Black Americans are Warned about Segregation | Black People Don't Care About Segregation in 2026

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]I keep seeing a whole bunch of people that don't look like me making videos saying that we need to do something. We need to march. No, we do not. We don't need to do nothing. The same way Target played and we took away that dollar, we'll just take away our dollar from everybody else who wants to play in our faces and play with us. Go ahead and put them signs up. We don't care nothing about that segregation. put them signs up so we can take away our dollar and you can learn just like Target learned.

[00:00:30]We do not care. We are resting for the next four years. We're resting, honey.

[00:00:36]We We're not We don't care nothing about what y'all do. We don't care.

[00:00:39]>> Okay. I want to take a moment to say thank you to Donald Trump. Not out of praise, but out of truth. Because while you rip through every part of this government, tearing down justice, equality, and fairness under the fake excuse of fighting DEI fraud, what you're really doing is confirming what black folks have been saying for generations. America was built on racism, fueled by fear and sustained by white supremacy. You've exposed it all.

[00:01:06]The mask are off. The polite racism, the fake allyship, the colorblind lies, it's all gone. Now we see it raw and unfiltered. You're not just targeting policy. You're targeting people. Black people, brown people, marginalized communities in the wild part. We make up the smallest portion of this country.

[00:01:27]Yet somehow we are the biggest threat to the lie that white supremacy built. That should tell you everything. You're afraid not of violence, not of replacement, but of the power we hold even when we have nothing. You see, the way our culture, our brilliance, our resilience, our excellence continues to shape this country, even when it tries to erase us. Donald Trump is just the loudest version of a system that's always been in place. He is the living, breathing proof that this country was never designed with us in mind. And yet, we continue to define it. So, thank you, Donald, for exposing what so many try to deny. For showing the world that the fear of black greatness is real, for proving that racism isn't in our imagination is in the fabric of this nation. And to my people, we don't have to fight to prove our worth. [music] He's doing that for us. All we have to do is stand firm, stay awake, and know that the truth is finally louder than the lie. We are not broken. We are not the problem. We are the evidence [music] of the power that this country can contain. Let that truth ring louder than his hate.

[00:02:41]>> I'm going say what I got to say. So, I just watched a really great video by this black woman who was talking about how segregation in today's world is really not about black people. It's about white people. And I'm not going to summarize her video, but I will talk about something that recently came up in real life in conversation. And I was in a conversation with people that were half black, half white. Now, full disclosure, I am black and Chinese. My entire life though, I have been identified as a black woman to society.

[00:03:06]Well, really an Oreo, but that's a conversation from a totally different video. But in talking about this whole segregation in 2025 topic, they were like, "Oh, you know, people, the internet is saying that segregation is a good thing and that, you know, it's been good for the black community." And I didn't say anything. I was just silent.

[00:03:21]But in the video, the person that I tagged, he talked a lot about how white people specifically have benefited from integration. Because even though we were supposed to be promised separate and equal or you know together and equal, it has not been equal for black people.

[00:03:34]Black people still are not say pay the same as white counterparts. Black people still are not afforded the same opportunities, especially since the roll back of the affirmative action. Black people are still at the hands of police brutality. Like it really hasn't done like a huge thing. However, with white people being in close proximity to black people and minorities in general, they have been afforded the opportunity to be educated on how their ancestors have behaved both currently and previously in history. And it's because of that proximity of white people to minorities, specifically black people, that they have been able to learn, grow, flourish, and with apps like Tik Tok, I've been able to change the overall perception of history, specifically in the United States. Now, let's get back to the conversation I was having in real life.

[00:04:16]So, I was having a really hard time of understanding where these people were coming from, people that were half white, half black, because as someone who is mixed, right, black and Chinese, the one drop rule has applied to my life through and through. In fact, a lot of people have actually denied that I am Chinese, even though I know my heritage and where I come from, at least that part of my family. So, what I asked in that conversation was, "Well, if you had to choose, would you go with your black family or your white family?" And they both said I would go with my black family. And I said, "Why?" And they said, "Well, they're just a lot more fun. Like, I feel like I have community.

