1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: As media. 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 2: So if you one of our play cousins from whose 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 2: ancestors hail from, you know, the Caucus Mountains, the Caucasity, noacity, 4 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, shout out the ancestors. I 5 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 2: saw a comment on the Internet saying that y'all ain't 6 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 2: got ancestors, y'all got fore fathers. But if you are 7 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 2: of Cacazoid descent and have lived in proximity with US 8 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 2: diaspora of people who wash their legs and season their chicken, 9 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 2: but specifically of the most melanated versions, i e. 10 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: Black folks, I'm. 11 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 2: Pretty sure you've tried to catch should the elusive invitation 12 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 2: to the cookout. But since I'm from the West, the 13 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 2: invitation to the barbecue, and oftentimes the main issue with 14 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 2: this is y'all just be trying too hard, you know, 15 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 2: And when you try too hard, it's just like you 16 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 2: just come. 17 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: Off as weird. 18 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 2: Those like there's the lack of self awareness version that 19 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 2: just kind of just you know, comes with the raisins 20 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 2: in the potato salad just brought a casse role understanding 21 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 2: that like we just don't be eating that, you know, 22 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 2: and it's just like not paying attention to any like 23 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 2: social or cultural cues. 24 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: Right, You're just you trying hard, but in a way 25 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: that is just unaware. 26 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:54,279 Speaker 2: And then there's the version that is trying too hard 27 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 2: to be one of us to you quote a ton 28 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 2: of HOSSI coats all the damn time, You trying to 29 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 2: prove that you a ally in a way that just 30 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 2: feel unnatural. You know, you know, you know, I like 31 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 2: my sisters, you know what I'm saying, Like that just 32 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 2: feel it, don't It don't feel right? And the truth 33 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 2: is we can tell. And then there's the folks that 34 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 2: just grew up here, and there's just hood as hell 35 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 2: and just like well, I don't know, Kelly live across 36 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,799 Speaker 2: the street from us all life, she just one of us. 37 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 2: We as a culture, we take in straights, right, We're 38 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 2: actually a very welcoming, loving family oriented. This why we 39 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 2: call everybody like cam folk twin gang like we treat 40 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 2: other black people as if they already related to us, right. 41 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 2: You know, obviously everybody got enemies, everybody got you know, 42 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 2: beef and stuff like that, but like a lot of times, 43 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 2: our collective joy. 44 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: This is why black people. 45 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 2: Can I could go to another person's family reunion and 46 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 2: feel perfectly at home and one of their aunties would 47 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 2: treat me like a nephew. We are actually a very 48 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 2: especially out west. And it's because again I've said this 49 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 2: so many times, our cam folk are Southern. You feel 50 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 2: me so like we have that out here, Like you 51 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 2: gotta come. Don't say you hate La if you ain't 52 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 2: been below the ten. You come where we live and 53 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 2: you just like and it's really just love right know us. 54 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 2: Enjoy yourself, have fun, you know, and just by you 55 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 2: being yourself, will know that you belong here or not. 56 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 2: So let me introduce you to somebody y'all might have seen. 57 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 2: Is the boy Tyler Oh the carnival cruise ship tap 58 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 2: beer with y'all you know in the world that is 59 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 2: truly catching on fire. Every once in a while we 60 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 2: need a feel good moment, and sometimes these feel good moments, 61 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 2: especially when it comes to black people, is when like 62 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 2: it's a true expression of joy and of understanding that 63 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 2: crosses cultural bounds. Right on this carnival cruise, you got 64 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 2: the basics of white boys joining into the karaoke thing 65 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 2: and what he chose to saying. 66 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 1: This clip is gone pretty viral. 