WEBVTT - JAMES JEFFERSON Jr. - Sipping Oyster Syrup 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:06.600 What's that you gotta give him? Like two seconds after 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:10.080 he says, what's happening? People? I am Coley. When you 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:14.000 are now watching Eating While Broke, and I'm James Andre 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:24.160 Jefferson Jr. James Jefferson Jr. Another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:29.880 I never been that caucation. I feel like James. Just 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:33.600 so you guys know, Um, James took it upon himself 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.120 to really challenge my palette today. I heard I know 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.279 that you like stuff like this because you're weird. And 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.280 so I got this right here. That's a secret ingredient 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:46.440 and I'm scared to know what is in it. So 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.360 we got this the secret of geting, the secret agreedients, 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.040 the secret ingredients. And we have crackers because you know 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.000 I love crackers. Crackers and some of my favorite things 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.080 room his planet, and um, so I want you to 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.040 take a cracker put on your plate. We got salt it. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.160 What were you gonna walk? The walk everybody through? What 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:06.360 the all the ingredients? So now this is what we 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.200 call oysters. Now this ain't the ones you get a 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:14.440 noboo and I'm glad you smell it. There you go, y. Yeah. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.760 So the important part is where people mess up. You 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.759 gotta you gotta drain the oils out of it. That's 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.360 a lot more than I remember back in the day. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.080 I can't believe I used to eat this. It's like 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.960 the crackheads of the sea. So, just like a little 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.360 behind the story, James was talking about eating like romen, 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:32.720 and I was like, oh, I don't everyone does romen? 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.160 You know I roll? And then I was like, you know, 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.000 what other dishes do you have? And then he came 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.160 up with this particular dish, and then I was like, man, 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.280 I should have stuck with um. It's tradition to take 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:54.480 a sip of good. It's my culture. You have to, 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.040 all right. So now you just trying to get me 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.560 to eat the oyster. So you have the oysters, and 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.680 here used it is everybody pretty take about two three 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.280 of them. Oh we're not even using that. No, use 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.760 your hands with no, man, this is no look I'm 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:15.120 gonna show you. Just go like this safe covid edistion. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.480 Just put them on there like that looks like many 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:26.600 brains I'm using. Alright, fun, grab the oysters. I can't 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.799 tell you how great this texture feels. There's now oysters 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.440 and muscles are are different right. I didn't say that 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:38.280 about no muscles, just like they look and feel like muscle. 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:40.639 Is Honestly, I don't think these are oysters. They've just 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.400 been telling us this. I think this is something like 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:46.760 pig attistance in the sea. So now you grab the mustard. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.320 You know, you gotta shake your mustard up because if 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.799 you don't the liquid to come out. You know, that's 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:55.359 a little hood tricked. N that a little much, But okay, 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:59.040 here you go. I mean the smell is like I was, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:04.280 and she got the warmest mustard in the fan, and 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.520 then you put some hot sauce on it. Yeah, fish 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:12.320 your face, I disrespected me. Body, No, no, it's great, man, 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.839 this is oh yeah, so this is what you ate? Yeah, 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.040 this was. This is a little snack. My mom always 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.799 had weird, little little like pregnant white women snacks, and 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.000 this is one of them. Now I'm looking at it, 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.680 I'm mad. I made this a thing. Like it's not 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:30.239 like this came like this. We made this a thing. Yeah, 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.519 I don't know what to call it. Didn't get another cracker. Okay, 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:39.640 so we're making a sandwich, oyster sandwich. You squeeze it together. 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.160 This is definitely a broke fish, because when I was 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.360 shopping for it was like extremely affordable. How much is 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.720 it cost you? I think it was like less than 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:51.520 five bucks? There you go, So are you ready? Chairs 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.360 you take the first? Every wanna find up sick or 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.720 with some kind of belly aches or you see any alarms. 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:02.120 This is this is the dish that sent me there, oyster, 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:08.080 hot sauce, mustard. Why don't I have to go first? 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.920 I just want to see because I ain't Here we go, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:19.719 here we go. I can't appreciate it. I ain't eating 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:25.320 this bullshit. Let me see, I actually doesn't take that 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:31.520 bad good yea, now, little um see food with some 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.919 some mustard. I think the mustard set it off. Yeah, 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.280 I'm thankful you added the mustard in the hot sauce. 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.800 If you put these with an egg and a cup 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.360 of noodle, a balled egg and a cup of noodle. Fire, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.560 Oh gosh, I see a pack of ramen on here, 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.520 and I'm terrified that that's the next Yeah, nothing wrong here. 