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A friend of mine invited me to his church. I was the only white person there. After the service they took me down to the basement and fed me. He told me they thought I was homeless, lol. Best Church experience I've ever had.
Zach's for real. He works his butt off for charity, the biggest is buying gifts from Santa to kids in the hospital fighting cancer. He is a southern Mississippi boy and has no time for racists.
"any white guy is super safe around a bunch of black people" I would probably add, as long as you're invited, but otherwise very true. I went to a gathering, all black except me. It was just hanging out, not a BBQ or official like gathering, and no one knew I was coming. I think my friend that brought me had a little fun at my expense, he said "hey I'll be there in a minute just go on in." So I walk in and the whole room just looked at me, nobody said a word. It was, unsettling. Then Williams walks in, claps me on the back with a big grin on his face and says "it's cool, he's with me." And that quick, I was just another friend, as near as I could tell I wasn't treated any different than anyone else there. I'm ashamed to admit, the same could not be said about the one time I brought him to hang out with a group of my "friends." I was eighteen (military) and that was my first time experiencing racism first hand. On the up side, I learned that was a group I didn't want anything to do with.
Yeah, my neighbors are all from Chile and I was the only person who didn't speak Spanish at a party...but I could pick up on words and phrases and they were definitely like "who the fuck is this gringo?" but they were all very nice. I was just an outsider.
As a Yankee invited to my first Black cookout in the South I was absolutely shocked, shocked I tell you. This is some damn fine food, I need the recipe! Everyone is so friendly!
And it's like that almost all through the south, we have our radicals sure, but for the most part, we just beer drinking, bbq eating, happy go lucky individuals
My ex is white and for 10 years we would go to his family's house for Christmas dinner. One year we went to my family's house for Christmas and he looked at me while eating and said, "You gave up this food to go to my family's house for Christmas dinner? This is the best food I have ever eaten." From then on, even after we broke up, we went to my family's house for Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter dinner. Eventually I would get a call from his parents asking for us to bring them back a plate. I have to say that my family can throw down, everything is from scratch and the best part is that it is made with love. Everyone brings a dish that they are known for cooking. Best times and most memorial.
I’m sorry… your ex? That seems like he learned how much of a blessing your family was, and his family eventually did too. Black people cook outs are the the best, hopefully it was nothing serious, but I genuinely don’t get why y’all split if he still went to your family’s house for such special days
As a white woman from the north who married into a southern black family I can tell you I surely learned right off the bat that I was avoiding any and all games and I was leaving all the cooking up to my MIL. I'm a good baker so that always gives me the pass 🤣 I do tend to be the butt of all the jokes but it's always out of love so Ive learned to just laugh along. But I remember that first few times getting together with my husbands extended family walking into a cookout thinking the same as this guy "I'm not here to piss off a single person" lol (thankfully we have been together 9 years, married for 7 at this point so I don't feel that way anymore haha)
I am a Black female, for the most part is that we don't want everybody to be in the food. Basically, it's a clean thing lol. It really depends, it was never because people would make so many plates. Now, when people are leaving, they can take something with them. Mainly, we fix a lot of food. My father aways say it's best to have too much than not enough. Yes, we play card games or board games.
I never knew that there was a difference. In most white household at a barbecue you just line up and get what you want. Sometimes the line is filing around three tables if it’s a big fam jam. Parents serve little kids of course because you don’t want grubby hands touching the food. Also a lot of times at our big fam jams everyone brings something like a salad or a dessert. Oh and in Canada we grill just about everything including the veggies and corn. Sometimes pizza but I have a wood burning pizza oven. Then after the barbecue when it gets dark then we have the fire pit with marshmallows and weenies. In my family we never did games. My family mostly played music by ear and they’d all grab their instruments. I hated the bluegrass music as a teen the memory makes me smile.
I remember a few years back my best friend who's black invited me to his family's thanksgiving bc my family wasn't having a get together that year and I was really close w him, his siblings and his mother, and everyone else there was black and I was the lone white guy just like in his story, nothing crazy happened but it was a great time and the food was some of the best thanksgiving food I've ever had
I'm a bit late but I've seen this before, and I'm a white man from the South with black friends and I completely relate to this on a spiritual level. The only good thing about me is that I'm a skinny white guy with a bottomless pit of a stomach so I wind up with extra food without asking because grandparents and aunties just keep going "Are you eating enough?"
