SHNEAKO - Are You Racist？

00:00:00.000 Did you see what happened with Carmelo Anthony?

00:00:02.280 Yeah.

00:00:02.880 Do you think that was self-defense?

00:00:03.980 He brought a knife to a track meet?

00:00:05.460 I'm going to keep it real with you.

00:00:06.740 I brought knives to school every day.

00:00:08.040 I brought knives to school every day.

00:00:09.300 You brought knives to school every day?

00:00:10.100 Why?

00:00:10.520 I got jumped.

00:00:11.320 I had my nose broken.

00:00:12.240 I had a concussion.

00:00:13.160 I couldn't go to school for three weeks.

00:00:14.460 I've seen people my age, younger, get robbed.

00:00:16.880 I've seen people my age, younger, get beat up.

00:00:18.840 At a certain point, you have to...

00:00:20.660 When it comes down to you or somebody else,

00:00:22.160 you're always going to pick yourself.

00:00:23.440 Austin just asked him to move out of his seat.

00:00:26.320 I wasn't there.

00:00:27.360 Carmelo's going to be the bad guy in that picture regardless.

00:00:30.000 Well, he's free now. He just said the bond was posted and he's home, and they raised $400,000.

00:00:33.980 Yo, then he's free.

00:00:35.360 I'm not really mad at it, even if he did it out of malice, because end of the day, like, being black in America is not always fun.

00:00:40.820 And a lot of the time in that situation, whether he did it out of self-defense or not, he would have went to jail.

00:00:48.160 What do you mean?

00:00:48.740 I'm not part of that. Don't put me on the camera.

00:00:50.120 You're not talking about black men and all that shit. Chill with that shit, bro.

00:00:53.400 Well, you know I'm part black, right?

00:00:54.480 I don't give a fuck what you are, but you ain't got the right to speak on how black men move, bro.

00:00:59.140 i talk about everybody i talk about everything

00:01:01.220 so who talks so who could talk about black people just stop judging us we don't talk about

00:01:07.860 mexicans and you i'm not mexican i don't know what you are everybody talks about everybody

00:01:12.060 keep us out your mouth though bro keep against it you fresh and fit all y'all do it it's like

00:01:17.880 y'all got what did what did i say that you don't like well you said a lot you know what no tell me

00:01:22.260 i'm not gonna go verbatim come on well i mean you're in the industry too you're upset about

00:01:25.760 something i said but you don't know what it is i'm upset i just checked you on that bullshit

00:01:28.920 what's the bullshit that i said can you say one thing not verbatim all right then you don't know

00:01:35.820 what you're talking about then you don't know what you're talking about all right focus you

00:01:40.320 too you don't even know what you're talking about all right i'll love love speech what is he talking

00:01:50.240 about how are you upset about something you don't even know did you hear the story that happened

00:01:53.640 with Carmelo Anthony?

00:01:55.720 No, you haven't heard about that?

00:01:57.080 You don't look at the news too much.

00:01:58.960 No, actually.

00:02:00.040 I can't believe anyone's heard about this.

00:02:01.660 No, tell me.

00:02:02.740 Not one person's heard about it.

00:02:03.800 You didn't hear about the track meet,

00:02:04.840 the two kids,

00:02:05.800 one black kid stabbed a white kid.

00:02:07.320 You didn't hear about that?

00:02:07.980 I heard about that, yeah.

00:02:08.840 Okay.

00:02:09.280 What are your,

00:02:10.020 any thoughts about that

00:02:10.780 or it's just some news you see in Swirl?

00:02:12.580 It's just news that I've seen, yeah.

00:02:14.460 Okay.

00:02:14.840 You want to tell me more about it?

00:02:16.060 He's like an 18-year-old kid,

00:02:17.320 black kid,

00:02:17.760 who stabbed a white guy at a track meet.

00:02:19.280 Oh, I have not heard about that.

00:02:20.600 You didn't hear about that?

00:02:21.340 No.

00:02:21.480 okay can you guess what happened to him um i guess they caught him how much time in prison

00:02:27.520 do you think he's doing what sentence do you think he's facing well i hope so i don't know

00:02:32.640 five years i guess five years yeah i guess so for for murder or you think only five years

00:02:37.160 i don't know so maybe more i'm just guessing five years is pretty light okay so give him i don't

00:02:41.740 know right now he just got out on bond this bond was lowered from a quarter million to 25 000

00:02:46.000 and now he's home he's free i guess how much money his family raised but like since you are

00:02:50.340 telling me about it i don't know they raised maybe 10k 400 000 yeah for people who support him i know

00:02:58.660 there were two sides of the story right the first was that it was an unprovoked attack the second

00:03:03.580 was that people are now saying you know the initial aggression like there was some aggression on both

00:03:07.900 sides so i i don't know i don't know if there's evidence on that so i i don't know you're looking

00:03:12.680 like you're going to the gym right now have you ever brought a knife to the gym to stab somebody

00:03:16.440 and it not brought a knife to the gym.

00:03:18.340 Any hate crime or anything like that,

00:03:19.800 I feel like the eye for eye punishment

00:03:22.860 needs to be implemented again.

00:03:24.340 I don't know if that sounds kind of barbaric.

00:03:25.100 You mean self-defense?

00:03:26.100 Yeah, no, but like eye for an eye.

