White Americans Wondering Why Black People Are So Quiet

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]So, I just seen a video, right? [music] It's a white guy, seemingly intelligent white guy was talking about the response between [music] different racial groups, specifically the white community and the black community. He is putting [music] emphasis on how historically in times like this, how we have always reacted [music] differently from the white community. He is noting which he is [music] right that we as a people are very indifferent about the things that are going on right now.

[00:00:37][music] We have been fighting and we have been advocating against this machine for years, decades. [music] I mean be before my existence and now we're at a point to where things seemingly looks irreversible are we have washed our hands with this [music] and there are whites that are are fighting righteously [music] so there are whites that are fighting for the core values and principles that this [music] nation was supposedly founded on. There are people that still believe in America and and the foundations of that. [music] Us as a whole, we have never really seen many benefits from [music] that. So that's why we are indifferent. Spiritually, it's obvious [music] that black folk are very spiritual folk as well, which is why we also [music] move differently collectively as well. We know that [music] the foundings of this nation, it was founded by an entity.

[00:01:44]And we're not talking about physically.

[00:01:45][music] We're talking about spiritually.

[00:01:47]There was a certain mindset that was being [music] utilized when this foundation was created. That entity spiritually [music] still exists. I need y'all to to understand. an entity that we have had to fight perpetually at least over [music] the last 400 years.

[00:02:06]So, we see it differently because of [music] that. We know spiritually what we're up against. We know what that means for [music] our existence. We know what y'all are finding out and experiencing for the first time. I know it's [music] a shock to y'all. We have learned to not only survive, but thrive.

[00:02:26][music] For most of my life, there was not enough to go around. I remember the first time I went to a food bank and they gave me an onion. I actually cried and not like onion cried, but cried cried because it wasn't required food.

[00:02:39]It was flavor and that was a luxury I couldn't really ever afford. And then I learned that they had like taco seasoning and oh my god, it was amazing.

[00:02:47]But when you're used to getting by on so little and the only security you really feel you have is the ability to make a dollar stretch, it is scary to ask for help and you wonder who you're taking it away from. So when people take aid when they're destitute as opposed to like nearly, I think people can jump into judgment because they probably need the aid just as much as the person who received it and they're scared it won't be there when they're long past needing it. And guys, there's enough to go around. Just a friendly reminder that in 15 years everyone will claim that they were never a part of MAGA.

[00:03:18]>> So this has already started to happen and I've noticed this being a stand-up comic who goes on tour. So in January my husband and I performed in a city that was definitely very Republican conservative heavy. We drove down and there were Trump magazines everywhere.

[00:03:32]When we performed our sets it was very clear that it was a very conservative audience. Both my husband Dave and I have like a lot of progressive jokes in our set. So like we're on stage like rewriting our entire set as quickly as we possibly can to ensure that like we would get out of there alive. So recently we were hired back to perform in that same city. And since we already did it, we're like, "Okay, we now know what we're getting into. Let's, you know, get sets prepared that we know will work in those cities." And we drove in and we noticed that the Trump signs were gone. Not just a few, we couldn't find one. The main drive that we took into the city was literally littered with MAGA. They were gone. We were shocked. Now, I'm sure in other parts of the city, I'm sure people still had their signs up, but it was like night and day from like the last time we came down, which was in January. And the crowd looked the same. They were about the same age group. They were dressed the same. They looked the same in terms of like ethnicity. It looked like a bunch of old white boomers. But Dave went up before me and I could see him about halfway through a set going, "I'm going to try something." And he did one of his really super progressive jokes.

[00:04:42]When I tell you, I have never seen that joke crush as hard as it did. I was shocked. It was a literal applause break. I was literally holding my breath while he was doing that joke cuz I was like, "Oh my god, they're going to turn on him. They're going to start throwing things at him."

[00:04:58]Literal applause break. So yeah. No, I'm seeing in little baby ways. So, you would vote for Donald Trump in a third term?