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:53.840 We got one of these because we can't fit the 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:55.680 rest in the budget to feel like that's what we 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.640 used to do with these, so like we was back 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:02.560 when I was younger, we used to play outside. So 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.880 when we play outside, you have to grab a snack 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.280 real quick. Were playing high to go see we go 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.320 whatever we're doing, so we have to grab some quick. 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.200 We had a bunch of prominent guys because we're broken. 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.520 You know, you buy you buy fourty of them for 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.600 two dollars and back in the day, so you would 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.120 take to take the powder. I like how you got 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.719 chicken because I'm black and I'm black too. I know. 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.599 I just wanted to make you feel uncomfortable for a second. 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.800 I want you to question your identity. I feel like, um, 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:31.880 and this is gonna send sound like a general statement, 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.520 but I feel like when you're mixed, black people tends 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.760 of question blackness and the white people just only see 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:47.080 you as black because you like skin because any side, no, 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.080 that's not true. You know you're black. The way you'd 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.080 be dressing. You wear boots every day, the weddings, all 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.520 that Timberland's. When you broke, you probably wear them them 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:00.680 lug boots, boots. So when were you eating this? This 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:04.760 is this is when you at the house watching the movie. 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.320 My mom used as all the time. The oysters were 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:12.400 just a stable. When I was growing up, oysters mustard, 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:13.720 and my dad used to eat him too, but used 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.600 to put him in top ramen, but cooked. So this 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.960 is what I call roth. Would this be like in 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.279 your household? Would this be considered like an appetizer? Or 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.080 is this like I feel like my breath is going 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.560 to smell after you know, it did already before we started. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.880 But but it that's not a little bit more funkier now, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.800 But this is more of a snack. You can't get 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.479 full off this, but this you eat two, it eats 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.200 you in the game. Yeah. The scary part about what 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.360 I'm watching you do with this ramen is that there's 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.560 no boiling water. No, you don't need that. This is 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:47.320 you on the outside. You grab one of these, you 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.280 go outside, you go play and go seek with the homies. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:54.640 So you know you're gonna go first. Why is it 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.760 I have to go first on all these dishes? I 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.839 feel like you're testing me to see silvery is a 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:05.040 even well, ladies go first? Man up, come on, here 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:10.200 we go. Mm hmm, not that bad. Look at you 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:11.800 hear that? You hear the crunch? It sounds like she's 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:22.240 chewing on rocks. You know what, I don't even know 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.720 this was possible. I don't know how I started this one. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:33.560 You didn't have water or stove that poor, so like 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.960 your mom kind of taught you this. My mom and 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.200 my dad taught me into like oysters, and my mom 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.200 taught me to like put them with like mustard, and 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.440 then I put the crackers myself always, I'm always a 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.280 big card person. My mom likes oysters just by themselves. 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:49.680 She could just do this, dip in the hot sauce 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.520 and be good. Okay, and then and do you eat 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.480 the star deans in the can? See? I'll eat the 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.640 sardines that I can or the muscles. I didn't know 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.560 if they sold oysters like this just is crammed up 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:05.040 like kitty litter. Yeah, but the ramen? Did you come 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.200 up with? Romy? And rom has always been a state, 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.520 I think in every But I'm saying, did you come 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.640 up with eating it dry like a cracker? Where did 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.560 you learn that from someone? I started that on my own. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.720 So you're taking full credit on braw Top problem. Please 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:25.400 don't disrespect my creation. Okay, okay, so was braw Top 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.200 problem with my thing? Because I never liked the texture 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:32.880 of noodles, So you don't eat spaghetti it becomes like 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.000 guard bread or something like that. I just don't like texture, 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.720 like soft textures. So when did you decide you were 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.720 going to start? Because I feel like, you know, I 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.080 look at a lot of different influencers online and you 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:47.640 definitely have like the most celebrity attention, celebrity input, celebrity 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.000 back and forth on your feed. When did you decide 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.080 you were going to be that man that's gonna just 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.959 I'm gonna go up and keep it all the way 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.559 real and not care if these celebrities like it or not. 