00:03:27.840 You stab me, bitch, I'm going to stab you.

00:03:30.260 Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

00:03:31.840 And that person should get stabbed.

00:03:33.580 That one singular story of this terrible thing that happened

00:03:36.400 over fucking biscuit and gravy, that's fine.

00:03:38.760 Okay, that's fine.

00:03:39.980 What about the guy who got deported with no crime

00:03:42.280 and is not going to come back?

00:03:43.760 Or the fact that Donald Trump was hot mic

00:03:45.540 saying he wants to start deporting natural citizens i would love to have a singular talk

00:03:48.600 about one conversation if that story wasn't being used by the wrong people in order to push a

00:03:52.980 bullshit narrative yes one person got killed over a knife fight that was bullshit happens here too

00:03:57.580 sometimes but let's start talking about some of the shit that really matters like for example

00:04:01.020 you don't think that matters i think that i think that i think it's being blown out of context i

00:04:04.460 think that when we take a singular story like that and blow it up then we're not looking at

00:04:07.720 the shit that's really happening for example we're back in a trade war again that means people are

00:04:11.520 going to have a shit ton more problems than one kid is going to have right now and that and you

00:04:16.260 know what he deserves to go to jail let's call it you want him to call it fine let's call it out he

00:04:19.560 deserves to go to jail he's not interested he deserves to go to jail got it but world war three

00:04:23.320 the terror four is more important to talk about because that's actually something that impacts us

00:04:26.920 all actively right now do you think he deserves the four hundred thousand dollars that was raised

00:04:31.180 through go fund me i think that if people decided that they relate to him and they decided that

00:04:37.200 they want to help his family out, then that's a personal decision that they made.

00:04:41.060 So whether or not he deserves it isn't up to me.

00:04:43.140 It's up to the people that donated the money.

00:04:45.700 They gave him, you know, they helped his family out because they see something that

00:04:49.040 a lot of people that don't look like black people don't see.

00:04:51.980 They see that regardless of what he does.

00:04:56.020 So it's like that.

00:04:57.220 You stick together.

00:04:58.180 Honestly, like I said, bro, I see people that look like me get incarcerated for everything.

00:05:03.140 Get incarcerated for things you ain't do.

00:05:04.360 Look at Khalif Browder.

00:05:05.600 Khalid brother got arrested for, and I was in New York.

00:05:08.060 Khalid brother got arrested for beating somebody up, stealing a book bag.

00:05:12.260 And when you take a lot of losses, you know, as a community,

00:05:14.260 you see things like that happen over and over time and time again.

00:05:16.960 You know, people going to jail for things they didn't do.

00:05:18.720 You don't really care if somebody did it or not.

00:05:20.460 So you don't care if you did it or not?

00:05:22.800 Me personally? Nah. Me personally, I don't care.

00:05:25.660 I don't care.

00:05:26.460 Because at the end of the day, bro, like, objectively, I've been that kid.

00:05:29.800 I've been that kid that didn't do something and got booked.

00:05:32.000 You did that, so you did something like that before?

00:05:33.920 Nah, I got arrested my freshman year of high school, my first day of high school.

00:05:36.300 I got arrested for beating up and robbing a kid.

00:05:39.360 I never touched, never seen.

00:05:40.320 To this day, I don't know what he looked like.

00:05:41.740 Did you do it or you didn't do it?

00:05:43.200 I was on camera cutting class in the bathroom.

00:05:47.340 Going to the bathroom.

00:05:49.120 Robbery happened five, six miles away.

00:05:51.500 Happened to be going to the mall.

00:05:53.440 Police picked me up said I matched the description, and I didn't match, ironically enough.

00:05:58.640 And it's not even a malicious thing.

00:06:00.720 Like, no hate to Austin's family.

00:06:02.500 is just when you see a system take things from people that look like you over and over and over

00:06:07.800 sometimes somebody being home whether they're guilty or not it just feel like a win it might

00:06:12.160 not be justice for real but most of the time you don't get justice in this country if you look a

00:06:16.800 certain way do you see race it depends in which neighborhood yes so which neighborhoods do you

00:06:23.380 see race um i can't say really race but because we have we have the police department affecting us

00:06:30.020 But at certain times in the year, I feel I see my hate on my community.

00:06:36.360 Yeah, do you think that there's more hate towards the Jewish community now?

00:06:42.720 Yes, no.

00:06:45.340 I can't say because it's both together.

00:06:48.380 Are you a Hasidic?

00:06:49.600 Yes, I am.

00:06:50.420 Can I ask you, do you support Israel or you don't support Israel?

00:06:52.840 Yes, I do.

00:06:53.940 So some of them don't, some of the Hasidic Jews don't.

00:06:56.640 Correct.

00:06:57.140 What's the difference between those who do and don't?

00:06:58.560 Everybody has this, you know, in Catholic and in Christian and in every community.

00:07:03.680 Someone supports the community, someone doesn't support the community.

00:07:06.300 So you can't say everybody supports it, right?

00:07:09.820 Can I ask you a question? Do you see race? Do you see color?

00:07:12.660 No, I'm Muslim. How are you going to see them?

00:07:14.700 I don't look at them differently when I see their color.

00:07:19.000 You have no stereotypes at all for anybody?

