Those existed because of this country’s racism. Fewer 1% of billionaires are black and 6 are native Americans, but that’s systemic racism ? Give me a break
@@chrisallison9151 The opportunities are there today. Affirmative action creates nothing. It's such a disservice to Black people who do get into a school like Harvard on their own merits when people like you think they can only get into Harvard because of affirmative action and DEI.
This kid ain't dumb. He has his shit together, one way or the other. Classism IS a bigger problem than racism in America and the two are often conflated.
It's always annoyed me when people use their skin to claim underprivilege when I remember some of my childhood struggling to make it. There were times when we lived out of hotels because we couldn't afford rents or food and the hotel was cheaper. There was one time we lived in a campground. Because $200 per month was a lot less than the $1000 per month for a rental. My dad was retired military so we had his retirement check, but it wasn't much. I remember my family struggling so much during some years and yet, I'm still supposedly privileged over others. Thank you for another great video.
There’s no way to indicate how you’re treated by being white only in comparison to how others are treated. Would you treatment of you change if you were black
@@chrisallison9151 You still don't make any sense. What does your comment have to do with how I was treated when we were homeless? Try stringing the words together better. "Would you treatment of you change if you were black"... Do you mean, "Would the treatment that you receive change if you were black"? If this is what you meant, then no. It wouldn't. However, people telling me I was privileged while we struggled will never change when people like you continue to look at it from a black and white point of view. Which was my point. People throwing my "whiteness" in my face when they hear my story while they somehow think they are worse off because of their skin color is literally what racism is.
@@DianaMayeDesigns Don’t correct my grammar. You knew what I meant. I’m not paying you to give me a grammar lesson so don’t offer services to people that don’t ask for them. Yes it would for the simple facts that black are almost half of the homeless population and black people with criminal records are more likely to face homelessness than white ppl with criminal records. Which tells me that they’re less likely to be given a chance so they become homeless. I would never assume the challenges you have, if you told me your problems, not only would I believe you, but I would listen to you. I just don’t think your race adds to the challenges you have. Jackie Robinson made significantly more than a lot of white ppl back in his day, but there was clearly an added challenges to his life because of his race that they didn’t deal with. We have 2 different understandings of racism, you articulated that people just assume you have it easier or may not go through something because youre white, which I can understand. My understanding of racism is someone taking account of your race and considers you less than or giving you less. For example, Black pedestrians are more likely to be hit by cars. That’s racism to me.
instead of creating imaginary racism as an excuse for their personal failures they should instead create their own opportunities to succeed and 9 out of 10 people will actually succeed
I spent the first 18 years of my life in very rural SW Pennsylvania, and the next 22 years in Pittsburgh, where I currently am. I can absolutely assure you that poor white folks in rural areas have far far far less opportunities than black folks earning the same amount of money, who predominantly live in cites. The reason is just that, they live in cities...where its way easier to find jobs, get to the job, and get help if you come under hard times. Where I grew up, there was no public transit. The closet grocery store was like 15 miles away. There were far fewer programs available, if any at all, to help you get back on your feet. Here in Pittsburgh, however, there are dozens and dozens of agencies available to help people. Living as "poor white trailer trash", as this dude so eloquently put it... its a way harder life.
There was a TH-cam video where s black momma''$ welfare check was canceled because she apparently was to lazy to update her papers when ask too.she went pounding on the welfare office saying "were is my money " with her kid and because of special privilege she was given money in her account and didn't have to renew much less wait until Monday.
Dude I grew up 2 hours south of Pittsburgh in a busted area called union town. Busted my a$$ to get a scholarship to slippery rock. Then joined a he military and never looked back.
I live north of Pittsburgh. There is no money for poor predominant white areas. But they definitely do keep putting money into places that are predominantly black, like the Hill District, Duquesne. When Millvale (mostly white working class) was flooded (devastating) about 20 years ago, the federal government (FEMA) was all in to offer help. Then right away, Katrina happened, and most of that help was pulled and given to New Orleans. I’m not sure what the government role should be in these areas, but it should be consistent.
The not marrying is a CHOICE made by the women, no one is forcing them to have kids without being married so they only have themselves to blame. Women fought for “control of their bodies”, they got it, so have no one but themselves to blame.
Maybe not relevant but... I used to date a Puerto Rican man. He lived in Camden NJ. (Feel free to look up the crime statistics). One day, we went in the house to grab something and 2 or 3 "people of color" came down the street and said (about my son, who was about 11 yrs old), "Hey! There's a white boy!!" Immediately my date stepped outside and told them to move along. And they did. I wonder what they would have done if not for my date saying that. Racism works both ways people. This was in the 1990s.
Both ways? As if there are only two options? Racism is racism and it can be towards any race and by any race, of which there are more than two in this world. We'll define race as 'a group of people distinct from other groups because of shared physical traits', so as not to ruffle the feathers of the 'we're all one race' crowd.
These kids are raised to think like this. I grew up in the 80s and 90s. We were the last ones to actually see real racism. Even that was mostly gone by the 90s. For any of them today to act this way is nothing but fantasy.
It's your Black,white privlage. I wish I had your black,white privlage. You are way better off than me. I'm putting that down to. You made better choices. Not race. MERICA! MAGA!
Im loving your videos dude. The format, especially. You let the clip actually play for more than 10 seconds. So many other commentary channels will stop it every other sentence, theyll speak on it longer than the clip they just showed, then only play a few more seconds before pausing again. It's so frustrating. You let the clip play, then give concise commentary about the whole clip, then let another play. I wish they all used your formula
I was white poor growing up. I joined the Marine Corps with the shirt on my back and boots on my feet in 1983. I knew that there was nothing for me if I went back home. I stayed in for 24 years and retired with a bachelor degree in Business (and debt free). I thank God I am here and can't imagine where I would be if I didn't make the choice to do something different and join and serve my country.
