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Is "Black Fatigue" Really A Thing? · The imuRgency Room

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  Arnold said. They done with y'all, they tired
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  of y'all ass coming and smelling like weed and they tired of
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  y'all ass bring y'all kids and just leave them any and
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  everywhere like y'all left them at y'all grandma house.
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  Black fatigue. It's all over my FYP page.
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  Thank you. I am so happy that this is being
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  brought up. And oh by the way, for us white
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  people that have been around the block a long time, this isn't
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  new to us. We've been dealing with this for
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  over 40 years. Hey y'all got to stop saying
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  carnival is racist for changing their rules about their policies
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  on a crew. Fact of the matter is, they're
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  not racist. They don't.
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  They're not saying they don't want black people to come over.
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  They don't want. Them all so it's looking like
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  Carnival Cruises is now and some other no pun intended.
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  Hey guys, it's UPS emergency and welcome welcome back to my
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  channel. Today we're talking about
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  everyone's favorite summer pastime and that is cruising
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  yay. Oh no, not that type of
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  cruising. I know I have a very strong
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  girly and gay audience. Get your mind out the gutter.
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  I'm talking about Carnival cruising yay yay.
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  Well, actually let me dial that down because based on some of
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  Carnival's new policies which we're going to talk about it
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  would appear that my black ass is doing too much.
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  Yes, you heard me right. And as you may or may not have
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  seen online Carnival cruises have released a set of policies
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  for their cruise lines that have seemed a little targeted And of
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  course, if we're talking about on this channel.
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  These new policies have began to stir up discourse online mostly
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  because a lot of these policies and alleged policies seem to be
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  an always but directly disincentivizing and penalizing
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  blackness on on the boat. And that's just one part of this
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  conversation because that alone businesses being racially
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  insensitive. We see that every single day.
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  The second aspect of this conversation I think is really
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  interesting. And worth dissecting is the fact
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  that while yes, carnival's actions are SUS at best people
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  online and in real life have been making it their life's
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  mission to make this whole thing as weird and them as blatantly
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  racist as possible which is very strange because it seems like a
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  lot of y'all really couldn't. Wait to hop on TikTok just to
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  air out all your grievances with every Black person ever in a
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  public space. And we're already into that
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  because things are looking very spooky.
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  And the real gag of it all is that this doesn't just have to
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  pertain to white people saying these things, as a good portion
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  of the people having these conversations are also
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  minorities themselves choosing to take this opportunity to
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  weaponize respectability politics.
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  And yeah, this whole discourse got very weird very quickly.
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  It's kind of shocking to me that all of this has gone down over a
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  cruise ship. But, you know, apparently family
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  cruise lines just bring it out of some people.
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  But let's start this conversation by talking through
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  what exactly these new policies were.
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  So yeah, if you don't know, Carnival Cruises, you know, the
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  very popular cruise line who also happened to recently have a
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  hole in Netflix documentary expose on them called Poop
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  Cruise, is now allegedly involved in some other BS,
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  literally and figuratively. They've recently released a set
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  of new policies that read as a little odd.
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  And by odd I mean racially charged.
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  So the main policies that were recently changed were regarding
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  the ban of personal speakers and things like clacking fans.
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  Like if you've ever been to a Renaissance or a Cowboy Carter
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  concert, you know exactly what I'm talking about then kind of
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  fans. And what's that about?
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  You're hot in the sun on a boat. Like, where'd the Beyoncé fan me
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  off? I'm hot, hot, hot.
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  But it's looking like if you do, they will actually lock you up
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  in jail. I'm kidding.
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  That's a Beyoncé joke. But there have also been videos
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  and speculation online that Carnival Cruises, in addition to
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  those things, is also banning hip hop and rap music.
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  And I think that headline is really what got the conversation
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  going around like, oh, wait, Carnival.
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  This is kind of weird. This seems like kind of very
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  specific over what audiences you do and don't want on the boat.
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  Like as of right now, there is no hard ban on hip hop and rap.
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  People have just been noticing that on Carnival cruises there
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  is less and less of that. And another policy that struck A
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  chord with a lot of people was the banning of gardening, if you
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  get what I mean, YouTube guidelines, even if gardening is
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  legal in the passengers home state.
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  And of course, since we live in a society arguably on one of the
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  worst timelines, the internet's reaction to this was very split,
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  very harsh and shockingly or not, not the full truth.
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  So breaking news, Sierra, you don't know this.