67 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 2: There's been a bunch of remixes of it is. 68 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: This little boy. 69 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 2: They call it Tyler just white, just a white boy, 70 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 2: five panel hat turned backwards. The caption say, uh, his 71 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,359 Speaker 2: parents think he at the pool right now, but he 72 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 2: downstairs where all the black people singing a Keith Sweat song. 73 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 2: The fact that he's singing a Keith Sweat song, cauld y'all. 74 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 2: Hear the smile in the way I was speaking, and 75 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 2: it's like, not only just a Keith Sweat song, it's 76 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 2: a key sweat body rolling song. There is nothing that 77 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 2: brings black people more joy than a good body roll. 78 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: Now listen, he's singing. 79 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 2: Now body can patch like me, nobody. There are layers 80 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 2: of joy in this one is how to hell this 81 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 2: white boy know who Keith Sweat is. I'd expect a Jodasy, 82 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 2: I'd expect the Bobby Brown, right, Michael Jackson, but a 83 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 2: Keith Sweat, And of the Keith Sweat songs to sing, 84 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 2: he sing nobody. And Keith Sweat has such a specific, 85 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 2: nasally weird sounding voice that it's almost impossible to do 86 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 2: a Keith Sweat song without doing a Keith Sweat impression. 87 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 1: And Chian Lang mean. 88 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 2: Now mane anyway, He's not even singing it that. Well, 89 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 2: I told you again, black people, we believe in a 90 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 2: pure meritocracy. If you could hoop, you can hoop. You 91 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,039 Speaker 2: are welcome to come hoop with us. If you could sing, 92 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 2: you could sing, you know, but this karaoke, we're just 93 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 2: having fun, right, And when black people choose to have fun, 94 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 2: y'all make fun of us. The way that we laugh, right, 95 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 2: that we laugh with our whole bodies, that we run 96 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 2: across the whole room, that we hit you with your chest, 97 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 2: that we fall over and scream and ah. 98 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: Leave backwards, y'all. 99 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 2: Look, you think I ain't seen the reddit y'all talking 100 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 2: about my laugh? 101 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I'm black. We laugh like that. 102 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 2: We express our joy, right, So if you come in 103 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 2: to express joy with us, just don't be weird man, 104 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 2: Just enjoy yourself. 105 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: Right. 106 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 2: This man Tyler got up there, he read the room, 107 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 2: he picked the song he wanted to sing, and he 108 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 2: sang it with his whole chest. 109 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: Y'all. 110 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 2: Things like that end racism because listen, he not trying 111 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 2: to be black. He's being himself and enjoying it. And 112 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 2: you know what we did. We welcomed him in. Why 113 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 2: because there's respect, there's understanding, and we just having fun. Listen, y'all. 114 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 2: All I'm saying is be the Tyler you want to 115 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 2: see in this world. Okay, just enjoy yourself. Man, you 116 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 2: are welcome. Come, sit a spell, take a plate. Let's 117 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 2: have fun. Man, and only are the carnival cruise? Could 118 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 2: you see something like that? Tyler out there is sanging 119 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 2: and body rolling. And listen, I tell you what, Tyler 120 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 2: gonna get dapped up for that cruise everywhere he go 121 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 2: if he old enough to drink, Tyler ain't buying not 122 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 2: a single drink. Tyler's kids finna be light skinned. One 123 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 2: of the comments said that Tyler finna lead there with 124 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 2: seven mixed babies. Another comment said he came there as Tyler, 125 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 2: but he finna leave is Tyrone right Listen, I'm trying 126 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 2: to tell you you can do anything. If there's a 127 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 2: group of black women cheering you on, all right, go ahead, guys, 128 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,239 Speaker 2: you can do anything. 129 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, they will gash you up. Boy. Tyler 130 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: now doesn't have ants. He got aunties. 131 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 2: Tyler now has aunties, okay, and you know what it is. 132 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 2: It's because he just off there having fun. He's saying 133 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 2: it decently. He was on beat, he knew the words, 134 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 2: he could dance a little bit. It wasn't awkward, and 135 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 2: it's just look man, really, that's all we ask, Just like, 136 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:41,199 Speaker 2: wipe your feet for you. 137 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: Come into the house and come have fun. Man. 138 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:50,959 Speaker 2: Listen, y'all, the world needs more Tyler's be the Tyler 139 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 2: you want to see in the world. Tap in with me.