@@chrisallison9151 there was still segregation but blacks had their own nice neighborhoods, good schools, low crime, and businesses; and families were together with parents marrying and then having kids, they were very conservative and after the civil rights movement especially after MLK and in 64 with the creation of welfare ruined the black family unit, paying women to have kids without fathers which was expressly focused on black families. President Johnson even said, “I’ll have those n#*$* voting democrat for the next 200 years” when he created welfare. Blacks originally were republicans, the big part of starting the Republican Party was because the democrats fought to KEEP slavery, the democrats fought to stop blacks from being able to vote and the democrats are the party of the KKK who killed not only blacks but white republicans. President Lincoln was the first republican president, freed the slaves and was murdered for it (sound familiar after yesterday?) by Boothe who was a democrat. I could never understand why blacks are so loyal to democrats, the very people who wanted to keep them slaves. They changed to democrats during the Great Depression when no one had anything and acted like they were “helping” blacks, as they usually do, by giving handouts just enough to seem like they were helping them while actually keeping them under their control. Why do you think so many major black run Democratic cities today are ghettos, the schools don’t teach kids anything to help them get a future, the violence is out of control, because up until hopefully now they knew blacks automatically would vote democrat but since more blacks are turning Republican they are losing them, which is why they opened the border hoping to be able to pass laws so those people can vote because they assume they will vote democrat out of gratitude, and just threw the blacks under the bus because they can’t use them anymore. Yes I’m 60 years old and white but was born and raised in Gary, IN and my family had businesses for decades in Gary and they knew all the players in the city and county back in the day. Peace.
@@chrisallison9151their families were together, they worked hard and weren’t having kids outside of marriage. They were way better off than they are now.
@@chrisallison9151 he right the black family unit was way better before the so called civil rights movement look at the black family today its destroyed
@@chrisallison9151now? Lmao a clansman wet dream. 80% blacks kill thier own babies . They end each other better than a Klansmann wet dream. Of those few babies born 70 plus % are raised fatherless. Yeah they were better off, if living and having a family is part of your equation.
One thing we never talk about when we are comparing the average income of black and white income is that the averages also include the 1%, which the white community has a lot more of especially the mega rich, but still only makes up about 1% of the population. If we omitted the 1% from the stats there would be a smaller disparity.
4:11 The average wages you mentioned here need some clarification. Those numbers are for 'white' and 'black' HOUSEHOLDS, respectively. Something many people do not take into account when quoting these figures is that a married couple usually has a higher income than a person who's single. Since 55% of the 'white' population in the US is married, compared to only 31% of the 'black' population, this would explain most of the difference between these HOUSEHOLD'S average incomes.
Culture is the main reason poor groups tend to stay poor. Be it the "trailer park trash" or the "ghetto" . They are often embracing a culture of criminality, poor work ethics, avoidance of responsibility (in all aspects of their life), etc A culture that often demonizes "acting like they better than what they are" be it color, area, etc. Where there are kids that get harrased, or even assaulted for studying and working hard in school to get good grades. Or refusing to just moan about the situation and actively try to get out of it and better themselves.
No it didn’t. MLK was still fighting and he was hated at the time and he even said that when referring to his dream they would still have many difficult days ahead. His children have carried on his fight long after his tragic passing
@@chrisallison9151 And you have bought the lie hook line and sinker. If there is institutional racism against Blacks, please cite a single example of a law or documented government policy that either denies a right to Blacks, or provides another racial group privilege over Blacks enacted or in force after the Civil Rights Act passage. Please name just one and I will declare you the winner of the debate. I can define actual and lawful discrimination where Blacks, Native Americans, and Hispanics get opportunities over White and Asian people in the form of affirmative action and DEI.
I'm a definition ( * ) words have meanings for a reason. Words ARE NOT FLUID! Yes I have a dictionary PRE 1990 HARD COPY. On my desk all the time and I USE IT. It drives me crazy people using words they don't have a clue about tbier definitions.
I agree that classism often looks like racism because of the intersection of race and income. People assume their affluence or struggle has to do mostly with skin tone, but the intersection is a correlation, not a cause.
What there is, is what I call "same-ism". Everybody tends to like/trust/associate with people who are like them than with people who are different from them. It applies to race, but it also applies to educational level, type of work people do, fitness level, economic level, etc. You name it, we are more comfortable with people who are similar to us and less so around people who aren't.
I'm so tired of this "stop judging people on how they look" argument. And I'm not talking about their skin color but their features and style. It's a hardwired survival instinct in everyone. If I see a black guy with a Polo on with khakis and a clean haircut, then I'm going to assume that he is not a threat. If I see a black guy with dreads, wearing a T-shirt with some sagging basketball shorts, The survival instinct in my brain kicks in and tells me; "hey he might kill me for looking at him wrong, I should avoid him at all cost."
There's a dress code for everywhere, for belief groups, hobby groups, even your local community, that's how you get specific dress style for gangs, so you can immediately know who they are & how to act around them.
The single mother issue is a welfare state issue, the exact same thing happens in Scotland and we're 95% white, if a father is not around they get a house and money, and with more kids its equals more money. Its borderline incentivised to have no father around.
This guy, who admits he, in his own words, lived a privilege life with two parents who each earnt good money, is still tryng to say that there is systemic racism in the US. He seems like a well-meaning guy, but I DARE him to go to Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, Mississipi, or ANY rural state where the poverty rates are at their highest, and tell the poor white families and citizens making do with the bearest minimum to live on that the US is systematically racist against black people, and that white people are the most privileged in the US.
to be a victim means your innocent and not the bad guy so as long as you're the victim you can do no wrong and when you do it's because you're a victim.
I was training an african american gentleman at a job i worked at years ago. I was making 10,50 an hour. He was making 14.50. Later on I got that same exact position granted I had been there for years and they were paying me 11.50 I Will never blame him for what the company did but What gives. I was more capable at that job than he was and I got paid less. Its NOT The people it goes deeper than that.. I believe.
I think he more or less sat down to hear him out and give his view. I will respect him for that. It's important to have a productive dialog and this is more just him trying to learn about a different perspective rather than not willing to hear out someone from the other side.
