Black people laugh in the face of chaos. It's one of our superpowers.

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]What's going on everybody? This is Afrocentric Tank. Today, you're going to get a going to get a kick out of this video. You're going to get a kick out of the video.

[00:00:09]I'm not sure, all right, if all black people are aware, but we laugh differently from everybody else. We experience and express joy differently from everybody else. And I'm telling you right now, the way we do it pisses off white supremacy. It pisses off and makes jealous those who mean to keep us down.

[00:00:34]Because if you if you just like pay attention to how things are going, right? How everybody's coping with the current situation that we find ourselves in due to no fault of our own as black folks, right?

[00:00:45]And you see how depressed everybody is during a time of suffering, during a time of hardship, right? But then when they look over at us black folk, right? Who, for all intents and purposes as far as they're concerned, should be struggling even more than they are, they look over and they see us having a good goddamn time.

[00:01:08]They're like, "What the hell is so goddamn funny? How is it that these people can find things funny during this time? They must not be serious." You see, people think that we're not serious because we laugh.

[00:01:20]They're mad because they try to upset us. They try to make our lives uncomfortable, but we still find ways to entertain ourselves, right? Laughter is one of one of nature's greatest medicines, one of nature's greatest drugs. It's natural.

[00:01:39]It's infectious, right? You can become addicted to it, but it doesn't do anything but provide good feelings, good emotions, and reinforce goodness within you.

[00:01:51]Nature's medicine is laughter. That's how you get through things in life.

[00:01:55]Laugh about it, right? When When things hurt, laugh about that [ __ ] Cuz sometimes laughter is the only way to heal yourself from the pain that you suffer. Right? And nobody can do it like black people. That's why we got the funniest comedians. Because we know how to express ourselves. The problem with the world is they don't know how to express their true feelings in a raw, natural, ego-less way.

[00:02:21]And because of that, they have all this pent-up tension and anger that manifests itself into various different ways throughout humanity, which is detrimental to, you know, human survival. Right? You can't take everything seriously, even though life is serious. But life has always been serious. Life has always been serious.

[00:02:38]And in between the serious and terrible moments, you got to find that peace and happiness.

[00:02:43]And laughter is one of the greatest feelings you can feel outside of making love with someone you care about.

[00:02:50]That is the truth. You Outside of making love, laughter is the second best feeling you can possibly have. And if you can't in your community, if you can't generate a situation in which your people are able to enjoy this natural drug nature gave to us, then I don't know what to tell you.

[00:03:06]Because if you have all the power, all right? You have these white supremacists, they got all the power.

[00:03:11]They got all the leverage.

[00:03:13]They got all the money. They got all the control, but they can't find a way to laugh. Because they're upset and they're pissed off and they're stressed out. And their desire to consume because of capitalism has them consuming more and more. They're never satisfied. They're never satiated with where they are in life. So they have have to continue to take even though they have everything else. But yet, they're still miserable.

[00:03:33]They're feeding a They're They're feeding a black hole.

[00:03:37]Because it's never It's never satiated.

[00:03:39]But black people, we know how to be content with the things that we have.

[00:03:43]You know, even though society says, "Yeah, be uber rich. Hustle, hustle, hustle until every single person's a billionaire. And if you're not a billionaire, you're a failure." But we African-Americans know that and and African people in general, we know that life is not about money.

[00:03:58]Right? Life is not about wasting your time. There was a point in time where the tree was the center point of African society because we would sit under that tree, enjoy the tree, pontificate about life and the things that we are interested in.

[00:04:12]Right? That's where the philosophy was born.

[00:04:15]That's where science was created. That's where the griots taught the next generation. Right? And we utilize laughter as a mechanism to deliver a lot of the information that we that still gets passed on through today. You will never find a a black family, no matter how depressed their situation may be, they will find a way to laugh.

[00:04:35]They'll find a way to heal themselves through laughter.

[00:04:37]And people when they see us laughing and they don't understand it, but they feel that love, that energy. They feel something that they can't attain within their own communities. And they talk about it. People are jealous of the fact that we can laugh in the face of of of destruction.

[00:04:54]Because we know that we're going to get on the other side of that. We know all of our brothers and sisters may not make it.

