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- If you’re not white, odds are that you’ve used a ‘white voice’ on the phone.
It’s pretty useful. The ‘white voice’ can convince the person on the other end to treat you like an actual white person - which means that previously difficult-to-obtain things like bank loans, good customer service, and even prompt responses from 911 are at your fingertips. With a white voice, the world is your oyster.
The white voice is also the main premise behind rapper Boots Riley’s debut film, Sorry to Bother You, in which a telemarketer played by Lakeith Stanfield discovers that he’s got a very convincing white voice.
Dexter Thomas gave Boots and Lakeith a ring to hear more about the joys of telemarketing.
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Dexter Thomas gave Boots and Lakeith a ring to hear more about the joys of telemarketing.
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Christopher Fairfield wtf?!?!?!?
Vice you guys are so hypocritical racist
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Vice is a communist news organization, most likely paid for by China or George Soros. They are trying to destroy your country, no matter where you are.
for a second there i thought you guys were joking but it turns out you're actually serious
go get mental help
If any of y'all are complaining about this go watch the movie. It's hardly what you would consider "racist". Theres poking fun at plenty of backgrounds in the film, its funny and a great watch.
There's the movie, and then there's VICE's spin on it. 2 different things.
no it's not lol
you're just playing with semantics. go watch the movie.
This movie is hilarious, weirdly wonderful, and about so much more than the "white voice". There's really nothing offensive about it for white people. Keep an open mind and give it a shot!
its actually a really good film and you should definitely DEFINITELY see it. prob one of the best films ive seen in years
d0lvl0 100%
I loved every gawd damn second of it! Best comedy this decade.
I’m an extra in this movie
I fucken loved this movie. Every goddamn second of it.
Boots can trigger white nationalists just by existing, it's pretty great. And like a true comrade, he was on twitter helping ppl get rides to go see it.
I seriously cannot wait to see this.
Moxie Beast ASMR it’s gooooooood. It’s HELLA good!
Shout out to Lakeith for tattooing his hand with a reminder of Griffith's betrayal. It must never be forgotten
I figure most folks complaining about the “white voice” didn’t even see the film... Based off the film “white voice” is metaphor for hyper confident worry-free, non threatening apart of the majority person... spoiler spoiler spoiler it’s why in the film it’s used as a way of selling something...
Boots Riley! The Coup!
This movie and this interview are GOLD
I get it. He's not saying "this is how white people talk, lol," that part's not about race, but racism & people looking down on those with regional & "racial" accents. In my perception.
+ a bunch of scifi & magical realism in parts of the film going somewhere else entirely. IDK
If this movie isn't Garfield 2: A Tale Of Two Kitties then I dont' wanna see it
If this movies isnt actually leprechaun 3 im not putting in money
If this isn't xXx: State of the Union I'm not gonna watch it.
If this movie isn't March of the Penguins I'm boycotting theaters
3:22 the realest thing in any damn movie interview
"you probably also want to do a chain of barbecue restaurants." lol
Anyone know the background music starting at 2:55? Or something custom for the video?
no idea. Shazam'd it. Didn't work. Sounds like synthwave
one of my favorite movies, loved it so much!
Yooo I didn’t know boots Riley made this shit,I use remember the first time I got drunk I bumped tf out of Pork and beef. That song had hard ass bass
Fucking classic
Oh god that description is a mess.
Fucking genius!
Great movie i loved it!
There are no words to say about your outstanding performance base on merit & personality, outstanding class is the best word. Vive La France, Vive La Champasak. France overseas. We love god too
Colonel, Beltrame. "Our nephew, Johnny graduated high-school the year 2015 without knowing about the Paris bombing incident when graduating, sins were committed upon him, adultery when starting college, was involved in a violent conflict with gangs, sent towards 2 facilities for reeducation camps & was shot 18x times approximately at 1:09am July 13th 2018. Jerry Dyer won the world cup for France, Bonjour, Bond Sure." Forwarded to Interpol
Keith Foster called him white, Frenchy Johnny
French Foreign Legion, Junior Reserves Officer.
Speaking on behalf of Johnny Kone Vilaysack, Colonel, Beltrame.
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I use my white voice while ordering food ...... Anyone else
I might be whiter that most "white" Americans, but I'm not sure this would sell good outside USA, since the concept of "white voice" is pretty alien to us.