Omg I wish everyone would stop going on about race! Drives me in sane, let’s just just speak to each other as human beings all trying to cope with life, if only we could ban the word race and racist I just know we’d all get on better like we should, and going on about slavery does my head in! Just thank god you don’t have to go through a second of the horrifying life, people (the British) did stop it because they realised it was morally wrong! I think ppl want to keep bringing it up so it can be blamed for all their failures 🤷♀️
I think classism is more of a problem than racism. I make a very good living, but you wouldn't know it because I don't spend much money on clothes. Had car and other types of sales people ignore me because I look frumpy. 😅
@4:30 I don't know where you're getting these statistics on individual incomes by race. Nobody tracks that accurately- the US Census tracks HOUSEHOLD income, which is an entirely different matter. There is a direct 1:1 correlation between household incomes, and two-parent home rates. The races with highest rates of two-parent households (Asian, white) also have the highest household incomes. It's simple, obvious logic: if a household has two income earners, it tends to earn more money than a household with only one earner.
Jojo great work brother. I thought you sounded kinda ignorant a year ago but i kept watching and youre killing it now. You dont claim to know everything and youre a truth seaker and i think thats benefiting you greatly. Youre definitely great to watch and listen to and i definitely respect your view. Keep it up man.
Just because you aren't handed everything you want in life doesn't mean the system is racist. Just because you didn't get everything in life just because you think you earned it doesn't mean the system is racist. Life is is hard and often unfair. That's life.
Nine of the thirteen original colonies abolished slavery at the signing of the Constitution. Benjamin Franklin held one of the first anti-slavery conventions in Pennsylvania. Never been a racist country but some of the inhabitants in some parts of it were.
Grew up in a very rural, mountainous region in Southwest Virginia, there were 0 African Americans in the public school system, hell there wasnt even any AA families in the area. We did have a private school that wealthy African families from other countries would send their children to get an American education. Statistics speaking, at one point in the last couple decades...my county was the HIGHEST per capita percent of families on Government assistance.
Well just to reflect the young man in the video,alot of the inner city ''Trash ''youth often play this card because they look for the easy way , you know,just pay me.because of my color. very sad.
There's also a very subtle thing called "how one carries onself." Confidently and pleasantly vs. sheepishly, aimlessly, angrily, or arrogantly. This is often, but not always, relevant and is somehow connected to how one is dressed.
How we select juries. On paper we have a right to an impartial jury, in practice black people are often excluded from jury, causing disparate of outcomes Sometimes deliberately. Curtis flower’s deliberately white washed the jury for a conviction.
Call me naive but I actually don't make assumptions on people's appearances. I form no opinions until i get more information about them. I tend to assume the best of people until proven otherwise. I had an assignment in my English writing class in college to write a paper on the differences and similarities of two different movies based on the first 5 minutes of each film. Told my professor I needed more information and could not complete the project based the current level of information. I requested to research both movies and was flatly denied so I refused to do the assignment even when I was notified that a grade of "0" will be recorded and reflected in my semester final. Told the professor to go suck a lemon and walked out of his office.
As a European, I can say that both of them are toddlers when it comes to discussing ”classism”, but at least the black guy brought it up. The US is famous for mopping up class differences with race quotas when it’s a) much too late for the concerned individual, and b) offensively opposed to meritocracy, and therefore open to rightful criticism. If you had a society that focuses on minimizing class differences (regardless of race) from an earlier stage (such as affordable child care, free health care, etc) for all, you would not need race specific ”DEI practices” later on.
So I have a statement followed by two questions one being a two part question. America is one of the best maybe even the best country for people of any race, color, sex or disability to live and succeed. Question one - If America is a safe haven for rich white men/people to live and succeed then why are all the rich white people not migrating to America? Question two -If America is such an unwelcoming and racist country then why are the majority almost exclusively minorities migrating legally and illegally here? (Part two) why do they not stay in the countries they are from and fit in better?
Funniest time I got called a racist- Sitting with wife, and a group she was in online (maybe 10 people), and I made the joke, I don't care about color I hate everyone! A young black woman says to me, you look like one of those people. I say why? Answer, shaved head (it is just buzzed down), and just look like those type of people. All I said was, my bald head is genetics, not by choice! You can't defend yourself against someone who has already put you in a category. When I told one of my best friends, he couldn't stop laughing! His name is Cleon Brown. Without any other info, guess what color he is? If you guessed black dude, you are correct and that doesn't mean you're a racist either. He always made the same joke about his name. He also said I was crazy for some places I go that white people really shouldn't! I have had strange looks at some clubs, or car shows, where I was easy to spot as the snowflake. Generally, thats what I would get called, too! I build lowriders, donks, hot rods, and muscle cars. If you're into that, we can hang. Color doesn't matter. We're all the same. 😊✌️
duuuuuude i've been saying that forever there is a difference between perception/stereo types and actual racism. keep on keeping on man also, i think you may like one of my songs i talk about all this ;) lol
Interesting, my 5 kids went to college. 3 of them 4 year 2 - 2 year. None of them had money, I paid for nothing. They went on loans, scholarships, and grants. They all worked through college and they all worked their butts off to pay their loans off when they got out. My youngest is 27 and at this point all my children have their loans paid off and are good productive members of society. You can do it on your own. Check your attitude.
Just here to answer a question @4:35-4:45 They dont need to have double the salaries in order to get double the college attendance You always have fixed expenses. And the baseline of that, if one wishes to live in 'normal society', Doesn't change, so getting a house or something else so you have less expenses or just saving is made way easier if you have some more income. But that is not to say that there aren't at least a million other things that affect those numbers, such as the huge chasm in culture and what is expected of someone, or what the environment presents. Etc Also also that isn't accounting for all the people who ended up with degrees that didn't teach them anything of value and just have to take a job as a cashier, while being heavily in debt.
In fairness to the kid, I think he accidentally answered the question "where IS Detroit," not "where IN Detroit" because he probably gets that question more often from his peers.
I think he is deflecting. Deflecting makes a general conversation difficult, because someone is always asking to clarify details. You never get anywhere trying to find anecdotal scenarios.
I don't agree with anybody on this, other than professors and books in college. My professors didn't just tell me. They showed me, with documents, books, journals, letters etc... This country was never racist. People can be to a point, but countries can't. And if you try to say the country is represented by the people. That can be true, but if only 4%of the people back then dealt with slaves. I wouldn't call that the people or the country.
