America Never Stopped Loving Minstrel Shows

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Have you ever heard this song >> or seen one of these? Seen videos like this.

[00:00:16]>> Have you watched a group of white comedians make jokes at black expense?

[00:00:20]Yeah. Then you have seen menstrual sea and its remnants that remain today. But what actually is menstrual sea and a minstrel show? Where did it come from?

[00:00:27]Why is it so bad? Are they still around today? These questions and many more will be answered in this video.

[00:00:34]>> Thank you.

[00:00:36]>> Before we get into the modern versions of menstrual shows, we must go backwards back to when original menstrual shows were created. History.

[00:00:52]The minstrel show also called minstrol was an American form of theater developed in the 1700s. The shows were originally performed by white actors in blackface. They would use burnt cork or shoe polish to turn their skin brown trying to look more black, you know.

[00:01:05]Then they would do musical songs and dances portraying racist stereotypes of black Americans.

[00:01:13]Minstal shows stereotyped black Americans as dim-witted, hungry, lazy, buffoonish, greedy, cowardly, superstitious, and happy golucky.

[00:01:23]>> WELL, WHY DON'T YOU GET A JOB AND GO TO WORK? Y'ALL almost had me a job this morning.

[00:01:28]>> Where?

[00:01:29]>> I went down to the post office and that man could he let me have one of them jobs as a letter to her.

[00:01:35]>> No, Cotton. You mean a mail carrier.

[00:01:37]>> Remember, all my references will be linked in the description below. The history of blackface initial shows goes back so far that even Frederick Douglas commented on it. He said, and I quote, "Blackface performers are the filthy scum of white society who have stolen from us a complexion denied to them by nature in which to make money and pander to the corrupt taste of their white fellow citizens, bars. he is allowed to have a podcast. By the 1800s, minstrel shows were the most popular form of entertainment in the United States. It was actually the first ever uniquely American form of performance. Prior to this, all of our art was very derivative and taken from other countries. But this was ours. This was American. And I think it says a lot about us as Americans in the state of entertainment that the first form of uniquely American entertainment was mocking black people.

[00:02:16]Two white people who were watching these minstral shows, it was their first and only way to get a glimpse of the real negro experience, what they were actually like. They would never have an actual conversation with a black person.

[00:02:27]No. But they felt like it was nice to know what they're up to. And according to minstal shows, it was a lot of nothing. Menstrual shows directly impacted and still impact how white society sees black Americans. You guys know the joke, why did the chicken cross the road? This joke is a derivative from a menstrual show. As a kid, when I'd hear that joke, it made zero sense to me. I didn't really understand what the point was. But the whole point of the joke is that it's not supposed to make sense. It's a joke that only somebody so stupid and lacking of wit could come up with. And that's why these jokes were used in menstrual shows. According to them, only an African-American could come up with that joke. Even though America had very clear biases towards black people at the time and currently there was a stereotype of the grinning negro, the black person who was just happy to be there. This is where we get figures like Anchamima, Uncle Ben. When PepsiCo discontinued Anchamima, there was outrage. People assumed Anchamama was a real person and her family was distraught that they were removing her from the packaging. Anchamima is a menstrual character. This is how pervasive this issue is. You can't even eat breakfast without being reminded of our history of mockery. Not only that, but there are very few forms of entertainment in our country that did not start with the mockery of black people or people of color.

[00:03:30]>> You're a slave for coming. Master Elma, to that m lift that bail yasa. What do you say, Chum?

[00:03:37]What do you say?

[00:03:40]>> Don't beat me, Massa. Don't beat me.

[00:03:42]Don't whip this poor old body. No.

[00:03:48]What's this I hear about you whipping slaves?

[00:03:51]>> Oh >> yeah, as bad as this is, there is so much worse. Like, did you know the design for Mickey Mouse is designed after a minstrel character? This is not just speculation. When Mickey Mouse was created, this is a type of entertainment that was popular at the time. Many blackfaced minstrel performers wore white gloves while performing. This added more contrast between them, their dark skin, and their hands. Made them pop a little, you know. Also, it's hard to paint your hands, so that's why they wore the white gloves. You know, clowns.

[00:04:16]Look at an American clown next to a minstrel show performer. Do we see any similarities? American clown makeup is also directly related to minstal shows.

