🚨The Graduation Degeneracy Nobody Wants To Address

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]One high school special moment was disrupted when guests started fighting and police had to step in.

[00:00:05]>> The reason why people don't want your ghetto ratchetness at celebrations of graduation, the reason why people don't want it is because John Davidson. Congrats, Darnell Jackson.

[00:00:38]>> All right guys, welcome back to the channel. I am Carmen JC and we're back with another great video. So, unfortunately today guys, we're going to be talking about the black community again. Um, we have to talk about these black graduations. Um, I don't want to call them black graduations, but they're just so happen to be graduations full of black people acting a fool calling a culture. You know, the usual. And I hate to have to constantly talk about this cuz the black community seem to think that we're doing well, that we're on top of our stuff. And people hate us. They hate what we're producing. They hate the behavior. I hate the behavior. Okay, so I'm gonna keep talking about it. I know it's a lot, but hey, it's entertaining as well. It really is because it's just like what the hell? Like, you're sitting there and you're like trying to figure out like what's going on? What are people thinking? Why is this happening?

[00:01:33]And listen, forever and ever and ever, I'm probably going to be talking about this cuz it does not seem like it is getting better. Um, so specifically, it was a graduation. I forget where this was. I want to say it was in Louisiana.

[00:01:48]And it was a lot of black teenagers obviously and they are just I I guess you can call it dancing but it just looked like a bunch of wild animals. I'm not calling these kids wild animals. I'm saying that's what it looks like outside looking in. It looks very like un like comfortable to watch, you know?

[00:02:13]I'm like mortified when I watch it. So, I just want to show you guys a couple clips and we're going to talk about them. So, let's go ahead and look at this first clip.

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[00:03:09]Okay, I will say that they look like they're having a great time. Fine. And that's not the worst of it, but it's just like what what happened to the days when we go get our diploma, you know, we shake the hand, you know, people say, "Woo!" And then, you know, we walk off the stage and then we go do the black flips and we go celebrate like this in the comfort of our own home or wherever the at the party is, wherever the graduation party is. It's the time to actually celebrate. And I understand this is a a big accomplishment for these kids. I'm not trying to like rain on their parade. I'm I'm making this a wider um conversation about the community and our behavior and why we are not getting anywhere as a culture.

[00:03:55]We can't even get along together, let alone with other people. So, it's just some people are just there to see their kid get this diploma. Everybody is not into this. Apparently, they're saying that this is a part of culture. And I say that maybe the culture is the problem. Maybe that's the problem. This is a part of the culture. Yeah. Maybe those are the issues that we are having.

[00:04:17]And in a lot of these schools, these kids are not at reading level. These kids are just graduating dumb. Not calling these kids dumb. I'm saying that that is what is happening throughout the country, widespread. And it's not just black kids. It's happening with white kids as well. I I always have to throw that in there so black people don't feel like I'm picking on them. But I want to show you another video from this graduation.

[00:04:39]Let's look at it.

[00:04:59]He's getting all my baby over.

[00:05:28]BUT MY BABY IS DOWN. MY baby boy.

[00:05:40]>> Okay, so this is hilarious cuz I've watched this video, but I didn't realize that the boy was the kid cuz I was just, you know, I I'm just watching so many videos, but I didn't realize the boy was the kid. And she said that he was the student of the year. And you know what he did? He walked off. He was like, "What is this nonsense? What is this?

[00:05:58]What is happening here? I'm here to be celebrated for my education. This is like that time where you become adult, an adult, and you don't behave like this as an adult. This is not the way we should be bringing our adulthood in. I just think that it is completely dysfunctional. Like I said, I'm not trying to pick on these kids.

[00:06:17]Congratulations to the kid that was the student of the year. He was like, "Enough is enough." And everybody don't agree with this behavior. Okay? It may be some black people that think this is okay. is a part of culture. But that is not all of us. Okay? It is not all of us. But you make other people look at us like we're crazy. I look at us like we're crazy. Like what is happening here? Did I forget this memo where this is how we're supposed to act? Because I was actually taught the exact opposite of this. I was taught like not to behave like this and to present myself in well in public. It's is because a lot of you guys don't have fathers. You don't care about your last name. You don't have anybody to represent. And I'm sorry to say this. I'm sorry to make it about fatherhood again and you guys not having fathers. Um but that is true. Okay. The the father plays such a huge role in children's life and the more we try to run away from that, the worse off we're going to be. We need to get better with having actual foundation in our family.

