The chasm between white and black Americans is growing wider with each passing day. Our views, culture, and general outlook on life are so different that even living in the same community, sharing the same space, is something that is almost unfeasible. At least that's what you d believe if you're an avid consumer of legacy media. Trust should not be doled out easily to anyone, especially white people.
00:00:22.000The chasm between white and black Americans is growing wider with each passing day.
00:00:27.000Our views, culture, general outlook on life are so different that even living in the same community, sharing the same space, is something that's almost unfeasible.
00:00:40.000If you're an avid consumer of legacy media.
00:00:43.000Trust should not be doled out easily to anyone, especially white people.
00:00:47.000Here's the thing I've noticed, and you can comment if this is the same for you.
00:00:51.000It doesn't match up at all with my lived experiences, and that's what's inspired me to actually do what the likes of these legacy media outlets refuse to do.
00:01:00.000Get out into the community and have real conversations with average Americans.
00:01:15.000In the latest installment of this series I made my way to a cultural mainstay in modern black American society, the barber shop.
00:01:23.000Because really what better place to find authentic unfiltered perspective than the place that's iconically known as the breeding ground for conversation in the black community.
00:02:03.000Has there ever been a group of people That has had it better than white, and yes, I mean white women, not even white men, white women in the 21st century who complain more.
00:03:15.000And some people, uh, I walk by and they lock their door.
00:03:20.000It's like, man, I have nothing, I would do nothing, anything to you, but just to be... Well, yeah, they also get the teardrop tattoo and think that means you bagged somebody, you know?
00:04:19.000But the teardrop, you think like, Well, because I come from, I was raised in Montreal, where the crazy thing is people don't realize like the biker gangs there.
00:04:29.000A hundred and, I think it was a hundred and sixteen people were killed in a decade from biker gangs.
00:04:35.000Like the biker gangs are going to sit here and they're like, we won't send, the hell's angels, like we're not going to send anyone out to Montreal.
00:04:40.000They're incredibly violent because they have the ports set up a lot.
00:04:43.000Everything comes into the ports in Montreal before it gets to New York.
00:04:46.000And so, people kind of know there, it's not like a teardrop tattoo, but if you see that, like, three-piece rocker, you just, it's, it's a sign.
00:04:54.000So it's the same thing in certain areas in the States, right?
00:05:48.000But you also don't want to be like all black people, all white people, and I know the irony is not lost on me, I just said white p****, but...
00:05:57.000It is, it's a weird, it's a weird time where you kind of have to pick one of these two lanes, and neither one is necessarily helpful.
00:06:04.000And it's just, it really is often, like I will tell you this, my interactions with, generally speaking, like if I hold a door open, This will happen, everyone will tell you, especially after the Me Too era.
00:06:14.000If I hold a door open for a black woman, you're just like, thank you!
00:06:18.000If I hold a door open for a white woman, either they don't say thank you, or they're like, I can do it myself.
00:06:23.000It's like, I didn't mean to ruin your whole day like that.
00:06:27.000Do you think I'm trying to sexually assault you, holding a door open?
00:06:30.000I have better interactions, and this is one of those, I have better interactions, generally speaking, with black women than white women, specifically, just because You can talk, and they're not looking for a reason to be offended.
00:07:06.000White and black have said thank you as well, but some women, period, if I hold the door open and they don't say that, I'm like, okay, well, you know, I'm sarcastic.
00:07:24.000I won't shake your hand and leave the mouse and stuff in there.
00:07:26.000But okay, let me ask you, Maya, if You're just sitting there, like, you're just going about your day, and a man compliments you, like, says, like, oh, you have beautiful skin, or oh, I like your hair.
00:08:01.000And that's just, I think, comes from, you know, maybe more traditional views of kind of decorum and chivalry, where it seems like black women, even if they don't appreciate it, aren't offended by it.
00:08:10.000Like, white men have to, they walk on eggshells all the time now, where that's a big reason we want to talk about it.
00:08:17.000Like, let me, okay, let me ask you this.
00:08:20.000And this is just, it's just a statistical reality.
00:08:22.000Why do you think that 70% of suicides in the United States, 70% are white men?
00:08:31.000Like consider because we often people think they have it really easy, but it's just they're twice as likely to just off themselves as black men.
00:08:39.000Honestly, I believe sometimes stability is one of the biggest ones, honestly, because they have such a prestige way about wanting to be the upper class, I would say, put it that way.
00:08:52.000Like when it's hard times, a lot of people, I won't just say white, but a lot of times black people come from hard times and white people kind of don't sometimes.
00:09:01.000I won't say everybody, because you have a different life experience, but just from an overall world Spectrum?
00:09:28.000No, there's definitely... I think it's that...
00:09:31.000And I think it's combined with the fact that, I mean, like, you know, we talked about sort of white, cause a lot of like modern feminism is spearheaded by sort of American, maybe Canadian white women, where it's check your privilege, check your privilege, shut up.