[00:04:49]I feel like I have people that really like stick beside me." And what I really think it boils down to is community.

[00:04:55]Because minorities have been forced to assemble their own communities because of oppression, because of things like segregation. And in doing so, are able to support their own people regardless of, you know, what those people look like because of the way they have been oppressed in the past. Which is why you see today a lot of black people online are like, "Oh, I don't care if we're segregated or whatever." But a lot of white people are like, "No, no, we can't do this because they would in fact lose their community." The best way that I can think to put this in perspective for people who just aren't getting it is when we look at men and women. So, right now, men are going through this loneliness epidemic, right? Where a lot of women just don't want to get married.

[00:05:29]They're not really interested in dating.

[00:05:31]They are buying their own homes. They're working their own jobs. They're making, you know, their multiple six-figure salaries, whatever. They have their own businesses. They can have their own bank accounts without men. They can do whatever without men. And so women are like, "Why would I opt to be in a relationship with a man when I can just do bad all by myself?" When you look at men who typically don't have as flourishing of a community or as well-rounded of a community as women do, right? They relationships typically aren't that deep with other men. They also aren't really emotionally available with other men or have like different opportunities where they can feel like they can be emotionally safe with other people. When they are in relationships, they seek a lot of emotional support from women because they don't have that in other aspects of their life. So the fact that women are going off and doing their own thing and don't give a damn about men, it's really hurting the men and the men are like, "No, we don't want this." But if men would actually, you know, be more emotionally available with their friends, you know, go to therapy, talk about their feelings, you know, have, you know, celebrations and birthday parties and just deeper friendships and connections and relationships like women do, then they wouldn't really be bothered if women were doing all the things that we're already doing on our own. It's patriarchal beliefs that are holding men back from living their best lives because now that women are separate and mostly kind of isish equal depending on who you're talking to. We can go off and do our own thing and live our best lives. Similarly, black people have their own community, have their own restaurants, banks, shops, businesses, influencers, all of it, right? So white people who don't really have the same community, who don't have the same deep connections, don't have the same village of people to really be behind them in their own culture and their own lives are going to be missing out because they don't have the support from minorities aka black people in this case. And in that scenario, it's white supremacy, which hint hint is very closely related, if not cousins to patriarchy. Because if white people actually had their own communities where that were flourishing and didn't really need to rely on minorities and they could be fine all by themselves. In case you needed yet another example of how white people don't really have community is since January 15th, inauguration day, I have not seen a single viral protest video or slew of videos. I haven't seen a single one. I'm on the internet every single day. Haven't seen one. Why? Because they aren't out there. They're not protesting. There's no community.

[00:07:43]There's no organization. There's no one to really spearhead the movement. Who typically spearheads all the activism and protests and any civil rights related movements? Black people. While I still have you here, I would like to also point out that because white people don't have these big flourishing supportive communities like other minorities do, they really grasp hold of their communities in real life or like their families and you know their people they hang out with at the country clubs, etc., etc. So, when things like a presidential election happens and people find out that their other half of their family actually voted for someone that they don't support, it is actually less likely that they're going to leave that family because it's literally the only semblance of community they have that does not involve minorities. So, I'm going to conclude this TED talk by saying that whether or not you believe segregation was positive or negative for the black community, since we gonna be segregated, um I would like to propose a few things be returned back to us that never really should have been taken from us in the first place. The first one is our food.

[00:08:46]Okay? So, there's really no reason why um people should be enjoying sfu when it was, you know, it was scraps that we had to make something out of nothing with.

[00:08:54]So yeah, we going to take that back. Our music, we will definitely uh take our music back. And I'm not just talking about R&B and hip-hop, okay? I am also talking about rock and roll. There's no way that Elvis could be the king of uh rock and roll when you have Chuck Barry and Little Richard. So we'll go ahead and we'll take that back as well.

