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- 0:04SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm gonna give you a history lesson.
- 0:06SPEAKER_00: Because I'm sure this wasn't on your entry exam.
- 0:09SPEAKER_00: But every naturalized American has heard something about what I'm about to tell you.
- 0:14SPEAKER_00: Picture is the early 50s in the United States.
- 0:17SPEAKER_00: A 14-year-old boy goes down from Chicago to Mississippi to meet his extended family for the first time.
- 0:24SPEAKER_00: He'd never been to Mississippi.
- 0:26SPEAKER_00: And before he went, his mother said to him, very pointedly, she said, if a white man looks you in your eyes in Mississippi, look away.
- 0:37SPEAKER_00: And I don't know what you know about black people from Chicago, but they're not a scared people.
- 0:47SPEAKER_00: He was in front of a convenience store hanging out with his cousins, having a good time.
- 0:51SPEAKER_00: And a white woman walked out of the store, and he thought she was pretty, and he said, Bye, baby.
- 1:00SPEAKER_00: Not realizing that he had just made a fatal mistake.
- 1:05SPEAKER_00: Four days later.
- 1:07SPEAKER_00: Four days later, a group of adult white men burst into this family's home and snatched a 14-year-old boy out of bed in front of his family that was powerless to stop him, and he was never seen alive again.
- 1:24SPEAKER_00: His name was Amateil.
- 1:27SPEAKER_00: They found his body maybe a few days later.
- 1:31SPEAKER_00: It was in a creek tied to a wheel so it would sink, horribly beaten and bloated.
- 1:37SPEAKER_00: Hideous.
- 1:38SPEAKER_00: And lucky for everybody in America, his mother was a fucking gangster.
- 1:47SPEAKER_00: She was.
- 2:02SPEAKER_00: She said, Leave my son's casket open.
- 2:05SPEAKER_00: She said, the world needs to see what they did to my baby.
- 2:11SPEAKER_00: And every publication here in the United States, from Jet Magazine all the way to the New York Times, had this boy's horribly bloated body on its cover.
- 2:20SPEAKER_00: And if our civil rights movement was a car, this boy's dead body was premium gas.
- 2:27SPEAKER_00: This was a very definitive moment in American history where every thinking and feeling person was like, ugh, we gotta do better than this.
- 2:35SPEAKER_00: And they fought beautifully, and here we all are.
- 5:10SPEAKER_01: And I took out uh five dollars and I I gave him five dollars.
- 5:14SPEAKER_01: He looked at me and we're having a conversation.
- 5:16SPEAKER_01: We're having this moment where we told he's telling me about his life story, his parents were abusive, he ran away from home, got hooked on drugs.
- 5:23SPEAKER_01: And he looks at me and he goes, Hey man, tell me more about yourself.
- 5:25SPEAKER_01: Where are you from?
- 5:26SPEAKER_01: I said, I'm from South Africa.
- 5:27SPEAKER_01: He said, Where about in Africa is that?
- 5:29SPEAKER_01: I said, in the South, I suggested as suggested on the title, on the title of the So he looks at me, he goes, Are you you from Africa, man?
- 5:43SPEAKER_01: I said, Yeah, I'm from Africa.
- 5:44SPEAKER_01: He said, You're from Africa?
- 5:46SPEAKER_01: I said, Yeah, yeah, I'm from Africa.
- 5:47SPEAKER_01: And then he then he gave me my five dollars back.
- 5:50SPEAKER_01: I was like, it's fine, okay.
- 5:54SPEAKER_01: Like he was like he just looked at me like, no, you know what, just take your money.
- 5:59SPEAKER_01: My whiteness will sort this out, don't worry.
- 6:03SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
- 6:04SPEAKER_01: And I told this to my friend, and my friend was like, that's such an offensive thing to happen to you.
- 6:09SPEAKER_01: And I said, no, that was a special moment because this dude was aware of his privilege as a white dude.
- 6:15SPEAKER_01: He was fully aware.
- 6:16SPEAKER_01: He was like, listen, this is a fucked up situation, but trust me, I do not want to be African.
- 6:23SPEAKER_01: Do you understand what I mean?
- 6:24SPEAKER_01: And it was a beautiful thing, and it's such a hard thing to understand.
- 6:27SPEAKER_01: So I appreciate that, dude.
- 6:29SPEAKER_01: Right?