[00:05:05]>> Um, yeah, I think I would.

[00:05:07]>> And what do you think about the Constitution?

[00:05:08]>> I I'm a constitutionalist.

[00:05:11]>> What about the 22nd amendment that would prohibit him from running for a third term?

[00:05:14]>> Yeah, it would if I would bother me, but um >> but you would still get your vote.

[00:05:19]>> He would still get my vote.

[00:05:21]>> I was just thinking about something about the difference between Republican run states and Democrat run states. Let me know if you've thought about this and if you are a MAGA, what's your response?

[00:05:29]Imagine if blue states had a 40% higher murder rate than red states. Imagine if blue states were only 29% of America's economy and red states were 71%. Imagine if nine of the top 10 states to get federal welfare benefits from the government, these handouts, were blue states. Imagine if nine of the top 10 states for maternal mortality and infant mortality were blue states. Imagine if nine of the top 10 states for gun violence and gun death were blue states.

[00:05:59]But you know why you never hear Republicans cite those statistics?

[00:06:02]Republicans scream about law and order but have a 40% higher murder rate than blue states. Republicans scream about the economy, but 71% of the economy is from blue states, only 29% from red states. Republicans claim they despise the federal government, but nine of the top 10 states to get federal handouts are red states. Republicans claim guns make us safer, but 16 of the top 17 states with gun violence and death rates are GOP states. Republicans claim they are the party of pro-life, but nine of the top 10 states for maternal mortality and infant mortality are Republican states.

[00:06:32]>> So, Republicans and MAGA, here's my very simple question to you. Everything you claim your policies will do, our policies actually do. So, my question is, what exactly are you fighting for?

[00:06:43]>> Poverty in the South makes people just wait to die. And I don't mean that in like a depressed like, oh, I'm going to kill myself sense. No, I mean like there is nothing there for them. Like from buildings to life experiences to hospitals, there's just nothing there.

[00:06:56]They are simply waiting every day for death to come take them. There's no eventfulness. There's no fun. It's you wake up and just exist painfully, brutally, and isolated with nothing but the community that you have. And then once that community's gone, it's just you waiting to die because there's such a lack of investment that people understand in cities. In cities, you get stimulation. You get faces, you get things. That's not a thing in the rural south that people don't understand. You are poor if you're from a poor state. It doesn't matter how rich you are because the services are generally offered by the state [music] and that determines the quality of it. So if you're in Louisiana and you're poor in Louisiana, there's nothing to do other than wait for the release of death. when you listen closely, there's a lot of complaints. Um, one of the thing that >> some of our people whom I like to call the system sympathizers are out here trying to convince the rest of us that we need to step outside. Despite the opposition openly pushing for and at the very least ignoring our literal death when we do step outside in response to this so-called outrage, I take the stance that black people should stay inside. I will not be an advocate for my people to eagerly or begrudgingly, whether they want to or not. I would not be an advocate for that. For them to seek out the brutality that would most definitely be visited upon them if they did go out there just so that they so we can play outrage games. White people don't understand anything. That's why we're quiet. I don't think it's our job to be Captain Savo the whole time. What we're witnessing isn't real outrage.

[00:08:30]It's not real outrage. It's surprise.

[00:08:32]They still have the privilege to believe in the Constitution. I love those. I love those comments, man. It's not constitutional, brother. I love those.

[00:08:40]What are you telling me? I was not even a part of the Constitution. Or at least I was in in so far as to tell me that I'm not human. And I love when they say things like oppression anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere. Yeah, I know. We said that. We told them that our freedom from oppression would benefit everybody. We tried all that. It didn't work because our list of bodies that we put on the line goes back further than his presidency. They're mad that >> Has anybody noticed how much it bothers your co-workers when you don't engage in conversation with them. It kills them inside. Genuinely, they will try to get a conversation out of you so bad. I'm just here to work. I really don't want to talk to you, Susan. I really don't.