00:07:21.440 I'm trying to not have any stereotypes.

00:07:24.300 Ah, I think so.

00:07:25.320 Do you think that makes you prejudiced or stereotypical or racist?

00:07:28.160 No, I don't think so.

00:07:29.700 Oh, my God. I see color. I love color. I see race.

00:07:35.040 Do you see race?

00:07:36.680 Do I see race? Yeah.

00:07:38.680 Okay.

00:07:39.280 Sure.

00:07:39.880 Do you make judgments off that?

00:07:42.880 Implicitly, yeah, I do, but so does anybody.

00:07:45.740 Some people say they don't.

00:07:46.980 A lot of people sat down so they don't judge anyone until they meet them.

00:07:49.980 Well, nobody wants to believe that they're making judgments like that, you know?

00:07:53.900 Do I see color?

00:07:54.940 I think it's an important part of anyone's identity.

00:07:57.420 Okay.

00:07:57.820 Yeah.

00:07:58.160 Do you make judgments off of that?

00:08:00.140 I don't think so.

00:08:01.580 I was raised to be very conservative, but I, like, tried really hard to unlearn a lot of those.

00:08:07.260 You became an actress in New York, yeah.

00:08:08.780 Well, I, before I moved, I tried really hard to, like, unlearn a lot of those, like, ideas.

00:08:14.120 Like what? You grew up conservative Catholic?

00:08:16.200 Yes, I was raised Catholic.

00:08:18.340 My family was very conservative.

00:08:20.380 My parents voted for Trump twice.

00:08:22.260 Well, Allah created all of us.

00:08:24.680 How can I see race? How can I see color?

00:08:26.880 all that is a construct. Allah created us from different parts of the land. He said that,

00:08:33.840 that's written. So you don't make any judgments based off of where people are from, what they

00:08:37.980 look like? No. Are you crazy? Allah will make the same judgment against you. You don't want

00:08:43.120 the same judgment made against you. Allah created us for us to get to know each other,

00:08:48.340 not for us to separate and be segregated. As human beings, we fail to understand our

00:08:53.060 creative. It doesn't matter what color you are, if you act like an asshole, like you're

00:08:57.160 an asshole or like stupid and stuff. That's how I look at it. I mean, there were several

00:09:00.520 studies. I don't remember where the real big one was. It was either MIT or Harvard

00:09:05.080 where you take specific tests and it's specific A-B testing. It's not do you have specific

00:09:12.560 biases or judgments across all groups of people, but say between Christians and Jews or Jews

00:09:19.160 of Muslims. And based off of word associations or headlines and things of that nature and

00:09:26.300 running through it, and I'm sure this test is dated because it's been around at least

00:09:30.940 10, 15 years maybe, it reveals that you may have implicit biases that you were not aware

00:09:37.640 of. I remember I took it.

00:09:40.100 Oh, you took the test.

00:09:41.120 Oh, yeah. I took two different versions of the test. And the first time I took it was

00:09:47.320 about six years ago, and it revealed that I had a tendency to relate, to have more likely to

00:09:55.280 associate violence to people of lighter skin complexions than of darker skin complexions.

00:09:59.020 Really? You're reversed, so you're like the opposite of everyone else.

00:10:01.360 Yeah, well, I'm a mixed person, so I grew up around a whole bunch of different types of people,

00:10:05.040 and I just, you know, and I grew up in a very liberal household where a lot of the violence

00:10:11.660 that is talked about is violence and acts of hate

00:10:15.720 conducted by people of white people, lighter-skinned connections.

00:10:20.060 I'm Latina, but I'm also a mix.

00:10:23.020 I'm also a woman, and so I am a victim of people looking at me

00:10:28.100 and making assumptions, observations.

00:10:30.800 So I do see it. I observe it.

00:10:33.740 But I don't want to feel that I am the victim because of that.

00:10:41.660 you don't have a victim mentality no do you hate men do you hate anyone men no I've had bad

00:10:48.980 experience with not men like relationship wise but bad experience like a pedophile when I was

00:10:55.840 a child but I don't like I never felt and so interesting because I started writing about that

00:11:00.280 and I've always wanted to write a book but I paused on that section and two weeks ago I reopened it

00:11:06.680 but I reopened it not feeling bad about myself

00:11:10.060 and having a lot of realizations that I didn't feel bad about myself.

00:11:13.660 I felt pity for my mother and felt pity for him.

00:11:16.780 Like, shame on you that you're abusing, you're manipulating,

00:11:22.200 and your power, and I feel sorry for you.

00:11:25.600 And, you know, like, life, universe has a way of giving you things back,

00:11:31.540 and I am free from that.

00:11:33.720 What advice would you give to people who want to forget past trauma?

00:11:38.960 Well, I don't know if you have to forget past trauma.

00:11:42.460 I think you have to dig it up, look at the jewels, polish the ones that are dull,

00:11:48.500 and feel what you need to feel because otherwise you're just storing it away.

00:11:54.680 And that's how you deal with your trauma.

00:11:56.800 Like, you face it.

00:11:57.920 You put yourself in a scenario where you're that child.