[00:09:13]Speaking of music, we will take all styles of dance um back, including the dances that were created on Tik Tok that white influencers um started doing and they thought that they made famous and did not give black creators their credit. So, we'll take all of that back.

[00:09:29]Give us our hairstyles back. Um there's no reason that you guys should be wearing locks, braids, doing your edges, put wrapping your hair, um and doing all of the cool things that we can do with our hair. There's absolutely no reason for that. Um, y'all deem it ghetto and unprofessional when we do it anyway and y'all call it trendy when y'all do it.

[00:09:46]We don't. Uhuh. We not doing it. Give it back. Um, do the Viking braids. Y'all y'all ate that up. Uh, we will go ahead and take street wear, urban wear back and sneaker culture cuz remember Jordans are ghetto and y'all don't even know how to treat Air Force One. So, we'll go ahead and we'll take that back as well. If y'all could return Ibonics to us, that would be great. Um, notice how I did not say a a ve because I don't know how y'all going to take something that doesn't belong to y'all and rebrand it. Okay, it has never been African-American vernacular English to me. It's always been slang and Ebonics. So, we'll go ahead and take that back. Those things include but not limited to like and did is giving not too much on period, you know, my bae, you know, things like that. um y'all ain't even because those were considered to be uh uneducated words and and phrases. So, we will go ahead and take that back as well. If y'all could also return our beauty trends, um that would be great if y'all could do that. There's no reason why y'all here getting lip fillers, um getting surgery, going to tanning beds and all of that. Um y'all don't have to do that. Y'all can give it back. Um all in all, we just want our back.

[00:10:57]Okay? And I know, you know, there's somebody's watching it's like, "Oh, well, culture is to be shared." Yeah, but not appropriated. And it's been real appropriated around this So, we'll just take all of that back since it's going to be segregated.

[00:11:09]And lastly, before I get out y'all's way since I have y'all here, um, the outrage by the white people, like, I mean, I'm not moved. This has been the same America that we've always lived in. So, it's, oh, I don't know how you guys are just laying down and accepting this, and oh, I'm so upset for the black people in my life. And we're I don't understand why y'all wasn't upset before.

[00:11:35]So, yeah, I'm not I'm not moved by that.

[00:11:37]But if y'all want to go out here and protest, go and do y'all's big one.

[00:11:41]We're not We don't care. We actually are here for it.

[00:11:46]Be well, beloveds. If you think that black people were better off under segregation, I have one chart to show you that should probably change your entire perspective on this topic. This one chart that that I'm going to show you actually completely dispels the myth that I think a lot of people are captured in right now. Before I show you that chart, I got a little something to get off my chest. I think a lot of people have forgotten how we get information and maybe not even how we get it, but how to access it and what it means to have I'm in Tokyo. Shout out to Tokyo. It's kind of crazy over here. I think people by and large have forgotten how to come to a good conclusion. It is not simply vibes or nostalgia. It is not simply taking the opinion of someone, extrapolating that into fact or into the right way to think. there there is information like we can do information gathering. We can actually like figure out what uh makes sense and what doesn't and and I want to show you this chart because I think it helps us to understand how things how to make sense of things. All right, stay tuned. Here's a chart. It's right behind me. Boss, take a look at it. It explains the black poverty rate for individuals from 1959.

[00:12:59]This is just before some of the civil rights advances, the civil rights protections that were secured during the civil rights movement. It's just before that, 1959 all the way to 2021. And the thing that you'll notice is that in 1959, the black individual poverty rate was over 50%, like 55% for black people.

