Can Black folks be racist to other Black folks?

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]What is it now? Can black people be racist to black people?

[00:00:05]Please let me know. Actually, I'm so serious. I'm dating this black man who lives in a black neighborhood.

[00:00:09]>> How adventurous. And I was over at his place smoking on his balcony and he says I'm prompted, I really can't wait to move out of here. And I was like, oh, why? And he goes, there's too many black people living here.

[00:00:19]>> The white folks he wants to live around will say the same thing about him the second he moves in. And I was like, hello? And I grab him by the arm and point at his skin because what?

[00:00:29]>> Yeah, that's right. And he goes, yeah, that doesn't mean I have to like them.

[00:00:32]>> Chris Rock made this joke 30 years ago.

[00:00:34]WHO'S MORE RACIST, BLACK PEOPLE OR WHITE PEOPLE? BLACK PEOPLE. YOU KNOW WHY? CUZ WE HATE BLACK PEOPLE, TOO.

[00:00:39]That's weird, right? That's weird.

[00:00:41]That's a little That's a little weird.

[00:00:42]>> It's weird that he felt comfortable saying it to you. The self-hating negro has five fingers, smokes a lot, and tends to root through the garbage. If you encounter one in the wild, run.

[00:00:52]It's probably carrying diseases. To your original question, can a black person be racist to other black people? It's kind of like asking if a poor person can be a capitalist. Do with that whatever you will. The question you really need to ask is if you've been dating this man long enough to be at his house smoking, then what is it about you that made him comfortable saying something like that about other black people? The caliber of people we attract says as much about us as it does about them.

[00:01:19]Yeah, that's right.