00:12:00.420 like if I was five or four or 14 again and just tell that child like hey I'm here for you and you

00:12:11.800 want that child to be proud of who you are at the current moment so vice versa it's it's really all

00:12:17.420 about going back and opening the doors so that way it's not about closing doors I mean a lot

00:12:23.880 of times you'll hear people saying closing the doors but the doors have to reopen again I tried

00:12:28.540 like really hard to unlearn a lot of those ideals so i like why because i don't think that they're

00:12:33.860 right at the end of the day what can you give an example like um i think that gay people aren't

00:12:38.300 going to hell i think that abortion is a medical care like it's it's not that should be up to the

00:12:45.700 woman and her doctor and no one else are you still catholic i still believe in god but i think that

00:12:50.860 organized religion is a scam scary scary yes okay so where do you think gay people are going now

00:12:57.720 i think that gay people are going to heaven i think that if you're a good person you're going

00:13:02.900 to heaven and i don't think that being gay is it's an automatic sentence to hell i don't think

00:13:07.080 that being gay is a is a quantifier for if you're a good person or not that's fair yeah i think a

00:13:12.400 lot of people would agree with that it's mostly based on like we're all going to be judged yeah

00:13:15.580 exactly okay do your parents like push back on you for you changing your beliefs on this all the

00:13:20.300 time yeah okay thanksgiving dinner is difficult yeah so we'll easter brunch which is coming up

00:13:24.640 Oh, yeah, it is.

00:13:25.180 Yeah, I'm going home for that.

00:13:26.420 How are you going to prepare for that conversation?

00:13:28.580 I'm going to take a little edible because it's on 420.

00:13:31.480 Do you make judgments based off of people's race?

00:13:34.700 Honestly, I feel like, yeah, sometimes I do.

00:13:37.600 But I feel like, I mean, I'm in a philosophy class right now that's about, like, marginalized people.

00:13:42.040 And we actually were just talking, like, two days ago about, like, visualizing Jesus

00:13:46.320 and, like, the way that, like, people would visualize it.

00:13:48.520 And our teacher was like, okay, visualize him black.

00:13:50.700 And the majority of the people could not do it.

00:13:52.500 because it's like there are just things like that where it's like it's a very

00:13:55.420 wait but everybody can visualize him white right exactly but he wasn't he wasn't white

00:14:00.060 at all so that's the thing it's like i don't know i feel like this world is very anti

00:14:04.380 anti-black and it kind of is moving backwards you think so in a sense oh yeah i do i mean it's

00:14:10.680 obvious you have to i'm not gonna lie and say i don't see race i'm not fucking colorblind

00:14:14.160 but me seeing race doesn't mean that i have to dictate how i'm going to treat someone differently

00:14:17.720 because of that just because you're a different type of brown than i am someone's a different

00:14:20.960 type of purple or different type of white doesn't mean i'm going to take away their right to vote

00:14:24.280 or live where they want to live or be treated like a fucking human being that's basic that's

00:14:28.820 the basis it's the basis nowhere in that holy bible did jesus say treat everyone like an absolute

00:14:34.600 piece of shit because they're not your fucking natural born neighbor nowhere in that book

00:14:38.580 nowhere in that book so again the same people who are telling you to follow that book don't

00:14:42.960 follow the teachings in that book the same people who pay you to come up here and do this are the

00:14:46.620 same people who throw you under the bus with a hitler salute or some bullshit the same people

00:14:51.300 like nick fuentes will get a million views off you and then chuck you to the side because it's

00:14:55.260 easy to throw you under the bus than to take accountability for their own fucking actions

00:14:59.000 and who's left on the wayside us people who really had a fucking dream people who really

00:15:03.500 want to do something people who had a voice and they destroy us first fred hampton malcolm x martin

00:15:08.680 luther king whoever the fuck has a voice that has a power they destroy you first and foremost

00:15:13.180 Why? Because you may have a result, and you can change the future.

00:15:16.420 You have that power, Sneeko.

00:15:18.040 Do you judge people based off of their race?

00:15:20.580 No, it's pointless.

00:15:23.680 Okay. So when you see race, what do you think?

00:15:28.020 When I see race, I think of systemics.

00:15:32.160 I think of intersectionality.

00:15:33.560 I think of the way things are intertwined into society.

00:15:36.520 So when I see race, I see like, I live in like Flatbush.

00:15:40.640 I see race, I see the fact that everybody's kind of boarded into somewhere,

00:15:45.640 and I know that people don't have property like me in certain places because of redlining.

00:15:49.360 Or I see more police in my train stations than, let's say, like, 4th Ave and Bay Ridge or something like that.

00:15:56.460 I see race, I see small things like that.

00:15:57.900 Intricacies are politics, the way things are worded in the news, mortality rates.

00:16:05.720 Do you see race?

00:16:07.080 What do you mean?

00:16:08.180 Do you see color or do you see race?

00:16:10.200 Yes.

00:16:11.080 Do you make judgments off of that?

00:16:12.780 No.

00:16:13.900 Well, I feel like we're raised to, we're taught at school also to,

00:16:20.440 I feel like we're all divided in some sort of ways,

00:16:23.040 but I see myself as a global citizen,

00:16:25.640 so I don't really, like, judge by race at all.

00:16:29.980 At all?

00:16:30.940 No, I don't think so.

00:16:32.560 No, I see everybody as equal.

00:16:34.160 I mean, I don't treat people differently based on how they're dressed,

00:16:36.440 how they act, well, how they act is different,

00:16:39.020 But, I mean, who they are as a person doesn't matter to me.

