Things We Need To Stop Telling Minority Groups

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:04]Things we need to stop telling minority groups.

[00:00:07]Quit telling people who are experiencing whatever it is they're experiencing that they're not experiencing it because that is the definition of gaslighting. If I as a black man telling you that throughout my life I have experienced racism and discrimination, believe me.

[00:00:25]If a woman tells you that they have experienced sexual harassment and sexual assault, believe them. If a LGBTQ person who literally just wants to love whoever they want to love and they just want to live in their own skin is telling you that they've been discriminated against, they've been persecuted, believe them.

[00:00:46]If people from other countries, let's face it. We like to think that America is the end-all, be-all, that this is the perfect bastion of hope, but we're haven't been about hope for a while, you know?

[00:00:58]Um people are trying to escape here because of the prosecution, the persecution they're experiencing in their home countries. Who wouldn't rather be at home if your home wasn't trying to kill you?

[00:01:11]So, we tell those people that they're not unwanted here, too.

[00:01:15]And we tell them that um they should just go back home.

[00:01:21]You think they want to be here? Okay, but anyways, my point is quit trying to gaslight people into telling them that their lived experience, that their reality, that they're not experiencing persecution. I had an old white man that told me that racism is no longer existent, that I've never experienced persecution, that I have not been nobody's holding me back or holding me down. And yeah, I'm fairly successful, all things considered. But for somebody who has grown up sitting at dinner tables hearing from people that directly experienced Jim Crow, Uh, father who's not that old, all things considered, uh, was not allowed to go to Fountain Ferry Park as a kid. He couldn't go to an amusement park. He experienced bussing.

[00:02:06]Uh, people that are in our lives that are still alive that experienced, uh, had to be sharecroppers, that literally were not allowed to go to certain restaurants and sit in certain parts of the bus. Now, I don't know what your Sunday dinner experience was like, but that's what I grew up hearing about on a regular consistent basis. I lived and grew up in a mostly, uh, white neighborhood and area so that I wouldn't grow up in the bad part of town, so to speak.

[00:02:33]And do you think that that meant that I was insulated from racial discrimination? No. My best friends, not my best friends, but my best friends were pretty dope. But other people around me would say things like, "Fight, fight, inward and a white. One falls down and we all jump in." Like, crazy things. They call you an Oreo and they tell you all these things, but I haven't experienced racism.

[00:02:56]If you haven't experienced it, don't talk on it.