[00:04:26]So many of the lullabi and sayings we grew up with are also deeply rooted in our racist minstrel past. A commonly known one is eeny meeny miny mo catch a tiger by his toe. If it hollers let him go. But some of you might not know the original song was eeny meenie miny mo catch a by his toe. if he hollers and so on and so on. Or you know that song 10 little monkeys jumping on the bed. Went fell off and bumped his head. Mama called the doctor and the doctor said, "No more monkeys jumping on the bed."

[00:04:56]Y'all know that song. What if I told you the original lyrics were a lot more sinister? The original song was called 10 Little and it was a violent song about them dying off one by one. Not so fun anymore, is it? There are just so many examples of this. Last one, the ice cream truck song. Still used to this day.

[00:05:15]It has its roots in a mystical character named Zipcoon. And the original title of the melody, the melody that you'll hear today often is love a watermelon. Haha.

[00:05:25]Does that make you want ice cream?

[00:05:35]coons. They were a huge part of minstal performance. A zip [ __ ] is a caricature of a free black man in the north. One who tries to fit into white society but fails miserably and comedically. He dresses extravagantly, tries to have intellectual conversations, but always misses the mark because he's black. And that's the joke. He would use big words, but everything he said came out as nonsensical. My friends, it is indeed a financial pleasure to have so many of you resemble here today on this suspicious occasion.

[00:06:06]Now, we have resembled here to elect a new mayor. But before I proceed any further, I must tell you that the treasure of our club is missing.

[00:06:19]Yes, he's gone. He is 5' 11 1/2 in tall and he is $69.80 short. But before we go on any further, we going to pass up the hat in a few moments to take up that amount.

[00:06:32]>> The idea being that a black person couldn't possibly be smart enough to fit into white society. The polar opposite of Zip Coupon is Jim Crow. Jim Crow is a mitch character who dressed up in rags and sang songs about working in the field. Now, the name Jim Crow might sound very familiar to you because of Jim Crow laws in the 1870s. This was the law mandating segregation, mandating that black and white people have separate but equal things. We all saw how that turned out. There's a misconception that Jim Crow was named after the law. No, the law was named after a blackfaced racist character. A character that perpetuated the stereotype that black people are stupid, lazy, and that all that black people want to do all day is sing and dance.

[00:07:06]Black joy has been something under attack for a very long time. We still see it. We see it all the time. Black people have our own culture. the cookout, dancing, parties, things that for some reason whiteness sees as a threat or ghetto and ratchet. Let's say according to the stereotype, black people did enjoy just singing and dancing all the time. Why is that a problem? Why is that something to be made a mockery of? Why was that such a problem that that was a key part of minstal show characters? The thought of people having community enjoy is a laughing matter, something to be made a mockery. My question to you is, why do you think black joy has been such a problem in this country? People calling the cops on black families having cookouts, people hating black dance.

[00:07:41]There little used to be laws against showing black women's hair in public after they started doing like more extravagant styles. Styles that brought them joy. Some of the biggest names in entertainment got their start doing blackface in menstrual shows or did them at some point in their career. Shirley Temple, Fred a stair and Judy Garland just to name a few. William Henry Lane was the first black performer to ever perform in a menstrual show. He was a great dancer and this was his only route to becoming an entertainer. For all black performers, this was the only route to become an actual entertainer and to get into wealth via those means.

[00:08:12]Making a mockery of their own race and racial stereotypes for money, but again, it was literally the only way. For many white people, seeing a black person perform and participate in these menstrual shows not only gave them confirmation that what they were seeing was an accurate portrayal of black life, but also that it was okay. These black performers would tell audiences they were just ordinary exslaves doing what came naturally to them being picadinis mammies and zipcoons. Eventually black minstal show performers became the expert on this topic leading white menstrual performers to then come off as inauthentic. People wanted to see black performers performing minstrel. Then boom, black performers pushed their way into mainstream entertainment. And this push allowed two men Bert Williams and George Walker to find each other. And they created a twoman act called two real coons. And this was such a success that eventually they were able to break off and create their own menstrual troop. They hired as many black performers as possible. They made it their mission to improve the working conditions of black performers and would add political commentary into their routines. They even changed the type of music that was being performed.

[00:09:11]Originally, what was being performed were what was called [ __ ] songs. And these songs just demeaned black people.

