White man says white denial is a powerful drug.

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]What's going on everybody? This is Afro Think Tank. White man says white denial is a powerful drug. And that's true because white people are addicted to denial.

[00:00:13]You know, they have a as a culture, they have a propensity to become addicted to illicit substances that alters their brains. And the denial of their obvious and provable history, an obvious, provable position on this planet based off that history has caused them to inhale, snort several lines of denial. They're shooting that [ __ ] up in their vein.

[00:00:40]They're sticking denial needles in between their toes. All right? Because they don't want anybody to see the marks, all right, from them injections.

[00:00:48]All right? And denial has helped them cope with that guilt that they feel cuz believe it or not, they feel the guilt because we as black people never try to make them feel guilty. We don't even bring it up. They bring it up when they start to react based off what they see as them being held accountable for the things that they know that they are doing. The guilt comes out. We see it.

[00:01:09]We see it in the actions of uneducated, politically unaware white mid middle-aged men. All right? They can't even comprehend their own situation because they're blinded by the jealousies and envies programmed into them by the rich white man in his suit.

[00:01:29]Right? They're they're they're blind.

[00:01:32]All they can see is the thing they're jealous at that they want to tear down in order to stand on top of. Right? and they're not intelligent enough to know that if you uplift the black community, you also uplift. If you destroy the black community, you destroy yourself.

[00:01:49]You see, when people say that black people are at the bottom, right? They they they like people like to say that all the time, even though clearly we're not clearly African-Americans are not at the bottom, seeing our GDP is larger than most countries on the planet. So, we must not actually be at the bottom because we're that successful. We're we're so successful, especially starting beyond the bottom. Like, we started underneath. We was We started subbottom and now we're damn near at the top without subjugating, hurting, raping, murdering, or tricking other people.

[00:02:24]This is all off the strength. This is all of our own. We've been tying our own boot straps. Even though the white man has been slipping the shoelace out of our boots every chance they get, we've been replacing that [ __ ] and tying them boots and marching along. And because of that, we've reached the pinnacle of success. We're the most popular group of people on the planet. We're one of the most successful ethnic groups on the planet, most recognized groups on the planet, one of the most richest groups of people on the planet, one of the most accomplished groups of people on the planet, which is culturally consistent with the rest of our brothers and sisters around the world who are popular and excellent in their own right as our Caribbean brothers. I don't first of all, I don't see I can't in my own head see Caribbeans as anything different from an African-American. You know what Caribbeans are? They from south south Florida. That's how I look at it. Like no bull. Like anytime like they just from south south Florida just like you got south south Nigeria, right? You go south southerner more southerner than the south. All right. The Caribbean ain't ain't nothing but a bunch of fidians. All right. They a bunch of s southern Floridaidians without goddamn US passports. That's it for now. All right. That's I've always anything African-Americans done, Caribbeans have been right there. We are the same. We are literally that's the d that's the dumbest, stupidest, most ridiculous waste of time argument having a Caribbean African. That is the stu that's that is dumb. That is stupid.

[00:03:57]It's asinine. Anybody having that conversation are mental midgets. All right. Straight up. But anyway, these white folks are having a hard time processing this [ __ ] Now, some of the light-skinned folks don't figured it out, right? They done looked at themselves, right, and looked at a color chart and see that they're about they're the same complexion as every single human being on the planet. Just a different complexion of it, right?

[00:04:20]Everybody brown. There's not a person on the planet that ain't brown. Even the albinos is brown. All right? And they about as white as you can get. Whether it be a black albino or a white albino, they they brown. Very, very light. All the way at the edge of the spectrum of brown, but it's brown. All right? So, our light-skinned brothers and sisters, a lot of them who are woke know this, right? They don't feel guilt. They they've already uh taken away the layers of guilt because nobody asked them to feel guilt. That guilt is from in-house.

[00:04:47]That call is coming from the inside of the house. It's not coming from out here. Guilt doesn't do anything to improve anybody's situation. You can feel guilty and not do anything about it. You can feel responsible and not do anything about it. We got to get past that [ __ ] All right? We're trying to get past We're trying to get you to acknowledge, right? then do something about it or participate in the improvement of your brothers and sisters, your fellow brown brothers and sisters on this planet. What's going to happen when the aliens come? If they attack us, are you guys going to maintain your racism? Because you sure maintained your racism when African-Americans was helping to liberate Europe? You you you white folks in America had time, right, to fight your brothers and sisters who was helping you fight your supposed enemy, fascism, but y'all found the time to be racist towards those who were on your side in a in in in battle, right? So, does that mean when the aliens come down, you still going to have some sort of superiority complex about being white? All right, being white, which is, you know, clearly an inferior uh less melanated version, human version to have. Like there's nothing superior about having skin that can't go outside and meet the sun.