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.800 So I started before I started doing um online content, 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:06.719 I was doing stand up comedy. I started doing it 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.800 when I was thirteen years and thirteen and a half 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.080 to be fourteen, and so I spent a lot of 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.000 time doing stand up from the age Fourtunas catched the 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.440 buses out to the comedy clubs, the high Cafe, the improv, 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.440 the ice house, all the way up nights. My mom 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:21.800 didn't know where I was just to be out the 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:28.920 comedy clubs. She also gave me these oysters, so let's 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.760 you know what's going on my house. So at eighteen, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.720 UM I got a radio job at the clar Clip channel, 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.800 and UM, there was was doing a live remote a 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.160 Unise studios and we had this band here called three 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.520 oh three. The band had three songs on the radio. 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.280 They had some hot records, but nobody gave a funk 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.719 about them. Nobody people will come up. I said, the 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.960 three or three they got that song. I forget the song, 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.520 but nobody cared. But then there's a skinny little white kid. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.360 Are you saying that? At Universe Studios? Probably like an 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.400 hour later, And this is around two thousand nine, two 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:02.280 thousand ten, and everybody knew cholos, little black kids, old 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.720 white ladies wanted to picture with him, and me and 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.280 my co workers was like, who's that? And then one 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.760 of the people told he's he's on YouTube. And in 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:14.800 my head and two thousands said, what was that? Yeah? 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.960 It was, it was. It's probably been out before. I 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:18.640 knew YouTube was the thing just to watch visit, but 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.200 I didn't know you could be a personality on it. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.320 And um so when I when when when I seen 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.520 the online thing, I just you just gotta adapt. So 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.360 I got online. Didn't know how to do it. For 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.480 the first five six years. I was cussing too much 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.840 and being raggedy and just just being raw. So around 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.960 two thousand and fifteen, two thousand sixteen, I kind of 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.839 motor myself to be a little better, to be acceptable 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.000 by the guidelines and community gidelines and stuff like that, 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:44.559 and me just talking about celebrities and me, I just 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.120 I just really don't care what people think. I just 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.559 just truly I've been around. I've been around celebrities I 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.200 talked about and I they kind of give me a 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.480 look like that motherfucking looked familiar. And I have celebrities 0:10:56.559 --> 0:11:00.199 d m me before their DJs are managers threatened. I've 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.199 been threatened before by a few celebrities. Yeah, I'm not 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.040 gonna say who, but I've been Now was gonna be 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.840 my next question? Do SI so? Um? Now I remember 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.280 so for those of you that don't know, I've known 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.719 James for a very long time since it was a 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.880 little high schooling. And nobody knows that by the way 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.400 you said, those those people that don't know that don't 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:24.240 know nobody knows we go way back. But I'll never 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.840 forget um. I had a company previous to this Celeberty 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.080 High and I'll never forget you. And Cameron had did 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.080 an interview with Kevin Hart right and at the time, 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.800 you know, James was exactly who you you see him 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:41.160 as today, very colorful, very mohawks. He had like these 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:47.480 hamburger head uh socks and and he had these weird earrings. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.200 Just say I was ugly back then, They're just going 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.000 to say, that's what you're trying to say, because the 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:52.920 way you're talking about is like, it's just he had 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:57.040 all is weird and hamburger. And then when you see 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.200 someone's baby and you don't want to say it's ugly, 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.120 and you're like, I big, Like I was just doing that. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:06.160 But I'll never forget during this interview, so Cameron Head 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.800 came and he was like very professional, and I was like, 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.560 you know, these celebrities knew they were being interviewed by 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.960 high school kids. But I'll never forget that interview was 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.320 a pivotal moment for me also being a young person, 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:22.400 which was during the interview, Kevin Hart had addressed who 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.280 he felt was going to have like this long successful career, 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.959 and I am merely thought he was gonna like look too, 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.800 because Cameron's dressed like he has a suit on yet 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.160 he was like super professional glasses and he said, hey, 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.200 how are you doing like hey, like like like he's 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.559 like Clark Kent. He was super professional and I totally 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.199 got it. And that's how one of them, James shows up. