This White Lady Gets DISMANTLED for Insulting Africans
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with a group of friends to discuss some of the most common myths and misconceptions about African people. We talk about the differences between living in Africa and other developing nations, and how they impact our mental and physical health.
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I'm healthier than most people I see walking around, even though I come from where I come from.
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So the fact that you guys have this narrative of just because people are from Africa, they are not healthy, or they have...
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I didn't say that. I didn't say just because...
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Okay, I didn't say just because you're in Africa, you're automatically going to live an unhealthier life.
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What I said is that there are African countries who have a lower quality of life, and not just African...
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What I'll tell you is the places that have what you're speaking about are usually the minority.
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You put it out as if it's something that's afflicting Africa.
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Okay, and also your point was on mental health that, you know, these people are unhappier.
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It's actually the mental health point I'm actually trying to tackle.
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The health one is completely false, but the mental health one is very laughable because there are more mad people in America than you find in Africa.
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You have people walking down the street, shooting people, going into school, shooting.
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People don't just carry guns and start shooting up a school in Africa.
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What kind of madness do you have to have for you to pick up a gun and walk into a school with children and shoot up a school?
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Yeah, there's definitely different types of madness.
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Has anyone, have you heard about shootings in Africa?
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Someone walking into a school to shoot up a school with children?
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Also, do people in Africa suddenly wake up and decide that they want to be a different gender?
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I think, um, what I was trying to say is that, yeah, developing nations tend to have, like, worse outcomes physically.
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That doesn't mean every single person has mental health issues or that, you know, it's all one or another.
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I'm just saying that when you're in a less developed nation, you tend to have, like, a worse quality of life overall.
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Um, access to basic necessities, lower risk of, um, what is it?
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Okay, but you know what's interesting what you don't say?
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Because I know rich kids that literally are so messed up mentally because their parents, like, didn't care.
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So, it's, like, like, to me, like, the most important thing, like, kids need is parents.
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I think that's, like, above access to all the stuff you're talking about.
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I genuinely, like, think that the most messed up thing you can do to a kid is not have parents.
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And I would, or I would respond with that, that one of the things that makes it hardest to have a stable family unit is being in poverty and not having access to those supplies.
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And there's been, like, a couple of, like, studies about this that, yeah, guess what?
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When you help get people out of poverty, when people are moved out of poverty, their home life situation improves because they're less stressed.
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They can take more time to focus on the kids, to nurture them, instead of having to worry about, like, okay, where am I going to get clean water?
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I think, I think, but then why, why, why when the quality of life has gone up in the last hundred years have you seen more divorces?
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Like, 90, 90% of people were married 100 years ago.
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She's conflicting, she's conflicting places that probably have issues that come from either war with normal African places.
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So, for instance, the point I'm trying to make is, if you go to any village in Nigeria, you'll find way more healthy people than you'll find in America.
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You'll see people that live until they're 90 because they eat natural food, they farm their food, they know that, they get their medicine straight from the ground.
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You see people that understand, in Africa, you have people that they call herbalists.
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These are medical doctors that, you call them medical doctors in the West, but there, we call them native doctors that understand plants that can heal your headaches, heal your menstrual issues, heal your fertility issues without having to go to a hospital.
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And you find all these people there in Africa, and they live a very high quality of life because they don't have the problems of the Western world.
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And they find solutions to most of the problems you think are problems.
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For instance, you were saying something about dirty water.
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You look at it as dirty water because you probably went to a place where there is water on.
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Literally, they go to the river, fetch their water, go home and boil it.
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So you're saying dirty water as if they're just going to pick up the water from the ground and drink it straight from there.
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They've had systems that they have developed over centuries.
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Just because they don't do it the way the Western people do it doesn't mean that they are wrong or you guys are better.
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I would love it if you could give me the name of, like, these villages that have, like, a higher, you know, longevity of life compared to Western countries.
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So that way I can, like, research it myself and I could see and learn more.
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So if you can give me a list, that would be awesome.
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I don't have to give you a, literally just search Nigeria and search any state you want to search and just look.
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Look for any state in Nigeria and look for a village.
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And then the second thing I would say is that you can boil water to make it cleaner in certain circumstances.
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But there's other circumstances where, you know, a lot of people, the way that they get their water is from the ground, right?
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And what happens sometimes is that depending on, like, the mineral composition of that area, it could be very salty.
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So you can't really boil salt out of water, which makes the water, like, very hard to drink and makes it, like, kind of bad to drink.
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You're speaking about this from a Western point of view.
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The people that are indigenous to those places know where to get their water from, not because they just happen to stumble on some...
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They've had generations of upon generations because most of them are indigenous to the place.
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They know where they get their good water from.
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They know where they get the water where it will probably be poisonous to you.
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They're not just stomping into whatever ground to pick up whatever water.
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But even then, like, the Waiyuanaki people still struggled because that was a problem.
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Like, even though they knew where to get clean water, it was still, like, a limited supply.
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So they had to get it from other sources as well.
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You can't use that as a blanket to say, well, that means African people and Colombians are all suffering and they're all poisoned.
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You're saying, like, oh, no, like, this is how the majority of people live.
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And I feel like we would need, like, datas or studies.
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No, because the majority of people in Nigeria actually live really good average lives.
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Okay, well, I'm talking about Africa as a whole.
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No, my point is the majority of people in Africa live in cities.
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We have cities in Africa just the way you have in America.
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But most people live in cities just like we have skyscrapers.
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Well, you didn't sound like you knew that, but I'm just trying to make sure that you did.
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Well, yeah, what I was trying to convey is that, you know, you have global poverty in a lot of places in Africa, India, China, South America.