[00:13:18]Today, it is just under 20% at 17.1 17.6 depending upon which chart. Actually, let me show you another chart. Here's that same information, but pulled from the Census Bureau. It's a little bit different. So you see the the black poverty rate is at 62.5% in 1965 according to this data uh but down to about 17.6 today. Um I don't have a problem with the discrepancy because I think the information is still the same. It dropped by a lot. No matter how you slice it, black people are objectively in a better economic position today than they were in 1965 or 1959 when segregation was still going on. The truth is segregation never exactly ended. What ended was the government's ability to discriminate in an explicit way. There are many implicit ways that the government is still allowed to discriminate against black people to keep black people out of certain things and the legacy of that segregation is of course at play for every sector of society from education to loan access and beyond. Like it's all there. So, so, so we know that those things exist. I want to take seriously the fact that what people are actually getting at with this question is is how do we get back to a place where black people looked out for black people where we had our own where we were deeply deeply engaged in community building base building we felt uh a kind of political solidarity with each other and I'm actually for that.

[00:14:47]I'm for that. But being for that doesn't require us to get into our heads about some distant past that is more amendable to black survival than it is today. My grandmother I'm going to tell you this quick story. I didn't even intend to tell you this, but I'm going to tell you anyway. My grandmother grew up in the Lynwood Park community in Atlanta, Georgia, just on the north side of Atlanta. And it was a segregated community. There's some really amazing uh there's some amazing like research done about this community, some incredible like community storytelling that I I love. One of the things she told me is that growing up the police used to bust down her door because she had a brother and they bust down the doors of other families who had Are you okay? If the house if the home had a boy, a son, they they bust into the home, drag the boy out, and the police would do these kind of ritualistic routine beatings of that young man.

[00:15:38]>> I remember growing up, I'd ask my nana, "Well, why didn't you tell the people?

[00:15:42]Why didn't you tell the cops?" And she kind of like laughed and said like they were the cops. There's no one to tell.

[00:15:50]There's no one there was no civil rights division in the Atlanta Police Department or United States government. There's no one to tell. We didn't have protections.

[00:16:00]That was the that's the whole point. In many ways, that's the most tangible thing that we go back to if we went back to segregation. And uh I don't think we want that. I will never stop talking about how horribly disgusting this photo is because it perpetuates the idea of black men praying on white women, which has been a trope that has been going on for years that has led to wrongful convictions, mass incarceration, and deadly consequences that hurt the black community. And I've been seeing more and more people posting videos like these where they're saying that they would never go into a room at a party with a white woman. But I think it's worth discussing where this sort of fear and tension with black men and white women actually comes from and how the myth of the black rapist really fuels this trope. So essentially what the myth of black rapist is is the idea of black men who are preying on the femininity and praying on the innocence of white women.

[00:16:49]To understand how harmful this trope is, let's take the Central Park vibe case to start off with. In the spring of 1989, there were 30 teenagers who were playing in Central Park. At the same time, a white woman, Trisha Mey, was going for a jog. The next day, she was found to be raped, to be abused, and to be put in a coma. They then arrested five teenage boys, aged 14 to 16, and there were five black men and one Latino boy. They were forced into giving wrong statements to be to say that they were guilty, and they were found to be guilty for the crime they never committed. It was not until they were in jail for about 13 years. The person who actually committed the crime said they did it. But that is years of childhood that is lost. That that is years of childhood innocence that is lost. Now, the treatment of the Central Park 5 children reflects years and years of the abuse of black men when black men were lynched after the Civil War. During the years of 1865 and 1895, more than 10,000 black people were killed. Only three white people were killed during this period. It's important to note that um during the Civil War, not a single black man was accused of raping a black woman. But after the black people were freed, white supremists needed a way to consistently control the freedom of black people. And so creating the myth of the black rapist was a way in which they could justify hurting them. That they could justify mob violence and they could justify ensuring they were never to be as equal as white people. In other words, mob violence and lawless killings of black people was a way to ensure they were not going to revolt together in union and also was a way to reaffirm white supremacy. Films like Birth of a Nation fed into the KKK and white supremacist fantasy of a white supremacist South, a pure South, and featured many, many black stereotypes. But it was clearly a lie because according to the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching between 1889 and 1929, only about one six of lynching victims were actually accused of rape. Although there were activists like Edb Wells and Frederick Douglas who were actually trying to dismantle the system, white women were actually those who reinforce the trope themselves. Organizations of the Women's Christian Temperance Unit would publicly vilify black men. They said they were inherently sexually immoral and linked their sexual um lustfulness for white women with their um likelihood to drink.