I stopped thinking America was racist except for a really brief period after slavery began to end, and even then I wouldn’t call “America” racist since the controversy arose because of widespread push for equality in the first place (equality under the law for SLAVES, not for BLACKS.) Dr. Sowell suggests that slavery itself wasn’t race based, but that the market at the time happened to feature many slaves from Africa. It was social tensions after slavery begun to be challenged as an economic institution that the common feature of the group in question and the tendency for people to categorize caused many who were threatened by social change to emphasize “black skin” as the trait of those they didn’t want as full citizens. If that characterization is true, then America wasn’t really “racist” even when they engaged in slavery or after, but during the transition there were passions of some people in the country that focused on race for a handful of decades.
JoJo i would love if you and your dad would consider getting with other content creators and planning an event where we can all come together and collectively pray. Our prayers are powerful but I believe if we all pray together our prayers will be amplified against the enemy. Letting God's light shine through us together is how we snuff out the darkness ❤🙏
7:44 To help reduce social economic disadvantages the us would need to stop having for profit health care and education. The schools tax/financing/private donations is bad and exacerbates or maintain the disadvantages.
It is not only impacting black Americans it is impacting Hispanic and white Americans, but it has been a greater problem in the black population because when it started the black population had a significantly higher percentage on welfare and because blacks on welfare tended to be in cities there were more case workers to verify that they were single moms whereas white women on welfare tended to be in rural areas where the welfare agencies had less case workers and larger areas to cover and were therefore less able to verify their status.
7:40 If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, its a duck. If it looks like a thug, walks like a thug, talks like a thug, it cant be called a thug...because thats just racist talk.
I don't like to complain. I feel I'm blessed just to be American and to have both parents and an extended family. But in terms of finances only? I grew up below the poverty line and sometimes we didn't know where we would get food for our next meal, let alone rent for the month. I still grew up better than my parents, who grew up better than their parents. We're white.
The standard of university entry have been substantially lowered for black people here in South Africa to get more black people in. But what that is doing is causing way more drop outs after the first year because the people being allowed in cannot keep up. What this has also done is drive white youngsters to work alot harder to ensure they can get into university! Thus when entering the job market they are hired easier just due to the marks. They also go into more advanced studies because of this. So these quotas really aren't helping black people. Also what is happening white people are leaving the country to others to get into university to get their education. They then find jobs in those countries and never return to boost our economy. Fighting racism with more racism will never work. We need to stop looking at race. No one cares about it. As a business owner the only colour I see is green! The person who can make the business the most money is the one that gets the job. And they are also rewarded accordingly!
Personally, I know more Black people that went to college than I’ve ever met white people having the opportunity to make it into college, so there’s that. Gotta love that DEI
10:27 Dropping marriage rates is NOT only happening amongst 'black' people. While the 'black' marriage rate has fallen from 60% to 30% since 1960, the 'white' marriage rate has dropped from 74% to 57%.
My only assumption as to why someone can think the US is systemically racist and also the best country for all races is that all other countries are worse.
I think the dude handled it pretty well considering he was just put on the spot and had zero time to prepare anything. It's also not his job to debate these stuff and he has nowhere near the experience with it as Crowder does. I may not agree with him on everything but he seems like a smart guy.
I love the change my mind talks… But I hate the multiple tangents that Steven tends to go down sometimes and detracts from the main points. Feels like minutes at a time.
Are you having some MIC/cable issues? I've noticed in most of the latest videos some noise when you are speaking in full screen. It's not that bad but it is noticeable, and I don't have a very good hearing. I noticed it in the left channel mostly.
If you listen to this guy closely, he dances around what follows this sentence. It occurred to me that true white privilege is the ability to be anything I want, pursue any career I choose, live any lifestyle I choose all without having my racial identity questioned or challenged for it.
It's not just African Americans that it is happening to. If we look at the rate of growth from the 1960s to today whites have actually grown at a faster rate than blacks (though it is close to the same)
The only real systemic racism I'm aware of in the US is Affirmative Action, CRT and DEI.
If a law or anything official has a race mentioned. It's racist. PERIOD!
Yes its really that simple
Those existed because of this country’s racism. Fewer 1% of billionaires are black and 6 are native Americans, but that’s systemic racism ? Give me a break
Creating opportunities fir people who historically didn’t have them isn’t systemically racist
@@chrisallison9151 The opportunities are there today. Affirmative action creates nothing. It's such a disservice to Black people who do get into a school like Harvard on their own merits when people like you think they can only get into Harvard because of affirmative action and DEI.
@@chrisallison9151 ummm YES it is, by definition it is that VERY THING. You have been conditioned
Blaming your problems on race is always a lazy argument
Anyone espousing such nonsense shouldn't be taken seriously.
facts
Some people are jerks and some aren’t. It’s called life and you deal with it.
This kid ain't dumb. He has his shit together, one way or the other. Classism IS a bigger problem than racism in America and the two are often conflated.
It's always annoyed me when people use their skin to claim underprivilege when I remember some of my childhood struggling to make it. There were times when we lived out of hotels because we couldn't afford rents or food and the hotel was cheaper. There was one time we lived in a campground. Because $200 per month was a lot less than the $1000 per month for a rental. My dad was retired military so we had his retirement check, but it wasn't much. I remember my family struggling so much during some years and yet, I'm still supposedly privileged over others. Thank you for another great video.
There’s no way to indicate how you’re treated by being white only in comparison to how others are treated. Would you treatment of you change if you were black
@@chrisallison9151 Your comment doesn't make any sense.
@@DianaMayeDesignsI’ll be direct then. You’re privileged in a sense that people don’t have general impression of you when you walk in a room
@@chrisallison9151 You still don't make any sense. What does your comment have to do with how I was treated when we were homeless? Try stringing the words together better. "Would you treatment of you change if you were black"... Do you mean, "Would the treatment that you receive change if you were black"? If this is what you meant, then no. It wouldn't. However, people telling me I was privileged while we struggled will never change when people like you continue to look at it from a black and white point of view. Which was my point. People throwing my "whiteness" in my face when they hear my story while they somehow think they are worse off because of their skin color is literally what racism is.