They keep trying to put some meat on your bones. 🤭😉 Some cultures believe that a little extra fat = wealth. It's a sign that the person has enough money to eat
@@MrsNicolas oh I'm used to people just offering me food, I'm cursed with an unreasonably high metabolism but I also love food so they were happy to have a person who just wanted to try everything.
Love this! I’m a old southern white grandma and lived here all my life. It does not matter white cookouts or black cookouts … it’s just friends and family … every race and every religion… enjoying one another all of my 62 years. Not one negative word but plenty of southern hospitality!
Zach Rushing, is a perfect example of how people in the south really are, not how we are portrayed in the media. He is from my home state of Mississippi. He doesn't do stand up this is honestly just him, he is a good ole southern boy that's it. He has some great videos on youtube and tiktok. You should check them out. Great reaction btw.
Regardless of the stand-up comedy, there’s a great message here that I wish everyone would take to heart. People are generally good when they don’t have crooks and politicians deceiving them and taking advantage of them to have control over them. Turning people against each other using the victim versus oppressor narrative is one of the oldest tricks in the book to weaken people and control them easier
Me being a skinny white kid in Carson at my Samoan friends cookout. They thought I wasn't fed at home and I learned that like every Samoan either knows each other or are related lol. This was the 80s
@@justanotherguywithoutamust9149 agreed dude, I was literally stumbling home drunk, our Samoan neighbours at the end of the street watching the rugby union saw i had a six pack and just wanted me to come drink, at 1am 😆 holy shit the level of food that was still out 🤤
@@tonpalacios2964 I feel that it's true..a little background I played college football at butte then USF and we had islanders of course on both teams but especially Butte so I developed a deep friendship with the Uces and I can say without a doubt the most talented and gifted football players are also islanders...th strength,size and speed ratio is incredible
I'm a white dude from the Boston area. One of my mom's coworkers had invited us to a cookout they were having. (Now for context I was just a kid so may be different now that I'm an adult) and when we got there I swear they greeted us and treated us like family. Ate to my heart's content and had an overall great time. Still look back at that day with joy and happiness. That co worker of my mom would go on to become an uncle to me and always made sure to check up on me. I miss him everyday.
U r SO right. Food is the one thing we all have in common. If we could all just sit down with each other and eat it would probably heal a lot of things. I'm handicap and in a wheelchair. One day at the beach there was a huge mexican family set up next to me. They were making and bringing SO much food and it smelled amazing!!!. I was sitting on my blanket reading a book and all of the sudden I looked up and this little old mexican lady was standing there with a HUGE plate of food and she said, "Here you go, baby. You need to eat." Best mexican food I've ever had!!!!
It's just a culture thing. I lived in Detroit area ran a kitchen at Ford stamping plant and I'd cook for thousands of plant workers majority being black. Whether it was my black-eyed peas, smothered pork chops, or peach cobbler(with extra crust on demand) I was just another person who knew how to fix food. The potato salad thing is real though it took people two years to even try mine but I had great teachers. Food is love y'all
He explained in another interview that they set him up with an awesome hand while he was passed out. Hysterical storyteller. Do Momma T’s fish fry if ya haven’t!
I heard that Zach’s friend, his buddy who invited him there, later told Zach that the guys at the table fixed his spades hand (while he was in his food coma) so that he would have the best hand ever and they could mess with him 😂😂
He's so hilarious and your commentary is spot on. Can't explain it, but this white girl has always felt more at home with folks in the black community and made better friends faster with individuals of a more pigmented skin tone than I do in white circles, even though I make friends fast there. I love the culture, the family focus, the sometimes loud and proud personalities. So welcoming and friendly! No aires. Thank you for doing this reaction video! Love it! New subscriber here !
My first black cookout was about 20 years ago. I went with a guy I was dating who was on the DL, so I had added pressure of acting like we were just friends on top of navigating the social norms of the event. 😂 I was so overwhelmed with food I thought I was going to explode at one point. They played dominos, spades and were target practicing. I managed to avoid all activities by sticking to the dance area. 😅 I’ve been to maybe 8 black cookouts since and all have been equally fun and less stressful than that first one.