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  All the other girls know this, but the Internet tends to blow
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  things out of proportion. Wow, who would have thought?
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  But yeah, while a lot of the real policies that did go
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  through are still kind of side eyeable and have me looking at
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  Carnival a little different when it comes to things like the
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  gardening ban. That was done because there's
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  now a federal law that makes Maryland illegal on all cruise
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  ships, which in that case, OK, understand that.
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  What about the clacking fans? Like, why?
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  Why do we hate the clacking fans?
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  Upon further investigation, the clack fans are only banned in
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  the nightclubs, but not on the deck where the line dancing and
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  other things happen. So yeah, you really can be in
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  the club like clacking your band and heated, but you can bang
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  yourself off by the pool and also show where them fans at
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  during the line dances. So OK, we're good on that front.
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  Still a weird way to be restrictive, but, you know,
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  work. But what about the hip hop band?
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  Well, as we mentioned, the hip hop band was never actually
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  specifically a policy, but again, was more so an
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  observation and something that's worth observing as to why
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  they're playing less and less fit on the boat.
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  Regardless of how these policies actually ended up playing out,
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  many people on the Internet have began speculating that perhaps
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  Carnival is trying to do some kind of rebrand.
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  But like, even if that's not the case, that is still kind of
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  Yikes considering how many people are expressing that
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  they're cancelling their trips anecdotally from these alleged
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  policies. And now you may be asking me,
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  Rumi, why do we just go through all these policies if half of
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  them aren't even real policies and the other half are actually
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  explicitly racist? Like, where'd you get this
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  narrative and why are you trying to interject race in everything?
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  Well, that's a loaded question, I know I just asked myself.
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  Well, first of all, unfortunately, race is
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  unfortunately inherently in everything.
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  And that goes out to all the people in the comments of the AI
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  Menshoucy video I posted a couple weeks ago.
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  Yeah, clock it. But when it comes to these
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  policies or policies, we don't necessarily care about the
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  policies themselves. What we do, but we don't.
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  This conversation in the carnival of it all doesn't
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  necessarily have to do with specifically the policies,
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  because as we found out, the policies aren't doing too much.
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  But what we do need to talk about and what we do need to
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  highlight as being weird and strange behavior is the general
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  conversation that spun out of this whole seemingly fake
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  discourse. Because while some of the
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  policies or alleged rule changes were fake, a lot of these
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  conversations and talking points that people had online in
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  response to that were very real and very concerning.
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  Because for some reason the Internet decided that they were
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  going to back a company and stand 10 toes down behind these
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  rules that did not exist and use the opportunity to be
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  exceptionally anti black. We have people online coming
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  forward talking about some Oh my God, I can't wait for these
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  policies to be implemented. Like there have been too many
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  black people on the boat using and hiding behind terms like
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  black fatigue despite not knowing what black fatigue even
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  is or is about out and actually all my know because I've been
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  seeing this term be thrown around a lot online.
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  Let's actually define what black fatigue is, shall we?
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  So black fatigue was a concept created by Mary Frances Winters,
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  a founder, a CEO and a black woman in the diversity and
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  inclusive consulting space. You know, back when Dei actually
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  met Dei and she created this term as a way to capture the
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  psychological, physical and emotional exhaustion black folks
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  feel due to the systemic racism and oppression as well as
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  microaggressions and acts of disrespect that they experience
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  on a day-to-day basis. But of course, as most things
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  do, the term has been shifted and when it is used now by
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  certain people, it does not mean that.
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  It instead means people being fatigued of having to deal with
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  and be around black people. That don't sound crazy to you?
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  Because that sound real crazy to me.
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  Like we've gotten to the point where it's not even a dog
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  whistle anymore. Like at this point it's a
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  foghorn. They are telling us we do not
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  like your kind. Black fatigue is real.
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  I think society as a whole is there.
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  We're just so unbelievably fed up with the ghetto ratchet
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  behavior. Black fatigue.
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  It's all over my FYP page. Thank you.
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  I am so happy that this is being brought up.
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  Oh by the way, for us white people have been on the black a
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  long time. This isn't new to us.
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  We've been dealing with this for over 40.
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  I'm gonna help y'all get some risks because you're just so
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  damn tired. Here we go.
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  The term was created by us, for us.
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  White folks get to be universal, which is the default standard of
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  behavior, and they get to be individuals.
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  Their mistakes are theirs. Not the whole race.
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  But black people. We get neither.
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  We don't get the privilege of being individual and universal.