[00:09:16]But Walker and Williams, they wanted to show that you could talk and even make jokes about black people without resorting to the lowest blow possible or being overtly racist. This paved the way for people like the Hire Sisters to become popular. They were a duo that was raised in entertainment from very young.

[00:09:31]They had angelic voices and became the first ever black women to succeed nationwide as a touring act. People started to not care about their race and more about their talent. But menstrual shows were still around and more and more black people felt like they had to participate in these minstal shows to advance their careers. The first black woman to ever get an Oscar in 1939 was named Haiti McDaniel and her roots were in minstrel performing. If it wasn't for these original minstrel performers, I would not be here today. Around the 1950s, minstrel shows started disappearing. The civil rights movement was here and black people were finally able to speak our truth. We are not a joke. We are not zipcoons picking mammies. We are individual people completely capable of our own thoughts and feelings. Thus, this ended the minstral show era. But if it's over, why do we still have things like this?

[00:10:13]Dunkin Donuts doing blackface, famous actors doing blackface, black actors being forced to play these stereotypes in media. When something ends, that does not mean it just goes away. It still happened. Blackface in mineral performance is embedded in the culture of America. The mockery of black suffering is embedded in the root of entertainment. You cannot talk about American entertainment without talking about menstrual shows because that was the start. Even though it is not socially acceptable to do minstal shows, that doesn't mean people were suddenly like, you know what, you're right. I suddenly care about how black people feel. No, people were still singing songs from their favorite minstal shows.

[00:10:46]The stereotypes that these shows created still existed and were passed down from generation to generation. Which brings us to today. We as a people, as a society, have come so far. It's really easy for us to forget about our past in our history. It's easy to pretend that it didn't happen and didn't shape our society. But the truth is, for many actors of color, they still have to be a menstrualike caricature of themselves to succeed in entertainment. Not only that, minstrel shows still exist, but now the white minstrels who are performing these shows are not in blackface. But the central idea is the same and very clear.

[00:11:15]We are going to make fun of you and laugh at you because you're black. There are so many examples I want to get into, but the one that is on the forefront of my mind, and I'm assuming yours, too, is the Kevin Hart roast. I think this is a perfect example of not only black performers being forced into the happy golucky Uncle Tom persona in order not to be ostracized from white society and these white spaces, but also a great example of white performers using menstrual humor in 2026 to normalize the demeaning of black people. I'm going to play a few clips from the roast and hopefully the copyright gods are in my favor today. If they are not, then this next scene will be me explaining the jokes to you >> and they're going to be up here saying a lot of racist terrible things tonight.

[00:11:49]But uh yeah, you guys like that Kevin is so short.

[00:11:55]>> Kevin's so short that they're going to have to lynch him from a bonsai tree.

[00:12:00]I'm your extremely white host, Shane Gillis. White host. Big applause. All right. I'd just like to thank Netflix for choosing me to host this celebration of black excellence. Look, I'm not saying there's a lot of black people here tonight, but backstage a production assistant asked me what color drink I want in my dressing room.

[00:12:18]Chose purple. Being 5'1 sucks, but at least you can tell them apart from all the other blacks.

[00:12:26]Yeah, they told me to be racist. I don't When you see Kevin stand next to all his normalsized black friends, he looks like the period at the end of a sentence.

[00:12:35]Yes. To really understand Kevin's origins, you have to go back to the beginning. Kevin's ancestors came to America in a slave ship in a bottle.

[00:12:44]Give it up for Lizo.

[00:12:47]I'd really love to make fun of her, but I met her earlier this week and she's actually pretty cool.

[00:12:52]Who would have thought that? But anyway, uh actually, I'd still like to do it. Go back.

[00:12:58]Lizo looks like the final boss of a Red Lobster video game.

[00:13:04]People keep saying Lizo's washed up, but I believe the correct term is beached.

[00:13:11]Nice flute, you >> We're having fun.

[00:13:22]>> Now, I have a few questions. Do you think it's possible to be funny and make jokes about a person without making fun of their race? I personally think it's possible, but race jokes are easy. I understand. They take no thought. After Slapstick, in my opinion, race jokes are the lowest form of comedy. Shane Gillis said they told him to be racist. Netflix told him to be racist and I guess he just couldn't say no and he had to do it. He had to be racist. Interesting.