@@negranomicon Yeah, a lot of times the family already knows, so when they bring their "friend", especially to several family occasions, they usually already know what's up lol...
The media and the extremists want you to think that we all hate each other and that racism is the norm. It's not. We're so much close to being the same that it's crazy. We need to stand up and tell the people trying to start the drama that we've had enough. Let's come together and just be people.
There's profit in allowing us to hate one another while the people that are pitting us against each other are getting away with all types of crimes. There's no place for hatred.
I'm a Brit and we were on holiday in the US visiting friends in Breaux Bridge Louisiana ,and were invited to a cook out and my god i had the best day and food i ever had in my life.My friends came to the UK (up north) and we treated them to a Brit bbq of burned sausages and burgers in the rain lol ,the look on their faces was priceless so we took them for fish and chips so they were happy.
When I was maybe 14, back in the early 90s, my best friend was black and I was invited to his birthday party which was at his grandmother's house in a rougher part of Philadelphia than my neighborhood. I had no idea what to expect but I went. It was a backyard barbecue and it was just his family members but they were the nicest people. I had a really good time.
@@YouAREyoubeYou my best friend didn't come to my house until I was like 16, my parents weren't the type to have people over. It's not as weird as you're making it
@@YouAREyoubeYou My daughter is 14 and I just allowed her to visit her best friend or any friend house two months ago. She is not allowed to spend the night but she has attended two parties with the family. It's called protecting your children! Her "best friend" may be a bad influence but she isn't going to be able to see it like adults with experience does, so until I trust that friends intentions and trust that family with my child, she won't be going!
@@YouAREyoubeYou I'd been to his house a number of times, I liked his mom a lot, she was really nice. But he lived in my neighborhood, which was a little more upper class from where the party was held.
I'm from MS same as Zach. That's his natural accent. He has a FB page also. He is hilarious in his story tellings. He has no tolerance racism. He is a good hearted person.
I’m Creole and went to South Carolina with my husband to a family cookout. The only foods l developed a life long love for was the barbecue pigs feet and creamed spinach one of his uncles made. It was also my sorts time eating sweet potato pie. To this day, whenever we can l don’t mind going to SC. I fix him up a pot of seafood gumbo and potato salad and he makes me those pig feet and spinach ❤❤❤
Went to a Juneteenth/birthday party for one of my friend's "mama-Ts" in Midland TX and it was the same thing. Scared shitless but the nicest damn people and amazing food, and I couldn't fix my plate. Being able to be a part of other peoples cultures is one of the greatest things any of us can do.
"you ain't gotta hit me in the face with a wet mop" means that something is glaringly obvious and that they don't have to drag you and coerce you to see the clear truth of a situation
Yeah, except the derivation is a little more disturbing and (unsurprisingly) racist. Police used to elicit confessions by beating prisoners with broad, comparatively soft objects like phone books and wet mops- inflicting pain with fewer telltale marks than with billy clubs or rubber hoses. Not in any way saying Zach’s being racist here, but it’s good to remember where these expressions come from.
I'm a new subscriber this was hilarious. I'm 56 a widow and my very best friend is a amazing and funny, spiritual black woman. We laugh so much at each other all the time. Sadly I think the media doesn't ever show that we care deeply for all races and to be able to laugh about things makes us all better people. With that being said. I have to make collard greens for Thanksgiving and she said I can't buy the canned kind. She stress me out lol. I don't want to be in charge of that to bring holy Jesus why can't I bring pies lol.
Man if many of our youth of today & racist would grasp this reality that WE are all but one people no matter the color or status we'd live a much happier life!!💯 This was an awesome story to share, hope it helped to shine a light that sooo many have tried to dim for far too long!!🙏🏾💚💛💙💜
Love this. I believe that first-hand exposure to different cultures and people is key to breaking the barriers. At the end of the day we are all human. We all strive for acceptance, love, approval...sense of belonging. These things make us thrive...
Zach and I are a lot alike ,I'd say he's a very average southern white guy like myself. As southern white men we get a bad wrap by the American media ,Zach is under constant assault by the media for sharing his experiences. Thank you for reacting, I absolutely love you're channel.