00:09:49.000Like, I think, One thing that maybe black people take for granted compared to a lot of white people is like this doesn't this isn't a thing right for a lot of white men and so what happens is they feel ashamed and they feel isolated from those pressures and they just feel like there's no way out and well I better not complain because I'm a white man so you know I must have it easier than everyone and it's
00:10:08.000And it's a stereotype with the pressure as well.
00:10:11.000You know, you have so much pressure as well.
00:10:14.000And it seemed like that's overlooked, but if you really look deep into it, you can tell that that's what it is.
00:10:19.000Because even just from their upbringing, most of the time they're pressured to get the best education, get the best, you know, the highest paying job or making sure that your family is taken care of.
00:10:29.000And like you see it in your own home as well.
00:10:32.000A lot of people don't see that in their home.
00:10:37.000Unless you make your mind different and want to do something different, honestly.
00:10:41.000Do you mean you think it's like, because when you talk about the household, like if something goes wrong or they fall short, then it's automatically sort of placed upon the white father figure, you think?
00:10:51.000That pressure where it's like, it's his fault?
00:12:35.000And it's a child support and alimony thing where I want to support my kids, but I don't want to support a lifestyle that isn't supporting the kids.
00:12:44.000Do you think there's truth to both sides of that?
00:12:46.000Some people take advantage, but the ones who really need it don't.
00:13:58.000Yeah, it's kind of more matri... Well, what's funny about that, though, too, is, like you said, it's kind of like more matriarchal, like centered around the mom, but I would also say that generally speaking, both men and women are more comfortable with the idea of traditional gender roles.
00:14:51.000Because that's because they're weak too. Whoever went for the weak man went for the weak woman too.
00:14:55.000Because none of them strong enough to keep it up right here.
00:14:58.000They're both right here no matter how much money you have. Do you think that's something that's
00:15:02.000lacking just in general? Like the idea of, hey, being a strong... because it doesn't mean
00:15:08.000that it's... my view is it's sexism to say like a strong male figure, like masculine role and a
00:15:13.000strong mother female role, but you complement each other.
00:15:16.000And now it just, you know, that's a big struggle right now where a lot of the roles just seem completely blended, where it's not a team, a partnership.
00:15:23.000Do you think it's a little more clear in the – even, you know, start discounting It's clear, honestly.
00:15:28.000I came from a mother and a father, a two-parent home, but I still feel like my mom did the work.
00:15:32.000as far as like, okay, you're a man, I'm a woman, and we're okay with that?
00:15:37.000I came from a mother and a father, a two parent home, but I still feel like my mom did the work.
00:15:43.000My dad did provide, but he was more like the disciplinary and she was more like the home caretaker
00:15:53.000and the mother and the, you know, everything.
00:15:55.000Well, that term is relative, because, you know, if you had two black parents, they were both more disciplinary than a lot of white parents in 2023.
00:16:03.000I mean, I go to the mall, I see black mothers with their kids, and I'm like, can you stop?
00:16:36.000So I mean, it wasn't just the parents, it was actually, you know, just any adult figure in your life.
00:16:41.000And it started with the teachers because you're at school all day long.
00:16:44.000Now, I mean, you look at a kid wrong, and they're gonna call the police on you.
00:16:49.000So it's just, I don't, I don't know where, I don't know where that started to fall by the wayside as far as far as The disciplinary portion within the home and within the school system.
00:17:03.000I mean, it's like, I feel like it started there.
00:17:06.000And then gradually, the kids kind of figured out, oh, well, we can get away with this at school.
00:17:10.000Maybe we can get away with this with our parents, too.
00:17:12.000So, that first kid that called the cops on their parents, and then it just kind of went the other way from there.
00:17:20.000I mean, what happened to parents actually being able to, I mean, I'm not saying physically abuse them, but I mean.
00:18:14.000But he was, I'll tell you this, what I do appreciate about my dad was he was very, I think the balance is, you know, I have two-year-old twins, and so we have to kind of figure it, and they're at the age where they're so sensitive that, like, you know, just even, like, putting them in a chair in a timeout, it works, you know what I mean?
00:18:29.000But I know at some point, if they're like me, that's not going to work.
00:18:31.000Certainly, if my son is like me, like, I would get a timeout when I'm going to my room and playing Super Nintendo.
00:18:39.000But the balance was, I know that with my dad, he would make me pick my wooden spoon and I'd get spanked, like depending on the offense, you know, um, one spank or like three spanks, you know, and I'd have to do it and kind of take it like him.
00:18:53.000And then after that, though, it was over.
00:19:55.000Yeah, that would be like if you, you know, dirty words, but they did it with my brother one time because he was my older brother, and he convinced me that I was adopted.
00:20:30.000At least not when they found out, you know?
00:20:32.000But yeah, and then it definitely is, I would agree with you on that.