[00:09:19]Honestly, I don't care how your week it was. And when you really sit back and watch everybody's interactions with each other, you notice just how fake these people are. And you want to sit and smile on my face. I'm okay. I'm okay.

[00:09:30]I'm not here for a social life. I'm here for the check.

[00:09:33]>> All right. This might hurt some feelings, but whatever. I was just scrolling through my feed and I saw a couple of posts about how white people have no culture. And I'm just over this white guilt, white shame type stuff. I'm not advocating for white supremacy. I'm just advocating the end of white silence and the end of white guilt and the end of white shame because our culture participated in nothing that your culture hadn't participated in previously. We didn't start slavery, but we damn sure ended it. And the only place that slavery still exists are in people of color societies in Africa and the Middle East. The Vikings figured out how to circumn the globe before the Islamic world ever figured out how to get their feet wet. It wasn't us that was going into Africa and pulling the slaves out. It was other Africans grabbing them and enslaving them. We invented democracy. We invented the constitutional republic. The bubanic plague wiped out half of Europe. And what did we do? We got together and discovered western medicine and inoculations and vaccines. I'm not saying that we're better than you, but we're damn sure not worse. There are four major ethnic groups in this planet.

[00:10:36]There are black people, white people, Asian people, and Hispanic people. And we are the smallest. And we are the only group that you're demanding shut up. And because we're not doing it anymore, you're just going to scream racist louder and louder and louder. And we are done caring. We are not ashamed of who we are. We are not better than you, but we're damn sure no worse. And if we're so >> black people, I can't get through my 4U page, three scrolls, without seeing a video about the the people over in LA protesting.

[00:11:05]And if it's not a video about them protesting, it's all these different schools of thought on the protest or videos about the relationship that's kind of I don't want to say fractured, but a little strain between black people and I'll say brown people. And I wasn't gonna say nothing because that's like a political conversation, political adjacent conversation, sociopolitical thing. But I tell you this, bro, uh, I'll be 32 this year. I've been living in Florida off and on since 2008, and I've lived in Texas. I've lived around every kind of Hispanic you could think of. black people, we need to get out of the habit of trying to tell other groups of people who come to this country and want to align themselves with whiteness or be in proximity to whiteness what's going to happen to them. Because the enemy is white supremacy. It does harm to everybody, white people included. But the problem is that people come here and they want to perpetuate it thinking that they can trade and buy into it, not realizing that white supremacy is exclusive. It's not inclusive. You will never be them. Doesn't matter what kind of minority you are. Doesn't matter how you try to breed your way into it. It don't matter how much money you make, you will never be them. Because to them, especially the ones who make the laws and make the money, that's all that matters. And that's not to say you got to turn around and be align with us, but you got to align yourself against them on every level. Not just the optics, but the ideas, too. And expecting other people to come to bat for you when it's time for you to fight is crazy.

[00:12:52]Especially when we see you and we see how you are. We see what you do. We see what you say.

[00:13:01]Because black folk really, we very empathetic and sympathetic towards everybody because we don't want to see nobody go through the same [ __ ] that we done been through, bro. But everybody at every turn, every time are apathetic towards us. Paul Mooney said it best.

[00:13:18]I'm going to tell you why white folks are mad. White folks are mad because got away. Got away. Got away. It's because we they don't have slaves anymore. He goes, when we when we was free, we didn't have no jobs. When we were slaves, we had 12 jobs. [laughter] He said, "Imagine if if slavery was to come back, they'd be like, oh, welcome home.

[00:13:37]>> Welcome back."

[00:13:38]>> Well, you haven't seen you in a long [laughter] time. Your room is exactly the way we left it. It Paul Mooney hit.

[00:13:44]He was right.

[00:13:46]>> It's that's the reason because every all the wars in America were bought were fought because of slavery. They wanted to keep what was the economy was slavery. The first thing on Wall Street was slaves.

[00:13:57]>> Yeah.

[00:13:58]>> And so that's the whole thing. It's always about us.

[00:14:01]>> Yeah.