[00:04:59]We know some are going to have to sacrifice their life for the, you know, for the good cause, but that's okay cuz when they sacrifice their life, right?

[00:05:06]They would have done the good thing and they would have completed their mission on this earth as a spirit. And they'll go on and they'll be free.

[00:05:12]Right? Cuz they did their part. Right?

[00:05:14]But the rest of us that's here, we're going to continue to laugh through all the [ __ ] We're going to laugh through all the pain. We're going to laugh all the way to success because that's what we do. No one will bother us.

[00:05:24]We're not going to let anybody bother us. Even though everybody wants to do nothing but bother us, but we have that strength and that fortitude to find happiness in the world where it seems like everybody else is trying to do everything they possibly can to create misery.

[00:05:38]Anyway, you guys tell me what you think about this in the comment section. It's Afro ThinkTank. Learn something, teach something. I'm out.

[00:05:47]>> [sighs] >> Dimples, that's you breathing?

[00:06:01]>> How you doing, man?

[00:06:02]>> Oh, you Oh, oh, I was just trying to figure out if you was a guy or a girl.

[00:06:06]My bad. No disrespect. Oh, no dis- no disrespect. Okay, got you.

[00:06:09]Okay. Um You got a unique shape kind of head, bro.

[00:06:21]>> [laughter] >> You know, your head is shaped like a little kid try to draw a circle, but they keep messing it up.

[00:06:26]>> Maybe it's the hairstyle, bro.

[00:06:28]>> Yeah, I got you. I got you. I got you.

[00:06:29]Yeah.

[00:06:34]>> [laughter] [laughter] [snorts] >> Oh, love it.

[00:07:23]>> Man, you can hear the music in the studio trying to freaking line, man.

[00:07:43]>> [screaming] [laughter] [music] [music] >> I really feel like as black people, I feel like we laugh in three tiers. It's three tiers of black laughter.

[00:08:02]And each tier gets progressively funnier. The first tier, I feel like whenever you make a black person laugh, you going to get insulted [music] a little bit. When you When you kind of funny, you going to get You stupid. Oh man, you dumb. Oh, just for You stupid.

[00:08:15][music] That's a good thing. That's the first tier. You being pretty funny. You You You on a pretty funny trajectory.

[00:08:22]The second tier that you know you getting good and funny is you start getting hit a little bit. When black people start pushing and shoving you a little bit lovingly, you you you get you almost hilarious.

[00:08:32]You really fun You stupid. And you get When you get an insult and a shove, you doing real [music] good. You being very funny. And I think the third tier is escape.

[00:08:43]When black people start running away from you, when black people become runaway slaves because you are so funny at this point, I got to leave.

[00:08:52]I got to go.

[00:08:54]That's when you reach like legendary Def Jam status. You reach the status of one some of the greatest comedians in the game right now. For whatever reason that day, you was just that funny. Just know when When black people start running away from you, that's a good thing. This is all loving.

[00:09:10]I just just the tiers I feel like Tell me I'm lying. I feel like these is the tiers that we got because And if you can manage to get all three, you Bernie Mac for a day. You Bernie Mac for one day.

[00:09:32]>> [screaming] [screaming] >> When a group of black people laugh >> [laughter] [laughter] [laughter] [screaming and laughter] >> us as citizens to do the same. When a young African-American walks in a Cheesecake Factory with a Make America Great Again hat, he shouldn't be verbally accosted. He You should maybe inquire as to why he's wearing it if you want to hear his point of view, but he should by no means feel that he's not welcome in a restaurant. This is the problem that we have as Americans, and we can all do better.

[00:11:22]>> Mark, I know you want to respond to that. What do you want to say?

[00:11:24]>> No, I'm I was wondering what he was in Cheesecake Factory, but I I think for me, YOU KNOW, >> [laughter] >> MOST MOST MOST >> [laughter] >> YOU KNOW THAT THAT HAS Y'ALL TRIPPING, MAN.

[00:11:38]The the point is is that most black people who are dealing with the ritual humiliation of not >> [laughter] [snorts] >> Okay, Allah.

[00:12:21]GIVE ME A MINUTE.

[00:12:24]>> [laughter] >> WAIT, MIAMI SAID MIAMI SAID THIS BUENAS NOCHES.