00:16:41.720 So when do you make judgments of somebody?

00:16:43.800 Based on their actions, based on their character, how they treat other people,

00:16:47.060 and if they respect others, and animals especially.

00:16:49.720 If they don't like animals, they're fucked up.

00:16:52.320 I judge people by their character, not by their race.

00:16:55.040 You make no judgments of race?

00:16:57.020 At all?

00:16:58.240 Do you notice any anti-white bias at all?

00:17:01.740 I don't know.

00:17:02.980 I mean, I feel like being white, I'm very privileged,

00:17:05.800 and, like, I recognize that I have privilege,

00:17:07.600 and, like, I have the power to change things

00:17:11.040 and, like, to see that, like, there are things that need to be changed.

00:17:13.780 But, I mean, personally, like, towards me,

00:17:16.740 like, I have not felt any type of, like, anti-white bias

00:17:20.840 about anything really in my life.

00:17:22.420 And, like, that's a privilege that I haven't felt that.

00:17:26.120 You don't notice any, like, anything at all?

00:17:31.840 Okay, how about this?

00:17:32.760 Remember during George Floyd when white people were, like,

00:17:35.580 bowing down and to black people's feet yeah do you think that that was right i mean i think in

00:17:43.040 regards to like black lives matter and stuff like i mean police brutality is kind of its own thing

00:17:47.380 yeah and i feel like of course there's always prejudice towards um specific like races and

00:17:55.640 i mean i don't know it's like i think it's in our power to recognize that there are things

00:17:59.700 that are wrong but i mean it's about like equality in the end like it's you know

00:18:05.220 about maybe between like race and also like for you know female and male and like you know so

00:18:11.440 so much other as well but i don't know i don't know how to answer that

00:18:15.740 so you just want loving everyone is the way to go so james you're 12 years old yeah what do you

00:18:22.560 want to be when you grow up i want to be a professional hockey player are you on track

00:18:26.920 to do that um hopefully i think i'm doing good so far um i'm working hard at practices

00:18:32.500 I'm doing my best, but I really think if I keep going, I have a chance.

00:18:37.060 It's a difficult sport. There's a lot of fighting. It's a lot of training.

00:18:40.240 Part of that's the reason I play it. I like how tough you have to be to play it.

00:18:44.200 It's a very hard sport, but that's what I like about it.

00:18:46.980 Why hockey? Why do you want to be a professional hockey player?

00:18:51.380 Well, not because of a pay. I mean, they pay a lot, but I really have love for the sport.

00:18:55.740 I mean, I come to practice, and I'm just happy to be there.

00:18:59.300 I really love hockey. It's a big passion of mine.

00:19:01.760 do you work at it every single day um i have spring break now so every day this week i'm doing

00:19:08.840 privates but um usually on weekdays i can because i have school and homework well you can still do

00:19:14.780 drills in your room you can still work out you can do push-ups sometimes but i don't really do

00:19:18.680 any body weight i should i should do some body weight exercises like push-ups squats lunges but

00:19:23.080 i don't really something you could do in your room why not instead of playing fortnight you

00:19:25.820 should get that done i should i truly should yeah well if you want to be professional i think that

00:19:30.000 the best advice I can give you is start now, you know, because there's someone else, the future

00:19:34.040 best hockey player is doing those push-ups. So next time you're playing Fortnite or something,

00:19:38.920 remember that the next best player is doing what you're not doing. Yeah, at that moment.

00:19:44.040 Hey, but Sam, I wish all the best success to you, man. You're going to make it one day if you work

00:19:47.320 hard. Thank you. What did you want to be when you grew up? Funny enough, I loved the ocean a lot,

00:19:53.640 and I thought I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was a young kid, because I thought it was

00:19:58.180 you just go out in boats and look at fish and things you know take pictures of fish and all

00:20:03.140 that um but now like i make music i work in the music industry complete 180 oh yeah that's

00:20:11.220 especially when i learned that marine biology marine biology is not about taking pictures of

00:20:15.380 fish what did you want to be when you grew up when i was really young i wanted to be an astronaut

00:20:21.060 did like a whole project on it made like a whole diagram and then all my friends when i was kids

00:20:26.340 They told me I would die if I was an astronaut, so I threw that away.

00:20:30.100 You threw it away because of your friends?

00:20:31.380 Yeah, my friends told me I was going to die. I was scared shitless, bro.

00:20:34.200 Do you regret not following that?

00:20:36.160 I don't know about astronomy.

00:20:38.420 I guess when I got older as well, I kind of realized that space wasn't super interesting to me.

00:20:44.020 From there, I guess the past that I really thought about were I was pretty involved in robotics in high school.

00:20:49.400 When do you think it's too old to still try to pursue your passions?

00:20:53.700 It's never too old.

00:20:54.520 i'm starting ballet at 50 so that's never too old so like being 50 i am like being a child again

00:21:02.780 so i'm getting to like see myself in a different light so i two months into absolute beginner

00:21:09.880 ballet i want to be a veterinarian are you doing that no i'm studying fashion and marketing do you

00:21:17.900 go to fit no okay so when did you change from veterinarian to fashion that's a big jump um

00:21:24.500 I didn't want to see animals die.

