Tommy Sotomayor is right about blacks.
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Summary
The Shameless Spurg talks about a quote by Tommy Sotomayor and the story of how he came to know about rap and hip-hop in general, and how he ended up writing a song about it.
Transcript
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Hi folks, I am the Shameless Spurg. I hope you're doing well today.
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So today I wanted to get into a little quote by Tommy Sotomayor, as well as a little story about how I came across Tommy Sotomayor.
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So, Tommy Sotomayor agreed with me about black people, and he is correct about black people.
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I'm sick of people being offended that white people are racist.
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White people in the United States have every reason to be racist.
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You ninjas had an opportunity to leave the country.
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You ninjas had a chance to build your own everything.
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You asked white folks to let them be a part of it.
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You ninjas have a chance to get away from the white system.
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You enjoy the fuck out of all the white benefits of being in their system while talking shit
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I don't have a problem with white folks being racist.
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I just wish they were as racist as you seem to think they are.
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Your humble propagandist here is just trying to help.
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I wish I shared his degree of certainty and optimism about white racism in the United States.
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I'm trying to do what I can to benefit the cause.
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So, how I ever heard about Tommy Sotomayor to begin with is part of what makes this quote
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especially entertaining to me and especially satisfying.
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So, when I was a teenager and in my early, yeah, like mid to late 20s, okay, I still listened
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It was something that, you know, I grew up in a diverse area.
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I had a diverse friend group and all that stuff.
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And I had a couple of co-workers at my last show who produced rap music together.
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And they made beats and, you know, wrote their own lyrics and did their thing.
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Like, I thought it was pretty good for what it was.
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And so, over time, they learned that I was somebody that could be trusted to give an honest
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And they came to trust my judgment in music because they saw what I listened to.
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And, you know, they liked my sense of taste in music and figured I was probably a good
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And so, they would pass along, like, a new, you know, album that they're working on.
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Enough, in fact, to have a lot of it memorized.
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Maybe a few days after he had lent me this CD or gave me a copy of this burnt CD to give
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And when I encountered him at work again, he was, of course, curious to hear my thoughts.
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So, instead of actually giving him a review saying, like, oh, yeah, man, bars, you know,
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this is really good or saying this is trash or something, I thought, wouldn't it be kind
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of cool if the way that I reviewed it was to just repeat the song back to him, memorized?
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I'm like, sure, surely that would be enough to demonstrate I liked it.
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I mean, could you ask for a better review than for the guy to come back with your music
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When I failed to censor myself, where he used the word ninja, he got upset about it.
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And see, I simply will not play that power game.
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I wasn't even racially conscious at the time, but I couldn't accept it.
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I'm like, you're not going to tell me that I'm the wrong color to make that small mouth
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You're not going to tell me I'm the wrong color to say something.
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If my white mouth isn't good enough to repeat the words you wrote, you shouldn't be handing
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Honestly, I mean, how mental to treat the guy that you're having to review your music that
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In fact, I don't know if we ever talked again after that, because I'm not going to tolerate
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So, but the funny thing is that he often had content streaming at work, like he would
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And I remember stopping through one day and I noticed this fellow, Tommy Sotomayor.
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And I don't know what he was saying at the time, but it caught my ear because the guy
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You know, I've got a lot of white streamers to listen to.
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Okay, so I'm not going to give that much of my time to Tommy Sotomayor, even if he's
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See, but back then, Tommy Sotomayor had not made this statement.
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And so when I encountered that statement, I just kind of grinned and chuckled to myself.
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I'm like, you mean to tell me that the guy who had me review his rap music took an issue
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with me not self-censoring when I'm repeating his own lyrics?
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That guy who introduced me to Tommy Sotomayor, he ended up being a perfect example of what
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And if only he could have, like, let that sink in with him.
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Tommy here, you know, clearly would agree with me on racial matters.
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He clearly would agree with me on what I see of black people.
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And I will also extend that I think he is an exceptional black man.
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I probably could even now sit down and shoot the shit with him for a little while.
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I mean, if you can say this, you're smart enough, right?
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When even George Lincoln Rockwell was able to sit down with Malcolm X.
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Or when Malcolm X was able to sit down with, like, Klansman.
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I think I could manage to sit down with Tommy Sotomayor.
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I would have to tell him that little story, though, like I've just told you.
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And I think I want to finish that story with a bit of a flex.
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You know, you finally get, you know, a bit of an audience.
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And there's going to be some things that you want to say.
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Especially the people that were shitty along the way.
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You just kind of want to flex on them just a little bit.
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Like, yeah, this is just a 26.4 thousand subscriber channel, okay?
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Look, I'm not minimizing it in terms of you guys.
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More people are going to hear me tell this story about my old friend's foolishness trying to play that power game with me than will have ever heard his rap music.
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I've heard he made more money off of advertising dollars than he ever made off of his music.
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I'm going to make more money probably off this one video talking about this story with him and quoting Tommy Sotomayor here than he'll ever have made off of his rap music.
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I thought they did some really interesting, classy shit in it.
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You know, some of the stuff they incorporated, it might not have been radio-ready, but that's only because people have poor taste.
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Because you tried to play a fucking power game on me.
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So, I'm going to play a fucking power game on you.
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More people are going to hear me talk about this shit than ever heard you.
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But, you know, they always flexing in their music.
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So, you know, it's just a little bit flexed back.
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You know, I have to admit that I'm thankful that there exist certain based blacks who are out there saying sensible things like this.
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And I guarantee I really could just sit down and have a chat with this guy.
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And hell, if this channel keeps growing and growing and growing, maybe one day I will have a chance to sit down and have a chat with this guy.
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That would be pretty fucking cool, to be honest with you.
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Got this, you know, avowed, open, white racist just chilling out with Tommy and we're just talking about racial issues.
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I can guarantee I wouldn't be ugly with the guy.
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You know, I've got some harsh things to say about the black race collectively.
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But, like, one-on-one, the reality is, if you approach me with respect and kindness and I don't feel, you know, in danger around you, I'm still going to treat you with respect and kindness.
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It may be, obviously, that I want a white nation.
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I've got to try, at least in most situations, to try to get along, okay?
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Now I moved way the fuck out to the country, in part because I get to reduce my encounters with black people.
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But, you know, I mean, even so, if I'm in the company of one that seems to be an outlier, that seems to be a part of the 10%, for whom the other 90% make look bad,
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then I'm, you know, I'm likely to be at least more open to sitting and having a chat.
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I'm not so viscerally appalled by the sight of black skin that I just can't stand it.
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I'm just really fucking tired of ninjas, you know what I mean?
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And everything that he just said out of his black lips here is exactly how I feel, and it's exactly how the rest of us feel.
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I mean, again, I still feel like he was optimistic in terms of his concept of how racist white Americans are.
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By and large, we need to step our game up, you know, in the racism department.
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You know, it still remains that we're the one racial group in this country that doesn't have in-group preference.
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So we're gonna really have to work on that shit.
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And, you know, let's not disappoint Tommy here, okay?
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You know how people say, like, be the American, the Japanese people think you are?
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Well, right now, I'm telling you, be the white man that Tommy Sotomayor thinks you are.
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