- 6:29SPEAKER_01: And uh, and here's the thing I'm gonna try to explain what white privilege is in a room full of white people.
- 6:37SPEAKER_01: So wish me luck.
- 6:38SPEAKER_01: This this is what white privilege is.
- 6:40SPEAKER_06: As long as white people can say bad credit, we should be able to say nigga.
- 6:44SPEAKER_06: That's our shit.
- 6:45SPEAKER_06: Oprah talking about we can't say nigga no more.
- 6:48SPEAKER_06: Come on, Oprah.
- 6:49SPEAKER_06: You own everything, don't take nigga from us.
- 6:52SPEAKER_06: Don't remember we love you, Oprah, cause you were nigger.
- 6:55SPEAKER_06: Did you forget that?
- 6:56SPEAKER_06: Never color purple till you do right by meat, nigga.
- 7:01SPEAKER_06: That was the shit.
- 7:06SPEAKER_06: Oprah's our nigga.
- 7:09SPEAKER_08: You need a black friend.
- 7:13SPEAKER_08: You need a black friend.
- 7:17SPEAKER_08: It's 2019.
- 7:19SPEAKER_08: If you don't have a black friend, you're the problem.
- 7:31SPEAKER_08: But if you don't have one, I understand.
- 7:34SPEAKER_08: I understand.
- 7:35SPEAKER_08: It's scary.
- 7:41SPEAKER_08: It is.
- 7:42SPEAKER_08: Because of how we've been portrayed, right?
- 7:46SPEAKER_08: Black people have always been portrayed as sinister, menacing, a threat.
- 7:51SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 7:54SPEAKER_08: In Chicago, a black security guard, right?
- 7:57SPEAKER_08: At a club.
- 7:58SPEAKER_08: There was a shooting.
- 7:59SPEAKER_08: The black security guard apprehended the shooter, but the cops show up, shoot the black security guard.
- 8:07SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
- 8:08SPEAKER_08: Because all they saw was a black man.
- 8:11SPEAKER_08: Why can't we be the good guy?
- 8:21SPEAKER_08: Black people, we need a better publicist.
- 8:26SPEAKER_08: No, fuck that.
- 8:27SPEAKER_08: We need a publicist.
- 8:30SPEAKER_08: I want the publicists that the white guys use.
- 8:33SPEAKER_08: That publicist kicks ass.
- 8:35SPEAKER_08: That publicist is the best.
- 8:38SPEAKER_08: Because they know how to spin it.
- 8:40SPEAKER_08: Even when white guys fuck up, they can spin it.
- 8:43SPEAKER_08: And where you won't think, oh, all white guys are fucked up.
- 8:47SPEAKER_08: No.
- 8:47SPEAKER_08: Because they make them individuals.
- 8:49SPEAKER_08: You know?
- 8:50SPEAKER_08: A crazy white guy shoots up a movie theater, they give you his backstory.
- 8:55SPEAKER_08: Right?
- 8:56SPEAKER_08: They tell you where he went to school.
- 8:58SPEAKER_08: Oh, he was a loner.
- 9:00SPEAKER_08: They put a picture up in the news of him that's so sympathetic.
- 9:03SPEAKER_08: I'm watching news, I'm like, oh man, he should have called me.
- 9:14SPEAKER_08: We need a better publicist.
- 9:17SPEAKER_08: Yeah, I want a campaign, a campaign for black people, right?
- 9:21SPEAKER_08: How about how about like some billboards all across the country of black people just doing fun, non-threatening, frivolous shit?
- 9:33SPEAKER_08: Just black people just like bowling.
- 9:35SPEAKER_08: Just how about some slogans?
- 9:48SPEAKER_08: You know, like toys for tots.
- 9:49SPEAKER_08: How about a good slogan for black people?
- 9:52SPEAKER_08: Hey, let's get black to business.
- 10:00SPEAKER_08: Like that.
- 10:03SPEAKER_08: Or maybe, you know, something environmental, like like uh, like show black people just taking out the recycling can, you know, like we're black, but we're green.
- 10:28SPEAKER_08: You need a black friend.
- 10:30SPEAKER_08: Get a black friend, you'll learn some shit.
- 10:34SPEAKER_08: Here's an easy one.
- 10:35SPEAKER_08: You should know this one.
- 10:36SPEAKER_08: Never touch a black woman's hair.
- 10:40SPEAKER_08: Yes.