00:21:26.620 That was, like, not my thing.

00:21:28.120 I just like helping them, but I'd rather have multiple pets than just be a veterinarian.

00:21:32.320 Do you prefer cats or dogs?

00:21:33.600 I have two cats, so.

00:21:34.940 You don't like dogs?

00:21:35.740 I love dogs.

00:21:36.720 You do?

00:21:36.920 I love all animals.

00:21:37.900 You kind of remind me of a cat, but why don't you have dogs?

00:21:40.720 I live in an apartment, so it wouldn't be fair.

00:21:42.900 It needs, like, room to roam around.

00:21:44.380 Oh, okay.

00:21:45.140 What did you want to be when you grew up?

00:21:46.940 I want to be a vet still.

00:21:49.140 You in school for that?

00:21:50.320 Not yet.

00:21:51.240 I'm a vet assistant right now.

00:21:53.300 Okay.

00:21:53.540 So, working my way.

00:21:55.160 Oh, so you're going to achieve it?

00:21:56.340 Yes.

00:21:56.820 Have you always wanted to be a vet?

00:21:58.220 Yes.

00:21:59.480 What is it about animals that you like so much?

00:22:02.280 Just the innocence.

00:22:03.460 Like, you know, they don't have a voice for themselves.

00:22:05.480 So, you know, I want to be that voice, help out.

00:22:08.800 Which animals do you mostly take care of?

00:22:10.800 I have three cats right now.

00:22:12.540 I do cat and dog vaccines.

00:22:14.060 I help out, but I love all animals.

00:22:16.000 I originally wanted to do, like, marine, so, like, sharks and stuff like that.

00:22:21.320 And now I notice you have the cat sweater on.

00:22:23.100 Yes.

00:22:23.820 You represent?

00:22:24.640 Yeah, I've got three cats.

00:22:26.100 They're all old men.

00:22:27.140 What did you want to be when you grew up?

00:22:28.960 Baseball player.

00:22:30.360 Are you Dominican?

00:22:31.440 Yes, sir.

00:22:32.120 How you know that?

00:22:33.400 Baseball, you know, uptown.

00:22:35.600 Facts, facts.

00:22:36.660 Did you do it?

00:22:38.120 Nah.

00:22:39.140 Got as far as college, that's all.

00:22:41.360 How come you couldn't make it further?

00:22:43.800 Not that nice, I guess.

00:22:45.520 What position?

00:22:46.120 Shortstop?

00:22:46.720 Second base shortstop, yes.

00:22:47.940 Second base shortstop.

00:22:48.560 Yeah.

00:22:49.520 Okay, I'm two for two right now.

00:22:51.120 Yeah, you are.

00:22:51.940 Did you regret it?

00:22:53.380 I mean, do you have any regrets?

00:22:55.160 Eh.

00:22:57.140 I had a kid, too, so...

00:22:58.940 No, I don't regret it, actually.

00:23:00.040 Oh, okay.

00:23:00.460 How many kids do you have?

00:23:01.340 Three.

00:23:01.980 Three?

00:23:02.540 Yeah.

00:23:02.960 Hey.

00:23:04.200 What's the...

00:23:05.080 Can I ask, all the same mom?

00:23:06.660 The oldest?

00:23:07.780 Is it all the same mom for all three?

00:23:09.300 No, no.

00:23:09.780 Three different baby moms, man.

00:23:10.980 All three?

00:23:11.980 I'm Dominican, they just say.

00:23:13.120 Come on, man.

00:23:13.800 Que lo que, wah, wah, wah.

00:23:15.200 Man, you're slaying.

00:23:15.820 Facts.

00:23:16.260 Wah, wah, wah.

00:23:16.780 Wah, wah, wah.

00:23:18.280 I guess I want to get a good job

00:23:20.600 and be rich enough to travel the world are you on track to do that yeah i think so

00:23:28.520 what do you mean you think so yeah i don't know if i'm on the right track though

00:23:32.760 but i'm trying to be how old are you i'm 20 or how old do you think i am so 20 20 22 22 yeah thanks

00:23:44.280 a lot i appreciate that they say i'm pushing 30 i'm 26 i'm about to be 27 but mentally i already

00:23:50.360 say i'm 30 so that by the time i'm 30 it's not going to hit like a train you know i want to be

00:23:54.800 mentally ready for that so in my head i'm already 30 mentally you're from here so the woman

00:24:00.040 that's why i'm interviewing people genius do you still think space is real after seeing katy perry

00:24:09.740 and gail king and jeff bezos wife go in that little round tube and float in the air do you

00:24:14.540 think it's real i think it's real because dude perfect did a video where they where they went

00:24:18.380 up and i trust them yeah no part of you thinks that the earth's flat and space is fake no

00:24:22.760 unfortunately not no okay so when are normal people going to go besides gail king katie

00:24:26.500 perry when can we go to space oh that's a good question because maybe if we never go then you

00:24:30.680 know it's true that it's not real i think soon 50 to 70 years if you consider that soon 50 years

00:24:36.580 yeah yeah katie perry can go now then we should be able to go well i think it's about affordability

00:24:41.020 right i think within 50 years it becomes relatively affordable maybe like upper class

00:24:47.180 can afford it all right all right so what's the what advice would you give to new fathers

00:24:50.780 man just love your kids man just love your kids and be the best that you could be