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:47.400 I think he had a mohawk. It was just like 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.560 extreme and I was like, semi mortified, semi wanted to 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.160 pull James from the interview. I said, I didn't know this, 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.120 Thank you for telling me that. But I was just 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.559 like I felt on the lines of Cameron. But one 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.280 of the things that Kevin Hart addressed, and I'll never 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.840 forget this, is that by James being unique, he was like, 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.440 I will always remember you, and you will always stand out, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.520 and you know, he could see this bright future head 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.680 and I remember just being taken back by that statement, 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.840 Like how important is to be yourself? I learned that 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.440 from our Lawrence. That's the funny thing. I did an 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.360 interview somebody talking about like, um, how did he get 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.440 his successes? He said, took longer because he was trying 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:34.520 to be himself. I don't want to conform to anybody, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.000 especially My thing is I think who I am it 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.880 is perfect enough. Some some a lot of black people, 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.439 they like try to perform to two white guylines and 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.959 try to make sure they're happy. Not me. If I'm 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:47.640 that guy, would be that guy all the time. But 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.080 you don't ever walk into an office and put on 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.319 like a white person voice. No, this is the thing, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.920 you know what I'm talking about? What about Nick Good? Hey, 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.440 I'm John, Nice to meet you. That's the That's not 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.520 what I'm saying. What I'm saying is I'm not just ignorant, 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.400 just ghetto, super loud person. Naturally, I go to restaurants, 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.440 I'm myself. But if there's a time where I still 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.200 talk like who I am, I'm not gonna change who. 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:12.959 I Am not going to change my morals. I'm not 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.000 gonna change eyes, how I treat certain people. Anybody's equal 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.280 to me. Everybody don't care if you're a billionaire janitor. 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.400 Everybody is equal to me. So I just want to 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.160 I purposely make content. Was talking about like black lives 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.640 matter and stuff like that, because when I was younger, 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.280 I've been through a lot of racist things. I had 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.520 a lot of UM, I had some crazy things happened 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.080 to me. UM in middle school. I don't even you 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.960 know this one middle tell us something I don't know. Please. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.600 So I was in middle school and I was the 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.200 president of middle school and the reason why I was 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.000 president of the president gets to be Santa Claus, and 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:45.840 I want to be Santa Claus. So I went to 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:50.760 a racist area in middle school and so, um, apparently 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.120 I'm I'm I'm eighth grade. I don't know what's going 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.280 on the whole school. Apparently it was. It was it 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.040 was a problem that I was gonna be Santa Claus, 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.240 a black Santa Claus. I didn't notice at the time. 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.760 I had to counsel saying, are you sure you'd be, like, yeah, 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.800 I want being president, and my teacher and student government teachers. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.960 And then so when I was Santa Claus, the next 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.440 day after my Santa Claus set up when he was 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.040 taking picture with the kids and all that next day 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.520 the schools tacked up with niggers all over the school. 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.680 Yeah I'm not I'm not saying it was because of me, 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.560 but I was black Santa Claus. And then the next 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.640 day that's not the first time at the school it 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.840 was tacked up, but it just so happens. I felt 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.680 like that has something to do with me. And then 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.200 by five years later in high school, I seen a 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.080 white girl that went to that middle school. She told 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.760 me her father took her out that school because they 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.880 allowed a black sand they allowed me to be Santa 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.720 Claus may be in black in Santa Claus is a 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.640 fictional character. It's like if you came as a black Jesus, 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.280 I could I could see them almost trying, because you 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.280 know how you read the Bible, and it's like the 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.600 way they described Jesus at the end of the day, 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:53.880 Jesus is Mexican, because at the end of the day. 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.840 When I was in high school, I was I had 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.760 transferred high schools, and I'll never forget. I would always 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.480 leave my locker open because I could never I just, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.880 for whatever reason, suck at the locks, like you know, 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.680 the directions and stuff. Just three numbers. Struggled with that. 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:13.200 I struggled really hard. Three numbers literally be at my 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.400 locker like twenty minutes. So I would always leave it open. 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.600 And uh, one day I came to school and I 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:20.400 would always have my dry race board in there, and 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.160 they had put swatzikas in KKK in it, and I 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:28.840 I'm Jewish and Jamaicans. It was like, damn, you know 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.520 what I'm saying. Yeah, Jamaican, Yeah, kids are kids are evil. 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.320 Two kids, it's always it's always gonna be here. This 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.600 evil has always gonna be here. But that's why you 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.680 just gotta be strong within yourself. You gotta love yourself 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:44.000 first and fun everybody else. Yeah, I agree, and but 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.800 I remember that being the first time that I had, 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.240 I think more trust issues because you knew about races 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.640 and I had seen my neighbors called my mom the 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.280 N word like the like that was. I was like, 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.239 probably ten, the first time I've seen them treat her differently. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:00.880 But did you reallye that what's going on? When you 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.760 did you? Did you just accept it? I think that 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.240 was my maybe my first encounter with the N word. 