Tommy Sotomayor argues that Black women are double protected from criticism because they get a pass when it comes to bad behavior by other races. But what does that mean, exactly? And why is this a good or bad thing?
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00:00:56.000There's a certain demographic, like white women in media who gave up their ovaries for some stupid career to blog at Huffington Post or something.
00:01:07.000You can't criticize her, but I can criticize her because I don't care what you think.
00:01:12.000And I saw her doing a shampoo commercial recently for blondes.
00:01:18.000And I couldn't help but notice, that's not your hair, and you can't get it wet.
00:01:24.000Just because you buy hair from an East Indian woman, dye it blonde, and stitch it into your weave, doesn't mean that you can tell us what it's like to have blonde hair.
00:01:50.000But no, we pretend that you're Farrafaucid and it's ridiculous.
00:01:52.000And, you know, if someone like Zach Efron had some dreads recently in some stupid picture on Instagram, which looked ridiculous, obviously.
00:02:00.000I think dreads look ridiculous on all races at this point.
00:02:04.000I don't even think Rastafarians should have dreads.
00:02:07.000But he was accused of cultural appropriation for it.
00:02:11.000Well, Beyonce is committing cultural appropriation.
00:02:13.000And it just reminded me that in America, we have this bigotry of low expectations with black women where instead of treating them like they're equals, they get sort of double protected.
00:02:26.000And criticizing them is just unthinkable, which I find kind of racist.
00:02:31.000You can criticize white males, but you can't criticize black women.
00:02:34.000Well, doesn't that mean white males are better than black women?
00:02:38.000You know, you can't call someone who's mentally handicapped stupid, but you can call a smart guy stupid.
00:02:42.000Well, then you're saying that black women are inferior to whites.
00:02:47.000Well, I'm an egalitarian, and I think we're all equal.
00:02:50.000So when someone behaves badly, I'm going to criticize them regardless of their race and gender.
00:02:56.000Which brings us to our extra special episode where we will be analyzing this exact subject, the double protectedness, the kid gloves we use when we discuss black women.
00:03:11.000And we'll be bringing in an African-American person of color, Tommy Sotomayor.
00:03:14.000So let's first choose three examples of bad behavior that we are scared to discuss.
00:03:20.000And then we'll get Tommy's take so I don't sound too white.
00:03:28.000Tommy Sotomayor is an African-American person of color who is very controversial because he criticizes African-American women of color.
00:03:39.000And his contention appears to be that they are double protected.
00:03:42.000In fact, I believe that's his term, double protected.
00:03:45.000And he claims because they're black and female, they get a pass and can get away with behaving more badly than, say, you or me or Tommy.
00:03:54.000I'm not going to hazard a guess, but I will look at the evidence and we will discuss it with him.
00:04:01.000I know Anthony Cumia lost his job when he was taking a picture of an African-American lady late at night in Times Square and she started beating him.
00:04:10.000He was armed, by the way, and didn't shoot her.
00:04:15.000She started beating him and he said, there's a problem in the black community where there's an immediate call to violence.
00:04:21.000And he got in big trouble for saying that.
00:04:23.000And what he was saying was, you get in trouble with a black dude or a black woman and it just goes from zero to 60 in one second.
00:04:30.000There's no like, calm down or what's going on here.
00:04:35.000Another example of a black woman potentially being double protected was the whole Leslie Jones controversy around Ghostbusters and Milo Yiannopoulos.
00:04:54.000He did make fun of her in Ghostbusters 2 and said that at least they had a man on the team.
00:05:00.000But what really pissed her off was someone pretending to be her and saying Milo Yiannopoulos is a slimy F word, F-A-G-G word, and he's disgusting and he makes me sick, blah, blah, blah.
00:05:15.000Leslie Jones never said that, but this hacker guy, this troll, managed to make it look like that using an app or Photoshop or something.
00:05:24.000That hurt her deeply and she said to Jack, Jack, can't you do anything about this?
00:05:30.000So he was banned for what one of his fans did.
00:05:34.000Now later on, said fans were angry and they did make allusions to her looking like a gorilla, but that had nothing to do with Milo.
00:05:42.000So she is so double protected in Jack's mind anyway, that if someone indicates they're her and it offends her, the person that that person likes is also banned for life.
00:05:55.000But without making any judgments, and I'll let Tommy do it because he's black, so he can get away with much more than I can, because they're double protected, I guess.
00:06:04.000But this happened at Applebee's recently.
00:06:08.000So four women are sitting there having their Applebee's food, and a waitress bumps in to one of them as she's walking by.