I'd like to better understand what he's talking about. What I think he's talking about though, doesn't seem that different from 'the difference in comfort between formal and informal speech'.
Name that beat around 2:55
I can't find it either. Shazam didn't work.
but that beat tho! Sounds like some Lndn Drgs or some kind of modern G-Funk. Or something old school like from Cameo or someone. Idk but i like it. i need more of it in my life.
I am from England and I guess you Americans would say I was from the hood. I am white-ish and I had to learn a whole new accent just too make it in sales because with the way I spoke before the only salesman I would of been was a hard food specialist....
*Interviewer walks out as soon as the Directors don't make abbrasive comments regarding race when questioned about the main theme of the film*
guys name is boots? HAHAHAHAHA
hxcdsal89 Salazar u never heard of bootsie Collins?
2018 brotha version of Malibu's most wanted
Is he seriously using a Turtle Beach headset
Mark weins - Bonjour, Bond Sure.
I follow boots for years. He is definitely one of the Dopesttt rappers that is not known out there or given his props but I salute you brother keep doing what you’re doing. I’m going out and buy the movie today. I’m sorry I didn’t get more publicity but I’m calling everybody and ask him. Do they know about this movie so they would download it or put it in their black collection power to the people in power to boots🫡
When will shit like this stop so we can all move on? Why does Vice have to push This? It doesn't help anybody.
It definitely gives the feeling of being black in america oml
This was unexpectedly dope
Lol boots is the shit
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Some of these post exhibit a lost of hostility towards a shared American experience and the tool used to survive in America.
This movie is not for you, don't get your panties in a bunch I'm sure a remake of "Birth of a Nation" is on it's way
this is nothing but an advertisement for the movie
Danny Glover helping race bait?
For the people saying it's a double standard, this happens in real lif. Black people who use slang or come from the Caribbean have two voices; their Caribbean/Regular dialect and their American (typically Caucasian dialect) voice (when they are speaking to bankers or get a job .) Because in America or whenever you move somewhere new, you have to assimilate. White people in America don't have to assimilate so they speak what they established. Plus I believe this movie is showing how life drastically changed for him when he used his "white voice", demonstrating the bias people have. This is a comedy that's satire (meaning it takes real life problems and joke about it. It's not that serious)
Late to the party on commenting here, but! White people put on the "white voice" for jobs/work, too. That care-free formal tone isn't what most of us talk like when we're at home or chilling with friends. That's probably a big reason why Lakeith mentioned in this video "one can be white and put on the white voice." If I started responding to people at work with informal talk like "Not much bro, just chilling, how bout you?" My boss would probably look at me weird. That's why as a white person, I take absolutely zero offense to the movie, and find the idea hilarious, everyone can relate to it.
I worked at a call center once, and they kept giving me "warnings" that I need to sell more, and would say that obviously I was doing something wrong. After several weeks of this the manager called me into his office. He had me sit down and said something along the lines of "Hey.. so I've been listening in on your calls, and... you are absolutely doing everything by the book, so I can't fault you there. But maybe we can try working on your tone of voice, and maybe be a little more aggressive and not let them really have much room to respond." Which was both funny and annoying at the same time. There 100% is a certain tone that works for getting sales, but I was never really any good at hitting the exact tone that could achieve it.
I don't understand why this has so many down votes.
IT'S WOKE
How is this news?
its an interview about the film, therefore, it is news
gb2 CNN if you want that shit
everything in america is race fueled.
@AirFrance we speak English
What are you doing Kaj? It's Johnny, hey cousin, Jerry Dyer is French. Can you do something french
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New movie idea: “White person using a black voice to become a rapper.” lol
Fire Heart that actor would lose his house,career,and any possibility of being cast by any director because of the climate we live in.
And perhaps Iggy azalea can cast 😂
It's called Malibu's Most Wanted.
scaryfaced1 facts he mad but a movie like that already came out
scaryfaced1 and let's not forget Robert Downey Jr. In Tropic Thunder🤔
Omfg...
...Vice plzzzzzz no
Meanwhile on the suggested video, they're talking about the innovations happening in the push to make us ok living off insects! Woohoo! the optimization beyond the limits of humanity continue, welcome to Worry Free!