00:20:36.000And it's just like, if I were to say this, like you were just talking about, say this on campus with, you know, predominantly upper or upper middle class, like white people, particularly women, they'd be, this right here would horrify them.
00:21:06.000I'm gonna leave looking like House Party.
00:21:08.000But we can't even have these conversations a lot of the time, like in the white community, just because it's like, disagreement is just, boom, cut off.
00:21:43.000It never changes if you don't talk about it.
00:21:45.000Do you think some of that extends though to like to for example from we're talking about like kind of between white people but like from the black community to the white community a little bit because white men have been browbeaten as everything is racist for so long that they're just afraid to say anything.
00:22:02.000I mean, do you think that there's some of that, like, at what point do you think, for example, if, like, I'm, you know, a comedian.
00:22:07.000And so one of my good friends, Nick DiPaolo, he's like one of the best ever.
00:22:12.000He did a show with a guy, Patrice O'Neill, who died too young.
00:22:15.000He was kind of poised to become like a Dave Chappelle.
00:22:17.000And all they did was just, for example, racist jokes.
00:22:20.000That was their show, you know, it was everything like you dirty guinea from and he was, you know, and then, of course, all the racist shit you could say towards a giant 350 pound black guy, but they were really good friends.
00:22:29.000When do you think it crosses over Or is it like in the realm of comedy?
00:22:34.000I mean, you see it even happening with Dave Chappelle from the LGBTQAIP side, but that's kind of something we've seen from white black for a long time, where there's this policing of entertainment and of comedy.
00:22:47.000Where do you think that kind of ties into an open dialogue?
00:22:54.000I'm not even, honestly, I'm not even really sure.
00:22:56.000I don't listen to a lot of I don't really listen to a lot of comedians, but I always hear the fallout.
00:25:16.000No, they're gonna say, you know what, you need to switch it away, we don't like it.
00:25:20.000And then they go back in the back room and talk about what you just said and lie.
00:25:23.000Yeah, I feel like, and this is my ignorant white opinion if I were listening to the media,
00:25:28.000I feel like there's been no group of people, when it dawned on me, I was watching CNN and MSNBC,
00:25:36.000I said, there's never been a group of people who are so overrepresented in media
00:25:40.000than black Americans today without being represented at all.
00:25:42.000In the sense that, if you were to look at the percentage, it's like, you know, 35% of CNN, they're black, but it's Joy Reid and it's Van Jones.
00:25:51.000And I'm sitting there because, again, I've been in green rooms and stuff with comics.
00:25:54.000I'm like, the shit they're saying that this is what the black community is bothered.
00:27:37.000Right now, Van Jones is like, this is ridiculous.
00:27:39.000He's like, this is, I was shaking, I was so offended.
00:27:41.000Like, I can't tell you, like, comics, if you go into a green room, like, you put on a few pounds, you have a black man, like, you fat mother******, like, that's a, you're like, that's right away!
00:27:49.000Like, that was, I think that's why there's so many good black comedians, too.
00:27:52.000Like, when people talk about, we need to, you know, like, affirmative action, There's one place you don't need it.
00:27:59.000First off, I think that that's racist, saying we need X amount of black people, we need X amount of women, X amount of white people.
00:28:04.000But if you look at like the top 10 list of comedians of all time, top five, everyone's going to agree on Richard Pryor's, the Eddie Murphy's, the Dave Chappelle's, right?
00:28:14.000Like there's a huge percentage of black people.
00:28:16.000Now, no one said we need this amount of black comedians.
00:28:19.000I think a big part of it comes from this, a culture of talking, of, you know, busting balls, like, for sure, like, they're okay making fun of each other.
00:28:29.000And that's one thing to me that I just said, like, well, when we talk about, like, how everyone's underrepresented, like, well, okay, we're talking about the NBA, we're talking about the NFL, what about comedians?
00:29:40.000But considering that, okay, like, okay, it doesn't take a genius, like, listen to hip hop, or like, you know, you watch BET, like, like, sex sells in the black community, of course, right?
00:29:51.000Like, white people didn't invent twerking.
00:29:54.000But There are far fewer accusations that you see from, like, famous black women against famous black men.
00:30:02.000I mean, you can go back, like, to Mike Tyson, but it was just this huge rush of white women.
00:30:08.000And then there were some that were horrible, like Weinstein.
00:31:05.000No, I remember when I first heard about that, I was like, okay, because look, like when a guy is aroused, there's a, there's hydraulics at play.
00:33:36.000I think they were just gunning for him because he, again, because he could do no wrong.
00:33:39.000He was just this overly sophisticated, powerful black man who did no wrong.
00:33:47.000Just had so many white friends who were, I mean, that was just, and you had white friends, and awful white friends, oh yeah, you were something, you found something.
00:33:57.000So then, when they had that opportunity to knock him down, oh yeah, he did it, he did it, so.
00:34:03.000Don't you think, though, too, like, there's a statute of limitations for a reason?