- 10:42SPEAKER_08: Never touch a black woman's hair.
- 10:46SPEAKER_08: I don't give a fuck if she has a tarantula sitting on her head.
- 10:51SPEAKER_08: Let it bite her.
- 11:03SPEAKER_08: Here's another one.
- 11:04SPEAKER_08: Here's another one I'll give y'all.
- 11:07SPEAKER_08: Right, people, you go and you get a tan.
- 11:10SPEAKER_08: You get a nice tan.
- 11:11SPEAKER_08: You've been on vacation.
- 11:13SPEAKER_08: Do not go back to your job and go up to your black co-worker.
- 11:18SPEAKER_08: Hey Denise.
- 11:25SPEAKER_08: I'm almost there.
- 11:29SPEAKER_08: Hey, girlfriend, I'm almost there.
- 11:34SPEAKER_08: We hate that shit.
- 11:37SPEAKER_08: And we secretly wish bad black shit happens to you when you do it.
- 11:43SPEAKER_08: I'm almost there.
- 11:45SPEAKER_08: I hope you get sickle cell.
- 11:50SPEAKER_07: Here's my question.
- 11:51SPEAKER_07: You would think, you would think, you would think the cops would occasionally shoot a white kid just to make it look good.
- 12:02SPEAKER_07: You would think that every couple of months they'd look at that dead nigga calendar.
- 12:09SPEAKER_07: Oh my god, we're up to 16.
- 12:12SPEAKER_07: We gotta shoot a white kid quick.
- 12:15SPEAKER_07: Oh, which one?
- 12:16SPEAKER_07: Ah, the first one you see singing Cardi B.
- 12:23SPEAKER_07: Right.
- 12:23SPEAKER_07: I mean, honestly, I want to live in a world with real equality.
- 12:29SPEAKER_07: I want to live in a world where an equal amount of white kids are shot every month.
- 12:37SPEAKER_07: An equal world.
- 12:38SPEAKER_07: I want to see white mothers on TV crying, standing next to Al Shawman.
- 12:49SPEAKER_07: Talking about we need justice for Chad.
- 12:54SPEAKER_07: We need justice for Chad.
- 12:57SPEAKER_07: He was just coming home from racing ball practice.
- 13:03SPEAKER_07: I know some people are like, come on, Chris, man.
- 13:05SPEAKER_07: You go too hard on the cops, man.
- 13:08SPEAKER_07: You celebrity.
- 13:09SPEAKER_07: I'm sure they let you go.
- 13:10SPEAKER_07: I'm sure they nice to you, man.
- 13:11SPEAKER_07: You celebrity.
- 13:13SPEAKER_07: I'm not famous, you know.
- 13:15SPEAKER_07: But I'm not like Michael Jackson famous.
- 13:18SPEAKER_07: I mean, I'm not famous from miles away.
- 13:26SPEAKER_07: My fame kicks in right about here.
- 13:31SPEAKER_07: When the cops see me walking down the street, they're like, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga.
- 13:36SPEAKER_07: Hey, that's Chris Ross! Man, you are funny, man.
- 13:42SPEAKER_07: I love Pudy Tang, man.
- 13:46SPEAKER_02: Look at this.
- 13:47SPEAKER_02: This is this is not the Hollywood look.
- 13:50SPEAKER_02: This is not.
- 13:51SPEAKER_02: There's two looks for black women in Hollywood.
- 13:55SPEAKER_02: You either look like Halleberry or Precious.
- 13:59SPEAKER_02: And there's no slanting scale.
- 14:04SPEAKER_02: I used to get sent for the most ridiculous auditions when I was in Hollywood.
- 14:09SPEAKER_02: This was an actual audition that I got sent for.
- 14:11SPEAKER_02: I'm not even making this up.
- 14:13SPEAKER_02: This was the name of the character.
- 14:15SPEAKER_02: Ghetto Hoochie number three.
- 14:21SPEAKER_02: I had one line.
- 14:22SPEAKER_02: Do you want to hear the line?
- 14:25SPEAKER_02: Nigga is natural, baby.
- 14:28SPEAKER_02: That was it.
- 14:35SPEAKER_02: I said to my agent, I will not say that.
- 14:37SPEAKER_02: I refuse.
- 14:38SPEAKER_02: I would not say it.
- 14:39SPEAKER_02: I'm an in I got integrity.