[00:13:44]I'm not going to dive into every single joke and why it's bad because I think it's pretty obvious, but I wanted to explore people's reactions to these jokes. The examples I showed were Kevin Hart and Lizo being made fun of. Now, they had two options. Laugh along with the joke or get laughed at. Because people were going to laugh at the jokes anyway. It depends. Do you want to be a part of the joke and laughing along with them or the one getting laughed at because the joke upset you? In the entertainment industry, black people are forced into this Uncle Tom role to be accepted. For those who don't know, Uncle Tom is a black person who really wants approval from white people.

[00:14:13]Because if at any point Kevin Hart had stopped this roast and been like, "Hey, that's too much. That's too far." People would have came for him, calling him sensitive, saying, "All black people are like this. They make everything about race and take everything so personally.

[00:14:24]It's just a joke." But what about this isn't personal? to mock somebody for something that used to get them whipped and beaten. Their skin tone. And I just also don't like that they're laughing so hard like the jokes are actually funny.

[00:14:35]Like Kevin's like when the joke wasn't even that funny. It wasn't even that good. All the people in the audience who laughed and cheated on this behavior are complicit. You have now co-signed these jokes. Maybe Kevin can handle jokes like this. But what about the young edge lords who see this roast and are like, "Hey, wait. So I can make fun of black people." And it's not just a what if?

[00:14:51]When humor like this was at its peak again in like the 2000s, 2010s, it made my youth ass. I was in mainly honors and AP classes growing up. And because of systemic issues at play, I was often the only black person in those rooms, or one of few. I've experienced, as a joke, being told I look like a monkey, that I smell like a black person, had people I thought were my friends call me the nword, had teachers say the n-word right in front of me. There has been no part of my life not touched by racism. So, when overtly or covertly racist content is plastered on my for you page where I'm scrolling and I see people on stage making fun of black people in front of a audience of white people, it makes me sad to think of the young black people who I know will have to pay the consequence of this content, the bullying, the jokes. And when this happens, they have two choices. To laugh along or to stand up for themselves. And it's hard to do the latter when you know it means that you will be ostracized. In my opinion, this whole roast was a minstal show. a white performer mocking black people for money and the entertainment of a white audience. Black performers being complicit in this minstro show because it's their only way to make it. Black performers have been forced to play minstrel like characters even after menstrual shows ended in TV.

[00:16:00]Think about people like Crazy Eyes from Orange is the New Black. Even as far as Tik Tok online pages like this one, Yi TV, a Tik Toker who started posting videos dancing that got barely any traction to then making minstralesque content. You might be like, "AJ, you can't just accuse somebody of making menstrual content."

[00:16:18]>> Cut it. Cut it.

[00:16:25]Cut it. Cut it.

[00:16:38]>> Don't never had your chicken make.

[00:16:43]A lot of black people online have learned that the only way to be successful is to be made a mockery.

[00:16:47]Because in videos like this, there is no joke being told. He is the joke. Now, people can do whatever they want. They have free will. But content like this is a great example of modern-day ministry seat. And the performers are black people. Just like how previously black people had to participate in the mockery of their own race in order to get into entertainment, some are still doing it now. There are so many parallels and the stereotypes being pushed are the same.

[00:17:08]Black people hungry like food a lot. Do nothing but be silly and eat. Black folks love chicken, love watermelon. For this young man and many other menstrual performers, this seems like his only means to getting relevancy. His content that is not like this greatly underperforms. We live in a society that was built on berating and making fun of black people. That is literally the foundation of comedy in this country.

[00:17:28]So, this is no surprise to me that content like that is more popular than people being authentically themselves.

[00:17:32]Same goes for creators like this, Big Groove, who again, his whole stick is big black guy who eats food and dances.

[00:17:39]SOUND FAMILIAR?

[00:18:00]AND OF COURSE, BECAUSE ONE BLACK PERSON gets popular doing it, there are copycats.

[00:18:04]>> YOU DON'T PUT HONEY ON YOUR CHICKEN, YOU TWERKING.

[00:18:07]NOW I KNOW SOME people are going to disagree with me and tell me that these examples are not remnants of ministral seed but argue with your mother not me.

[00:18:14]In my opinion another clear-cut example was the issue that happened at USB UCB a few years ago. They hosted a gentrified Junth performance. It was done by all black people but again the concept is the same as a menstrual show. Black people joking and making fun of their own suffering for white audiences.