[00:07:18]Mother, father, children, house, cars, working. Okay, those are the basics.

[00:07:24]then you can do everything else. Then you can go get Gucci Louis Prada. Then you can, you know, owning things, okay?

[00:07:31]But until we get that basic foundation together, we're going to see the culture keep crumbling, keep um going on a downward spiral. That is what's going to keep happening. I don't want to see that happening. That's why I'm talking about it. But that's what's going to happen.

[00:07:47]It's getting worse by the year. It's getting worse and worse and worse. Let's look at this next young lady. All right, guys. I'm just jumping in here just to let you guys know I am completely independent. And if you want to support the channel, you can hit the super thanks or the buy me a coffee link below. You can also like, comment, or hype the video. Let's go ahead and get back into the show.

[00:08:10]I don't know if I can play that music.

[00:08:12]So, but it's just it's a lot. Okay. And listen, talents can flip. They have talents. It's just like I think the the lesson here would be decorum. I think that's the lesson we're missing here.

[00:08:27]Decorum. There is a time and a place for everything. I understand the excitement.

[00:08:32]I understand the accomplishment. This is great. I'm not saying that it is not a great thing. I understand that completely. I'm saying there's a time and a place for everything. We have to hold oursel to higher standards. That is something that we need to do. We can't keep calling everything culture. I think I'm going to do an whole a whole episode on us calling things culture and talk about the things that is wrong with it because we can't just keep writing things off as culture. That is just not how this works. Let's look at this next person. He is upset. I don't know if this is a he or she who whomever is upset because they didn't get to graduate. They weren't supposed to like they didn't pay a fee or something and they weren't allowed to walk across the stage, but they had their cap and gown for some reason. So, just take a look at the interaction.

[00:09:50]Someone in the comments said, you know, that this school is out of control because they have the sheriff's on standby. And it is so true. It is so true. They have the sh the sheriff's on standby. And like I understand the frustration of not being able to walk across the stage because this is like a once in a-lifetime thing. It's not like this is one of those things that you can like come back and do it again or walk a different time. It's like now or never.

[00:10:14]So I can't understand why someone would be frustrated. Um I don't know the complete backstory of this. Um but I believe it was like this person was not supposed to walk and they chose to walk anyway. So and if if I'm wrong about that, I'm like happy to correct it. But I'm pretty sure that's what I saw. And I, like I said, I can get the frustrations behind that. But it's just not how you behave. This is just not how you handle these situation. Conflict resolution. We need to understand that.

[00:10:42]Okay? That's what we have a problem with. We don't know how to deescalate things. We don't have problemsolving skills. That is the problem in the black community. I'm going to keep saying it till I'm blue in the face, okay? Or till I don't have air to breathe. I'm going to keep saying that. Let's listen to what this next guy had to say. And I'm going to show you something because I think what he said was really important.

[00:11:02]So, let's go ahead and take a listen.

[00:11:05]>> Never surrender cuz we never did. I just want to say this real quick and it has to be said.

[00:11:14]The reason why people don't want your ghetto ratchetness at celebrations of graduation, the reason why people don't want it is because people are there for their kids.

[00:11:31]They don't want to hear you screaming and they don't want to see your kid acting ratchet and twerking because you know what? There's some black folk that come to the graduation to see their kids because their kids made it. Don't get mad cuz their kids aren't ratchet and ghetto like yours.

[00:11:53]And if you go to a multi-racial school, nobody wants to hear SHENIQUA and you can't even hear your child like this.

[00:12:07]Heat. Heat.

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[00:12:50]The speaker couldn't even speak.

[00:12:53]The people can't even hear their own children. This is why people don't want us around. It's not about, oh, and we just celebrate.

[00:13:05]>> We just celebrate different. It's so true. Okay. People don't want us around for these reasons. I'm still on the dude that walked off because I find that to be so much more hilarious now that I'm like actually really thinking about the little boy that was like enough is enough. I'm out of here. I'm off this.

[00:13:22]You guys ruin everything. It's hilarious. Like people are tired of it.

[00:13:26]You're screaming. You're loud. You're ratchet. You're ghetto. People can't hear the man speaking. Okay, they can't hear. And you know what I'm going to do?

[00:13:36]I'm going to show you. I saw this cartoon. I came across it. I hope I don't get hit for this, but I came across this cartoon and I'm going to show you what people are seeing when they see you behave like this. This is what they see. Whether you agree with it or not, whether I agree with it or not, this is what people think when they see you behave like this. So, let me show you. And it's it's just so much u similar to the last video he just showed us because it really is it's like horrific to see this. So, look at this right here. It is actually really funny.