00:34:06.000Like, you can't, if it happened, you can't come out 40 years later.
00:34:28.000So who are you to say if you can remember exactly unless you went to your diary and wrote down, you know, and you can go back and... Yeah.
00:34:35.000Well, that's what happened with Brett Kavanaugh was a Supreme Court Justice.
00:34:40.000And of course everyone, this is the one thing I was like, I'm conservative, like Christian conservative, so people will say like, oh you're racist no matter what if you vote Republican with white people, and like that's why they'll just look at Justice Kavanaugh.
00:34:50.000I was like, first they tried to say he was racist, then they tried to say that he, um, he r*****, so like that's how they tried to block him from becoming a Supreme Court Justice.
00:34:58.000And first off, this woman who made it up, Christine Blasey Ford, she, um, her story that she gave to the Washington Post didn't match up with her story to the cops.
00:35:07.000The story of the cops didn't match up with the story of the friends.
00:35:09.000And the house that she claimed, uh, where she was f***ed, didn't exist.
00:35:13.000And the other people said that never happened.
00:35:18.000And they looked at his journals, and his journals matched up like all the other journals, where it's like, okay, you know, June 24th, he said he was going here, and they could see it from a yearbook, or from like his athletic schedule, where, you know, he didn't write, going to gang or f*** someone in his journal, he wrote the opposite.
00:35:32.000And they go, you know what, it seems like this checks out, but that was the attack they were going to use politically, And some people still believe it.
00:35:38.000Some people still believe it just because he was accused of it.
00:35:41.000I mean, sometimes that's all it takes.
00:35:43.000It's just to put that out there, just to, uh, you know, carnage the name.
00:35:46.000Because once it's out there, it's kind of done deal.
00:35:50.000I think this also goes back to the idea of, you know, like we talked about, like, white suicide.
00:35:53.000Because you said, like, okay, Bill Cosby, and I think you probably did some of it, but I think that for sure, like, white people in general are more likely to jump on board.
00:37:34.000Well, now we know that she threw a bottle at his head before that and broke his finger.
00:37:39.000But everyone was just so quick, like, oh, he's an alcoholic, so he must be bad.
00:37:42.000Whereas I feel like, often, like, well, hold on a second, two things can be true, no one's perfect, so let's wait.
00:37:49.000And I think that maybe that stems from, obviously, like, when we were a definitively more racist country, the kind of idea of sort of, it's like a public lynching, with your reputation now, you know what I mean?
00:38:19.000So the same way with decisions or anything like that, you know, they want to hear the whole story because most of the time you are so right because they want to, they're so in tune.
00:38:27.000They want to hear the whole story because they want to know what happened.
00:38:29.000A lot of times people will just off the bat, just from what they heard.
00:38:38.000I mean, you think of, uh, like you think of, I mean, I'm, I think he did it, but like, okay, I'm in them.
00:38:44.000I mean, I think, especially after he wrote the book, if I did it.
00:38:49.000But I think that it stems from, and some of it was just like, hey, we're skeptical because it could just be this is a famous black man where, you know, you could just be trying to effectively, I use the term lynch him, meaning like destroy his reputation.
00:39:02.000And that's, you know, that's a lot of scenarios where I think there probably is, today, more value in that because people are so quick to just, you know, use the term cancel.
00:39:09.000Do you think, do you guys, is that something that you think is a big fear?
00:39:31.000Definitely more like in the black community.
00:39:32.000I was just listening, I was just listening to some, like, here, I was just listening to, uh, like, Prior, and even like, and I'm sitting like, oh my god, you just switched this to, from white to black, like, you're immediately done.
00:39:51.000What do you think, like, what do you think is the, what do you think is the best way forward?
00:39:55.000Because, I will tell you this, I grew up, and this is kind of why we started doing this, I grew up in Canada, and I was born in Detroit, but raised in Canada.
00:40:05.000And I feel like, I don't just feel, but statistically I grew up in what would be considered a post-racial America, North America, because I was in Canada.
00:40:14.000But like the biggest shows were Fresh Prince, Family Matters, the biggest stars at that point were, I mean the biggest film stars were Will Smith, Genzo Washington, obviously the Cosbys.
00:40:25.000And now, it's almost like, here's black entertainment, On this channel.
00:40:34.000Now it seems like there's more of a racial divide than there was when I grew up.
00:40:37.000And I don't mean as far as policy, as far as Jim Crow laws.
00:40:41.000I mean as far as, I think people have been told that there's racism so much that people are actually just more afraid to reach across the aisle.
00:40:58.000I'm not going to creep out on my students.
00:41:00.000I don't know the way to look at it, but they'll get it from me.
00:41:04.000You sound like there's some TV networks that have different shows for black people.