[00:18:29]>> Stand up. I said get up.

[00:18:35]The first move you're going TO GO HANDS UP, HANDS UP, DON'T SHOOT.

[00:18:44]OKAY. UH, IT'S LIKE YOU'RE TRYING TO AVOID BULLETS, BUT YOU PROBABLY WON'T.

[00:18:48]OKAY. YOU'RE GOING TO DO A GRAPE VINE. I KNOW ABOUT GRAPES. IT GOES RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT. STOMP the neck.

[00:18:59]>> Is that clear? AND THEN IT GOES THE OTHER WAY. LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT. STOMP THE NECK. BLOCK THE CAMERA. DON'T LET THEM SEE.

[00:19:08]>> YOU'RE TRYING TO BLOCK THE LENS CUZ WE'RE NOT TRYING TO GET CAUGHT UP. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?

[00:19:14]And then you just meas This might be more obviously a derivative from menstrual shows. Again, black performers joking about and singing songs about blackness to a white audience. But black people are not the only ones carrying on the legacy of menstrual cy. No, no, no. That's far from the truth. But for some reason, when it's brought up, people act like it's not real. They say it's a stretch.

[00:19:34]like the Tik Tocker I see Wyatt. He got really popular because of his mannerisms, his long nails, and the way he acts. He's in jail right now, but before he was, this is the kind of content that he would make.

[00:19:43]>> Hey y'all, do you want to eat with me?

[00:19:45]So, today I got La Ruel, and it's this Mexican place that I absolutely love by my house.

[00:19:53]I got tacos, but you can get basically anything that you get from Chipotle.

[00:20:01]Hey y'all. Do you want to eat with me?

[00:20:10]>> What's up y'all? I got me some Subway.

[00:20:12]Okay.

[00:20:21]When you see that, your first thought might be like, "AJ, you don't know where he comes from. Maybe he just talks like that because he grew up around black culture." Well, if he did, then I feel like he would know better than to say things like this.

[00:20:31]>> But the Africanamean people right now to me, I don't really see a much of a culture from you guys. What I see what I see from you guys is y'all gatekeeping y'all gatekeeping [ __ ] that y'all don't even know about that y'all aren't even educated about.

[00:20:48]And I'm going to say some racist [ __ ] right now, but like mac and cheese, fried chicken, and all that was like >> watermelon.

[00:20:54]>> Your your heritage like where you came from food.

[00:20:59]>> Africanamean people were >> Africanamean people were they were set free here.

[00:21:04]>> They were set free here in America. And then people appreciate their culture and they get and then they get they get [ __ ] like so beat up like you guys gatekeep and stuff and you don't want anyone appreciating your culture.

[00:21:20]>> But it's like why did you come here then?

[00:21:22]>> Before I continue personal example in my high school there was this white kid who was adopted by a black family and he sounded very stereotypically black dressed very stereotypically black but he was white. So people like that do exist. people who were raised around a culture or an accent and that's just how they sound. But that is not the case for Icy Wyatt. This is his mom who is running his TikTok right now. Hey, it's been a while since I've done an Icy Wyatt update. I had received an email from the classification supervisor acknowledging my request um for information about the situation that went on inside. So, him talking and acting this way is a choice. And I have seen the sentiment online that people feel like what he's doing is minstral sea. If you think that's a stretch, you're going to hate these next few examples.

[00:22:08]>> Something that's super obvious in every non-black person that tries to fake a black scent is that they can never decide which black scent they want to fake. And Aquafina is a great example of this. Contrary to popular belief, the fanatics of a differ from region to region. But if you didn't grow up around black people and your only exposure to a through pop culture and social media, then your attempts to mimic a black will sound weird and disjointed and inauthentic. Again, let's look at Aquafina as an example. Listen to how she says right in this clip.

[00:22:32]>> Damn straight. I'm right >> here. It sounds like she's trying to mimic southern American English.

[00:22:37]Lowering the vowel sound in the word right so it sounds closer to the one in the word rot isn't super common, but when it does happen, it's usually in the south. So, at this point, it may seem like she's trying to sound like a southerner. But listen to how she pronounces the word can't in this next clip.

[00:22:48]>> Check it.

[00:22:49]>> But you can't swerve. Nothing.