[00:14:01]>> Anytime they talk side, it's always us in the peripheral. When they go DEI, >> it means black people >> to them. But the thing is in fun, the the thing that's so crazy is that functionally affirmative action and DEI mainly benefited white.

[00:14:16]>> White women.

[00:14:16]>> So we didn't even benefit disproportionately. We actually didn't.

[00:14:21]And now that but we are being hurt disproportionately because when they say we're getting rid of DEI, it's interpreted by these seauitees as fire all the black people. And then I know the I don't know if the lower courts or something like I know the the fourth circuit uh ruling reshaped um the organization and approach of DEI, right?

[00:14:37]I think going up against what uh Donald Trump was trying to do with DEI. Did was there a change in movement in that?

[00:14:43]>> I mean >> now uh black silence, you know, black silence is bothering white Americans.

[00:14:54]Whenever they see a black person quiet, it's really triggering them as a nation.

[00:14:59]And it's crazy to see that a a white person is now triggered by the black silence.

[00:15:07]When we try to protest, they see us. We are bringing trouble. When we try to do the best thing, they still see us. We areh trying to show off. When we protest in the street to for for our own rights, they feel like we are overtaking them.

[00:15:26]Where we do the best, where we try to invent a good thing, they feel like we are outshining them.

[00:15:33]So we had to sit down and think of what can we do to to avoid all this mess. Let's keep quiet. No protest, no fight, no nothing, no to be seen. just doing our own [ __ ] on our own. We don't want to bother anybody. We don't want to drag anyone to our life. We don't want anybody to drag us into their own mess. Because if at all Americans were equal were being I mean were seeing everybody as equal as we think then I guess the Iran war will be warned because Iran respects black people so much and if they would request or say a word I guess somehow the war would end go that further but the black silence is triggering the whites why they feel like we have a motive behind our our silence. We have a plan. We have a strategy behind our silence. But let me tell you the truth.

[00:16:37]We are not planning anything shitty. We ain't doing anything wrong. We just choosing to let you know just to know our value. We let we let you to know what we mean to you. We we just trying to let you know that we also matter in America.

[00:16:57]You feel like the white supremacy can just make us feel like we don't deserve to be America. No, we are all equal in America. So you give me the respect that I deserve and I will give you what what you [clears throat] want.

[00:17:10]So Americans are really uh triggered by the white uh being quiet for many things. Number one, economy is harsh and everyone is seeing that economy is very harsh to everybody to every individual.

[00:17:25]economy is very very harsh is crashing entire America and it ain't like we are living in America side that people are getting things for free anything that anybody is paying for we are paying for is it the cars fuel the gas the everything the rent and like everything we are paying for the amount you are paying as a white person is the amount we are paying but you are asking why complaining because when we are trying to protest and fight for entire America for all of us you are there feeling like we are bringing a trouble in America because the nail was not hitting you in the in the head but now the economy the nail is hitting you right here on the head. Now you feel like so we were we were trying to protest for for the rights. Now you are asking why aren't black people uh uh not helping us not helping us to uh to to do away with this whole economy that destroying the entire America.

[00:18:34]We are facing the same situation.

[00:18:37]Number two, going to to a job interview in a white office and then because you are black, you fail interview automatically then that mean that entire America is uh losing it because now because you are not getting the job that I was not getting while while you in the office you feel like the world is favoring black person. Why why ain't I getting the best things? Why ain't I? Why am I missing the best thing? You ain't missing anything. You ain't missing anything. That's how you have been living, but you have not been complaining about it. Because we anytime we we say a word, we say a word to to you, you feel like we are trying to outshine you or overtake you to be seen by more than anybody else.

[00:19:28]We choosing silence because we have talked enough. We have advised you enough. We have talked about this enough. Tell me in the comments. Did you feel like the white people are now complaining about the economy because it's hitting them or it's because it's for the their country's benefit?

[00:19:46]And who benefits after all this struggle?

[00:19:51]In the mode,