They should have had more people use the white voice, like a Mexican or something
Or a white person
dude, really? really?
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Little frenchy Johnny did that didn't he?
LOL, so great!
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It's called being articulate
the dude actually the white voice has nothing to do with white people as a race.
it's called "not about race"
watch the movie
7th like
this was cute lol
The lighter the skin, the bigger the afro has to be to emphasise how black they are. The 75% white director has huge afro
So true my friend
I am slightly less than half black and I am unable to grow an afro and I am darker than him. Your skin color isn't enough to tell the percentage of your race or ethnicity.
the ppl who are like 20% are always the most militant pro black racists.
*J Briggs* Yup, I had the same realization. Maybe they feel like they don't belong anywhere.
J Sims That's not what he's saying. What he's saying is some individuals who are light skinned feel the need to overcompensate or "black it up" because they are insecure about their light skin. They create a correlation "the bigger my afro is, the blacker I am". Essentially, they're trying too hard.
So much cringe
Alex Yanakiev you’re talking about the comment section, right?
What does this have to do with vice? Should I unsubscribe now or what? No, wait I’ll just leave now.
*hits the unsubscribe button*
Moors need to release some moor music!
Deffo gonna watch this film though it looks jokes
im transracial and this is a double standard
danie williams transracial? But yes it is a double standard
like racheal dozeal but reverse
I'm white and i like talking black. My voice identifies as black.
It’s called assimilation lol
resistance is futile.
thank god i watched this dumb movie on netflix
Why did this have to be another black v white thing? Talk about the movie, it sounds dope.
So... is white voice when you talk normally?
The white voice is when you speak clearly, don't use slang, speak in full sentences and not speak aggressively.
Aaron Conlon So normally then.
Believe it or not talking like that is considered weird by a lot of black people.
if you're white
eighteensixty six that’s normal to you? You must live in wonderland then.
Even white people use shorthand, local slang, talk about their problems, etc. every once in a while.
Make a movie about white people using a “black voice” won’t happen..
Have you ever seen a white person utter "Yo yo yo" in a movie? How about the classic "My name is X and I'm here to say..."? White people just suck at it.
scaryfaced1 Yeah.
This movie was already made and it was funny af
Someone hasn’t seen Malibu’s Most Wanted
CobraVideos: White people not using "black voice"? Its because they prefer using blackface.
Comment section is really filled with snowflakes.
So white voice is speaking legibly, without slang, in an agreeable tone.
Hugh Mungus
leg·i·ble
adjective
(of handwriting or print) clear enough to read.
Not on my street here in Georgia.
have you ever been to west virginia?
+Matt S Huh, didn't know that. But my point still stands.
+TOASTYCO. AV West Virginia hick accent is not what they are talking about when they say "white voice". Pay attention, they even give you an example at 0:55.
Hugh Mungus yep.
"White voice" is not a thing. You have one voice that you talk to strangers with and one voice that you use for family and friends. This is quite common for all, it's called "social etiquette".
No. :D
White can be substituted for "understandable" in this scenario.
Fabrizio AAVE's a real language.
No, it's improper language.
@@fabrizio483 that's racist and ableist. Everyone is entitled to speak the way they want to without it being deemed as "improper".
@@danielprice9213 They are "entitled", yes, but they can't expect to be understood.
Just call the “white voice” basically speaking articulate. Duhhhhh!!!
More racist content. Vice - the actual racists.
How is this racist at all?
Because there’s historical evidence of black people having to emulate what white people do in order to be accepted?
From what I can gather, a point of the movie is to make fun of this. Vice talking to the actors about what it means to them is by no means racist.
Targeting one group of people as OK to hate and ridicule IS racist. You might as well make whites wear stars on their sleeves.
how is this racist?
Too many salty pasty caucasians in this comment section. Just move along
Kraft Punk mad colored people
projection much, jaxk?
Colonel, Beltrame. "Our nephew, Johnny graduated high-school the year 2015 without knowing about the Paris bombing incident when graduating, sins were committed upon him, adultery when starting college, was involved in a violent conflict with gangs, sent towards 2 facilities for reeducation camps & was shot 18x times approximately at 1:09am July 13th 2018. Jerry Dyer won the world cup for France, Bonjour, Bond Sure." Forwarded to Interpol