[00:22:51]>> Here, she turns this vowel sound, which is found in the word can't, into this vowel sound, which is found in the word ain't. Merging these two vowel sounds, especially before the letter N, is a trait of California English, specifically Bay Area English. I didn't bother watching Crazy Rich Asians because I don't hate myself, but within one compilation of her scenes from one movie, Aquafina managed to mimic two completely separate accents in an attempt to sound black. And the funniest thing is neither of these accents are the ones that she grew up around. She's from New York. Or I can stretch it even further. Like let's say a commentary YouTuber using a black scent when reading posts made by black women even though they don't know how those black women talk.

[00:23:26]>> One sample from the culpus ccopy that she said she isn't expecting to come back as anything. Should have biopsy results in a checked she lived here too.

[00:23:33]Now she want TO STOMP AROUND MY HOUSE TALKING ABOUT I'M NOT WORKING JUST PAY your bills and threaten to either move out or quit her job. Girl be serious because we know all black women have a little twang in their voice right. How is it that this already grew? I know it's not actually growing, but like it feels like it is. Now, I'm not trying to cause drama, but as a black person who was raised in Nigerian culture, not necessarily black American culture, I have had to do so much intentional work to learn about the history of black America and learn about how it impacts everyone. So, when I'm watching a video for leisure and I see somebody force or fake a black scent when they don't even actually know how the person that they're mimicking actually talks, it pisses me off. Yeah. And again, to me, it's an extension and a remnant of minstroly, mimicking blackness to white audiences. Everything I've mentioned thus far is a remnant of minstroly in my opinion. I'm just a commentary YouTuber though. What do I know? What do I know?

[00:24:24]I'm just commentary YouTuber. As somebody who is unfortunately an unserious person who likes to chew their food exaggeratedly because I think it's funny. Who sometimes mispronounces words on purpose cuz again, I think it's funny. It sucks that I have to be careful when and where I do this because of the history of comedy in this country. As black people, I feel like often we are forced into being Uncle Tom's, into being the happy golucky goes with anything black person or we have to speak out on what we're seeing and deal with the consequences. Being called angry, being told we complain too much.

[00:24:51]I even recently had a even recently I had an interaction with a young white man about race. And even though it was upsetting, I knew that as a black woman, if I got too angry and go off the handle and told this person how idiotic they actually sounded, then I would become just another angry black woman. Black people who grew up around a lot of white people might agree with what I'm about to say. I unknowingly for a long time fit into the Uncle Tom stereotype. Not on purpose. I don't think most people do it on purpose. I just had mostly white friends, grew up watching people like Shane Dawson. And I thought it was funny to force a blacksent and play into these stereotypes. Luckily, it did not take me long to grow out of that because eventually I learned that no amount of proximity to whiteness or white culture makes me white. I'm sure I'm not the only child of an African parent who was told not to be friends with black people, but when I was 16, it was like a flip switched. I started to reflect on how I was treated by friends in the microaggressions and the macroaggressions that I experienced.

[00:25:40]Thinking about how people made it their mission to let me know that they weren't attracted to black people even though I didn't ask. Boys pulling my afro on the bus. Classmates yelling the nword with no repercussions. People asking me what color it is. We like to think that we have come so far and we have. But just because we have come as far as we have does not mean there's not more to go.

[00:25:59]You cannot undo hundreds of years of oppression in what 62 years. 62 years ago is when segregation became illegal.

[00:26:06]We have people in Congress older than that. And when I was in high school, it was only 50 years ago. So, no [ __ ] people were racist to me. Segregation had become illegal 50 years ago. Like I said previously, racism has been a fundamental and relevant part of our culture since the foundation. It is a building block of American entertainment. And until people don't feel like they have to make a mockery of themselves in order to succeed, we're cooked. Get some help. Come on, guys.

[00:26:33]Now stop the racism. And if you don't see it as racist, you're part of the problem. W I know you know better.

[00:26:46]Blackface menstrual shows in 2026. Stop.

[00:26:52]Stop letting them laugh at you for being black. That's crazy.

[00:26:57]Because what's so funny about being black? Huh?

[00:27:02]Think about it. Are they laughing at you or with you?

