See Me Too - An FOB Reaction

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:01]Okay, mother liquors. Today we're going to try something a little different here at FOB. Woah, I hear the voices cry. No, not today. Not this day. Please FOB, give us your usual content. Well, no.

[00:00:12]Today Mr. FOB is reacting to a commissioned video by Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership.

[00:00:17]Now that's out of the way, let's begin.

[00:00:20]We are a group of teenagers from Hull who are of color. And we are making this film for people who work in young people's services. So that you can better understand how to support our well-being.

[00:00:32]You might be secretly asking, why do young people of color need anything different from young people who are white? FOB wasn't secretly asking that, but is more than willing to see where this goes.

[00:00:43]We think the truth is that all young people facing mental health pressure need support that understands them and their needs.

[00:00:50]We need support that understand us and our needs.

[00:00:54]And part of that involves the impact of racism on our mental health and well-being.

[00:00:58]>> Oh, it was going so well, then um, okay, let's continue. Last week in school, there was a single day when I had an assembly about racism, then a lesson about the matters of JFK and Martin Luther King, then a lesson reading Orange Boy, then a session about the slave trade. By the end of the day, I was mentally exhausted. Wait a second there. What in God's name are they teaching these children?

[00:01:20]When Mr. FOB was at school, he had geography, woodwork, and cooking for some reason.

[00:01:26]I was speaking to a mental health professional about racism and she said to me, "I know what it's like." But she was white, so how can she? That goddamn white teacher pretending to understand what it's like. So unfair.

[00:01:39]It's like that white teacher was trying to console her in some fake way, maybe to cheer her up. What an ignorant white mental health expert. The day before I was speaking my own language with my mom in a shop. I've been told that it makes people around us feel scared [music] and like their own country doesn't belong to them. I went to seek mental health support and had a bruise from hockey on my arm. I am Nigerian.

[00:02:03]And straight away I was asked if my parents beat me.

[00:02:06]Even when I said they didn't, I was told if they did, I could tell them that in this country it wasn't acceptable, that they could help me.

[00:02:15]I didn't want to tell my mom and dad about it. I don't normally keep secrets from them. Children that have bruises obviously shouldn't have parents accused of hurting them, but what would you do if you were in those shoes?

[00:02:26]We have lots of examples like this. We want people to stop being racist, not just in the obvious ways, like calling us the encler or the peesler, but racism in more subtle ways, where people see our color before they see us.

[00:02:39]>> [music] >> What is it that these children are being told?

[00:02:43]These impressions of Britain no longer exist in most parts of the country.

[00:02:47]I was in school and this girl that I had heard saying racist stuff in the past refused to sit next to me. That morning I had a test that hadn't gone well. I had been told off for wearing earrings that aren't allowed in school and I was stressed. I was angry that she was refusing to sit next to me. She said that I was making her feel unsafe. She used the exact words, "You are making me feel unsafe."

[00:03:09]She went to student services. She told them that I had made her feel unsafe.

[00:03:14]They gave her hot chocolate.

[00:03:16]It's like only white people can behave in the way this is portrayed. So, the videos of gangs of ethnic minorities aren't real. The knife-wielding youths and the so-called asylum seekers that have been sentenced for heinous crimes are myths or just a handful of people with mental health issues. Okay, let's continue as hard as this is.

[00:03:35]We want mental health professionals to understand that just because a person has learned to use the language that triggers support, doesn't mean that they deserve the support over someone else.

[00:03:45]Watch out for people using mental health language to twist things. We want hot chocolate, too. I want hot chocolate, too. That's a great lesson that flips both ways. Maybe these children should be schooled about what it is they are producing when taking part in productions like this. I've been told that I am paranoid. I have been told that black people have a tendency to be vicious.

[00:04:06]I've been told that I'm oppressed because I wear a hijab.

[00:04:10]I've been told that Asian parents put too much pressure on their kids. Mr. FOB has been told he's a wanker, a knobhead, a stupid and a waste of energy and a conception by his own father. What do you think about that? I might have mental health issues.

[00:04:25]So today and tomorrow and the next [music] and the next see me.

[00:04:30]See me.

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[00:04:35]See me. See me.

[00:04:37]And see me, too.

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