[00:14:11]Let's go ahead and take a listen >> for coming to the graduation ceremony. I ask all of y'all to please hold your applause until everybody is called.

[00:14:19]Let's get started. Tyler Wilson, congratulations.

[00:14:25]Emily Hutcherson, congratulations.

[00:14:29]John Davidson, congrats. Darnell Jackson, Congratulations.

[00:14:46]I I ask again, can we please hold all the applause to everybody that's called?

[00:14:50]>> THAT'S MY PLACE. GO AHEAD, DARNELL. I know that's >> Leslie Cooper. Congratulations. Todd Baker, congratulations. Latrice S.

[00:15:10]WALK IT OUT. WALK IT OUT. WALK IT OUT.

[00:15:17]NEVER DIE, GUYS. Oh my god. That's like the funniest stuff I've seen all week. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's funny because it's true.

[00:15:29]Okay. In every joke, there's a little bit of the truth in there. It might be overexaggerated, but it is actually really funny. I'm I'm sorry that I laughed that hard at it. I actually laughed the whole time and I'm not supposed to I'm supposed to be like, "This is racist." It's so funny. Okay, I'm sorry. That's what people see. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I'm sorry. I'm have I'm having to be the ones. But let me hold your hand while I tell you this. People are tired.

[00:15:56]Okay? That is how they view you when you behave like that. That is what I see.

[00:16:00]That's why it's that's why it's so funny, okay? Not trying to pick on black people. Just want black people to be better. That that's really my goal here.

[00:16:10]I want to see better coming from the black community because I know black people are capable capable of it. I hear a lot of people saying black people are so low IQ. It's genetics. And I know that's untrue and I know you guys know that's untrue. So, you have to do a better job at being better. Okay? You have to do a better job at behaving well and not behaving like white people or like anybody else just with a little decor, with a little respect, self-respect for yourself. That's all.

[00:16:40]Okay? No one is telling you to be like anyone. You can be yourself, but there is things that we can all work on. It's not like you're perfect. We're not perfect. Everyone can work on things. I can work on things. And I'm just trying to say that in the best way I know how.

[00:16:56]But if you remember back when the proms were happening, you had the couple and they took their kid to prom or they had the kid at the prom. I think they took the kid to prom. Well, I'm going to show you a young lady who took her I don't know if this is a son or daughter to her graduation. And um I think it's kind of like some the things that is like they're happy, but I think this is kind of sad, you know? I think it's sad. Um, I feel like if there was a father in a picture, the baby would be with the father. Um, so I I just feel like this is not what we should do. Like why are we the we the only ones proud of being baby mamas or proud of things like this?

[00:17:37]And I'm not saying that this girl is a baby mama. I'm just using that like as an example. But why are we okay with this behavior? Why are we okay with this? Why don't I have a whole bunch of videos with white people doing this behavior or Hispanic people doing this?

[00:17:52]Why are they not all over the internet?

[00:17:54]Why is it only you guys? Well, mostly majority you. Why is it overwhelmingly coming from the black community? Let's like let's go ahead and take a look.

[00:18:10]Our baby Emily stand ready my way.

[00:18:47]I don't know, guys. I don't know. I don't know. Don't ask me. Do not ask me to explain this. I don't know. Okay. I try to think of the logical reasons why you would bring a kid to a graduation um and actually hold not bring the kid to the graduation, but actually walk the kid across stage. It's It's I don't I don't know what this is some type of ritual. I have no idea. But it's weird.

[00:19:12]It is like only black people are proud of things that we should not be proud of. Not saying that you shouldn't be proud of the kid. I'm saying why is this some type of flex for you? Why do you feel like you had to work harder?

[00:19:25]Because if you did have to work harder, it's because of the decisions you made.

[00:19:29]Okay? It's not because everybody else had it easier. Everybody have different situations that they come from. They have different struggles. You are not the only one. So, I don't understand why black people specifically why we feel the need to do this, to behave like this, to represent ourselves like this.

[00:19:47]I don't get it. Okay? And this is not me picking on black people. And it's not just this. Obviously, there were some fights. It couldn't possibly not be fights. Had to be fights. Okay? So, obviously, there are fights. And we're going to take a look at what happened with a few of these fights. So, let's go ahead and take a listen to this first news coverage on the fights.

[00:20:09]>> Special moment was disrupted when guests started fighting and police had to step in.

