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- Thomas: What's the most racist thing you could say and have black people do? I mean, even people who are or were involved in gangs, probably I w I would hope take offense to this game, even being made. Cause all all this whole op stuff is it's tragic on all sides, man. Everybody's just losing. People it it doesn't doesn't mean anything at the end of the day. Just killing each other. Malcolm: Mm. Then this is literally just this is just I mean the CIA is probably just jumping for joy knowing that a game like this exists and that we're falling for and and people I ain't gonna lie, I was really disappointed 'cause they're actually one of my favorite YouTube channels, but like like R D C that they had to get like Man, they had to get like they had to get like basically like talked out of playing this game. Like like their chat had to like basically convince them, like, no, y'all shouldn't be playing this. And it was like let me go find the actual Thomas: fellow. Malcolm: Yeah, I'm like, bro, like come on, like yeah, yeah, yeah, Thomas: Come on, man. Malcolm: y'all of all people should know this. Yeah, they there like, yeah, there was like it's a whole five minute clip of Mark and the rest of them basically like they were trying to play it, but they folded to like Thomas: I said Phillips. Malcolm: backlash in the chat, and it was like then there was like a It was just like, yeah, so then I guess we shouldn't play GTA six in November, huh? Like, I don't understand. Y'all are y'all on some BS. And it's like, bro, like, for y'all to have the platform that y'all do, and like, it's like, come on, bro. Like, y'all can't, y'all can't be, y'all can't be on this type of stage. Y'all can't have this type of stage, this type of audience, and be this dense when it comes to understanding, like, like and just that's what I'm saying, like if you're just comparing if you're comparing a game like this to GTA six, like, like, and you think it's like you're trying to equate them, then you're like You're exactly who they make this game for because they don't expect you to think critically enough to understand why this is so many more layers deep and offensive to black people and to our communities and to the city of Chicago, for just like kind of like reducing them down to just this just this kind of like center of just gang violence. And it's it's so much more than that, bro. It's a beautiful city, bro. Like it's that's not these people probably have never stepped foot in Chicago, and they think it's like just like this this war, you know, ridden town or let me say this not. Like it's like that's all I'm saying, bro. So it's like, you know, for anybody, like I said, you may or may not have heard about this game. This may be the first time you or us talking about it may be the first time you have heard about it. but like I said, like games like these are not like these should not, like I said, I'm not sitting here trying to make it sound like, you know, everything should be super serious. But like certain things you just shouldn't like go for in a in a while, especially if you're a black person. 'Cause like I said, like this is literally like a joke. There there's like disrespect. It's like something like this is like a whether you want to call it a joke or not, there's a there's plenty of truth in every joke, whether it's a little bit or a lot. and stuff like this, like I mean, it's just not funny. Like maybe like if you're like a trying to be like an edgy fourteen, fifteen year old and you think this is funny, I guess. But like if you're if if you're old enough and your frontal lobe is developed and you have enough conscious and like common sense to know like right from wrong and when a game is trying to make fun of like your people. and like actual real world events that are kind of like shaped y'all you know y your class in like African Americans like like economic status and and social status today, then it's like bro it it is a lot deeper than that. A lot of people like to, you know, play the it's not that deep card. But stuff like this is that deep.