@@DianaMayeDesigns Don’t correct my grammar. You knew what I meant. I’m not paying you to give me a grammar lesson so don’t offer services to people that don’t ask for them.
Yes it would for the simple facts that black are almost half of the homeless population and black people with criminal records are more likely to face homelessness than white ppl with criminal records. Which tells me that they’re less likely to be given a chance so they become homeless.
I would never assume the challenges you have, if you told me your problems, not only would I believe you, but I would listen to you. I just don’t think your race adds to the challenges you have. Jackie Robinson made significantly more than a lot of white ppl back in his day, but there was clearly an added challenges to his life because of his race that they didn’t deal with.
We have 2 different understandings of racism, you articulated that people just assume you have it easier or may not go through something because youre white, which I can understand. My understanding of racism is someone taking account of your race and considers you less than or giving you less. For example, Black pedestrians are more likely to be hit by cars. That’s racism to me.
Tired of people crating elaborate excuses for why they fail.
Boo hoo, "It's not my fault, I'm just a victim of something beyond my control."
personal responsibility
instead of creating imaginary racism as an excuse for their personal failures they should instead create their own opportunities to succeed and 9 out of 10 people will actually succeed
I spent the first 18 years of my life in very rural SW Pennsylvania, and the next 22 years in Pittsburgh, where I currently am. I can absolutely assure you that poor white folks in rural areas have far far far less opportunities than black folks earning the same amount of money, who predominantly live in cites. The reason is just that, they live in cities...where its way easier to find jobs, get to the job, and get help if you come under hard times. Where I grew up, there was no public transit. The closet grocery store was like 15 miles away. There were far fewer programs available, if any at all, to help you get back on your feet. Here in Pittsburgh, however, there are dozens and dozens of agencies available to help people. Living as "poor white trailer trash", as this dude so eloquently put it... its a way harder life.
There was a TH-cam video where s black momma''$ welfare check was canceled because she apparently was to lazy to update her papers when ask too.she went pounding on the welfare office saying "were is my money " with her kid and because of special privilege she was given money in her account and didn't have to renew much less wait until Monday.
Dude I grew up 2 hours south of Pittsburgh in a busted area called union town. Busted my a$$ to get a scholarship to slippery rock. Then joined a he military and never looked back.
I live north of Pittsburgh. There is no money for poor predominant white areas. But they definitely do keep putting money into places that are predominantly black, like the Hill District, Duquesne.
When Millvale (mostly white working class) was flooded (devastating) about 20 years ago, the federal government (FEMA) was all in to offer help. Then right away, Katrina happened, and most of that help was pulled and given to New Orleans.
I’m not sure what the government role should be in these areas, but it should be consistent.
I can guarantee you wherever you live black ppl are generally worst off
Penn hills 50 years ago .
Thousands ? More like millions of people who had ir tougher than that guy growing up.
The not marrying is a CHOICE made by the women, no one is forcing them to have kids without being married so they only have themselves to blame. Women fought for “control of their bodies”, they got it, so have no one but themselves to blame.
Maybe not relevant but... I used to date a Puerto Rican man. He lived in Camden NJ. (Feel free to look up the crime statistics). One day, we went in the house to grab something and 2 or 3 "people of color" came down the street and said (about my son, who was about 11 yrs old), "Hey! There's a white boy!!" Immediately my date stepped outside and told them to move along. And they did. I wonder what they would have done if not for my date saying that. Racism works both ways people. This was in the 1990s.
Both ways? As if there are only two options? Racism is racism and it can be towards any race and by any race, of which there are more than two in this world. We'll define race as 'a group of people distinct from other groups because of shared physical traits', so as not to ruffle the feathers of the 'we're all one race' crowd.
These kids are raised to think like this. I grew up in the 80s and 90s. We were the last ones to actually see real racism. Even that was mostly gone by the 90s. For any of them today to act this way is nothing but fantasy.
I have a retirement of $81000 per year, so I must not be an average Black man.
It's your Black,white privlage.
I wish I had your black,white privlage.
You are way better off than me. I'm putting that down to. You made better choices. Not race.
MERICA!
MAGA!
$81k/yr retirement bruh, stay up ma brah
Im loving your videos dude. The format, especially. You let the clip actually play for more than 10 seconds. So many other commentary channels will stop it every other sentence, theyll speak on it longer than the clip they just showed, then only play a few more seconds before pausing again. It's so frustrating. You let the clip play, then give concise commentary about the whole clip, then let another play. I wish they all used your formula
That's because they are strict about fair use, not all creators are OK with reaction videos, that's why they keep it below 15 seconds.
I was white poor growing up. I joined the Marine Corps with the shirt on my back and boots on my feet in 1983. I knew that there was nothing for me if I went back home. I stayed in for 24 years and retired with a bachelor degree in Business (and debt free). I thank God I am here and can't imagine where I would be if I didn't make the choice to do something different and join and serve my country.
Merica!
Yeah it's possible here. 👍
God bless you and all servicemen
Blacks before the 1960s were doing better in every category so how can he say he is affected by slavery smh.
No they weren’t. The civil rights movement is evidence of that. Do you really think they were protesting to sit in front of the bus
@@chrisallison9151 there was still segregation but blacks had their own nice neighborhoods, good schools, low crime, and businesses; and families were together with parents marrying and then having kids, they were very conservative and after the civil rights movement especially after MLK and in 64 with the creation of welfare ruined the black family unit, paying women to have kids without fathers which was expressly focused on black families. President Johnson even said, “I’ll have those n#*$* voting democrat for the next 200 years” when he created welfare. Blacks originally were republicans, the big part of starting the Republican Party was because the democrats fought to KEEP slavery, the democrats fought to stop blacks from being able to vote and the democrats are the party of the KKK who killed not only blacks but white republicans. President Lincoln was the first republican president, freed the slaves and was murdered for it (sound familiar after yesterday?) by Boothe who was a democrat. I could never understand why blacks are so loyal to democrats, the very people who wanted to keep them slaves. They changed to democrats during the Great Depression when no one had anything and acted like they were “helping” blacks, as they usually do, by giving handouts just enough to seem like they were helping them while actually keeping them under their control. Why do you think so many major black run Democratic cities today are ghettos, the schools don’t teach kids anything to help them get a future, the violence is out of control, because up until hopefully now they knew blacks automatically would vote democrat but since more blacks are turning Republican they are losing them, which is why they opened the border hoping to be able to pass laws so those people can vote because they assume they will vote democrat out of gratitude, and just threw the blacks under the bus because they can’t use them anymore. Yes I’m 60 years old and white but was born and raised in Gary, IN and my family had businesses for decades in Gary and they knew all the players in the city and county back in the day. Peace.