00:41:09.000What I'm just saying is like when I grew up it wasn't like I again we didn't have that many black kids at my school where I grew up but we had a lot of and most of them were Haitian in Quebec because it's a you know Quebec is a French province and it's a French colonies with a lot of immigration but we had a lot of Asians and a lot of That's because you're from the North.
00:41:25.000Arabic people and we didn't even think of it growing up but we just hung out
00:41:29.000you know it wasn't really like a big deal and now when you have classes
00:41:33.000people are being taught like white kids you check your privilege and you're
00:41:36.000being taught about racism so much like we were taught about slavery we were
00:41:40.000taught that was wrong we were taught about the civil war I don't think they
00:41:48.000ever taught people that slavery was good No, not the slavery.
00:41:52.000As far as the mindset of different things, there is a difference between up north and south.
00:41:58.000But do you think though, do you think that's a good thing though, to be instilling in children, like checking your privilege and making... That's the only good thing.
00:42:07.000Because I think you're creating racists when you do that.
00:42:09.000But there are ways to teach and not to make... But it kind of stems from the Golden Wills, the privileges, and then it goes to the society.
00:42:28.000Like, as far as teaching the slavery, I mean, or teaching about history and whatnot, I mean, you want to teach people about things so they don't repeat it, but you don't have to browbeat the kids, like, I mean, because you're white, you know, you're an evil person, right?
00:42:42.000You just want them to know what happened.
00:42:44.000This is what happened, and we don't want that to repeat, but I don't really feel like Well, kids are innocent.
00:42:52.000Like you said, when you were growing up, you know, you play with whomever and whatever.
00:43:06.000I feel like that's, how do I want to explain that?
00:43:10.000It's like, I just feel like when you teach them, teaching them in a way that won't, um, That won't cause them to, I don't know, to in a way be racist because it's like you're teaching them racism.
00:43:28.000Well, imagine you're a little white, you're a little white kid and you don't know anything about it, but you're taught immediately.
00:43:34.000And by the way, it's also inaccurate to act as though slavery was exclusively an American white problem.
00:43:39.000Like that's just, that's just not accurate to it happened.
00:43:47.000So we just sort of, because we are all way more privileged in the United States where we don't have slavery, black and white, we don't realize that in Asia, in the Middle East, in Africa, slavery is still a way of life.
00:44:47.000Everyone makes mistakes, but to then instill into, and I see this, and I'm worried as someone who has young kids, white kids, where I don't want him to be made to feel guilty for something he had nothing to do with.
00:45:00.000Because I know that if you tell him, hey, you're basically garbage because someone did this hundreds of years ago.
00:45:13.000Yeah, I'm talking about, yeah, in school, if you do that and you say, hey, you need to, you know, atone for the sins of your great, great, great forefathers, like, all of a sudden, as opposed to being that kid who's hanging out with people of any race, watching people of any race on TV, you're going, oh, there's a separation here, and I must have done something wrong because I was born white.
00:45:33.000And we see that now, where there's definitely, I do think racist sentiments have gone up, just not in the sense that they support slavery, but just people are afraid to talk.
00:45:44.000And that's something that we we run into quite a bit.
00:45:46.000So it just seems like there's gotta be some some sort of a middle ground though.
00:45:50.000Yeah, you know and but finding it that's that's the finding that sweet spot of actually just teaching about history, but not again making person feel like trash because Their forefathers whatever, you know did whatever whatever.
00:46:07.000It's like If we all taught real history, I mean, I think we would all give each other some grace.
00:46:16.000Well, I think, yeah, I think you're right.
00:46:17.000And I think, I do think that, you know, since public education, which has been a huge failure, by the way, on all fronts, white and black.
00:46:24.000But it's been largely run by white people.
00:46:27.000They've done kind of what you were talking about, divide people and try and say, hey, hold on, look, we're going to give you this black community, we're going to do affirmative action, or we're going to teach about slavery, and we're going to make it all like 75% of Southern whites own no slaves.
00:46:47.000So, when you do that, first off it's not honest, and then you create a division that is just going to perpetuate more racism.
00:46:54.000And I tell you what, I do see it with younger people now, more than I saw it in my generation, where they're either just completely guilted and they're afraid to talk about anything, or they go, you know what, screw this, screw you, I'm not going to be made to feel like I'm racist just because I was born white.
00:47:41.000You know, sometimes ugly things happen in pretty houses.
00:47:43.000A lot of people think if you're wealthy that you must not have problems, but it just comes with different problems in a lot of private schools.
00:47:49.000But we've talked like we've talked about public education, the idea of school choice, which just means because right now, let's say you average in this county, let's say it's let's say $15,000 per student rate is what we spend on tax dollars.
00:48:00.000If you just average out the number, one of the solutions that's been proposed out there, and I always talk about this right now, I don't know how anyone can disagree with this.
00:48:07.000Is rather than just send the money to the school, where they get it no matter how they perform, is attach the money to the students.
00:48:13.000Meaning, hey, this is how much we spend per student, so this student has this credit to take to any school that they want to.