[00:05:56]When it's the sun that is the bringer of life, but not for you. Therefore, that is a mutation. That ain't normal. And any advanced civilization is probably not going to be a white alien. Probably ain't no white alien. Pretty sure the aliens are going to be some sort of color, right? In order to reflect the UV rays of the sun at some. I'm pretty sure it ain't going to be white. If it was white, it would probably break apart and decompose as the molecular structure of any organic material would break apart because of all the radiation. I'm sure it wouldn't be white. Positive, right?

[00:06:26]Anyway, we're going to look at these white folks try to figure that [ __ ] out, which they're going to have to do because whether you believe it or not is true. Whether you believe it or not, it's true. You got to deal with it. Some people don't want to deal with it. Some people do want to deal with it. But either way, that call is coming from inside of the house, not from outside.

[00:06:44]Anyway, tell me what you guys think in the comments section. It's Afro Think Tank. Learn something, teach something.

[00:06:48]I'm out.

[00:06:49]>> So, as we all know, white folks are quick to deny that racism is still a thing. We like to say that black folks are treated equally just like white people. That discrimination is not really a problem and black people need to stop complaining. But the problem with that, there are actually a lot of problems with that, but one of the biggest ones is that we have literally been saying that forever. In other words, we were even saying that before civil rights laws were passed, when segregation was still a thing, when racism was obviously blatant, when everybody in retrospect would agree now that things weren't equal. We as white folks still believed that they were. Let me show you something. So, I know you won't be able to read this. Don't worry, I'll blow it up in a second. Just wanted to show you the page. This is from a Gallup poll report that was published in 2001 that was tracing white racial attitudes and perceptions going back to the 1960s. And that one chart that was on the page that I just showed you a second ago asked white folks over the course of like, I don't know, a 40-year period, do you believe that black people are treated equally in your community?

[00:07:52]The first time they asked that question was in 1963, the year before the Civil Rights Act was even passed, two years before the Voting Rights Act, 5 years before the Fair Housing Act, they asked white people, "Do you think blacks are treated equally in your community?" And look at that dot right there at the edge. 62% almost twothirds of white people, even before civil rights laws were passed, said, "Yeah, everything's fine." But it gets worse. Here's another page. This is a question that was asked in 1962 of white folks. Do you think that black children have the same chance as white children to get a good education in your community? Now, again, this is only 8 years after Brown v.

[00:08:32]Board ended formal segregation. It's long before school systems actually did anything to try to equalize educational opportunities. But what do you think white folks said even in 1962?

[00:08:43]Well, there you have it. That's the far edge of the chart. Actually, I didn't size it correctly. You can't even tell.

[00:08:49]But above that, which says 83%, that was the national average. The white average was actually 85%. 85% of white folks in 1962 who said that black kids already had equal opportunity to get a good education with white kids.

[00:09:05]So, I guess the lesson here is that maybe white folks perceptions of whether or not racism and discrimination are a big deal probably aren't the best. Maybe we ought to not rely on our assumptions and instead ought to listen to what black people tell us. Because if we didn't even think it was a problem before civil rights laws were passed, if we didn't even understand the need for the civil rights movement because gosh, isn't everything already equal in America? It's pretty obvious that we're not the ones whose perceptions ought to be relied upon. Maybe we ought to listen to black folks because it's pretty obvious they understand their lived experience better than we understand their lived experience. Imagine that.

[00:09:43]You're being replaced in your own country. Do you know that Americans, heritage Americans, white people in this nation, we were 90% just a few decades ago.

[00:09:55]>> Yep.

[00:09:56]>> 90% of America's population today. We are 58%.

[00:10:00]>> And if you're a white, it's a genocide European Christian American. You don't realize that you are being replaced. And you think that's fine.

[00:10:09]>> Ethnic cleansing.

[00:10:11]You think that's fine to have ethnic erasure in your own country and you're weak.

[00:10:20]You're a quote unquote Christian man, but you have one or two kids and then you go and get a vasectomy like a beta male because you're really gay at heart.

[00:10:28]Boo.

[00:10:30]Because you know what? You're so selfish in your desires. You're saying it's too expensive to have children. It's too expensive. It takes too much time. I don't want to have any more than one.

[00:10:42]But the Muslims are having 10, 12, 15.

[00:10:46]The Jews are having 10, 12, 15.

[00:10:49]>> You're here.

[00:10:50]>> The Hindus are having 10, 12, 15 children.

[00:10:55]And what are you doing? Not only are you not leaving an inheritance for your children, >> you're not leaving an inheritance for your nation.

[00:11:05]>> Amen.

[00:11:07]>> Yes or no question. Are you a racist?

[00:11:08]I'm I'm not a racist.