[00:18:55]And most importantly, white feminists will consistently use their platform to blame black men. For example, Susan Brown Miller. She uses her platform and uses her books to blame EMTT Till for his own death. Emtt Till was only 14 years old when he was lynched and when his body was found at the bottom of the Talahachi River after he whistled at a white woman named Carolyn Bryant. But instead of actually recognizing this injustice, Susan Bramler blames it on himself. She says, and I quote, "Till's wolf whistle was a deliberate insult just short of physical assault. A last reminder to Carolyn Bryan that this black boy had in mind to possess her. So instead of recognizing how this person, this young boy was abused, she specifically puts the blame on him and she tries to glorify and to protect the the femininity of a white woman." Now, we can't forget that stereotypes to frame black men as savage equally hurt black women by framing them as hypersexual and loose. Because the institution of lynching complimented the sexual assaults of black women, where black women's bodies were treated as breeders instead of mothers, they were seen as a key component to ensure that the slave population kept growing in the south. Today, the stereotype continues to fuel inequality that hurts black communities. The National Registry of Exonerations have found that it takes black people an average of three years longer than white people to be exonerated murder cases. By framing black men is hypersexual and black women as hypersexual. It leads to white men in power. White elites who are committing these crimes to be consistently faced with less scrutiny compared to black communities. Overall, the myth of the black rapist was never about protecting communities. It was never about sharing the truth. It was about control and maintaining power.

[00:20:31]>> Been talking about it. Y'all been talking about it. So let's go there.

[00:20:34]Let's go there. We keep having this we need our own. We need our own right talking creeping into our culture and it's misguided. It's misguided and potentially lethal if we don't interrogate it. Right? So here's the thing. Fetishizing segregation is not the same as advocating for autonomy. It is not the same. It is not the same. I need y'all to understand. Under a leader like Trump is going to make it look like black empowerment. It's going to make it look like we was getting freedom. But it could be weaponized into sanctioned isolation and eraser. Okay? Sanctioned isolation. Do you hear what I'm saying?

[00:21:06]So the rise in discourse, right?

[00:21:08]Especially online, especially on the internet. I seen this video piss me off so bad. Piss me off so bad. Piss me off.

[00:21:15]So this girl on the talking about the take. She sitting on a train talking about, "Oh, okay. Uh, we want segregation back. We were better off."

[00:21:22]You know, people always say this. People always say this stupid stuff. We were better off when we had our own schools, towns, and businesses. Integration destroyed the black community. We could go back to being separate from white people. Y'all hear this all day. I hear this all day. On the surface, it feels empowering, right? It references real things, references Black Wall Street, references, you know, all all the catastrophes. I could go on and on. It references real things and the sense of the community that came with the self-reliance, right? But it romanticizes trauma and ignores violent context and invites structural danger into today's political climate. We don't need this right now. I'm telling you, we don't need this right now. But here's why it's dangerous, right? It ignores that segregation wasn't just separate.

[00:22:00]It was deliberately unequal. Okay?

[00:22:02]Deliberately unequal. The state withheld resources from black communities.

[00:22:06]Separate schools meant inferior funding.

[00:22:08]Infrastructure, safety, and medical care were all neglected. This was not was not thriving separately. It was surviving in spite of oppression. And this is something that I got to stop hearing y'all say. Y'all y'all keep saying, "I made it. I made it." Right? It's like how black guys are like, "I don't need no woman to make it." And how and I' I've seen black women go, "Well, you know, if we all in the same situation, how come we just holding on?" I have not described thriving one time on this page talking about black people. Only thing I talk about thriving is the hope in what we have already. But all of our history, right, when we thrived, cool. But if we consume the greater context, right, that is segregation. If you want to lock in with me, then don't don't play games.