00:06:15.000This is not acceptable to these ladies, and they immediately go off and start pounding the crap out of her.
00:08:55.000He's walking along, he's 91, he bumps into a toddler, as we're wont to do.
00:08:59.000This woman goes nuts, smashes the old man's face in with a brick, black woman, and then calls on her friends to go kick his ass, which they happily do.
00:09:08.000But every time you saw this reporting on it, it was all about Trump's America and how racist it is towards Mexicans.
00:09:16.000Check out the Young Turks talking about this.
00:09:18.000They never mention the fact that this was a black woman.
00:09:21.000I don't even know if they know that it was a black woman.
00:09:24.000A 91-year-old man from Mexico who was visiting Los Angeles to see his family was violently attacked by a woman and a group of men that she encouraged to join in on the attack.
00:09:48.000And unfortunately, things turned violent when this woman who was walking with her daughter decided to pick up a brick, a concrete brick, and start hitting him, beating him with it.
00:10:01.000He was unconscious, bleeding on the sidewalk.
00:10:04.000There was a witness who saw everything and claimed that the woman kept repeating, go back to your country, go back to Mexico.
00:10:13.000And we do have a video where Rodolfo is with his grandson explaining what happened.
00:10:39.000They can have a black woman hitting this Mexican man with a brick and they still, the black woman just fades away and all they can see is the Mexican victim.
00:12:02.000And then she calls over the four other, three to four other guys.
00:12:05.000Now, I thought it was worse because I thought, oh, they're like, oh, a Mexican guy who's 91, let's go kick the crap out of him.
00:12:10.000No, apparently, according to the witness, she lied to them and said that he was trying to grab the kid and kidnap the kid or some stupid lie like that.
00:12:18.000Now, that doesn't give them the right to beat up this 91-year-old guy as they did.
00:12:59.000And the million-dollar question is why?
00:13:01.000Now, I often think that the demand for racists does not meet the supply.
00:13:06.000So when they just get a morsel, they grab it and run off the edge of the screen without looking it up because they're so happy to finally get an example.
00:13:50.000So this is three examples I want to talk to Tommy about because I think it's important when we're discussing people of color that we involve people of color in the conversation because it's all about a diversity of opinions and letting those disenfranchised people speak for themselves.
00:15:07.000This video from inside the restaurant shows a table of 16 people eating and enjoying themselves.
00:15:13.000Frida's manager, Jesse Gonzalez, says they were one of the last tables seated around 10:30 Sunday night, a half hour before close.
00:15:20.000And they came at the last minute and we didn't think anything of it.
00:15:23.000He says they treated themselves, ordering some of the most expensive things on the menu, including $11 margaritas.
00:15:29.000Burritos, the heifer ground burritos, the Frida special steaks, you know, steak and shrimp.
00:15:35.000But soon he says the bartender got a whiff of something that didn't smell like grilled steak and peppers.
00:15:40.000It was just one guy that was just smoking weed, and we asked him to stop, and I guess he was like the leader of the group, and they just went out and listened to him.
00:15:49.000Just can you imagine being that arrogant?
00:15:54.000I've always said I don't do cocaine anymore, but as a young man, my goal was always to be so powerful that I could do Coke off a bar while it was open and no one would say anything or do anything.
00:16:45.000Except for these two women left behind.
00:16:47.000They didn't seem to be in as much of a hurry.
00:16:49.000She even carries her blue margarita away from the table and continues to drink it after the group ignores staff and skips out on their $420 bill.
00:16:58.000Gonzalez says they even pushed one of the servers in the stairwell.
00:17:02.000He says he's never seen anything like it.
00:17:04.000Our walkouts are, you know, hey, they forgot to pay or they'll come back the next day.
00:17:11.000Major walkouts like that, that's our first biggest one.
00:17:14.000Gonzalez says he thinks they planned the whole outburst so they could skip out on the bill.
00:17:19.000You don't think that they're going to do that, especially on a Sunday night.
00:17:22.000And yeah, just one guy got them all riled up and there he is, the king.
00:18:11.000Look, I'm going through these videos as a white man, and I'm seeing four women beat a waitress and slit her arm for bumping into her at Applebee's.
00:18:21.000I'm seeing a woman beat a 91-year-old Mexican man for bumping into her daughter, toddler, maybe a boy.
00:18:28.000And then I'm seeing this group at a Mexican restaurant start smoking joints, blunts, I assume, and then just walk out of the restaurant without paying their bill.