[00:12:31]>> [laughter] [laughter] >> THIS IS MIAMI SAID BUT IT'S ESSENCE IS BUENAS NOCHES.

[00:12:41][ __ ] >> [laughter] >> BUENAS NOCHES >> [laughter] >> WHY WOULD SHE SAY THAT?

[00:12:51]LIKE >> [laughter] >> POLICE IN GREEN COUNTY WERE LOOKING FOR A woman connected to a string of porch thefts this week and they [laughter] released this composite sketch to the public.

[00:13:16]>> Yeah, this is the drawing investigators put out. They said she might be wearing >> I tripped grandma on the stairs and she broke her ankle like a basketball.

[00:13:24]>> [laughter] [crying] >> What year you was born, Mango?

[00:14:30]>> 95 >> 91 >> 91, yeah.

[00:14:33]>> So, why I say Mango 95?

[00:14:34]>> Um this is the year my grandma died.

[00:14:36]>> You was born in what year? 91?

[00:14:38]>> Yeah, yeah.

[00:14:39]>> Your grandma don't know you.

[00:14:47]You don't EVEN KNOW HER.

[00:14:48]>> [laughter] >> 95 >> THAT'S WHY I GOT 106 100.

[00:14:55]>> [laughter] >> That's why I got the >> Y'all look at my [ __ ] Look at my >> I did.

[00:15:24]I [ __ ] can't. I can't. It [ __ ] burns, y'all. It [ __ ] burns.

[00:15:32]Have y'all ever laughed this long? This girl been laughing for 5 minutes straight. She about to get some air.

[00:15:40]>> [laughter] [laughter] [laughter] >> Look at her. She just laughing, y'all.

[00:15:53]I'mma keep this camera on her.

[00:15:55]See how long she going to laugh.

[00:15:57]>> [laughter] >> She laughing. She about to cry, y'all.

[00:16:05]She about to cry, y'all. She laughing so hard.

[00:16:10]>> My back hurt.

[00:16:15]>> [laughter] >> Look, she won't stop laughing, y'all.

[00:16:21]Mom, why you laughing? Why you laughing?

[00:16:24]Tell the people why you laughing.

[00:16:27]>> [panting] >> Tell the people why you laughing. Cuz I am recording you now.

[00:16:35]Tell the people why you laughing.

[00:16:40]>> When I make my grandma laugh, it's over.

[00:16:43]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:16:46]>> [laughter] [laughter] >> Jesus. Oh, no.

[00:16:57]>> [laughter] [laughter] >> Oh, no.

[00:17:16]>> [laughter] >> My neck.

[00:17:21]>> [laughter] >> Mama, GET YOUR ASS BACK IN >> [laughter] [screaming] [laughter] [screaming] [laughter] [screaming] >> THE FINDING ALL THE BOTTLES, OF COURSE SHE ASKED ME TO OIL UP.

[00:17:57]>> [laughter] >> COOL, MAN. DON'T DO THAT [ __ ] >> [laughter] >> WHAT? SHE FRESH AT THE BEAUTY SHOP.

[00:18:42]SHE fresh at that thigh.

[00:18:44]She go there every week.

[00:18:46]She fresh at that.

[00:18:47]>> Every Monday.

[00:18:48]>> I'll see that. I'll see that.

[00:18:50]Yeah.

[00:18:52]Look at that thing.

[00:18:54]Can't tell her nothing.

[00:18:56]How you doing? All right. All right.

[00:19:00]See that gold tooth?

[00:19:01]>> [music] >> They let me know everything I need to know.

[00:19:04]>> What?

[00:19:04]>> That gold tooth let me know everything I need to know.

[00:19:08]She's all right with me.

[00:19:10]Look at her. Look at her. Look at Can't tell her nothing.

[00:19:15]She finna buy up all of Sam's.

[00:19:18]Can't tell her nothing.

[00:19:23]I don't know what up.

[00:19:28]Got her aloe swisher, can't tell her nothing.

[00:19:31]>> Chris, you and my man.

[00:19:32]>> My man, my man, my man.

[00:19:35]I'm a nurse.

[00:19:36]>> Shout out to Jaylen.

[00:19:39]>> Yes.

[00:19:40]>> Shout out to Jaylen.

[00:19:46]>> Shout out to >> Uh-huh.

[00:19:51]>> Uh-huh.