[00:11:10]>> You're not a racist. Um particularly interesting because according to one of your uh affiliate charities um under your nonprofit umbrella, denial of racism constitutes covert white supremacy. Are you a covert white supremacist?

[00:11:27]>> Sir, I'm here to talk about the essential work that nonprofits >> are you a covert white supremacist? Can I talk about the work that nonprofits do?

[00:11:34]>> No, I'm asking you if you're a covert white supremacist, which according to uh one of your own organizations, again, denial of racism constitutes covert white supremacy.

[00:11:46]>> Would you like to answer the question?

[00:11:47]>> I I I don't know what the question is.

[00:11:49]>> So, you So, you refuse to answer whether you are a covert white supremacist.

[00:11:54]>> I am here to talk about the essential work that nonprofits do. If you'd like to ask me a question, >> I am utterly dumbfounded. You will you are on record right now and you will not say that you are not a covert white supremacist.

[00:12:06]>> I don't have a definition in front of me. I haven't looked at the definition.

[00:12:11]I'm not going to answer a question about my personal.

[00:12:15]I'm here to talk about the work nonprofit organization.

[00:12:18]>> No, I I I want to I want to give you one more chance to do this. Are you a covert white supremacist?

[00:12:24]>> Why are we so off track from the >> No, I'm asking you I'm asking you a very straightforward question.

[00:12:29]>> I've heard your question. Thank you, sir.

[00:12:30]>> And and you're not going to answer whether you are a covert white supremacist.

[00:12:34]>> I would like to answer questions about the work nonprofit organization. Thank you.

[00:12:38]>> That's that that is really really astounding. I can answer very directly that I am not a covert white supremacist and I I imagine all of my colleagues can as well. Um I I think you ought to re-evaluate what you're doing in the nonprofit sector. Uh if you can't answer that in a straightforward way, that is astounding.

[00:12:57]Too many of us treat marginalization and privilege as two opposing forces that cancel each other out. And so we're always looking for ways to validate and monitor who is the most privileged or the most oppressed in a given room or a given moment. That's not how privilege works, though. Privilege and marginalization add up in a single person in different ways. That's what it means to have an intersectional identity. that privilege and marginalization will affect specific people in specific ways depending on the specific situation and who's doing the perceiving and the defining. No amount of marginalization can cancel out the privilege that someone has from being white. No one is claiming white people can't face struggles, but you're not struggling because you're white. You can't struggle just because you're white. If you're white and queer, white and trans, white and disabled, white and poor, those things affect your identity.

[00:13:49]They are part of you. They define you.

[00:13:50]These things add marginalization and difficulty to your life. But they were they will never equate to the the suffering and the struggle that black people face just for being black in a society that is deeply intrinsically inherently anti-lack that we are trying to change. We are trying to show that everyone is equal and deserves equal or equitable treatment. But we are not there. We do not live in that world.

[00:14:15]>> White people are lacking a solid grasp on what white privilege is. White privilege is literally just the absence of dealing with racism in every direction. Basically, an entire system built on racism that every white person is taking part in upholding unknowingly or oftentimes unknowingly. So you have the people that are being oppressed the most, okay? The black people, due to this country's history of um slavery, due to this country's history of segregation, due to this country's history of not undoing the past, we didn't do anything to dismantle this country's racism that this country was built upon. White people just keep reproducing kids that are upholding racism because we're not teaching them how to be anti-racist. We're not teaching them that black people are experiencing racism consistently in their everyday life. If you have the majority of black people telling white people, "Yes, I experience racism. Yes, it's a major problem. We need to find a solution." And they're coming to white people and they're saying this and the white people who are doing the oppressing, they're laughing at them. They're saying, "You're you have a victim mentality. We're not going to help you.

[00:15:31]we're going to laugh at you because you're playing victim. But it's the majority of black people saying that this is a problem, saying this is experience, their their experience and saying that racism is a major issue that they have to deal with that is embedded into our society. When you come to the people doing the oppressing, those are the people who that have the power to make change. If you laugh at the victim, if you say, "Haha, you're not a victim.

[00:15:58]That's just your mentality." Where is the progress? I don't know if people are familiar with narcissistic terms, but let's look at it as narcissism. Okay, racism is narcissism. Black people are the scapegoat. You have the blatantly racist people. They're the narcissists.

[00:16:13]And then you have all the other pe white people that are taking part in upholding white supremacy without realizing that they are. And these are the flying monkeys. So the flying monkeys don't help. They're scared of the narcissists, the race, majorly racist people. They're scared if they speak out against them, the blatantly racist people, that they won't want to associate with them anymore. Maybe that means um friends will cut you off, family will cut you off. So, what do you do instead? You take part in upholding the system. You don't speak up for racism when you against racism when you see it. You have the victims coming to you and you don't help them. You don't understand or believe the stories of the people experiencing racism at the level that they are. You have a small understanding but not deep and not and you have no idea how damaging it is. So in this situation, not only are the narcissists, the really really racist people that are loud and proud about it harmful, but the people upholding it, the flying monkeys.