[00:27:08]>> Do better. In conclusion, I'm black and I'm tired. I hope this video has enlightened you and you learned something and we can start a conversation below. Again, all my sources are listed below. This is not an American only problem. I might make a full length video on this later, but other countries like South Korea also have a huge history of blackface. I want to make it clear. There are some people who will in fact take the easier route to fame and fortune and have no problem exploiting the twisted past of entertainment for money. I think you're allowed to make them aware that people are laughing at them, not with them. But at the end of the day, the day ends, and you cannot force people to care. I doubt there's anybody watching this video who did not care before who now cares. That is still something I'm trying to learn to this day, but I wish I had digested sooner, especially when I was a younger activist who cared so much about so many things. You can't force anybody to give a [ __ ] Some people truly do not care about racism and you can show them so many studies and data history and it doesn't matter to them. All this to say, please do not harass anybody I mentioned in this video because then you are part of the problem. Most people I talk about already get criticism and probably know they're in the wrong and clearly do not give a [ __ ] Thank you for watching.

[00:28:04]Thank you for subscribing. Thank you to my patrons over on Patreon. I finally started editing footage from when my wife and I went to Chicago and the videos are slowly starting to go up on Patreon. I will put a snippet at the end. Like the video, hype the video. If you want to follow me anywhere else, like Instagram or Tik Tok, it's @ AJ Talks a Lot. But babe, how do you feel about the history of blackface and menstrual Cy in this country? Hi everyone, this is wifey talks a lot with an important message for you today. I would like to formally apologize on behalf of all white people for, you know, everything. As reparations, I have the following offers. Black people, black people can laugh at me whenever I do something stupid, as much as they want. That's just payback for all that stuff that AJ talked about. What else should I give for reparations? Um, >> sloppy toy. Um, I will carry all the bags and open all the doors for eternity. Um, I'm excited to watch the video, but from the stuff that you have shown me already in your preparations for the video, my usual reactions are gobsmacked.

[00:29:03]Just what are we doing, guys? You know, it's very uncomfortable. Um, and not just things from the 60s like the [ __ ] people are doing today. Very uncomfortable and people are laughing at it. Yeah, cut it out, guys. It's very important because there's a lot of stuff in today's society that I think a lot of people, especially white people, don't know the origins of. Like we just think this is just innocent stuff or like it's just funny or something. But once you understand like the origins of a lot of stuff in our society, you really see how institutionalized like racism is and how everything in America, American culture is really just built on making fun of black people, you know, um or you know, cultural appropriation from black people. And it's very important to know that stuff so that you can be educated moving around the world and not unintentionally do stuff that is harmful and making people uncomfortable and perpetuating stereotypes. So very important. Stay woke you guys. Stay woke. Sorry for all the trouble I caused you. Babe, you look beautiful.

[00:30:09]>> Thank you.

[00:30:10]>> Did you show them your hair tinsel?

[00:30:11]>> Oh, I added tinsel in my hair you guys.

[00:30:14]I added some pink tins. Some red tinsel.

[00:30:16]I added some pink tinsel. I added some beads. I added They're called lock sprinkles. So, I added I added some lock sprinkles in my hair in some tinsel because I'm gonna be cool. You look like a ice cream sundae. Okay, everybody.

[00:30:31]Like, subscribe, comment, hype, share, send AJ Money, Patreon, Cameo, do it.

[00:30:39]>> Deuces.

[00:30:40]>> Bye.

[00:30:41]>> Not even this full drink yet. And I feel it. I don't know what kind of alcohol they're using back there to make this. I also don't drink very often at all.

[00:30:50]Feels like you hate me on camera.

[00:30:52]>> No, I love you on camera. I'm camera shy.

[00:30:57]Music and fashion. It all comes in passion after fell in love. Can you do this?

[00:31:08]>> I'm [ __ ] her brains out. All right, guys. I think I'm going to go in with a fork first. I don't think I can pick it up to eat it.

[00:31:21]It's sweet. I like it.

[00:31:27]>> I do not like the sausage they use.

[00:31:28]Carry stuff other than my purse.

[00:31:31]>> Yeah, that's all she's >> And all that's in there is lip gloss. I thought love had to hurt, but then I hurt her.

[00:31:41]The night the stars twinkled rather than I'd never seen before.

[00:31:50]She brought me in from the cloud.

[00:31:54]Somehow she unlocked my soul.

[00:31:58]She has the greatest eyes and a sad device that me.