Whites Can Be Africans? | One54 Africa Podcast

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:00]If you're a white and you said I'm Chinese, I'd go, "Yeah." That's the privilege of being white.

[00:00:04]>> We can we can see that.

[00:00:06]>> Go ahead.

[00:00:06]>> Right. So, but then like it almost feels like you were saying, "Well, you know, like you almost got okay, we don't want any controversy, so we'll say yes, they are you you you >> At the end of the day, it's >> Cuz nobody was ever going to believe I'm Japanese or Korean or you >> No, even though even >> Even though I was born and raised I I you raised they'll still be like, >> Nope.

[00:00:24]>> Because of just racism that you don't have the right.

[00:00:29]>> But a white person go, "I'm Like I met white South Africans. I remember >> Yeah.

[00:00:34]>> being in Central Park and we're all hanging out. And somebody asked me, "Oh, where are you from?" And my parents are Nigerian blah blah blah blah.

[00:00:40]And this white woman was like a model.

[00:00:42]She she goes, "I'm more African than you." I said, "How?"

[00:00:45]You don't look it.

[00:00:46]>> Yeah.

[00:00:46]>> She goes, "I'm South African." I go, "Like I said, you don't look it."

[00:00:49]>> Right.

[00:00:50]>> And so this is at a picnic. the whole picnic up.

[00:00:53]>> Here's what lets you know where you really from.

[00:00:56]>> Yeah.

[00:00:56]>> If really hits the fan in Africa, the white those who claim to be white Africans are always able to leave and go back to their ancestral countries and be welcomed.

[00:01:10]You got white Zimbabweans who left Zimbabwe when we got independence.

[00:01:16]>> Yeah.

[00:01:16]>> And yet they were born in Zimbabwe but because they claimed their heritage was in the British >> or German?

[00:01:21]>> or German or whatever, they were able to go and get a British passport, >> Yeah.

[00:01:26]>> go straight to England and become >> could you couldn't if you if your parents wanted to leave and say, "Hey, we want to go back to >> Where you going? To where? Where's your heritage? Your heritage is Zimbabwe.

[00:01:37]>> And then and then they get mad at you there cuz like in America, they'll say, "Why don't you go back to Africa?" What do you say when you're already in Africa?

[00:01:43]>> Why don't you >> Stay here.

[00:01:46]What do you cuz they would say that to a black like black Americans. Go back to Africa. But then when you're in Africa and whites don't want you there and black do go >> Go away. Go somewhere.

[00:01:57]>> You're going to say go back to America?