I'm just trying to figure out why all this fake ass brotherly love is popping up now when Southern Conservatives Ass when Trump was acting like Black Lives didn't matter I'm a Georgian born and raised plus I'm a Veteran and my Father is as well what's fake is how everybody's ready to kill one election and now acting all buddy buddy.
This is authentically funny and absolutely beautiful!! Eat, love and enjoy one another! Cookouts are the best!!! He was hilarious and I hope he has continued to indulge!! 👑🤘🏾🤣🤣
Like your reactions Polo! FYI -- the spades hand was a set up by the friend who invited him to the bbq. Totally out to shake him up! Zach is a remarkable cancer survivor and philanthropist. And he is a big guy, as he says. He's like me: 6' 5" tall with size 15 feet! He owns a Fish & Game shop and has a large connection of people who follow his example. Pretty good crew to be a part of from the sound of it. Total respect. Take care Polo!
I just love this guy narration of his cookout experience. He had to have a good spirit in order to be invited to the cookout and meet the fam. To top it off, the dude is super hilarious. I see why he went viral. Just a down-to-earth, down-home boy (not to be confused with a good-ol-boy). The content creator commentary was hilarious too. He gets a like and sub.
The most vicious Spades game that I was ever part of involved an 87 year old British lady who scared the crap out of me. I was certain that she would poison your tea if given the opportunity, especially since both of her husbands died of undetermined causes. Years ago, I went with a friend to a Sons of Italy BBQ, and after about 90 minutes of listening to old Italian men talk about me, assuming that I'm Irish (I have red hair), I went off, cussing them in rapid-fire Sicilian. I married a man with an English last name, but my dad was Sicilian.
A stereotype is a type of loose truth. Not only am I white, but I'm from England and I ended up at a black BBQ in Cincinatti. The older people were awesome, the younger guys were obviously not as thrilled and a gorgeous girl started feeding me. This is where I learned that black girls don't flirt like white girls, they are just "so who's this handsome man?" as they grab your hand and flash a smile. I loved it. I think xenophobia is natural, and it gets confused with racism. We are allowed to be cautious of different scenarios as its unfamiliar. But that's what makes it so exciting isn't it? We go outside our culture, our comfort zone and we experience things we wouldn't normally. That's the spice of life. Awesome day.
zach is amazing he is a pure country boy who owns bucks bass and birds company...he does amazing fund raisers and contributes to his community...most of his stories are true life experiances and he tells them as they happen which always turns out to be funny....great human being in every way
I'm white and we played Spades as a family almost every day when I was a kid. My dad used to get so mad when my brother (his partner) messed up! He would throw his cards on the table and walk out, ending the game! My mom and I would laugh so hard because we knew we were gonna win that hand!
OMG!! Thank you so much for explaining why they fix your plate for you!!!! I’m a white girl from the south, but one whole side of my family is black and we have these huge cookouts for family reunions. I thought it was just to streamline things, but it makes sooooo much more sense that it is to stop greedy ass people (MY DAD) from taking more their fair share!! I’m gunna start doing that for thanksgiving and Christmas too!! My poor dad would be DEVASTATED! 🤣
Lol he's hilarious 😂 I love any gathering with my black family and friends there is always so much energy and community ❤️ church, even funerals is the most uplifting experience I've ever had. ❤️
I appreciate your reaction. Sharing food with anyone is special, no matter what day of the week, no matter the day of the year.. Sitting, sharing some food and talking (not gossip) is so important. Family , friends, loved ones are forever yours, if no longer in you life, but in your hearts and that of your children's, grandchildren and generations to come.
I'm mostly white and my first black bbq...similar. I brought potato salad (tbf, I'm a chef. Everybody's mother told me I done good.) Then we played Spades for loot. I knew how to play...but I kept being dealt a library. As everyone started hating me more and more, I tried to lose...but the Lord kept tossing me queens and aces. Had $400 sitting before me when I taught everybody how to play Black Jack, Irish style (so it's more like poker...the dealers a player too.) Damn me to Heck...I just kept getting 20's and 21's. I finally folded on a Q+A hand and a fella next to grabbed my cards (not cool) and said WTF! And I apologized, saying y'all hate me cause of the cards. Then we threw bones until I lost most of what I won...except I said I'm out with $50 after I only ever put in $20 to start and "I ain't leaving empty after I took y'all to school." And everybody laughed, and all was cool. One of the best days I remember. It was a *good* day.