00:18:36.000And I'm thinking, am I just choosing anecdotal evidence here and being a dick?
00:18:57.000So how much evidence are we supposed to have stacked up before someone actually deals with the problem, even if you have a problem with the people bringing up the fact?
00:19:07.000And you brought up three horrible incidences.
00:19:10.000You remember when the Hispanic guy was beaten with the brick for bumping into the...
00:19:20.000Okay, here's a million-dollar question, sir.
00:19:23.000Did they know the woman was black and knowingly take that out of the story?
00:19:27.000Or were they so excited to get an example of racism that they just ran out the door to the press room and said, we got a story, we got a story without looking it up?
00:19:56.000But then I do believe they knew because if you notice very, a lot of stories around, we don't have to worry about dealing with hate crime when it comes to what if I do something to you, I can whoop your ass and yell the whole time.
00:20:11.000Damn white boy, I would never get charged with a hate crime.
00:20:16.000As a matter of fact, the term hate crime is stupid to me because if I beat you, I rape you or stab you or shoot you, it's probably because I hate you.
00:20:24.000So all crimes in that aspect would probably be that.
00:20:27.000But you watch this, and I think they purposely hid it.
00:20:31.000I think they knew, here's what happened, in my opinion.
00:20:34.000They rushed to judgment, knew the answer, and then hid that part once they know the answer.
00:20:39.000Just leave it out there as, well, just this person did this.
00:20:42.000Because if it had been a white person, did it to a black person, day one, the race of the offender would have been published.
00:20:50.000I think that guy, the black kids who kidnapped that mentally handicapped Trump dude and tortured him, I think one of those got charged with the hate crime.
00:21:14.000Well, the thing I can't help but notice, like when you see the Chuck E. Cheese brawls and all that, I know there's white trash people that do terrible things and I've seen fights and stuff, but I've never seen like 50 white women go off on each other, pulling out their hair and punching them in the face.
00:21:35.000I tell people all the time, if you want to know why the black children, the black males, a lot of people are wondering, you know, these black males are violent.
00:21:43.000When 76% of them are being raised in single-parent households, these mothers have 100% autonomy to be able to raise this kid up to be a nice, respectable young man who loves women and never wants to be like the guy who apparently left their mom.
00:21:57.000But then if you ever go to a black household or hang around black women, who has more of a foul mouth than them?
00:22:05.000Who is threatening violence against other people at the drop of a hat?
00:22:09.000And then you wonder why the children are that way.
00:22:12.000When you have an irresponsible being raising these children with nobody able to come in between them, a story in Cleveland.
00:22:20.000Black woman jerks her infant two-year-old by the arm, lifts it.
00:22:26.000White person and a couple of black people say, ma'am, don't do that.
00:22:32.000She cusses them out, picks up her phone.
00:22:35.000Mind you, she's riding public transportation.
00:22:37.000Somehow, I guess she dialed 1-800 dialogue because she was able to get before her next stop a group of goons with AK-47s.
00:25:46.000And Moses still recognized that slavery of the Hebrews was wrong.
00:25:50.000And he switched sides in order to fix it.
00:25:52.000Yeah, I just could have sworn that you had some story where there was some Anna Mossy there where she beat you or something, or the dad wasn't around, or there was something you were mad about.
00:26:37.000Oh, that's not the ending I was going for.
00:26:40.000Well, let me explain to you why, though.
00:26:42.000Because when you have so much dysfunction around you and you're the only one functional, you try to impress the dysfunctional people because you think you're abnormal.
00:27:20.000The normal person, a white woman called into my show, she said, do you know if I bleach my three, four-year-olds' hair and send them to school or daycare, they would call DeFax and have a checkup at my house?
00:27:34.000Remember, the white woman who tanned herself, they put her in a mental institution.
00:29:28.000And that was the sad part about that is they will bring up slavery to say, here's why we're in the situation we are.
00:29:36.000But they won't bring up that anomaly of time between 1920 and 1960 where blacks actually had a better in-marriage rate than whites did and a lower single parent rate than whites did.
00:30:00.000But then I would point to the great society.
00:30:02.000When the great society, and then you turn around and your LBJ says, I'm going to give you a bunch of stuff.
00:30:08.000But there's a little bit, anytime you make a deal with the devil, when that's what the demon crack, I mean the Democrats are, sorry about that, to all you Democrats.
00:30:16.000But the point behind it is you make a deal with the devil, he's going to come back and he's going to want his due.
00:30:22.000The deal that was made with the devil was you get rid of the man, you get these benefits.