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  If one of us acts quote UN quote ghetto, then we're all suddenly
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  the problem. I think this video makes a great
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  point around universalism and individualism, talking about how
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  mainly white folks get to be universal and like the default
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  standard behavior in society. And we see this with every
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  minority community trying to assimilate to whiteness.
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  And in contrast to this, white people are afforded the luxury
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  of being individuals, as in their mistakes, their
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  shortcomings, as well as their successes and reasonings behind
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  their successes are completely their own and not a reflection
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  or representation of their entire race.
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  Where in contrast, that's just not the case for any other
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  minority, but especially black people.
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  And I know before people start going crazy on their keyboards,
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  there are things like the care and memes.
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  And within the last five to 10 years, people have been starting
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  to make more jokes online about white people's behavior.
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  But like, let's think critically and let's think historically,
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  right? White people have not existed in
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  a monolith in the same ways or for the same duration as black
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  people and other people of color.
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  Like, let's entertain the nuance.
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  Like, you see it all the time in the news.
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  Like when you see a white person committing an atrocity, they get
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  a 40. A lot of humanity, people want
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  to understand why they did it, get the psychology behind why
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  they did what they did, what caused them to do that.
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  However, when a black person or person of color does something
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  terrible, the news doesn't really care.
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  And really they're just checking to see if that person is still
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  alive or not. And often times they're banking
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  on the knot. And then from there, the entire
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  race is under scrutiny for being a danger or a threat.
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  This monolithic type of thinking where it's not just an
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  individual, like it's not an isolated case.
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  Now all of a sudden, it's the entire race's fault and the
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  entire race is guilty or potentially guilty.
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  And again, I'm going to bring this back to this video so many
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  times because a lot of people in my comments really show their
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  asses with like the AI video. And this leads us to a quick
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  conversation around respectability politics.
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  Because while yes, we're used to seeing the finger being pointed
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  at us from other communities, we are now seeing in the scope of
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  this conversation, the black community take sides and begin
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  pointing fingers at each other. So let's talk about that really
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  quick. So let's talk about those
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  dangers and uses of respectability politics.
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  So what is respectability politics?
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  Let's break that down. According to our best friends at
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  dictionary.com, respectability politics are a set of beliefs
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  holding that conformity to prescribe mainstream standards
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  of appearance and behavior will protect a person who is a part
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  of a marginalized group, especially a black person, from
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  prejudices and systemic injustices.
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  Respectability politics place blame on groups already hindered
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  by discrimination. So like I said before, the
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  default of acceptable is inherently whiteness in our
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  society. So the closer you are to that
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  and the more you try to assimilate, the false assumption
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  of safety is perpetuated. But unfortunately, neither of
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  those assumptions are true. Because at the end of the day,
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  if you're not white, you're still.
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  So I'm not going to be white just because you want to act
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  like it. Now, with all that said, where
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  does this all fit in? Within the larger conversation
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  around the Carnival Cruise, around the black fatigue of it
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  all? Well, I for one have seen one
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  too many videos of people trying to create a strong distinction
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  in separation, talking about some Yeah, I'm black, but I'm
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  not like those blacks. Hey y'all got to stop saying
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  Carnival is racist for changing the rules about their policies
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  on a crew. The fact of the matter is
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  they're not racist. They don't.
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  They're not saying they don't want black people to come over.
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  They don't want. Like I can understand the
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  sentiment and see where it's coming from, but are we seeing
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  how respectability politics are being put at play here?
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  Pointing fingers and saying you're not like that isn't going
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  to save you from the racism online and whatever brownie
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  points you are getting. Being like oh I'm so happy
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  you're one of the good ones is not going to actually last or
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  get you anywhere substantive in real life or online post this
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  interaction. So truly I have to ask, was it
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  worth it? And it's just so devastating
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  seeing so many tick tock comments and videos from black
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  people saying that they have black fatigue on public Internet
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  in mind you, when they're talking about this, they're not
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  using the one that was actually meant for them.
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  They're using the white version. Like what do you mean as a black
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  person, you have black fatigue, You're tired of seeing black
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  people. Honestly, if that is the case,
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  given the state of the country in the world right now and the
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  political climate that we're in, that's just like not one of
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  those conversations that you have publicly and outside of
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  your community. Because then what you get is
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  people outside of your community taking that and using that as a
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  reference of people being like, see even your own people who are
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  tired of y'all and using discourse that's meant to be in
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  the community and internal as a way and as an excuse to
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  perpetuate anti blackness. And unfortunately, or I guess in
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  some cases, fortunately, this service is a reminder that
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  respectability politics aren't going to get you anywhere.