I went to visit my cousin at college in Miami from Jersey. He had a black dad, but it never made any difference to us that we were different colors. He took me to a black strip club in Miami, and suddenly I realized how he felt in situations where he was the only black guy. 700 black folks and me, a 6'4" white dude walking through the crowd in EVERYONE's view... on display, but we all had FUN!
I'm a 52 year old white man. I was born in West Philly and lived there through the 70s. I then moved into north Philly in the early 80s. I have been to several black cookouts. I can tell you this for a fact. They absolutely go out of their way to make you feel comfortable and safe. I think the matriarch of the family tells them " now when this white boy gets here don't none of you be scaring him or giving him the evil eye. Show him how we do" i never had anything but a great time. Not to mention i was too stupid to ever learn when i was in a bad situation. Thank God it wasn't like that at those cookouts. Man I miss those days.
I just moved to North Philly this Summer from NYC and there are white, black and Hispanic people on my block. Nobody tells black people to be nice to a white guest at a cook out. If you were invited to the cookout someone claimed you as family so you were safe. 😂 On my block we all speak to each other and will look out for each other because this is all we have. I’ll see them all at next year’s block party/cook out.
Zach is a great guy... a heart of gold. Three time cancer survivor. And is funny as hell to boot. You can tell his stories come from personal experience.
I’m a white guy, Swedish GreenCard immigrant to the US. I’m the whitest. I have no melanin, and in the winter time, I got that healthy greenish hue in my skin. I’m taller than most people here though. I have no black friends in the US, but this video makes me wish I did. POLO you’re amazing. Keep up the great work.
Reminds me of my first thanksgiving dinner in Canada. My gal Sandy picked me up along with her bf and drove up north Ontario to the middle of nowhere and I was the only guy of (east) Indian origin at the table. I asked her what thanks giving was all about. She said this out loud for everyone present to hear " I dont know what's it's supposed to be about, Jay. But i know we need at least one Indian guy at the table!". Every one laughed so hard but i still had no clue why they were laughing!! Lol. I hope they still make friends like her now too !! 😘
I'm from south Louisiana and I did a Marine deployment on a navy ship. Every night around 1 pm I'd go down to the mess deck and play spades or dominoes with the black guys. That shit was wild. My buddy and I used to make people so mad, if they underbid we'd feed em sandbags till they lost their shit. Good times man
Polo, great reaction and insight on this video. It's a huge part of why I became an instant fan, that and your laid back personality where you don't jump to any serious conclusions but wait to get as much info as possible. What I'm not sure you caught , at least during the video, is the explanation that was more so unsaid. That you went to a white cookout and found that it was a great time and those folks were some of the nicest people. I think we all have been "brainwashed", indoctrinated, whatever the word or reason may be, to fear what we don't understand or what's different from us. And that's one of the truest and most vile crimes against humanity and society. Sure there's always going to be evil people and evil in general, but as I write this I will stake all that I have that if we were able to finally get ourselves out from under the hate and division those that attempt to control us push, there would be less evil people since evil is born of distrust and hate. Sorry to be so serious on such a light topic and a really funny video but I struggle with the division. I traveled the country as a corporate trainer for installers. Me! A tenth grade dropout! Experience got me there. I'm just a southern born, relocated to the north in a backwater town and i consider myself a regular guy but I have a hunger for knowledge and love to sit and hear people's stories and if you have the time, people will tell it. It's those people of other races, other cultures, from other times and their differences and similarities that has shown me that we are indeed all people, not defined by our differences but by our similarities. I grew up in an area where I'd never even seen a black person other than on tv until 8th grade. And the family was mixed, but Mike, who became a good friend and we still talk to this day, showed how out of place he felt for a while by acting the part of the stereotypical black person falling into line in a white community. When he finally realized that the people close to him were more often curious than distrustful, he opened up and it showed. Many years later, while training an installer at a black customer's home, the elderly woman's daughter spent some time talking to me. About my age she shared the same story, that she had never seen a white person until high school. She shared that she grew up in a community where school, the market, doctor, dentist, library etc, were all within walking distance so all she saw for so long were the people in that community. So similar to my life and I thought, and not for the first but maybe the hundreth time, how do people get this idea that we are so completely different?