00:32:35.000They don't go get their degree because they know they have to pay for all of these people that are struggling at home.
00:32:42.000So they will leave after a year just to go make a check so they can pay for all of these other people.
00:32:47.000And then in 10, 15, 20 years, they're broke again because they had all this entourage and all these people and they didn't have this one thing called a foundation.
00:32:55.000One of the main places where you learn the foundation of money management is usually from your dad because dad has to work to make the money and then he has to make the money, pay all of the bills, plus do some of the ancillary things that you want to do.
00:33:18.000Well, you also, when you have a crappy job as a teenager that an illegal Mexican isn't doing, like cleaning pools or mowing lawns or shoveling driveways, you have your bills and you go around even with a paper route and you go, hey, 72 Lexon Avenue hasn't paid in two weeks.
00:33:36.000You keep nagging them and you realize there's a thing called debt collection.
00:33:40.000There's a thing called paying your bills.
00:33:41.000There's always going to be these guys who don't pay their bills.
00:33:43.000The best way to get them is at eight in the morning when they just woken up and they're sick of being bothered.
00:33:48.000You learn valuable lessons that I don't think young people are learning anymore, especially young people in the projects.
00:33:54.000And it's weird that we as black people will say, well, that's not a job I'd want to do.
00:33:58.000So now you have these, like you said, illegals who will come over here.
00:34:01.000And this illegal guy will work 12 hours a day and he can't speak any English, but he will do that job.
00:34:09.000And then you'll see his little son, Paco, a Javier.
00:34:14.000Paco will grow up speaking perfect English, perfect Spanish, and understanding how hard his father worked and how easy his father made it to where he could now do the normal things that he never got a chance to do.
00:35:41.000Maybe with less welfare in Trump's America, there'll be less of this entitlement and then less bad behavior and less prison and more families.
00:35:51.000I had hoped that Trump would do more of cutting off the welfare because I honestly believe you cut that off and you try to make people more self-sufficient, they will be.
00:36:01.000And you will stop having all these children who are being born in bad situations because they're only born that way because the person is benefiting financially.
00:36:09.000I promise you, if you take away the financial benefit from having children, it's the same thing with all of these rape cases that are coming up.
00:36:16.000And I know I'm opening up a different can of worms.
00:36:18.000But when you see how men are being treated in the United States, there's no wonder why Bruce Jenner decided to put on a dress and tuck his wang.
00:37:00.000These things are destroying the fabric of family.
00:37:05.000There is no reason for a woman, a woman has no reason to even want to stay married.
00:37:10.000She has a reason to get married because now she has a high chance of having children and getting alimony and child support from it.
00:37:16.000But she has no reason to stay married because all the chips are in her favor once she does get married.
00:37:21.000Yeah, and I've noticed that across the board with white people, even with upper middle class people, divorce now has just become like moving.
00:37:30.000It's like, well, you don't like that house anymore.
00:37:32.000The air conditioning is too expensive.
00:37:35.000And it's just sort of like a, and I've found amongst my friends, these women are realizing the seriousness of the move, and they're trying to get the husband back after the divorce, maybe two years later.
00:37:46.000And the guy goes, I got a new girlfriend now.
00:39:00.000If someone is going to attack you or rape you, take your gun out of your purse and shoot them and run away.
00:39:05.000If you are unarmed, scream at the top of your lungs.
00:39:09.000What I think is also very important to convey to you ladies is you're not Jason born.
00:39:14.000The only way you are going to beat off two guys with a gun is if we use the other version of the word beat off, and no one wants you to do that.
00:39:25.000So if two guys point a gun to your head, I would start crying and do whatever they want and hope that us men can catch them someday and throw them in jail.
00:39:36.000Do not try to ninja your way out of a situation.
00:39:39.000The only way that could possibly happen is if the two guys with the guns had absolutely no interest in shooting you, no bullets, and were just on the verge of falling asleep.
00:39:49.000And this is evident in this instructional video.
00:39:52.000I think Joe Rogan put this up on Facebook.
00:39:56.000I did a whole video on it, but it's the gift that keeps on giving because it really is this sort of pandering naivete that we encourage of so-called empowered women.
00:40:05.000Can we cut to this video so they can see what I'm talking about?
00:40:08.000And use their body mechanics against them.
00:40:10.000So it's going to look something like that.
00:41:57.000In fact, they've started doing this in movies with women.
00:42:00.000And as Nick DiPaolo says, I cannot watch action movies anymore because my suspension of disbelief can no longer handle watching Angelina Jolie beat the crap out of six Green Berets.