00:24:56.740 respect the mom and provide is it difficult to have three different baby mamas yes it is

00:25:06.000 it's expensive yeah and a lot of drama oh yeah that's a fact do they know each other

00:25:10.740 yeah technically they do but they don't so they know of each other but they know of each other

00:25:18.160 but they met like one met one met one by the other like the one that i'm currently with has

00:25:23.260 met all both the other two yeah so she knows all three she knows all two all the other two yeah

00:25:27.880 yeah she hates them and they're cool oh yeah they're cool okay yeah i keep a cordial you know

00:25:33.800 yeah yeah yeah so why is it expensive is the child support or is it the transportation kids kids kids

00:25:38.600 Kids can be expensive and like that, like me having a home

00:25:43.100 and having to support them as well, supporting myself and them.

00:25:46.200 You know what I mean?

00:25:47.560 Got to keep up with me and them.

00:25:49.920 Are you done pumping them out or are you going to keep on going?

00:25:52.040 The one I'm with right now wants another one, so that may be, you know,

00:25:56.020 another one may be in the way.

00:25:57.360 Best of luck.

00:25:57.920 I mean, it's not too late.

00:25:58.840 How old are you?

00:25:59.840 35.

00:26:00.620 Yeah, you can still play ball.

00:26:01.660 You can still play baseball.

00:26:02.500 I play softball.

00:26:03.540 Okay.

00:26:03.900 Yeah, I play softball summertime now.

00:26:05.340 And I'm coaching two of my two young sons, so I coach them.

00:26:09.440 Oh, that's dope, that's dope.

00:26:10.340 Yeah, so I'm still in the baseball process.

00:26:13.600 Okay.

00:26:14.680 When did you realize you wanted to be a baseball player?

00:26:17.720 Alex Rodriguez, 1996, 1995.

00:26:20.640 I was five years old.

00:26:21.820 Alex Rodriguez?

00:26:22.740 Yeah.

00:26:23.040 He's been playing that long?

00:26:24.200 He signed to Seattle in 1995, I believe, yes.

00:26:27.960 Dressed up, what are you dressed up for?

00:26:29.500 I'm dressed up for my job.

00:26:31.120 What are you dressed up for?

00:26:32.040 I'm about to do a LinkedIn photo.

00:26:33.820 A LinkedIn photo?

00:26:34.540 LinkedIn photo.

00:26:35.180 What job are you applying for?

00:26:36.960 For banking, for finance.

00:26:38.940 How old are you?

00:26:40.000 22.

00:26:40.640 What did you want to be when you grew up?

00:26:42.540 When I wanted to grow up?

00:26:44.240 I wanted to be a meteorologist at first when I was younger

00:26:46.760 because I loved the weather,

00:26:48.260 so I was always watching the weather channel and stuff.

00:26:50.820 When did you give up on that?

00:26:52.700 It kind of just went away over time.

00:26:54.760 And then I wanted to be a YouTuber.

00:26:56.480 That was the biggest thing.

00:26:57.820 When did you give up on that?

00:26:59.580 I don't think I ever gave up on it.

00:27:01.460 It's still in me a little bit.

00:27:02.840 Like I I wanted to make videos like to be on like loaf and stuff like that

00:27:06.880 And then like because I have I like doing stuff like that

00:27:10.360 But then like I tell myself like do I want to do that like is it worth it?

00:27:14.660 And like am I gonna do good and stuff like that because it's like nowadays

00:27:18.020 There's so many people doing those types of videos and like they're kind of making like a bad rep for everybody

00:27:22.320 Like like you know the ones like in the Home Depot and stuff like screaming and stuff like that

00:27:25.640 We just got arrested in the Philippines for doing that type of stuff. No, but he was crazy for that

00:27:29.600 He was I hope he could do better

00:27:31.700 Do you think we need men?

00:27:34.260 Yeah.

00:27:34.800 I mean, I feel like if a man acts like a normal person,

00:27:39.920 then it's...

00:27:40.680 I don't understand people that say, I hate all men.

00:27:44.020 Because there are good people.

00:27:45.360 They're just encountering bad people.

00:27:47.300 And I think that men are definitely necessary.

00:27:50.860 Do you have friends that say, I hate all men?

00:27:53.720 No.

00:27:54.920 I don't surround myself with people that I wouldn't act like the same way.

00:27:58.580 Who do you surround yourself with?

00:27:59.600 Right now, it's just my sister, my siblings, and my cats and my parents.

00:28:06.400 I live a pretty peaceful life right now.

00:28:08.480 Women are losing their rights.

00:28:09.980 Black LGBT, we're all...

00:28:11.560 What rights are women losing?

00:28:14.140 Abortion.

00:28:15.000 The right to feel safe in their own fucking space.

00:28:17.460 The right to feel safe?

00:28:18.520 Yeah.

00:28:18.880 How are they losing that?

00:28:19.880 Simple, because when people keep on coming to them and saying that what they fear isn't real,

00:28:24.580 like a boogeyman or a Sasquatch, when in actuality it's happening.

00:28:28.740 Ninety-three percent of sexual assault victims are committed by straight white men who practice some form of religion.

00:28:37.180 It's not drag queens. It's not the gays. It's straight white men.