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Like, I'm not trying to say, like, oh, Africa is the only place that has poverty.
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I know that there's people who live a great quality of life there.
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What I'm trying to say is that, hey, global poverty is a thing.
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People are living lives that could be better, that could be improved, and we should try to do that.
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Yeah, so, sorry, yeah, I would just listen to this.
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And as an African Cameroon, I wasn't born in this country.
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Shout out to Vic as well, another Cameroonian brother.
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So I think you're talking about this from a very Western way of looking at it.
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I think it's quite offensive as well, how you're speaking.
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It is not for us to tell you what the percentage of African countries that are living in.
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It's for you to say, because you're coming out with a very brown statement right now.
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And it seems that you have a very, very minute specimen and data to come from.
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And you're talking about little tribes in South America.
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So the reason why I'm saying this is because America as a whole,
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there's parts of America that are literally like a third world country.
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You have people, you have crack epidemics, you have, what's the other one?
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And to come out here and to speak and to say to somebody like King,
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who came from nothing literally and is here now, you know,
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how did he do that if he was struggling, if he was skinny?
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And when we ask you, it's kind of like, well, you know,
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Because Africa is not, see, when people speak about Africa,
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It's made up of so many different countries, right?
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Gaddafi was a great man, a very great man, Colonel Gaddafi.
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Libya used to be, we used to fly through Tripoli,
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we used to fly through Afriki Airlines to Cameroon.
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You know, none of the residents needed to pretty much do anything.
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you guys will think that Libya was, Libya was a war zone.
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Now Libya's a war zone, and now they're trading their slaves.
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And you guys, and literally Africa is the backbone
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because we couldn't even be doing this show right now
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You couldn't be using your phone without Africa.
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You couldn't be using the computer we're using without Africa.
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So when you speak, just get a little bit more education.
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But by the way, I just want to make it really clear.
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oh, access to basic food and water is a Western concept.
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I think that's something that all nations strive for.
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You guys asked me to name some places that have poverty.
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Obviously, Africa isn't the only place that has poverty.
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Because at least to my understanding and to my knowledge,
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there are high rates of poverty in certain countries there
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And yeah, a lot of it has been because of European
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But then I followed with the countries in South America.
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India and China have also really high rates of poverty.
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oh, no, just Africa, because that wasn't my full sentence
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there's a lot of nations around the world that are poor.
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where you attach monetary value of how happy you are.
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And this is why we come here, people work so much.
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they go get the kid, you know, they get the finance.
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They get all of these things and they feel suffocated
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because they were told that this is what's supposed
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But come to Africa and you're going to see people,
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you're going to see kids literally just walking down the road
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and they're going to be way more happier than you.
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Because it's quality of living versus what you think it is.
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But to you, it seems like, wow, how could they do that?
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You're pretending like if access or lack of access
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Everyone has stress versus a mental health condition.
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No, stress absolutely affects your mental health.
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hey, yeah, it is hard to maintain a happy family
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You literally don't know where you're speaking.
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No, now I'm going to tell you about my culture.
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I'm trying to make a point about Hispanic culture.
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oh, direct family is the only thing that matters.
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I never said direct family is the only thing that matters.
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oh, you know, like, how many direct siblings do you have?
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I asked you for a reason, but you didn't let me land.
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has started being destroyed all around the world.
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if you go to, like, for instance, my mom's generation,
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Now, my mom came from a family that had 12 siblings.
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There's no issue on earth that she could be going through
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that she wouldn't have someone to go and speak to.
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You are sourced things that your family should do to you,
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And that is the culture that has been perpetrated in the West.
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it is hard for me to see how they're living like that.
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yes, it's true that these people can have big families.
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but I also, I think that access to clean water,
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obviously I'm against like the general health society
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where we're like go to pump drugs and all that stuff.
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it was taken out of potentially slightly out of context.
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and I feel like that's what she was trying to say
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Okay, I'm pretty sure Sudan, Ethiopia, I believe.
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Men, why would I be with a woman that couldn't give me...
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Do you agree that stepdads have held down a lot of homes that real fathers left?
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And if you choose to lay down with a man that chooses to leave you, that's all new.
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You should have picked a man that would have stayed.
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So you're saying the woman should know what the man's going to do?
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I really think most of the time it's the woman being spiteful and not letting the dad see the kid.
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So for me, this is what it comes down to, right?
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But what we tend to have is women out here with kids that, that, you know, that don't understand that.
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Most men, men don't really want to be a stepdad.
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They just want to, you know, blow your back out.
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And the reason why girls would be like, oh, you know what?
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Of course men are going to date you because they don't going to be around for the time.
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And I'm butchering it, but it's like the chance of a single mom getting a guy to marry her,
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I mean, miracles happen, but they usually don't.
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Oh, yeah, this is what we came here to talk about.
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Oh, yeah, I forgot what we came here to talk about.
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Unless you're telling me your definition don't matter.
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because if not, then we can always bend it to...
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You need to be a man that's, you know, earning...
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And earning that over for like four to five years.
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You can't be someone that's out there being loose with your seed.
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So ideally, you wouldn't have any kids already.
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okay, son, this is a definition of a high-valued man,
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and this is what you need to like measure up yourself up to,
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because society says that's what you should do.
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Also, do you not see that your definition is quite westernized,
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because you're taking the word value and determining it through life?
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but it would still come down to be a man that could be...
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But can I just tell you the way I see it for a second?
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So what you're saying about the money side of it,
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it just means you're still going to have the same problems
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Because when Rollo Tomasi got cornered on this,
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We kind of basically know what we're talking about.