00:48:19.000If parents want to drive them, or if they want to get on a bus, or if there's, I mean, here you have so many schools that are close together, right?
00:48:24.000Sometimes you're closer to the school you're not supposed to go to, because the county line says we're going to attach that to the student, and all of you schools, public schools still, you have to perform better.
00:48:34.000Because if you don't, they're not going to go to your school.
00:48:36.000That's a solution out there that just seems to me like it doesn't change the funding even at this point.
00:48:40.000We're not even talking about changing the budget.
00:48:42.000Just talking about instead of just giving it to a school and these teachers and these administrators, we're going to give it to the student to take whatever the parents want.
00:48:51.000Yeah, they won't like that because it's going to force the teachers and the the academic community in general to actually do what they're
00:49:13.000It's funny, because we're not allowed to criticize teachers in the white community.
00:49:17.000They're like, the teachers, you mean the true heroes.
00:49:19.000It's like, I kind of thought those were firefighters.
00:49:23.000Well, I think the role of teacher has changed dramatically over the past decade or so, because now they're training teachers out of shooting class, and I'm just like flabbergasted at how different it is to actually Just be an educator or even be a student in this day and age.
00:49:41.000Just having drills, you know, for shooters, active shooters and all this crazy.
00:49:50.000What do you think about having people though at schools, like not only armed guards, but if teachers are qualified to be able to have a locked firearm to protect their students?
00:50:03.000I think it's a really good thing because we have seen in various videos that have surfaced that security guards aren't Or they're qualified or do the appropriate thing.
00:50:40.000No, that's a big, that's something that's been proposed where, um, you know, people say, oh, that's, that's encouraging more shootings by allowing people, teachers who are, again, we're talking about teachers who want to have firearms.
00:50:52.000No, you don't want to give a gun to someone who doesn't want it.
00:50:54.000But if someone is a teacher who's qualified and has a permit, and anytime they're outside of school, they're carrying a firearm and they have one in their car, Why wouldn't they be allowed to in their profession?
00:51:03.000They're allowed in a lot of other professions.
00:51:19.000I mean, it'll maybe happen in some municipalities, but... See, this is the thing.
00:51:23.000This is why these... Like, I tell you, I go on campus and I talk with kids or, you know, if I have a debate on air or something, like, they act like all of this is crazy.
00:51:42.000Yeah, especially to like, you know, I think a big problem too that we in my generation was Black Lives Matter and then the police kind of thing.
00:51:48.000And I will tell you this, not a fan of certainly the organization Black Lives Matter.
00:51:52.000I mean, for crying out loud, the woman just bought like her third multi-million dollar house.
00:51:56.000But I also didn't say just back the blue period because there is corruption within the police force.
00:52:01.000I don't think that the biggest problem that police force is, you know, just pulling over black people and them being racist.
00:52:07.000I think the biggest problem that police force is, like you talk about the teachers, where it's not performance-based, they're not trained properly, and a lot of them abuse their authority.
00:52:16.000Like Uvalde was not, wasn't a race thing.
00:52:27.000And instead, what happened right away is we go right to racist police and it's like, well, then you just divide and the conversation breaks down.
00:52:34.000And, uh, yeah, I'm not, um, I mean, I think police officers have a tough job, but, uh, There needs to be some reform.
00:52:59.000Yeah, he grew up In a very, very bad area.
00:53:03.000And black police officers in Detroit, they'd have to drive them home in unmarked cars because they were being killed in such high numbers during the Detroit riots.
00:55:15.000Like the Van Jones, exactly, these people in the media, they would say, that's a dog whistle, meaning it's coded language for white supremacy.
00:55:22.000Well, yeah, I think black lives matter, but I think all lives matter, they would say, that's racist.
00:55:26.000Because you're telling black people that their lives don't matter as much.
00:55:29.000No, no, I'm saying all lives matter, but to start with, it implies that only these lives matter.
00:55:35.000And I've got to tell you, I've only heard that it's racist from white people.
00:56:31.000Well, because, you know, you hear people say, like, oh, they stereotype, so that seems like a place, like, what do we think is the biggest, maybe, thing that white people get wrong about?
00:56:39.000I'll tell you what it is, the black community, using this term, right, I understand, like, loosely, is that we already touched on that, the idea of, like, white privilege, that all white people must have it easy, or that there's no, you know, there isn't a struggle, because there are a lot of different kinds of white people, just like a lot of different kinds of black people.
00:56:55.000I'm trying to think of one thing that really sticks out that white people get wrong.
00:56:58.000Like, no, no, no, no. Okay, look. General white population.
00:58:27.000Like, if you're going out to the office, you see a majority of Yeah, well I think it's fine if you say that, as long as, because I understand that you're not saying all white, you are saying there's a specific subset of white people, you know, these towns, lived in Michigan, there are some towns that are destroyed by meth, you know, just destroyed by meth, like I know exactly what you're talking about, as long as
00:58:49.000It's also, um, I guess I should say, not permissible, but you also afford the same grace to a white person saying, I'm not saying all black people, but there are some ghetto hood rat, whatever term, like these people who do actually live off the system.