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  Well, maybe not aren't going to get you anywhere, but aren't
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  going to save you. And this is a POCU at the end of
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  the day. We've seen this time and time
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  again where you have black people, other people of color
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  with some of the highest degrees, the most educated,
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  idealistic career paths, highly rated citizens, good families,
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  good communities, active members and their communities in all of
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  the hallmarks of being good in traditional white American
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  standards still end up being the targets of the police of racism
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  and racial violence. Like, and again, while I'm
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  talking specifically about all this in relation to black
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  people, this is not only true for black people, it's true for
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  all people of color, all minorities.
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  And we're seeing that happen in real time right now with what's
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  been going on with the country reevaluating and changing what
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  it means to be a citizen or a good citizen.
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  Again, it doesn't matter if you're a respectability politics
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  final boss, like if the powers that be don't want to see your
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  humanity or worth outside of what you look like, then none of
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  it is going to matter. In that video, you see civil
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  rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson's testimony where he says, I
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  thought if I did everything they told me to do, if I did all the
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  hard work, everything was going to be great, There'd be
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  equality. If I did the things they told me
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  to do, I started in a colored school.
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  The lawyers came and it opened up the public schools.
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  I thought if I did all the hard work, that everything was going
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  to be great. There'd be equality.
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  And I did my part, I think I studied.
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  I went to high school, I went to college.
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  I got admitted to Harvard Law School.
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  I graduated from Harvard Law School.
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  I started practicing and I was on the street in Atlanta, GA a
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  few years after graduating A preparing for a case when police
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  officers stopped me. I got out of the car and the
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  police officers pulled their gun.
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  They pointed it at my head and they said move and I'll blow
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  your brains out. The reality of that has to be
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  articulated and expressed. And that's the whole issue here.
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  That's a false narrative that if you play into white society and
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  play by those ever changing rules, you 2 can be permanently
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  equal to everyone else. And that just simply is not the
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  case and has never been the case.
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  Unfortunately, it kind of bleeds into the universalism versus
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  individualism that we were talking about because
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  unfortunately, black people don't get to be that universal
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  standard or get afforded the same levels of individualism.
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  A person who does it right doesn't get the extension of
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  individualism. They just exist as an extension
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  of the preconceived monolith. You're well spoken for a black
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  person. You're one of the good ones.
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  And again, this is not just a black issue.
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  Whether you want to believe it or not, This goes for all
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  minorities. But with that said, it's time
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  you take a step into talking about how people have been using
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  this whole Carnival Cruise moment, specifically to all of
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  the different dog whistles that have spawned from this
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  conversation and the notion of lack accountability.
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  So I initially thought to talk about this when I was reading
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  some of the comments on the Carnival Cruise videos as well
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  as some of the comments in my recent AI Minstrelsy video.
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  Bringing up a lot of racist rhetoric and saying some pretty
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  crazy things under the guise of just saying just like holding
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  accountability. Like some of this stuff has to
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  just be rage bait black. Fatigue or ghetto fatigue is a
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  real thing and no one's staying silent about it any longer.
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  No nationality wants to be involved or bothered by this
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  loud, obnoxious group of people. No one, not even hard working
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  black Americans. I mean, I'm telling no lies
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  here. Everywhere that group of people
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  go, chaos follows. And no matter where you go,
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  they're there. But America is tired, and people
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  have grown numb to your constant cry of racism.
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  Everyone's a racist who doesn't agree with you, but meanwhile
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  you can be big everybody else. Like in that video, he says this
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  has to be the EBT crowd, which I guess is like the gender neutral
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  and like plural version of like the welfare queen.
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  So I guess in that sense, like period inclusivity, I see you
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  making your strides king. Like I level and people are
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  politically correct in the gender sphere only to go ahead
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  and turn around and be anti black and like the racial
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  sphere. You know, I guess we pick our
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  battles. But like video aside, one of the
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  main concerning things are like the comments because most of the
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  comments are not even from black folks.
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  So them agreeing being like, yeah, I'm just really tired and
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  fatigued with these blacks. I'm tired of seeing them
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  everywhere. Like, oh, this is getting a
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  little spooky. Like I I, I I don't I don't know
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  about that that one right there. If that's necessarily the video
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  you want people like Co siding and agreeing with you want.