[00:17:16]So until you overcome that, until you understand the system of racism, until you put your pride aside and you say, "I don't care who I lose. I'm going to stand up for what's right." you're going to be part of the problem. It's a narcissistic dynamic situation that upholds the white supremacy. And it's the flying monkeys who play victim, who cry when they also have that wall up because they have narcissistic tendencies, too, where they have that wall up and someone's trying to educate them and they're like, "Oh my god, I wasn't trying to be racist. I wasn't trying to hurt you. I'm going to cry about it. I'm going to run away." So even you have the flying monkeys working with their ego first and that is white fragility and white fragility is experienced by every single white person alive and you have to break through that. You have to say to yourself if somebody is going to give me constructive criticism that I have to absorb it. I cannot play victim. I have to take that information to do better because the these are the victims telling me their experience and how things make them feel and it is not about me. White people cannot experience racism. Reverse racism just does not exist. It doesn't make any sense.

[00:18:26]Because racism is about prejudice plus institutional power. Let's talk about how racism really works using cups and a water faucet. Let's think of racism like a water system. These two mints over here represent people of color and white people. These cups represent the protection people of color and white people have against systemic violence.

[00:18:41]The water represents systemic violence itself. And the faucet represents institutional power. who gets to control the water and who gets to control the violence imposed upon different ethnic groups. I'll flip my camera and show you how it works. Before the water even touches the cups, we see the white community and the bipok community does not start off on the same plate. The white community's cup is almost minimally harmed. You can see a little bit of scratches, but nothing significant. Whereas the bipok community's cup has different cracks, has different um damage to really symbolize how we don't start off on the same playing field. Other institutional forces make it so bipok communities and white communities are not equal. Now, the white community controls the institutional power. They get to control where the faucet is pointed. The faucet in this case is pointed directly at the bipok community. Why? Because racism has made it so bipok communities don't have as much power to control where the water is pointed. The water being the racial harm and the systemic violence.

[00:19:33]Sometimes we'll see the white community get splashes, right? But the splashes itself is where people get confused. The splashes represent the prejudice that white people can experience. for example, racial insults, stereotypes, hurtful comments, interpersonal discrimination. But really, here's what's different. The splash is temporary. The faucet is constant. The faucet will not stop. The faucet will never be targeted at the white community because who controls it? The white community controls where the power is pointed at. Person protected by whiteness can easily step away. However, the the bipol community cannot easily step away from racism because it's institutional. The splashes might be really annoying, but really it's not impacting their ability to move, the ability to have protection over themselves. Throughout history, white people have held institutional and societal power. Power that enabled genocide, forced migrations, lynchings, and other atrocities against people of color. That is why violent stereotypes attached to people of color instead of white people. And that is why the cup over here keeps cracking compared to the white people's cup, which almost seems to be perfect. White people can experience prejudice. However, they can't experience racism. And let's think about it using stereotypes. We say white people can't dance, white people can't cook food. All these little stereotypes don't have real social consequences because it's true, white people can experience prejudice in the forms of classism, in the forms of gender bias.

[00:20:53]But really, when it comes down to race, their racial identity is not making life harder for them. Whereas, when black people are seen as dangerous, this results in real political and social consequences. In March 2023, black people were stopped and searched over four times the rate that white people were searched. If racism is water and the water is constantly pointed at the bipol community and never at the white community because institutional power controls where the water goes, the white people cannot experience racism because the system was never aimed at them.

[00:21:23]Racism was never meant to put down white people. It was created as a system of controlling controlling the identities of people of color to ensure that they were not on the same playing field as white people. White people don't have to confess to what they're doing nor admit it. We can just look at the outcomes.

[00:21:38]And that is exactly at the heart of what Roberts is trying to rip out here. He's trying to say that unless there is intent, unless white people self-report as being racist, you cannot use laws to stop them.

[00:21:53]>> [ __ ] THEM AGAIN. [ __ ] THEM. THEM AND YOU IS NOT FRIEND. [ __ ] THEM. THEM DON'T NEED TO BE IN YOUR LIFE. So why YOU MAKING THEM CAUSE YOU NOTHING BUT TROUBLE AND STRIFE? [ __ ] THEM. Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair?

[00:22:13]Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose?

[00:22:17]Who taught you to hate the color of your skin to such extent that you bleach?

[00:22:23]Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?

[00:22:31]Before you come asking Mr. Muhammad, does he teach hate? You should ask yourself, WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE BEING WHAT GOD gave you?

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