[00:22:51]Don't play games like like our history was just some kind of fun amusement park we got to dance through. We didn't get to dance through none of that. Right.

[00:23:00]And it racist state sanctioned violence that accompanied black autonomy. Tulsa wasn't a tragedy because black people failed. And that's and I really feel like that's what some of y'all are on. I really feel like that's what some of y'all on type type It was a tragedy because white mob showed up backed by the government. Burn black wealth to the ground. backed by the government.

[00:23:22]Y'all think y'all they just gonna leave us alone? H how how like come on. Like the entire country of Liberia is se is segregated from from the United States.

[00:23:33]They they push black free men, right?

[00:23:35]And free people, free women. Send them off right right away. Did we help Liberia? Did we fund Did we give them resources? Have we restored their economy? Are we talking about them right now? They won't talk about us then. They won't do it. Right? And also, here's the thing. If segregation returns under Trump, it won't just be it won't be blackled. It'll be state and forced division, disinvestment, and surveillance. Okay? So, under somebody like Trump, the desire to build your own gets co-opted it. He going to co-opt that. He's excited to hear us get like this. He's fanning for it. Okay? Stay in your zone. Stay out of ours. That's what y'all not ready to hear. Separate schools, funding, housing, and courts.

[00:24:13]That's what y'all not ready to hear.

[00:24:14]That's not empowerment. That is legal aparthide. that we are advocating for as black people every time that we talk about segregation. Every time. And and let's actually go back. Let's actually lock in what what is it gonna look out look like under Trump. It wouldn't mean black what what would Trump segregation look like? It's not going to mean black wall street 2.0. It's not even going to mean 1.5. It's not even going to be 07.

[00:24:37]Okay. School funding is going to get redirected into traditional like traditional white communities under the banner of choice. revival of redline style zoning, right? Through the freedom of association laws, black cities rebranded as high crime zones targeted for police overreach and surveillance.

[00:24:56]You think they just not coming in?

[00:24:59]We got to be serious about the problem, right? Like be be so serious. I was literally literally fighting not to crash out last night over this exact same topic because too many of us want to be middle class but don't understand how they are lazy. Don't too many of us are looking for a leader looking for an option. Okay. Advocating for segregation is advocating for statebacked displacement and UTF federal roll back fair housing and anti-discrimination laws reframed us ending woke overreach.

[00:25:28]Right? Some of this is sounding similar and that's because we're playing into the SCOP.

[00:25:31]>> We're playing into the SCOP. Okay. So, patriotonly economic zones that isolate white capital and exclude progressive black cities, black institutions surveiled under anti-CRT or anti-subversion laws. He couldn't he would not call it segregation. He would call it respecting local values. And that's what makes it terrifying. So, what are the actual pros to segregation?

[00:25:52]Cuz cuz the nut jobs the nut jobs are going to be talking about pros the right. Right. But let's actually let's actually talk about this. Right. So the yearning for se for segregation is really a yearning for safety, stability, and community control. I get it. I get it. There are values in this conversation, but they must be separated from the method.

[00:26:13]Cultural autonomy, right, is cool.

[00:26:15]Spaces for black expression, safety, healing, and storytelling without constant white surveillance sounds nice, right? Economics econ like economic ecosystems sounds cool, right? Black businesses support each other.

[00:26:25]Circulating a dollar within the community.

[00:26:28]You know, I spend a dollar, you get some of my some of my change. That I I get it. That's cool. Institutional control, black le schools, clinics, media outlets, and that reflect black values and needs. Sounds like a fantasy. Sounds like a fantasy. But these things can and should exist without racial aparthide.

[00:26:45]That's the reason why I'm talking like this because too many of y'all want to be white in my comment section. Bye.