@@chrisallison9151their families were together, they worked hard and weren’t having kids outside of marriage. They were way better off than they are now.
@@chrisallison9151 he right the black family unit was way better before the so called civil rights movement look at the black family today its destroyed
@@chrisallison9151now? Lmao a clansman wet dream. 80% blacks kill thier own babies . They end each other better than a Klansmann wet dream.
Of those few babies born 70 plus % are raised fatherless. Yeah they were better off, if living and having a family is part of your equation.
One thing we never talk about when we are comparing the average income of black and white income is that the averages also include the 1%, which the white community has a lot more of especially the mega rich, but still only makes up about 1% of the population. If we omitted the 1% from the stats there would be a smaller disparity.
4:11 The average wages you mentioned here need some clarification. Those numbers are for 'white' and 'black' HOUSEHOLDS, respectively.
Something many people do not take into account when quoting these figures is that a married couple usually has a higher income than a person who's single.
Since 55% of the 'white' population in the US is married, compared to only 31% of the 'black' population, this would explain most of the difference between these HOUSEHOLD'S average incomes.
Stop,clouding the issue with facts lol
100%
Culture is the main reason poor groups tend to stay poor. Be it the "trailer park trash" or the "ghetto" . They are often embracing a culture of criminality, poor work ethics, avoidance of responsibility (in all aspects of their life), etc
A culture that often demonizes "acting like they better than what they are" be it color, area, etc. Where there are kids that get harrased, or even assaulted for studying and working hard in school to get good grades. Or refusing to just moan about the situation and actively try to get out of it and better themselves.
Institutional racism ended in 1964 with the civil rights act. Individual acts of bigotry will never go away.
No it didn’t. MLK was still fighting and he was hated at the time and he even said that when referring to his dream they would still have many difficult days ahead. His children have carried on his fight long after his tragic passing
@@chrisallison9151 And we fought the Ottomans for over a thousand years and you don't see us whining.
@@chrisallison9151 Being a victim is a choice.
@@WithoutliesShlimShlamdie-rc9ryWhat does that have to do with what I said
@@chrisallison9151 And you have bought the lie hook line and sinker. If there is institutional racism against Blacks, please cite a single example of a law or documented government policy that either denies a right to Blacks, or provides another racial group privilege over Blacks enacted or in force after the Civil Rights Act passage. Please name just one and I will declare you the winner of the debate. I can define actual and lawful discrimination where Blacks, Native Americans, and Hispanics get opportunities over White and Asian people in the form of affirmative action and DEI.
I think a lot of people use the word “systemic” without thinking about its meaning.
Inconceivable! Haha
I'm a definition ( * ) words have meanings for a reason. Words ARE NOT FLUID!
Yes I have a dictionary PRE 1990 HARD COPY. On my desk all the time and I USE IT.
It drives me crazy people using words they don't have a clue about tbier definitions.
I'm biracial. Black father and white mother. I've only experienced racism from black people. I wasn't dark enough so I was white
That guy must be a fan of the Kamela saying about being unburdened from what has been...lol
I agree that classism often looks like racism because of the intersection of race and income. People assume their affluence or struggle has to do mostly with skin tone, but the intersection is a correlation, not a cause.
All these people have are feelings
What there is, is what I call "same-ism". Everybody tends to like/trust/associate with people who are like them than with people who are different from them. It applies to race, but it also applies to educational level, type of work people do, fitness level, economic level, etc. You name it, we are more comfortable with people who are similar to us and less so around people who aren't.
Exactly why when people immigrated here, they went to the same areas, which is why there are places like China town, little Italy, etc.
This kid literally just said the idea people have like preconceived notions right after calling white people who live in trailers trash.
I'm so tired of this "stop judging people on how they look" argument. And I'm not talking about their skin color but their features and style.
It's a hardwired survival instinct in everyone.
If I see a black guy with a Polo on with khakis and a clean haircut, then I'm going to assume that he is not a threat.
If I see a black guy with dreads, wearing a T-shirt with some sagging basketball shorts, The survival instinct in my brain kicks in and tells me; "hey he might kill me for looking at him wrong, I should avoid him at all cost."
There's a dress code for everywhere, for belief groups, hobby groups, even your local community, that's how you get specific dress style for gangs, so you can immediately know who they are & how to act around them.
The single mother issue is a welfare state issue, the exact same thing happens in Scotland and we're 95% white, if a father is not around they get a house and money, and with more kids its equals more money.
Its borderline incentivised to have no father around.
That guy is not from Detroit. He's probably from one of the affluent suburbs like Troy or Bloomfield hills.
This guy, who admits he, in his own words, lived a privilege life with two parents who each earnt good money, is still tryng to say that there is systemic racism in the US.
He seems like a well-meaning guy, but I DARE him to go to Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, Mississipi, or ANY rural state where the poverty rates are at their highest, and tell the poor white families and citizens making do with the bearest minimum to live on that the US is systematically racist against black people, and that white people are the most privileged in the US.
to be a victim means your innocent and not the bad guy so as long as you're the victim you can do no wrong and when you do it's because you're a victim.
I would say America has a classism problem.
I was training an african american gentleman at a job i worked at years ago. I was making 10,50 an hour. He was making 14.50. Later on I got that same exact position granted I had been there for years and they were paying me 11.50 I Will never blame him for what the company did but What gives. I was more capable at that job than he was and I got paid less. Its NOT The people it goes deeper than that.. I believe.
everybody wants to be a victim.