[00:20:14]>> Germa Terry is live at Thornwood High School with the video you'll see only on CBS News Chicago. German, >> Joe and Erica, this graduation was held outside. And the only worry the class of 2026 should have had was maybe the windy conditions. But as you mentioned, instead people in the stands started fighting, bringing this happy ceremony to a halt.

[00:20:37]>> Please, parents, return to the stands.

[00:20:40]Graduates, please take your seats. We have not completed the ceremony at this time. Please. The seniors at Thornwood High in South Suburban South Holland could not keep their attention on the stage after a brawl broke out while their names were getting called. South Holland city leaders tell CBS Chicago at the commencement on the football field the physical altercation occurred among a group of attendees.

[00:21:05]In this video, you see several people running, throwing punches, including someone in a cap and gown.

[00:21:11]>> This graduation is out of control.

[00:21:14]Parents and friends in the stand say they tried waiting out the commotion.

[00:21:18]Many wanted to see their senior cross the stage, but some parents told me despite having security at the graduation, they did not feel safe sticking around. In this video, you see graduates leaving during the ceremony.

[00:21:31]South Holland leaders say this doesn't reflect the community. So, it was disheartening that at such a meaningful occasion dedicated to honoring the achievements of our young people, the actions of a few guests disrupted what should have been a joyful milestone.

[00:21:45]Police did detain people at the graduation, but we're told no one was arrested or charged. The village goes on to say, "We are grateful that situation was resolved quickly and without serious incident."

[00:21:58]>> Okay, so they're fighting at a graduation. Why? What? what possibly could have happened. You know what? It's just anything with the black community at this point. We have to fix this problem within our community. This problem translates into violence within the community. I don't understand why we don't see that. Okay? Why don't we see that? We can't even get along together.

[00:22:21]You don't even like each other. How are other people going to like you? Okay.

[00:22:26]This has nothing to do with racism.

[00:22:28]Well, are other black people racist against other black people who shoot black people? No. you don't like each other because of behavior because of small minute issues. That's why. Okay.

[00:22:39]But if you could be better and start out with treating each other better, I think we would have a better shot in this country. Okay. I don't think people would look at us like we're so degenerate. Let's look at this next um news coverage on something similar.

[00:22:55]>> Was supposed to be all about the grads.

[00:22:58]>> It's a graduation. And it's supposed to be a celebration and people should be celebrating the kids.

[00:23:02]>> Suddenly turned bad.

[00:23:05]>> OH MAN. NOW TELL ME, WHAT'S THAT SHOW ABOUT?

[00:23:08]>> I USED to watch a lot of WWE when I was a kid. This definitely this one this is real WWE. This is this is insane.

[00:23:14]>> It happened here in the stands at the Hartford Healthcare amphitheater. As some CT State Gateway grads were walking across the stage to get their diplomas, chaos ensued in the crowd. people battling for no reason. Probably probably because someone bumped into somebody else. I mean, it's always something stupid. Nothing's ever that serious.

[00:23:34]>> Bridgeport police didn't say why it started, but authorities claim it involved at least two unrelated families. Two of the three people arrested were charged with assault of a public safety officer.

[00:23:45]>> Oh, so they're fighting a security guard. Oh, that's even worse. You're at a graduation fighting a >> What do you say? They had chairs like a WWE fight. I I've just I I am like I I want to say I'm surprised, but I'm not.

[00:24:02]Okay, I'm not surprised actually. And like I said, it keeps escalating. It's getting worse. Okay, you know, it starts twerking. Now we're fighting. And it's not just like black people fighting other black people. No, no, no, no, no.

[00:24:15]Okay, white people are fighting black people. Other races of people are fighting black people at these graduations also because guess what? I'm not going to say it's black people's fault. I'm not going to say that cuz I don't know what happened. But a black person did get arrested. But I'm not saying that it's black people's fault.

[00:24:30]But I'm saying that there's one common denominator here. Okay? There's one common denominator. And a lot of people are tired of this behavior. Okay? I'm tired of this behavior. I keep saying that. I I would love to go to a place where there could be a whole bunch of black people and I can feel like something might not pop off. It's just it's just not the case. I can go to white people, a group full of white people, just me by myself, I would feel okay. Okay, black people, a group of y'all by myself. I don't know about that. It's I'm sorry that it is a reality that we live in. And you guys need to see that they're not only doing this at high school graduations, they're doing it at a kindergarten gradu graduation. They're fighting at a kindergarten graduation. Let's look at this >> graduation. I didn't understand it when I was in kindergarten. I don't understand it now, but okay, let's all celebrate, I guess.