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.200 It was just like, oh, my first encounter. I think 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.680 we was so memorable because they treated her so bad 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.600 and she was so nice, and she would just be like, 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:16.439 you gotta push through it. You gotta be nice. And 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.040 those same neighbors that called her the N word and all. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:24.160 It took her like twenty years, but eventually they're like cordial, 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.360 like they don't talk to her like that anymore. But 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.680 as a kid, you you develop a sense of fear, like, oh, 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.080 there's a blind hatred. When they did it in my 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.760 high school, I skipped prompt because I was so paranoid, 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.879 like I didn't know who had done it at the time, 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.160 you know, they were it was burned across like weird stuff. 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:46.160 I was like, oh man, this is like upstate New York. Okay, yeah, 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:47.800 in Brooklyn, we didn't really deal with it, but an 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:52.119 upstate it's not enough diversity. But it was traumatic, you know, 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:53.720 So what did you learn from it? Like do you 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.840 feel like like today, like do you put up with it? 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:58.760 And so if somebody did that today and you knew 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.680 who it was, what is your actually, Well, I remember 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.720 my senior year there was an incident where a boy 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.399 called me the N word to my face, and you know, 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:13.680 I'm Jamaican from Brooklyn. I've folled him to the same 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:15.919 dude came up to you and litterally and called you 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:17.320 a N work to your face. What are you doing? 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:26.840 I'm creature of habit probably tight boots okay around there 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.560 because my fiance would be like, you know, he'd probably 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:33.080 be like that. That's the crazy thing with just being black, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.240 Like you see these videos I'm not talking about like 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.560 the cop ones, but just videos of just a random 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.680 white person rund a black person and the black people. 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.840 We just have to naturally be the calmed ones, because 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.119 if we snap, were looked at as the animals. Nobody asked, oh, 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.959 why did you smash his head with the frying pan, 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.720 But you didn't see the fitting twenty second before that 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:55.359 when he said it, called him an inn word thirty 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.280 two times and saying all this race, I think it 0:18:58.320 --> 0:18:59.919 needs to be legal. I think I need to be 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.680 about to just ailbow somebody, and they call me a 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.760 racial slurk. It's a reaction, it's a work. It's an 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.040 emotional reaction out of people. I actually had an incident 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.760 this past weekend. My fiance and I were traveling to 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:16.600 Austin and, uh, there's a white clerk at the counter, 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:21.000 and we're having issues like the hotel room. You know, 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.199 we ran out a suite and the suite wasn't like 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.080 up to COVID standards. You know, we're from l A. 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:26.959 Austin's out there, but we were like, hey, you know, 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:31.679 so anyways, we were like, you know, it's not clean. 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.320 You know, we need to like either get a different 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.440 hotel or just you know whatever. So the lady they 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:39.320 initially fought us on it, but they said, you know 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:41.120 it will switch a room downgrade it because they didn't 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:43.680 have any more sweets, and we switch rooms. We check 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:45.480 out the next day and I we asked for a 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:48.560 receipt and the ladies like all flustered. She's like getting 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.480 all angry. And the fear that crept into me at 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.919 that time was I left the counter to take a 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.800 call and my fiance, you know, he's trying to be 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:01.800 calm and this you know this white ladies. She starts escalating, hyperventilating. 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:06.120 I put on my camera because I think as a woman, 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.240 you're vulnerable. It was like, you don't want anything to 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:14.639 happen to your your fiance. Yeah, and um so anyways, 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:18.040 she starts hyperventilating, screaming bully and no, no, and she's 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:21.199 behind like a counter, but she's put it on the 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:25.159 whole song and dance yes, and he's just calmly speaking 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:26.520 to her. And the whole time he's like, we gotta 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:30.000 be calm because you know, we're black and people are gonna, 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.040 you know, trying to make us out to be the 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:33.600 bad guy. And he's like colched me to you know, 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:35.880 part of me was like, you're not even wrong. That's 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.359 called the police and the police came and the police 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:42.199 were looking at her like she was crazy. But the 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.919 whole time, the whole thing we're telling ourselves is be calm, 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:50.240 make sure that um you know, because we're automatically judged 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.720 at a higher degree, which sucks because we're all sitting 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:56.920 there prepping ourselves even though we weren't wrong the entire 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:01.440 time for this crazy when it comes to us, people 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:03.399 forget to ask why they acted that way. They just 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:07.080 get the actions. That sucks, But not that I don't 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:08.879 want to spend more time on this topic. I have 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:14.119