Not everyone😊
@@nunyalastname-ej8vl enough ppl believe it that keeps them expecting the Dems to solve their problems. and I'm not white racists.
because they arent considered the bad guy then "its not my fault i'm the victim"
I think he more or less sat down to hear him out and give his view. I will respect him for that. It's important to have a productive dialog and this is more just him trying to learn about a different perspective rather than not willing to hear out someone from the other side.
Omg I wish everyone would stop going on about race! Drives me in sane, let’s just just speak to each other as human beings all trying to cope with life, if only we could ban the word race and racist I just know we’d all get on better like we should, and going on about slavery does my head in! Just thank god you don’t have to go through a second of the horrifying life, people (the British) did stop it because they realised it was morally wrong! I think ppl want to keep bringing it up so it can be blamed for all their failures 🤷♀️
I think classism is more of a problem than racism.
I make a very good living, but you wouldn't know it because I don't spend much money on clothes. Had car and other types of sales people ignore me because I look frumpy. 😅
@4:30 I don't know where you're getting these statistics on individual incomes by race. Nobody tracks that accurately- the US Census tracks HOUSEHOLD income, which is an entirely different matter.
There is a direct 1:1 correlation between household incomes, and two-parent home rates. The races with highest rates of two-parent households (Asian, white) also have the highest household incomes. It's simple, obvious logic: if a household has two income earners, it tends to earn more money than a household with only one earner.
I’m not trash thank you very much🙄🙄
You are what people perceive you to be. Think about that!
Sounds like giving up.
Jojo great work brother. I thought you sounded kinda ignorant a year ago but i kept watching and youre killing it now. You dont claim to know everything and youre a truth seaker and i think thats benefiting you greatly. Youre definitely great to watch and listen to and i definitely respect your view. Keep it up man.
He also believes that he himself can't figure out how to get ID.
Just because you aren't handed everything you want in life doesn't mean the system is racist. Just because you didn't get everything in life just because you think you earned it doesn't mean the system is racist. Life is is hard and often unfair. That's life.
Nine of the thirteen original colonies abolished slavery at the signing of the Constitution. Benjamin Franklin held one of the first anti-slavery conventions in Pennsylvania. Never been a racist country but some of the inhabitants in some parts of it were.
Telling a professional victim that their perceived victimhood is fabricated destroys their whole world view. Always amazing to watch
Everyone always says "I haven't seen it as much in my life but..."
Grew up in a very rural, mountainous region in Southwest Virginia, there were 0 African Americans in the public school system, hell there wasnt even any AA families in the area. We did have a private school that wealthy African families from other countries would send their children to get an American education. Statistics speaking, at one point in the last couple decades...my county was the HIGHEST per capita percent of families on Government assistance.
Thank you
Well just to reflect the young man in the video,alot of the inner city ''Trash ''youth often play this card because they look for the easy way , you know,just pay me.because of my color. very sad.
There's also a very subtle thing called "how one carries onself." Confidently and pleasantly vs. sheepishly, aimlessly, angrily, or arrogantly. This is often, but not always, relevant and is somehow connected to how one is dressed.
If anyone says "system racism" ask them what the system is that is racist and how it is racist.
How we select juries. On paper we have a right to an impartial jury, in practice black people are often excluded from jury, causing disparate of outcomes Sometimes deliberately. Curtis flower’s deliberately white washed the jury for a conviction.
Jojo love your videos and your mindset on the world your parents must be really proud of you. And I wish you all the best in this world full of hate
College cost too much!!!
Classism and racism are two separate things .....
Call me naive but I actually don't make assumptions on people's appearances. I form no opinions until i get more information about them. I tend to assume the best of people until proven otherwise. I had an assignment in my English writing class in college to write a paper on the differences and similarities of two different movies based on the first 5 minutes of each film. Told my professor I needed more information and could not complete the project based the current level of information. I requested to research both movies and was flatly denied so I refused to do the assignment even when I was notified that a grade of "0" will be recorded and reflected in my semester final. Told the professor to go suck a lemon and walked out of his office.
The marriage rate is going down across all cultures in the US to our detriment. 😕
As a European, I can say that both of them are toddlers when it comes to discussing ”classism”, but at least the black guy brought it up. The US is famous for mopping up class differences with race quotas when it’s a) much too late for the concerned individual, and b) offensively opposed to meritocracy, and therefore open to rightful criticism. If you had a society that focuses on minimizing class differences (regardless of race) from an earlier stage (such as affordable child care, free health care, etc) for all, you would not need race specific ”DEI practices” later on.
In 2024 the most discriminated against people in the work force are older yt people. 100%
So I have a statement followed by two questions one being a two part question.
America is one of the best maybe even the best country for people of any race, color, sex or disability to live and succeed.
Question one - If America is a safe haven for rich white men/people to live and succeed then why are all the rich white people not migrating to America?
Question two -If America is such an unwelcoming and racist country then why are the majority almost exclusively minorities migrating legally and illegally here? (Part two) why do they not stay in the countries they are from and fit in better?
Funniest time I got called a racist- Sitting with wife, and a group she was in online (maybe 10 people), and I made the joke, I don't care about color I hate everyone! A young black woman says to me, you look like one of those people. I say why? Answer, shaved head (it is just buzzed down), and just look like those type of people. All I said was, my bald head is genetics, not by choice! You can't defend yourself against someone who has already put you in a category. When I told one of my best friends, he couldn't stop laughing! His name is Cleon Brown. Without any other info, guess what color he is? If you guessed black dude, you are correct and that doesn't mean you're a racist either. He always made the same joke about his name. He also said I was crazy for some places I go that white people really shouldn't! I have had strange looks at some clubs, or car shows, where I was easy to spot as the snowflake. Generally, thats what I would get called, too! I build lowriders, donks, hot rods, and muscle cars. If you're into that, we can hang. Color doesn't matter. We're all the same. 😊✌️
duuuuuude i've been saying that forever there is a difference between perception/stereo types and actual racism. keep on keeping on man also, i think you may like one of my songs i talk about all this ;) lol
Interesting, my 5 kids went to college. 3 of them 4 year 2 - 2 year. None of them had money, I paid for nothing. They went on loans, scholarships, and grants. They all worked through college and they all worked their butts off to pay their loans off when they got out. My youngest is 27 and at this point all my children have their loans paid off and are good productive members of society. You can do it on your own. Check your attitude.