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  I mean, I don't know if the creators like super worried
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  themselves because they do claim to be an uncle Tom and like
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  reference that as a good thing in the video.
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  So I think there are other battles to be fought there.
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  But like another thing about that creators video that kind of
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  plays into the carnival crew stuff and like general things
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  when it comes to discussion around problems of the black
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  community is the notion of like black accountability, which
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  ultimately does fall into like the whole respectability
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  politics and its fallacies thing of it all.
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  Because the conversation around black accountability and like
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  whatever that means is inherently anti intellectual and
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  inherently reductive. Like a big argument that people
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  have online surrounding like things like black fatigue is
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  just like black folks should stop acting like this.
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  They don't want to be treated like that.
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  And like generally, in a very general sense, where we're
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  taking this out of the context of this conversation, ignoring
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  all of the historical context that has LED us up to this
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  moment, and taking that comment in completely good faith.
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  In a utopian society where things that are said like that
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  are in good faith and will be implemented accurately in good
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  faith, yes, that does make some sense.
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  However, because we do not live in that society and have not
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  lived in that society and have seen how these things play out
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  historically, that's just not necessarily a real argument
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  Because the thing about it is the goal post over what is
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  acceptable behavior and what is behavior that black people or
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  people of color need to take accountability for will always
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  be moving. Like the goal posts for like
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  what is acceptable will never be static because in our society,
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  we'll always have something new to complain about, something new
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  that makes them uncomfortable, something new that they don't
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  really feel at peace around. So asking people to conform and
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  that goal post keeps moving further and further.
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  You have to ask yourself, what is the end goal?
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  What would the end goal of like shutting out all of these
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  behaviors ultimately be? And this is where we kind of
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  need to start critically thinking about this.
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  Like, what would be the end goal here?
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  And this isn't to say that you can't have a problem with people
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  or don't like certain behaviors that people exhibit because
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  yeah, everyone has behaviors that we don't exhibit that
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  happen culturally and individually.
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  But like just because you don't like the actions of individuals
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  or like a certain group within a community doesn't mean you can
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  attribute those character attributes to the entire
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  community. It attributed to something
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  that's just baked into just like a race and or respond to that
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  with just racism. Like I just think like this
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  whole conversation is incredibly reductive.
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  Like y'all really weren't listening to Kendrick's halftime
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  performance where he actually had Uncle Sam out there saying
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  that you shouldn't be too ghetto and that you should play the
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  game. Like, is it freedom or is it
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  force assimilation? I don't know.
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  I don't know. And like a quick last point
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  before we wrap, I just have to say, like, at the end of the
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  day, all that aside, if you don't agree with anything I
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  said, I understand that on a very base level, right?
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  If the issue on these cruises, and we're talking about the
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  cruises specifically, if the issue on these cruises, public
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  cruises, mind you, is that the public is there.
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  If we want to talk about accountability, we have to
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  realize, like, girl, yeah, your public public party cruises are
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  going to be open to the public and there are going to be
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  parties. If the way you're choosing to
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  spend your vacation is on a cruise that is not explicitly
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  saying that it is a peaceful 50 plus relaxation cruise, then why
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  are you going there looking for that?
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  You know, more like, why are you mad when that's not what you're
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  getting? Like if you wanted something
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  peaceful and relaxing, there are specific cruise lines for that
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  or completely other venues and vacation options or something
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  like that. Like I hate to say it but like
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  Carnival Cruise literally has Carnival in the name.
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  I don't know I could be completely off base for this but
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  like God forbid people want to enjoy their vacation and dance
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  around and party without having people like police their every
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  behavior. Now I will say when things get
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  dangerous, unsafe, or just genuinely unfun for the
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  collective then conversations need to be had.
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  But like. Not racist ones, but if it's
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  just groups of people having fun and you're not having fun in the
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  same way, that's more of a personal problem I fear.
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  But yeah, to wrap this up again, this video is not about Carnival
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  cruises. It's not specifically a Carnival
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  cruise. Hit Pieces isn't what it's
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  about. I mean, maybe a little bit.
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  It's about how people thought these policy changes were enough
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  to enable them to spew harmful anti black rhetoric unprompted
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  and using this as an excuse to express their black fatigue.
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  And like, no, this isn't the space for that.
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  In fact, I don't think there should be many spaces to freely
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  hourly express your racism. Because no, that doesn't make
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  you a concerned citizen or cruise goer.
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  It just makes you racist.