- 14:40SPEAKER_02: I'm a black woman.
- 14:41SPEAKER_02: I will not do it.
- 14:43SPEAKER_02: And then I saw the money.
- 14:46SPEAKER_02: And I was like, nigga is natural, baby.
- 14:54SPEAKER_02: Do you think I'll get promoted to Ghetto Hoochie Wang?
- 14:56SPEAKER_02: What do you think?
- 15:01SPEAKER_02: So I don't know if some of you look a bit confused.
- 15:04SPEAKER_02: Did you know there were black people in England?
- 15:06SPEAKER_02: Did you know?
- 15:08SPEAKER_02: We are everywhere.
- 15:20SPEAKER_02: You look confused, though.
- 15:22SPEAKER_02: You're looking up at me like, is that Idris Albert?
- 15:25SPEAKER_02: What is happening?
- 15:30SPEAKER_02: I know, from London, England, born and raised.
- 15:34SPEAKER_02: Because I don't know if you know this, Americans, but the Brits are the best at racism.
- 15:38SPEAKER_02: They're the best.
- 15:40SPEAKER_02: They're better than you, Americans.
- 15:41SPEAKER_02: They're so good you don't even know you're being discriminated against.
- 15:46SPEAKER_02: They are fucking ninja racists.
- 15:51SPEAKER_02: And that's why I prefer good old-fashioned American racism.
- 15:57SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I say America, I prefer it.
- 15:59SPEAKER_02: It's in your face.
- 16:01SPEAKER_02: You know where you stand with American racism.
- 16:04SPEAKER_02: You guys have even made movies to let me know where I'm welcome and where I'm not.
- 16:09SPEAKER_02: For instance, I know I'm never going to fucking Mississippi.
- 16:21SPEAKER_02: Having said that though, my manager did recently put some shows in my calendar for Birmingham, Alabama.
- 16:31SPEAKER_02: I know.
- 16:34SPEAKER_02: I saw that come up in my calendar and I was like, fuck no! And then I saw the money.
- 16:43SPEAKER_02: And I was like, you know what?
- 16:44SPEAKER_02: We shouldn't be so quick to judge.
- 16:46SPEAKER_02: We should give the people a chance.
- 16:50SPEAKER_02: So I went to Birmingham, Alabama, people.
- 16:53SPEAKER_02: And it was alright.
- 16:54SPEAKER_02: I had a good time.
- 16:55SPEAKER_02: I experienced that southern hospitality, and the shows were great.
- 16:59SPEAKER_02: And they put me in a very nice hotel.
- 17:01SPEAKER_02: Very nice.
- 17:02SPEAKER_02: I was very surprised by this.
- 17:04SPEAKER_02: I'll tell you why.
- 17:05SPEAKER_02: Uh I'm from England.
- 17:06SPEAKER_02: All I know about Alabama is from your movies.
- 17:09SPEAKER_02: So I wasn't expecting to be staying in a nice hotel.
- 17:12SPEAKER_02: I was expecting to be staying in a shack on a swamp run by some guy wearing overalls.
- 17:22SPEAKER_02: Who referred to me as boy?
- 17:24SPEAKER_02: That's what I was expecting.
- 17:29SPEAKER_02: So I was very surprised by the hotel.
- 17:30SPEAKER_02: I thought, oh, this is lovely.
- 17:32SPEAKER_02: This is this is very civilized.
- 17:34SPEAKER_02: This is wonderful.
- 17:35SPEAKER_02: I basically treated Alabama the way white people treat Africa the first time they go.
- 17:48SPEAKER_02: You know I'm talking about white people.
- 17:50SPEAKER_02: You turn up in Africa for the first time, you're like, wow.
- 17:53SPEAKER_02: They have cars and shoes and shit.
- 18:00SPEAKER_02: That's how I was in Alabama.
- 18:03SPEAKER_02: I was like, wow, they have electricity and teeth.
- 18:12SPEAKER_02: A lot of black people in Alabama.
- 18:14SPEAKER_02: That shocked me.
- 18:15SPEAKER_02: I was really surprised by that.
- 18:16SPEAKER_02: I was like, wow, a lot of black people.
- 18:17SPEAKER_02: I got off the plane and I saw the black people and I ran out to them.
- 18:21SPEAKER_02: I was like, You know you can leave, right?
- 18:33SPEAKER_02: You don't even have to go underground, you can just drive.