Just here to answer a question @4:35-4:45
They dont need to have double the salaries in order to get double the college attendance
You always have fixed expenses.
And the baseline of that, if one wishes to live in 'normal society',
Doesn't change, so getting a house or something else so you have less expenses or just saving is made way easier if you have some more income.
But that is not to say that there aren't at least a million other things that affect those numbers, such as the huge chasm in culture and what is expected of someone, or what the environment presents.
Etc
Also also that isn't accounting for all the people who ended up with degrees that didn't teach them anything of value and just have to take a job as a cashier, while being heavily in debt.
In and out is the best fast food burger joint
In fairness to the kid, I think he accidentally answered the question "where IS Detroit," not "where IN Detroit" because he probably gets that question more often from his peers.
4:22 The economic social disadvantages is the main problem and talking about skin color is distraction to prevent people unifying to force changes.
China, has "classes" of people 3 tiers.
Creeeepy claws
he said the state cause the city is in the state, he thought dude mistook the city for a state and was correcting him
Wow, the title tells the truth not clickbait like usual if this carries on I might sub?
Cool room bro.
I think he is deflecting. Deflecting makes a general conversation difficult, because someone is always asking to clarify details. You never get anywhere trying to find anecdotal scenarios.
I don't agree with anybody on this, other than professors and books in college. My professors didn't just tell me. They showed me, with documents, books, journals, letters etc...
This country was never racist. People can be to a point, but countries can't. And if you try to say the country is represented by the people. That can be true, but if only 4%of the people back then dealt with slaves. I wouldn't call that the people or the country.
I stopped thinking America was racist except for a really brief period after slavery began to end, and even then I wouldn’t call “America” racist since the controversy arose because of widespread push for equality in the first place (equality under the law for SLAVES, not for BLACKS.)
Dr. Sowell suggests that slavery itself wasn’t race based, but that the market at the time happened to feature many slaves from Africa.
It was social tensions after slavery begun to be challenged as an economic institution that the common feature of the group in question and the tendency for people to categorize caused many who were threatened by social change to emphasize “black skin” as the trait of those they didn’t want as full citizens.
If that characterization is true, then America wasn’t really “racist” even when they engaged in slavery or after, but during the transition there were passions of some people in the country that focused on race for a handful of decades.
May e because they never came from Africa but were born in the USA.
19 and a half type shit 😂
This kid screams cry baby victim 😅😅
This kid was at least reasonable. That is rare on these Kirk videos.
JoJo i would love if you and your dad would consider getting with other content creators and planning an event where we can all come together and collectively pray. Our prayers are powerful but I believe if we all pray together our prayers will be amplified against the enemy. Letting God's light shine through us together is how we snuff out the darkness ❤🙏
7:44 To help reduce social economic disadvantages the us would need to stop having for profit health care and education. The schools tax/financing/private donations is bad and exacerbates or maintain the disadvantages.
It is not only impacting black Americans it is impacting Hispanic and white Americans, but it has been a greater problem in the black population because when it started the black population had a significantly higher percentage on welfare and because blacks on welfare tended to be in cities there were more case workers to verify that they were single moms whereas white women on welfare tended to be in rural areas where the welfare agencies had less case workers and larger areas to cover and were therefore less able to verify their status.
Jojo, are you shooting for the TH-camr who records in the emptiest room award?
7:40 If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, its a duck. If it looks like a thug, walks like a thug, talks like a thug, it cant be called a thug...because thats just racist talk.
Good commentary .... solid points keep it up man
Jesse Lee Peterson would like to talk to this Amazin young man
I don't like to complain. I feel I'm blessed just to be American and to have both parents and an extended family. But in terms of finances only? I grew up below the poverty line and sometimes we didn't know where we would get food for our next meal, let alone rent for the month. I still grew up better than my parents, who grew up better than their parents. We're white.
No he did not relate classicism to racism !!!!
The standard of university entry have been substantially lowered for black people here in South Africa to get more black people in. But what that is doing is causing way more drop outs after the first year because the people being allowed in cannot keep up. What this has also done is drive white youngsters to work alot harder to ensure they can get into university! Thus when entering the job market they are hired easier just due to the marks. They also go into more advanced studies because of this. So these quotas really aren't helping black people. Also what is happening white people are leaving the country to others to get into university to get their education. They then find jobs in those countries and never return to boost our economy. Fighting racism with more racism will never work. We need to stop looking at race. No one cares about it. As a business owner the only colour I see is green! The person who can make the business the most money is the one that gets the job. And they are also rewarded accordingly!
garbageville 😅
Personally, I know more Black people that went to college than I’ve ever met white people having the opportunity to make it into college, so there’s that. Gotta love that DEI
Kids smart
10:27 Dropping marriage rates is NOT only happening amongst 'black' people. While the 'black' marriage rate has fallen from 60% to 30% since 1960, the 'white' marriage rate has dropped from 74% to 57%.
Unfortunately, marriage is becoming out of date among whites and blacks. Also, the birthrate is suffering greatly. We will reap the consequences.
My only assumption as to why someone can think the US is systemically racist and also the best country for all races is that all other countries are worse.
I think the dude handled it pretty well considering he was just put on the spot and had zero time to prepare anything. It's also not his job to debate these stuff and he has nowhere near the experience with it as Crowder does. I may not agree with him on everything but he seems like a smart guy.
I love the change my mind talks… But I hate the multiple tangents that Steven tends to go down sometimes and detracts from the main points. Feels like minutes at a time.
Do black people believe they have black souls?
Are you having some MIC/cable issues? I've noticed in most of the latest videos some noise when you are speaking in full screen. It's not that bad but it is noticeable, and I don't have a very good hearing. I noticed it in the left channel mostly.
If you listen to this guy closely, he dances around what follows this sentence. It occurred to me that true white privilege is the ability to be anything I want, pursue any career I choose, live any lifestyle I choose all without having my racial identity questioned or challenged for it.
Its because of the hoochie mamas! Lol
It's not just African Americans that it is happening to. If we look at the rate of growth from the 1960s to today whites have actually grown at a faster rate than blacks (though it is close to the same)