I welded in a fuel tank factory with Men of all races. Every evening after work there was at least two tailgate parties going on in the parking lot all summer long. I miss working now that I'm retired, but I miss that great food and their friendships the most.
I love country slang. "I was busier than a one-legged bobcat trying to bury a turd in a frozen pond," is one of my favorites, along with "well who woulda known who won the pony."
I remember waking up from a thanksgiving coma at my friends house to a game of Spades and Dominoes. Never played before. They tried to teach me but I was still struggling to breathe from all the food. 😂
Thank you for the video. I’ve taught my kids to respect and learn about other cultures. It could be any race. We all have something to share. Blessings to all your families.
Cookouts are interesting because they so clearly show culture. I've been to white, black, latino, and native american cookouts. They're different but the same.
This is my first video from you on my recommended. I appreciate the pausing when you are speaking, it is very helpful since my hearing is not good. Loved the video! I'm not American so both sides were very interesting.
One of the greatest kindnesses you can do, is to open your home, invite someone in to your family, and feed them a good meal, I've never had the chance to go to a cookout, I live In the UK, we have small BBQ's, but if I EVER get the chance, I'm gonna be there.
First time checking out your channel-I subscribed. I’ve seen the black cookout on other channels. However, I loved your commentary. You impressed me with your humanity. Thanks
This guy is sooooo hilarious. I thought he was a comedian also and he was doing a routine. But, what he is saying really happens at black cookouts that this has to be a real experience for him. I can literally listen to him tell stories all day.🤣😂
I'm a white guy who was invited to dinner in a Vietnamese community and had the same experience. I was the only white person there but they were super nice and the food was delicious. However while they spoke to me in English I couldn't understand a word of most of the conversations around me.
Zachs videos are the best! You need to listen to more- he’s funny as hell! He’s also a cancer survivor and does a lot of charity causes! He’s got a huge heart!
Funny and true! Black cookouts have the best food! Every kind of meat is barbecued and amazing! I didn’t play cards or dice and we did have buffet style get your own food. Super nice folks . Good reaction and explanation on some of the little things. Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving!
I love your reactions always genuine and informative. Zach is not a comedian just a really funny guy. You both give me hope for the future of our country. We need more open-minded down to earth folks like you in the world. You should check out Momma T's fish fry. It's a very funny follow up to this video.
🥩 sweats omgoodness never heard of this but He had me screaming over here over here and his thick Southern Accent....l was no good with laughing 😂 at what he said some cultures aren't dangerous but step the wrong and it can go in a different direction....It's was Great that he enjoyed himself...We are made like that!!! Bring no fear we will treat you like family!!!!
Yeah Meat 🥩 sweats had me holding my sides and hollering at the same time with laughter!!! Never heard this before!!! He ate his full huh???? 😂 😂 😂 😂 Have catch my breath.
I've loved Zach for years. Funny as hell and his story telling is priceless. As far as I know he was considering about a year go of going on a tour, see how it goes, but I don't know unless very recently. No problem, just be you.
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So nice to hear your reaction and comments. I found that more educational. But Dam a white cook out with the confederate flag!
@@drewcama2488 I was selling electronics door to door no cookout
A friend of mine invited me to his church. I was the only white person there. After the service they took me down to the basement and fed me. He told me they thought I was homeless, lol. Best Church experience I've ever had.
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Zach's for real. He works his butt off for charity, the biggest is buying gifts from Santa to kids in the hospital fighting cancer. He is a southern Mississippi boy and has no time for racists.
I like him. He seems pretty fun
I served in the army with guys like that. Hard working guys from the deep south that keep you laughing when the work is done.
Most of us don't. Miss out on too much good food.
Your right. We went to school together. He has really come a long way.
