JustPearlyThings - The DELUSION of IDENTITY Politics

00:00:00.000 in the chat why is it okay to like change your sex but you can't change your race i've always 0.77

00:00:05.040 said yes i think i think rachel rachel does what was that her name i think she should be allowed

00:00:10.240 like she actually helped black people i think change your race if you if you want to change

00:00:14.640 your race like do you like it's a actually a free world it's not that yeah i'm actually tired yeah

00:00:21.760 sorry let me let me let me just okay let me just zone in on this so all right if i if i 0.93

00:00:30.480 jesus if i really wanted to be black yeah i could just i could just go go tanning that's blackface 0.99

00:00:37.440 and yeah and yeah and just get i don't know and dress i think the idea is that no no no i could

00:00:48.000 dress i could dress in african clothes no i i'm so surprised that you just said that this lady

00:00:55.040 she worked to help black people okay okay let's let's say let's say if i the next two years i

00:01:07.840 i started an orphanage in africa i'm just asking i'm just asking then i come back would that win

00:01:14.720 me would i could i change my race no no no i just need a yes or no no i just need of course not

00:01:21.040 no no no i don't actually i don't actually agree with racial daughters we're doing that what i'm

00:01:25.280 saying is actually trying to help black people she said yes i'm like wait okay can i give a different

00:01:32.080 perspective on this i want your answer i want your answer guys one at a time wait guys say the question

00:01:37.040 again one at a time oh sorry wonderful say wait so you're asking me if it's okay for you to change

00:01:43.360 your race yeah i think you can change your race in your own little self but don't expect me to call 0.54

00:01:48.560 you black or give you a pass to say the n word but you just said it was okay no no no i said i said 0.99

00:01:55.520 yeah do if you want to identify as a goddamn table be a table for all i care just don't force me to them 0.99

00:02:02.320 put my cup on you and pretend you're a table see here the thing this is the thing right this is this 0.98

00:02:09.600 is where it starts we start by allowing people to do it in their own and then those people get

00:02:15.280 entitled in the do you know what yeah no that's true you're right it's a slippery slope because

00:02:21.120 i mean if we told caitlin freaking jenner that she couldn't have the female courage award like 1.00

00:02:26.160 seven years ago where would we be today she's she's she's the world's greatest yeah thank you very

00:02:30.000 much get get stop and then and then we now we got that freaking that dude swimming in the girls 1.00

00:02:35.920 division and taking our titles taking the same award when there's people women who've been women

00:02:42.960 their whole lives and done things that's just how good men are i'm sorry no i'm not even i'm not

00:02:48.080 talking about the the athletics i'm talking about the women that you are completely disagreeing with 0.85

00:02:57.040 everybody but i actually don't disagree like i agree with all of you but just a different perspective

00:03:02.560 someone who's grown up in the music business especially jazz jazz has taught me a lot of things

00:03:08.080 about the world and culture that the rest of the world did in tea tree um jazz taught me that i could

00:03:13.360 be black but can i ask you a question what does it mean to be black what okay to have soul are you black

00:03:19.360 no but but it's so inspired it it showed you how to be black in america maybe but what about black

00:03:26.240 people in africa and nigeria or could you explain that i need you to explain that more well um there may be

00:03:33.680 some people who disagree with me but i believe that in a large part the american art form as jazz of

00:03:42.080 jazz is very much a black art form it's not only black there there is a whole movement out there that's

00:03:48.880 pushing black american music and trying to call jazz black american music i disagree wholeheartedly

00:03:54.320 because that uh eliminates the latin american influence that eliminates all the other influences

00:04:00.960 that have made jazz what it is today but anybody who plays jazz anybody who loves jazz can not

00:04:09.760 self-respectingly say that it's not a black music so when i play with black musicians my biggest

00:04:16.640 compliment is when you got the 75 year old bass player that's in there watching you like who the

00:04:23.360 hell is this mother who just walked up to the stage thing and he knows what he's doing 0.95

00:04:27.440 and he you play a little bit and you look back did i do okay and he just goes

00:04:38.320 how does how does that how does that make you black okay okay so that that that's one degree of the 0.98

00:04:46.880 acceptance uh-huh over the years i've had many musicians tell me oh yeah you're honor where you're

00:04:52.560 black because now i'm not saying that i'm black but i understand what black music is and what makes

00:05:05.760 music that that culture i understand where gospel comes from i understand where slavery led to the

00:05:13.520 roots of what became jazz i understand how pain produces art i get that that doesn't mean that i'm

00:05:21.360 black i'm saying that black people have over the years in my in my business have made me feel

00:05:27.520 accepted into their community yeah and have many times told me straight up you're the you're the 0.87

00:05:33.120 blackest brown guy i know see that's one thing that's one thing i think one problem that's just

00:05:39.200 that's not me saying i'm black no no no no but for me that's one thing that i i haven't heard

00:05:46.400 any other ethnicity any other race say give out freely give out like oh you're this yeah you're 0.61

00:05:54.560 black you're black you're black and like give it out to people that's something that frustrates me 1.00

00:05:59.280 because yeah there's no there's no white car yeah we accept like we we're so accepting as a community 0.92

00:06:06.400 and i would i would if i heard you play and i thought oh that that boy got sold like man he can

00:06:12.560 actually play and it's like accepting by the black community when you do things that are essentially

00:06:20.960 from the black community and they accept you but we just freely oh like we got a stack of black cards in 0.67

00:06:26.400 our back pocket and we everybody gets one but as soon as someone in the black community does something 0.97

00:06:33.120 that is not black we snatch it quick and it's so frustrating and i'm not saying that that's a 0.59

00:06:40.400 like what you experience is a bad thing but i do not think that you can change your race because it's

00:06:47.520 different from i don't i just don't think you can change it because there's more in it than just

00:06:53.040 your skin color or just saying that you're from wherever you are and just saying i'm this now

00:06:59.360 so my question to you right is that would you understand that maybe amongst the peers and the

00:07:08.720 people that you've like been around they've accepted you and like they've they've allowed you into their

00:07:14.080 space that they may even call sacred at some point would you understand that that past isn't

00:07:20.800 all the way around absolutely okay i would never say that now i'm black because somebody black put their

00:07:27.680 hand on my shoulder i would say that i've been accepted by the the people who made this music

00:07:34.480 for me to come and play i i've been invited to the tribe that doesn't mean that i'm black and and for

00:07:42.400 the same reason so that's why i bring out this opposing view is to to prove the point that anybody who

00:07:48.640 claims to be something they're not simply because they decide to do so is actually disrespecting that which

00:07:56.560 they're trying to claim because for me to call myself black would be absolutely disrespectful

00:08:03.200 to those people that i look up to and want their acceptance but the thing that i find really crazy

00:08:09.200 is the way everyone's reacted so energetically to the idea of you being black because you play

00:08:16.000 the saxophone very well people don't have that same energy when it comes to the original question you

00:08:21.680 know you know you know a man saying he's a woman a woman saying they're a man and i think it's

00:08:26.080 interesting how slowly over time you know people push you know the envelope slowly slowly slowly so

00:08:33.280 when you make acceptance of someone saying they are i feel like i'm black so i am black and you saying

00:08:38.080 oh it's okay to think that and then you know as long as you don't force me to do it but that's how

00:08:42.720 it initially starts and then it becomes and grows more into more you know there's now like an older

00:08:49.280 gentleman about 50 55 60 years old it didn't define it's a 13 year old yep yep i just think get out of

00:08:56.960 here i just think there's a special place in hell for that man i'm sorry jesus

JustPearlyThings - April 10, 2023

The DELUSION of IDENTITY Politics

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