00:28:40.780 Ninety-three percent of sexual assault victims, okay,

00:28:44.580 40 percent of police officers have reported spousal abuse in their home.

00:28:49.580 We want to start looking at calls coming from inside the house.

00:28:52.060 And when we do stuff like this, when we don't address those problems

00:28:54.800 and we just try to follow up for social media clout, it doesn't put us anywhere.

00:28:58.380 but on the wrong side of history.

00:29:00.700 I don't want to see you on the wrong side of history, Sneeko.

00:29:03.220 What do you think about the rising amount of white nationalists

00:29:07.440 who think that there's an anti-white sentiment in the country?

00:29:09.980 Do you empathize with that belief at all?

00:29:14.580 No.

00:29:15.320 This country was made by, this country was founded by white men

00:29:19.780 at a time where women didn't really have any real agency

00:29:24.100 in anything they said or did.

00:29:25.660 So it was realistically founded by white men for white men.

00:29:29.000 It wasn't really a country that was all-inclusive of indigenous people.

00:29:32.140 It wasn't a country that was indigenous of black people for any reason, and we know why.

00:29:36.540 And what we would call Latino people today at the time are technically also indigenous.

00:29:40.920 So I don't really agree with anything white nationalists have to say about anything

00:29:45.780 because their belief isn't based in reality.

00:29:48.060 It's not based in fact.

00:29:49.000 It's based in feelings on what they can see and what they don't understand.

00:29:53.140 Do you hate white people?

00:29:53.920 I was just chopping it up with this one girl I met at my job

00:29:57.680 This white girl behind the bar

00:30:00.060 I don't have a problem with white people

00:30:01.640 I grew up with white people

00:30:02.800 I was friends with white kids

00:30:04.820 You know, elementary school

00:30:05.700 One of my closest friends in elementary school

00:30:08.100 One of my friends, Oleg

00:30:09.340 Oleg was Russian

00:30:10.120 He used to teach us curse words

00:30:11.640 We used to run around saying all types of shit in Russian in school

00:30:14.320 I don't have a problem with white people

00:30:15.880 White people, it's not the problem

00:30:16.860 It's not more so white people

00:30:18.300 It's ideas

00:30:19.900 Because a person can't be inherently idle

00:30:22.420 It can't be inherently bad.

00:30:24.080 That's doing them a disservice.

00:30:25.460 Because every person has the opportunity to grow and change,

00:30:28.600 and they're never the same person you were yesterday.

00:30:30.880 But the ideas that are more present in white communities are inherently cancerous to everybody else.

00:30:39.080 That's not me hating white people.

00:30:40.140 It's me hating a social structure that's promoted ideas in their community that hasn't properly been dismantled.

00:30:48.420 We've got to look at the consequences of that.

00:30:50.620 I don't hate white people.

00:30:51.540 No problem, baby.

00:30:52.880 Okay, so what made you start watching my content?

00:30:54.900 Well, you went off YouTube, and then I couldn't find you anywhere.

00:30:59.240 So you stopped watching?

00:31:00.320 I know, I stopped watching.

00:31:01.260 I post on Twitter every day.

00:31:02.500 Okay, I'm not on Twitter.

00:31:03.780 What did you want to be when you grew up?

00:31:05.760 Well, I wanted to be a dentist, but now I'm studying interior design at Parsons.

00:31:09.920 I actually quoted one of your YouTube videos for my college essay.

00:31:13.640 I'm like a really big fan, you guys.

00:31:15.080 You don't know.

00:31:16.160 What was the quote?

00:31:17.260 It was about how we're monkeys.

00:31:19.540 I think it was in one of your YouTube videos.

00:31:21.540 of society

00:31:23.140 and you just made me see

00:31:24.200 I feel like

00:31:25.540 you can't remember the quote?

00:31:26.680 no no no

00:31:27.060 I can't remember the quote

00:31:27.880 I'm in my third year

00:31:29.280 you can't blame me

00:31:30.140 yeah that's fine

00:31:30.620 but yeah

00:31:31.920 I just came here to tell you

00:31:33.640 that I

00:31:34.080 you really

00:31:34.780 like this is

00:31:35.300 one of the reasons

00:31:35.920 that I moved to this city

00:31:37.300 from India

00:31:38.180 from where?

00:31:39.200 from India?

00:31:39.620 yes

00:31:39.900 oh you came all the way

00:31:40.960 from India?

00:31:41.400 yeah

00:31:41.720 oh you know the CEO

00:31:42.720 of YouTube is Indian too

00:31:44.120 Neil Mahan

00:31:44.640 oh yeah yeah yeah

00:31:45.760 okay

00:31:46.020 well

00:31:46.720 I love India

00:31:47.500 let me email him real quick

00:31:49.160 get sneaked up back on YouTube

00:31:50.860 Hey thanks Neil. Can I take a picture of you? Of course you can, yeah.

00:31:55.860 It's a dream come true, you don't understand. It's great to meet you.

00:31:58.860 So nice to meet you. Are you healthy? Yes. So you succeeded?

00:32:02.860 You do a camera? Yeah, it's the one minute podcast.

00:32:05.860 Can you hold for me, please? It's a podcast. Actually, I thought I was just a seat.

00:32:10.860 Okay, thank you, thank you.

SHNEAKO - November 21, 2025

Are You Racist？

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