[00:25:22]>> WHAT THE GET THE BABY?

[00:25:26]>> FOR A FIGHT at a kindergarten graduation this morning, leading to a Toledo woman's arrest. We are learning that the woman arrested, this woman here is Jessica Anderson.

[00:25:36]>> In the police report, Anderson allegedly grabbed one person's hair before hitting them in the head with a chair.

[00:25:43]>> Okay, that's nice. But I'm more baffled by this outfit. What is this? She's wearing giant Mickey Mouse shoes in solid red with white heart polka dots.

[00:25:52]I'm not what you'd call a fashionista, but I'm not sure this works for a graduation, even a kindergarten one. And a bunch of words were exchanged, one thing turned into another. Her whole family stands up. Like literally the first two rows of the graduation like all rise and there was a guy and like he kind of was they were threatening towards me and they all got in my face and before I could even notice I was sucker punched and I was getting wrestled and we were four or five guys were on >> just no comment. Okay, no freaking comment. Okay, I have I I just I just can't with this behavior. Okay. And I'm probably going to have to continue to talk about this. I'm going to have to constantly keep talking about this until the right people hear what I'm saying.

[00:26:43]That's unfortunate that I have to do this constantly. And then I get bullied by the very people who are doing the thing, okay? By the very people who are a part of the problem. It is ridiculous.

[00:26:56]Okay? It's ridiculous. People are tired of it. I'm tired of it. People are past fatigue. People are exhausted.

[00:27:02]Okay. And this is just one area. It's so many different areas that we are struggling with and we don't see it. We not we are not seeing the problem. And that is an issue for people in this country. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to be the one to say it. That is an issue. That's what it is. Okay. Now, I want you guys to look at this next video. I feel like this is a more appropriate way to celebrate. I'm going to actually just put it on the screen because I'm not going to have the sound on anyways. So, yeah. these. They're doing a um what do you call that? Mannequin challenge. They all look beautiful. You know, this is cool. It's creative. This is what people like to see. You know, even though everybody's black here, there's no diversity. I know we supposed to love diversity, but this is this is what we want to see from these grad. We want to see you guys be creative. We want to see you guys use your brain and express yourself in ways that are not violent, that are not anim animalistic. That goes with American culture. That's that's what that's all we're asking for. No one have a problem that black people are graduating or black people are happy about graduating. We just want people to behave with the quorum. That's okay.

[00:28:13]We're overstimulated at this point.

[00:28:15]We're overstimulated. And then we always are talking about everyone else, but then we segregate ourselves and we have these black only um graduations and we call everyone else races and we talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion.

[00:28:32]And we're the main ones that don't want to be diverse or inclusive. Um let's look at this video. And I actually think this is beautiful still, even though we're not being diverse and inclusive.

[00:28:44]These are black graduates from Yale. I'm assuming here that they had their own separate graduation from I guess the white graduates. Um I don't know why we always want to like separate ourselves but then get mad when other people want to separate from us. It's so hypocritical. But I think this is beautiful. I think this is great to see.

[00:29:03]It seemed like this is a lot of African culture going on here. I don't know if this is mostly Africans or black Americans, but I think it's nice. Okay.

[00:29:12]I think that we can do things where people will just be like, "Okay, whatever." If that's what you guys want to do, okay, whatever. I think the only struggle that people are having is it's like, "If you guys can do it, we want to be able to do it, too." It's like with the n-word, you know, you can say it, we want to say it, too. Um, if you guys want to have a black only graduation, we should be able to have a white only's graduation. We cannot be hypocrites. And I think that's the only issue that is causing us to clash. But I'm telling you guys, we have to stop arguing about these issues. We just have to get it together within our community. Everybody um can improve. I said this earlier. We all can improve. So, it's not taking on the black community. It's just saying that we know black people are capable. I know personally that black people are capable of doing more. And if we put our minds to it, we can do anything. Okay?

[00:29:57]That's what I have to say beautiful about the black community, nice about the black community, because I know you guys are more than capable. I'm more than capable and you are more than capable, too. I want to know what you guys think. I am Carmen JC. If you're new here, make sure you hit the like or the subscribe button. Or if you want to support the channel, hit the super thanks or the buy me a coffee link below. You can also like, comment, or hype the video. I love you guys so much and I will see you guys next time.

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