Has White America Stopped Caring About Us?

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]They're watching Fox News and they're watching CNN and they watching MSNBC and they're being told how popular the president is and all of that stuff. Then they flip a few channels over to BET and they watch you act like idiots and that's all they see. They only see you acting like idiots. And you can get mad if you want. You can go, "That's the media." Okay, yeah, it's the media. But they're still watching you act like idiots. And every week there's somebody new on television acting like an idiot and they look like you and they dress like you and they talk like you.

[00:00:39]Are y'all mad at that?

[00:00:45]That's an important question to ask ourselves. Are we really upset about the depiction of black people in the media? And is it a depiction or is it just a reflection of what we're actually doing? I think back in the day when I was growing up in the 80s, 90s, you heard a lot of black people talking about the idea that the media was forcing us to act in these sorts of ways. But was that true? I mean, was it really like the Hollywood Shuffle style of thing where people were being taught how to speak Jive?

[00:01:25]>> Learn Jive Talk 101. You [ __ ] J turkey [ __ ] >> All right. All right. That's good.

[00:01:32]That's good. You'll work. All right. You try it.

[00:01:35]>> You You [ __ ] mothers.

[00:01:38]>> No. No. No. No. No. No. No. That's wrong. That's wrong. Watch me, MAN. JUST BE COOL.

[00:01:43]TRICKY [ __ ] SO, I would see that as a as a young kid and think that, you know, all of these films that had black criminals were just concoctions from the w mind of white directors or white filmmakers, right?

[00:02:05]And then when I got older and started to run into these types of people on the street, you know, my friends and and whatnot were engaging in these criminals. The the question always became, okay, well, were is is this a directive from white people? I don't I don't think so. I think that this idea was something that was put into our minds by films like this that, okay, it was just white people telling us to be these things. But you have to ask yourself what came first, like the the chicken or the egg.

[00:02:38]>> Time is running out. And a lot of black people say that, but for real.

[00:02:44]Part of why the civil rights movement has been so successful. And part of why those who have come after in terms of our leadership have been able to maintain a presence is that black people have always had a certain amount of moral currency that we have been using.

[00:03:00]And let me be the first to tell you that's used up.

[00:03:06]White America has been watching us act like fools for a long enough time where any sympathy they may have had to our plight is completely gone.

[00:03:16]You're approaching a country that forget hating black people and not hating black people, they just don't care.

[00:03:24]You going to be talking about affirmative action. They be like, "I don't care.

[00:03:28]It literally is of no importance to me.

[00:03:30]I don't care about slavery. I don't care about segregation. I don't care about you. I don't care how many of you all go to jail. I care. I don't care at all cuz I'm broke.

[00:03:44]You can't be the proud noble fighter when every single time someone sees a person that looks like you on television, they're acting like a damn fool. How would they know? How would they know you're not a damn fool?

[00:03:57]>> This came out in 2003 and you know the the question is valid. Like how do they know you're not a damn fool if so many people are acting a fool? Now back then in those days we had film and we had television and you had a lot of people controlling what was being put on those things. So you had producers, you had obviously people directors, there was a lot of people who would basically gatekeep. They were there were gatekeepers for this kind of thing. But now we have social media and there are no gatekeepers really. Anybody with a phone can film themselves and put it all over the internet. And before that, we had reality TV, which is kind of like the precursor to what we have with social media.

[00:04:53]And we can't blame these things on white people teaching us how to speak Jive anymore. You know, the the the the truth is out here. The truth is that so many of us are taking it upon ourselves to act a damn fool. as Aaron Aaron McGrder just said, we're taking it upon ourselves to do that and film it and put it in front of the world. So the question is, was he correct about white people being tired of it? And I think that is where we get this whole idea of black fatigue and we're seeing a lot more of it as of late. And it was as there's more content every single day that we're providing more news stories, local news stories become national news stories, even though the national news is no longer covering it, right? So you can have a story that's highly localized.

[00:05:47]Some some story about a fight at a kindergarten school, right? Which just recently happened, a kindergarten graduation, and of course there's black people fighting. And so the kindergarten graduation gets cancelled because these parents are in the place fighting and then that story becomes na a national story because of social media.