[00:19:51]>> He's golden.

[00:19:52]>> He's golden.

[00:19:53]>> He's golden.

[00:19:53]>> Uh-huh.

[00:19:54]>> Yeah.

[00:19:56]>> Yeah.

[00:19:56]>> Got two dollars?

[00:19:57]>> Yeah.

[00:19:58]>> Yeah.

[00:19:58]>> Yeah.

[00:19:59]>> Yeah.

[00:20:02]>> Black people and white people laugh differently and I didn't realize it until I was at work one day. Two black girls, one white girl. We have lunch and we just talking, laughing, joking. So one day the white girl just literally said, "Why do you guys get up and move when you laugh?" So then we ended up getting up and moving laughing because this [ __ ] was so funny.

[00:20:22]And she was like, "I've been wanting to ask y'all that for a minute, but every time y'all laugh y'all like y'all like get up and move." And we didn't have an answer for it. So I'm wondering if y'all got an answer for it.

[00:20:34]>> If I'm not [ __ ] laughing, you don't [ __ ] laugh. Look, haha. Look, haha.

[00:20:39]Look, haha. You got to >> Yeah, I wake up every morning got [music] to thank God cuz he made me really beautiful with brown eyes. I feel nice on the inner and the outside. Got some thick [singing] thighs and a whole lot of backside. It don't matter if you like it, baby, don't look. I'm loving every single [music] part, so you mad and it's okay cuz I love me. Your opinion don't [music] bother me.

[00:21:01]Your opinion don't [singing] bother me.

[00:21:03]Swear, baby, no, it don't bother [music] me. It's okay cuz I love me. Your opinion, it don't bother [music] me bother me. Baby, no I don't bother me.

[00:21:13]Your opinion don't bother me, [singing] cuz it's okay, cuz I love me. Your opinion [music] don't bother me. I wake up every morning, got to thank [singing] God, cuz he made me really beautiful with brown eyes. Feel [music] nice on the inner and the outside. Got some thick thighs and a whole lot of backside. It [music] don't matter if you like it, baby don't look.

[00:21:31]I'm loving every single part, so you mad shook. And it's okay, cuz I love me.

[00:21:35]Your opinions, it don't bother [music] me bother me. Baby, no I don't bother me.

[00:21:41]Try and tell you it don't [music and singing] bother me. It's okay, cuz I love me. Your opinions, it don't [music] bother me bother me. Baby, no I don't bother [singing] me.

[00:21:50]I swear it don't bother me. It's okay, [music] cuz I love me. Your opinion, it don't bother me.

[00:21:57]You got to know you the [ __ ] [singing] Ooh, even if you don't, girl, you got to hit this. [music] Ooh.

[00:22:02]You better know you the [ __ ] Ooh.

[00:22:06]You got to know that's [music] you. Oh.

[00:22:09]Ah.

[00:22:10]Yeah.

[00:22:11]Screaming yeah, that's [music] us. Every time we around, baby, yeah, that's us.

[00:22:15]Doing good, baby, yeah, that's us.

[00:22:17]>> [music] >> Feeling good, baby, yeah, that's us.

[00:22:20]Feeling right, baby, yeah, that's us.

[00:22:26]>> [singing] >> Oh, man.

[00:22:35]Oh, man. [singing] Oh, [singing and music] man.

[00:22:47]Oh.

[00:22:51]Man.

[00:22:54]Oh.

[00:22:59]Oh.

[00:23:02]>> [singing] >> Oh.

[00:23:07]>> [singing] >> Who taught you to hate [music] the texture of your hair?

[00:23:21]Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose?

[00:23:24]Who taught you to hate the color of your skin to such an extent that you bleach?

[00:23:30]>> [music] >> Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?

[00:23:38]Before you come asking Mr. Muhammad does he teach hate, you should ASK YOURSELF WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE BEING WHAT GOD GAVE YOU.

[00:23:48]>> [music] [music] [music] >> FREE SUDAN. BOYCOTT DIAMONDS AND GOLD.

[00:24:12]FREE SUDAN. BOYCOTT DIAMONDS AND GOLD.

[00:24:15]WE MOST DEFINITELY cannot forget about the people of Sudan.

[00:24:19]>> Thanks for watching Afro Think Tank.

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