedly “black” culture was created in the nineties with gangster rap, which was produced by white people invested in the new private prison industry. If only so-called black people would realize the culture they identity with was manufactured and sold to them.

[@ctguitarguy8510]

Wayne brady knows how to bust a cap in people though. He will even slap a hoe if he must.

[@56thCrusader]

"Rob black." 7:54 Rob has the most official pass ever now.

[@crackazack510]

Dude is a hoover criminal from South Central LA... think he been had his pass. Lol

[@devs.4254]

Bro when I lived in *a majority black area* it was crazy how much people changed when they saw I was dating a black girl. A tall black girl who wasn't scared to speak her mind, at that. And then whenever it became relevant in conversation for me to mention I'd been homeless myself, you can't imagine a more powerful 1-2 combo of acceptance. It really is all about class and culture.

[@NisJol]

The dude who said he ‘relates more to struggle’ YIKES Literally just setting himself up for failure in life

[@SalemArc]

*"Did I just accidentally a reasonable conversation?"* -Jubilee

[@TeutobergForestryService]

These are some excellent points. Something I heard commonly as a kid was, “why you trying to be white?” Black kid is reading, “why you trying to be white?” Black kid uses good grammar, “why you trying to sound white?”

[@durandus676]

21:41 rob grew up thinking he was albino.

[@beesnort3163]

I was lucky enough to grow up in a predominantly “black” area. I am so happy I did because I got to know different cultures and made friends with whoever the PEOPLE who were good and nice to me. Didn’t matter the race and I carry that with me today.

[@chiccimusnuggimus9055]

Being a mixed guy raised in the burbs, it gets real fuckin old being called “whitest black dude I ever met”. Because I can use “big” words I’m white 🙄😂

[@eli90s13]

I feel like a lot of people don't understand the justification behind that. While it is rude, and annoying to hear, we have to realize white people created the English language. Nearing closer to the way white people speak obviously naturally makes you sound more like them. Simple math.

[@GeometricPidgeon]

Damn.. thats fucked up though no shit u get tired of it

[@sip7532]

Not necessarily its def the way you act

[@rhondaparr5739]

Use of words might have been it but more likely it was actions and words. Unless you're just alabaster white🤷‍♂️

[@chiccimusnuggimus9055]

@@sip7532 I mean people have literally said to my face I’m white because I’m using big words. I am of black and white blood, so I have characteristics of both. Regardless of if it’s words or actions, I think it’s kinda goofy to have to say and do certain things for people to accept that you are whatever race/ethnicity you are.

[@josephallen3334]

I grew up in a single parent household, had 2 other siblings and needless to say we didn’t have much growing up and lived in a “lower class” section of town. I had many black friends (I’m white), we got along great and always hung out. At any rate, I had way more in common with my black friends that grew up in a similar environment as me than I did with the rich white kids in a 2 parent household and a big ass house. Race doesn’t divide us, tax brackets do.

[@justmazen3168]

People refuse to listen to this truth because acting like victims is cool now in our culture

[@ConFamGaming]

This video is an amazing class and race analysis. Discussing the "gatekeeping of blackness" and tying it into the socioeconomic factors that actually tie groups in a community together is really thought provoking stuff. I really appreciate that this discourse is on the internet.

[@BurnInHell7]

For me what is thought provoking is that the idea of your environment is what shapes you and not your skin color is considered thought provoking.

[@HiGlowie]

@@BurnInHell7I mean, if someone expects someone to act a certain way because they’re a certain color is some backwards, archaic thinking.

[@Blackounay77]

@@HiGlowie But often it's true..

[@neighbor472]

Yea I actually learned something from this

[@chacehorsman2615]

As a non-white person who grew up passing for white in a 91% black school district, I can't tell you how many times people just assumed I was part black in some way and moved on. The "so what are you" questions always took a while lol. Its true though, the reality of race is that it is a social construct like class and gender in that we as a society decide what it means and who's a part of it. In Jamaica, light skin and dark skin people differentiate themselves as being high and low class even though they're all black. Natives in the 1800 who were willing to trade with white settlers were called white, and those that refused were black. Hell, the Irish were considered non-white until they got drafted in WW2 and "earned" their whiteness. Mexicans in the 1500s "bought" their whiteness from the Catholic Church by donating money via Spanish Conquistadors; some dark skinned mexicans today still claim they are white because its not race-based, but CLASS. Its a really interesting subject. The point of it all of course is subjugation; i.e., making sure those in power are identifiable and those who are not are identifiable.

[@chacehorsman2615]

Also, static shock was the shit, definitely my favorite show of that era