[00:06:11]Now everybody can see it. So these things are no longer hidden. They are visible for everybody to see and people are getting tired of it because you know their kids go to the same school. And if their kids go to the same school with us and there's these types of behaviors are cancelling an entire kindergarten celebration that's supposed to celebrate children and now it's it's shut down because parents can't act civilized.

[00:06:40]Well, what do you think people are going to think if you're acting a damn fool?

[00:06:45]What do you think people are going to do? And what Mr. McGrder says here is that, you know, they they no longer care. I think people actually do care at this point and what we're seeing is a push back and we're going to see a lot more of it. And the question is, what are we going to do? Are we going to continue to keep We can't blame the media for putting out these social media is not to blame. There's no there's no there's no gatekeepers pushing through what's going to get more eyes and what's not. It's an algorithm now. And the algorithm depends on what we want to watch.

[00:07:26]And so if enough black and white people are enjoying or or they're so shocked, shocking content is going to always get more views. So, if they're shocked by seeing black craziness in the streets, you know, teen takeovers and and and fight clips in malls, fights in at kindergarten graduations.

[00:07:52]you know, the algorithm is going to play that for people who who they think are going to have a a reaction, whether that reaction is negative or positive, to this degeneracy. And then you got to ask yourself, what does that degeneracy, what does it do for how people feel about black people in general or a certain segment of the black black population? I mean, some people will be smart enough to know that, okay, that's not all black people.

[00:08:24]You know, I have black friends or I I know I work with black people at work and they don't act like this. But there's just too many of them at this point. Like, that's the argument from a lot of people is like, "Oh, it's just only a few. It's only a portion of the black community that acts like that."

[00:08:41]Yeah, sure. I agree. But unfortunately, there's just so many black people who are seen on television who are doing stuff in in public. Like, it it doesn't even have to be on TV. It doesn't have to be on the internet. If you live in a city with enough black people, a lot of times you're going to run into this stuff at a restaurant, at just an event, a school event now, right? people. We've seen the the the we've seen the clips of basketball games turning bad because parents are yelling at each other or some people in the in the stands are yelling and god forbid there's a shooting. You know what I mean? But fights and stampedes that happen when people get into fights, I mean, it's just it's just chaos. People don't want to be around that.

[00:09:36]So, we're just seeing a lot more of that kind of behavior because of the internet.

[00:09:45]And for the most part, it's us filming it, too. So, we can no longer blame some white film director. The white film director is not pointing a camera at us and saying, "Act more nigorish here."

[00:10:00]They're not saying that.

[00:10:02]We're upset if white people point out that we're being these stereotypes. They're we're quick to be upset if a white person points out, "Hey, this is look at look at how they're acting. Look at this.

[00:10:16]Look at that."

[00:10:18]We're quick to get angry about that. But then we're also quick to jump out there and act like idiots in front of a camera when we think white people aren't watching. But news flash, they're watching. All this stuff is now going all over the internet. Everybody sees it.

[00:10:39]It's not It's not a secret anymore. For a long time, I think black people had this idea that it was some sort of secret, the the behaviors that were happening behind closed doors. Well, secret's out. You know, you can't you can't hide behind this idea that black people shouldn't be airing out our dirty laundry. And and you know, black conservatives catch hell all the time for speaking about these things. I hear it all the time from friends, from from people on on my commenting on my videos.

[00:11:10]It's like, oh, why don't you show just positive stuff about black people and that's it. Don't show any of this negative anymore. It's like it disturbs them then that there's a white audience who's watching and agreeing that hey this shouldn't be happening right they're embarrassed by it yet behind closed doors I know some of these same people or will share those type of video clips with a smiley face because it's all fun and games to pass around the black degeneracy when they don't think white people are looking at it, but when they start hearing about it and seeing it in a public place where whites are in earshot or when I in eye shot, then it becomes some kind of problem. I mean, it doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't sit well with me that you're enjoying these kinds of things when you think it's just black people, but when white people are involved now, you're embarrassed or you don't want anybody to see it. You don't want anybody to talk about it. Well, then you're just being fake. That's hypocritical.

[00:12:24]And I just think that we just need to stop all of it. Like, you know, there's a reason why Jerry Springer was on TV for so many years because people like nonsense. But at some point we got to understand there's too many of us engaging in the nonsense. It's a lot more than there should be of us engaging in this just poor behaviors.

[00:12:52]Anyway, that's my time. I I talked too much. I'm out.

[00:12:56]No more ya baza.