00:59:02.000They're not saying all black people, just like you don't mean all white people are white trash.
00:59:08.000But there is a subset in both communities who look, they don't, they live off the system their entire lives.
01:00:34.000But if you go to, you know, certain areas of, you know, Houston or something like that or South Central, you have a disproportionate number of black people abusing the system.
01:00:39.000So as long as we just look at it, this system needs reform.
01:00:43.000Like, what do you think about, for example, like, welfare, um, or whatever it is, okay, uh, basic drug testing.
01:03:06.000He's like, no, I come back when you doctor.
01:03:08.000Well, there are some, look, I think we can agree that some stereotypes stem from some kind of truth, obviously, and that's for white people and for black.
01:04:33.000But no, okay, so that comes down to like, that's not because of the color of your, the melanin in your skin.
01:04:38.000That does stem from like a lot of these, a lot of these people, when I say these people come from countries of their first generation immigrants, they don't have cars.
01:04:48.000Yeah, especially there are a lot of people coming here, you know, with the tech jobs from India right now, or Bangladesh, and they're certainly not used to the crazy Texas freeways like this, you know?
01:04:59.000It's just like, for a lot of the same stereotypes that you see with black and white people, you're like, well, that's not because of the color of their skin, there are sometimes cultural differences.
01:05:07.000The food that we eat, you know, the kind of entertainment we consume, it's like, no one's saying it's because You're black and you're white.
01:05:14.000We're sitting there in these communities where we have differences.
01:05:16.000And that's, I think, a difference between a stereotype that's actually racist versus, ah, if you come from a country where you guys don't use cars, it makes sense that you might not drive so much.
01:06:06.000You can put vegetable oil in the end and it'll work.
01:06:10.000Yeah, and unlike a scooter, the big reason too is because they put stuff, they carry their stuff around.
01:06:14.000It has, um, it's below the CC requirement because of like smog and everything, but it has three gears.
01:06:21.000So you can still use like the first gear, you know, and go uphill, you know, with your whole extended family and a couple of cows in the saddlebags.
01:06:29.000They don't sell those here, though, do they?
01:06:31.000They do, they just re-released it, but it doesn't really make a lot of sense in the States, you know, because you need to be moving a lot.
01:06:36.000These things have a max speed of, like, 40 miles per hour.
01:06:41.000That's not even working on the side streets.
01:06:42.000I was thinking, yeah, it'd be nice, you know, just to kind of get around the neighborhood, but now people are flying doing 50, including myself, on these side streets.
01:09:06.000This is something that a lot of... Do you know that, um, actually, uh, when you're talking about being shot by the police, that, uh, specifically white men, and if you're dealing specifically with armed white men, like white men are many times more likely to be shot by the police.
01:09:56.000And there was this, I'm sorry, it was a female officer, and it was a very large black man.
01:10:02.000And I was, and I watched, and there was a black man, he was obviously high, too, like he was, you know, and this woman was terrified.
01:10:09.000She had no business, I'm sorry, she had no business, like, I do, like, female police officers, if you can't meet the PT requirements, like, you shouldn't be dealing with a giant black guy in PCP.
01:10:18.000This guy was like six foot five, and he didn't have a shirt on.
01:10:44.000And he just, she took it like a champo.
01:10:47.000She didn't go down and then they tased him.
01:10:50.000Um, but statistically as they are, Black perpetrators are more likely to, and that could also be byproduct of drugs in certain communities, more likely to physically assault an officer.
01:11:53.000Because it, you know, over time, they just, they start to say, suck it.
01:11:57.000And I've seen some bad black police officers.
01:12:01.000I mean, it's like bad white police officer, but when I see them on tape, the black officer, it just kind of, it hurts me a little bit more.
01:12:14.000So it's just, man, I just, I thought we were better than this, but I mean.
01:12:18.000They're human just like everybody else is, so I mean, they need reform just like everybody, just like all the police officers, or the ones that have the issues.
01:12:27.000The one that really breaks my heart, and I'll end with this, because I think a lot of people don't know this.
01:12:31.000You remember, well really the first Hands Up, Don't Shoot was Mike Brown, right?
01:12:44.000And that guy, Darren Wilson was the name of the police officer so a lot of people because there are bad police officers right you have you have certain ones where it's you're like okay clearly this was a wrong shoot but that one was used his hands weren't up
01:12:58.000He was reaching into the police car, he had hit the cop, taken his gun, and was beating the s*** out of this officer, Darren Wilson.
01:13:04.000And Darren Wilson, actually, he specifically, he was actually given a job in a pretty easy area, and he said, no, I actually want to be here, I want to go to Ferguson, because I think that we have bad policing, and we need to build trust between our police department and the black community.
01:17:15.000And I don't mean, now, a chokehold, just to be clear, and we actually did this on the show, where I was like, because this is something, I don't know, do it a lot.
01:17:22.000I've been choked out many, many, many, many times.
01:19:10.000Was it because there's a lot of sex trafficking?
01:19:12.000I don't know, they just want us to be aware in case a little scent's in our chair, and maybe, you know, trying to show signs or something up there.
01:19:24.000You just said it like it was like you were just listing off your breakfast items.
01:19:27.000Well, it's been going on since sex trafficking got really popular, so it became a part of, it wasn't always a part of the curriculum, so it made it mandatory, though.
01:19:34.000I will say that it was, you know, not to get off on another subject, but yes, I've heard of the sex trafficking here, like, more recently.
01:20:32.000I'm all for people getting a chance to live the so-called American dream that we're all living so abundantly here, but I just feel like there are so many issues that we have with the people that are here.
01:20:49.000Again, I'm not against people coming in, but I mean, let's do it the legal and correct way.
01:20:55.000Why do we have all this sneaking across the border and blah blah blah?
01:21:00.000And I mean, and some of the people that do that, they actually end up being, you know, decent citizens.
01:21:26.000See, I think if you're being honest here, that was the first time when we were talking, you were like, oh, I gotta be careful what I say, right?
01:21:33.000You're going, I'm not saying people come here legally because you don't want to be accused of being racist, right?
01:21:38.000That's what white people have to deal with all the time.
01:21:49.000You're not talking about people who come here legally, but I don't think there's any racism at all in saying, You're coming here illegally, we don't know who you are.
01:21:57.000You could just as easily be a sex trafficker, which many are.
01:22:33.000He does it more than any... He does it like 15 times.
01:22:36.000We actually, every time we do a story on the show and we go, oh, the TV Prime Minister had this to say, we just show one of the clips of him in blackface.
01:23:00.000And now, of course, he goes out and now he's the most progressive liberal.
01:23:03.000Like, he literally, in his speeches in Canada, will say, and I want to discuss this with our, and he will say this, he will say, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, asexual, and a two-spirited community.
01:23:56.000She just said, she said, well, I'm not talking like blackface minstrel shows.
01:23:58.000She said, but like when I was a kid, I had friends, white friends who dressed up like Diana Ross for Halloween with the hair and like, cause they love Diana Ross.
01:25:14.000It makes them start going there in their mind.
01:25:18.000I do always find it funny, though, when someone actually said something racist, and they get caught.
01:25:23.000And that was the Canadian Prime Minister.
01:25:25.000I remember I was hitting myself laughing when this happened.
01:25:29.000So it came out, the first two videos of him doing blackface, and he was at this press conference, and he's just like, when you talk about weak white men, it's this guy, right?
01:25:41.000And he comes out and he goes, Yes, and you know, I'm really sorry about, you know, in my past, I did dress up in ways that were, you know, distasteful.
01:25:51.000And I did it, I did this one time, and I'm very apologetic.
01:25:56.000And I apologize to the black community, the whole apology where I have to make this right.
01:26:01.000Okay, he thinks he's about to get off scot-free.
01:26:03.000So he addresses the one, he's like, Okay, thank you very much.
01:26:27.000I Have to find this video like he had to address it like there was one time when I did full blackface and perform the banana song And you thought you were just gonna walk off right?
01:26:41.000Oh my gosh I I was peeing myself laughing so hard because he got caught tantarites and tried to try to just shake it off and So, all right.
01:26:50.000Anyway, go watch that if you want a good laugh.
01:28:38.000So this is, it's interesting that you bring that up because a lot of people in the white community have said we need to have a language that we all speak.
01:29:33.000This is something we don't do in the white community.
01:29:35.000What about blind people wearing, like, shirts with, like, that, like, shirts of people on their shirts, and it'll have, like, like, a person?
01:29:41.000Well... White people, like, it's just funny to us, because we never do it.
01:30:45.000Let's remember example, just a cultural difference where it's like, I know a lot of people want to ask, white people want to ask the question.
01:30:51.000Like, I don't know if I'm going to be considered racist.
01:30:52.000Like, this is something that's so foreign to us.
01:31:03.000So you're the odd one out at a birthday party where they're all wearing the shirt of like, whatever, Sandra, and you're like, no, I'm wearing a nice blouse.
01:32:31.000But he's learned English, and he's like, I can learn English.
01:32:34.000He's like, my parents came here on a raft from Cuba to flee communism, and listen to me, he's like, I'm a gay, Cuban, conservative American, and I'm not, people need to stop ****ing, learn the language, go to work.
01:33:11.000Just tell me you're calling from a call center in Bangladesh where they chain you to a computer for nine hours a day and give you a piss break for four minutes.
01:33:18.000And we'll be fine in this conversation.