What is his Ig and Facebook I wanna follow him
"any white guy is super safe around a bunch of black people"
I would probably add, as long as you're invited, but otherwise very true. I went to a gathering, all black except me. It was just hanging out, not a BBQ or official like gathering, and no one knew I was coming. I think my friend that brought me had a little fun at my expense, he said "hey I'll be there in a minute just go on in." So I walk in and the whole room just looked at me, nobody said a word. It was, unsettling. Then Williams walks in, claps me on the back with a big grin on his face and says "it's cool, he's with me." And that quick, I was just another friend, as near as I could tell I wasn't treated any different than anyone else there.
I'm ashamed to admit, the same could not be said about the one time I brought him to hang out with a group of my "friends." I was eighteen (military) and that was my first time experiencing racism first hand. On the up side, I learned that was a group I didn't want anything to do with.
sadly not the same the other way around
White guy married to a black woman. I totally agree with you. Seen it way too many times. White overwhelmingly have the attitude.
@@clarkkent52 sad truth. 😢
Yeah, my neighbors are all from Chile and I was the only person who didn't speak Spanish at a party...but I could pick up on words and phrases and they were definitely like "who the fuck is this gringo?" but they were all very nice. I was just an outsider.
It's just ignorance.
This is what life should be about. Sharing each others culture with honour and respect. I LOVE IT 👊👍🙏😁
What culture do white people have?
Black folks have always been willing. You just gotta reach out and ask💗
Looks like just another Saturday in Mississippi.
RESPECT.
@@MIZZdarkerPerspective yeah right🙄
I’m white and I’ve been to many black, Hispanic and Asian cookouts. Don’t limit yourself. Variety is the spice of life!
Amen to that
“Variety is the spice of life!,” I love your quote!
I think you're just that one stranger that shows up at random. 😂
Zach is a three time cancer survivor. He is a born fighter and a born philanthropist. Man loves his Charity work. And he is funny as fuck.
Three times damm that is both unlucky and lucky
Dam man fuck cancer!
What an amazing man. 3 god damn times. Respect.
@@jacobharris954 that’s just God’s grace and love ❤wasn’t his time and God still has plans for this man.
@@Nubia111 yup god's grace to give a man cancer three times lmaoo
As a Yankee invited to my first Black cookout in the South I was absolutely shocked, shocked I tell you. This is some damn fine food, I need the recipe! Everyone is so friendly!
Love to hear about great experience. God bless you
And it's like that almost all through the south, we have our radicals sure, but for the most part, we just beer drinking, bbq eating, happy go lucky individuals
I love it
My ex is white and for 10 years we would go to his family's house for Christmas dinner. One year we went to my family's house for Christmas and he looked at me while eating and said, "You gave up this food to go to my family's house for Christmas dinner? This is the best food I have ever eaten." From then on, even after we broke up, we went to my family's house for Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter dinner. Eventually I would get a call from his parents asking for us to bring them back a plate. I have to say that my family can throw down, everything is from scratch and the best part is that it is made with love. Everyone brings a dish that they are known for cooking. Best times and most memorial.
Awaww 😊
I’m sorry… your ex? That seems like he learned how much of a blessing your family was, and his family eventually did too. Black people cook outs are the the best, hopefully it was nothing serious, but I genuinely don’t get why y’all split if he still went to your family’s house for such special days
@@camerontrim8867 Sometimes things just don't work out, but not in the way that gets super heated.
As a white woman from the north who married into a southern black family I can tell you I surely learned right off the bat that I was avoiding any and all games and I was leaving all the cooking up to my MIL. I'm a good baker so that always gives me the pass 🤣 I do tend to be the butt of all the jokes but it's always out of love so Ive learned to just laugh along. But I remember that first few times getting together with my husbands extended family walking into a cookout thinking the same as this guy "I'm not here to piss off a single person" lol (thankfully we have been together 9 years, married for 7 at this point so I don't feel that way anymore haha)
You have to crack jokes back on them don’t let them get away with it.😂
Right they waiting on it
They are definitely waiting on you to come back but make it good 😂😂
@@tydaley6218 this part lol can NOT let them crack jokes and not serve me back lol
Gurl, you gotta have a come back. We could teach you💗🤎 hugz
I am a Black female, for the most part is that we don't want everybody to be in the food. Basically, it's a clean thing lol. It really depends, it was never because people would make so many plates. Now, when people are leaving, they can take something with them. Mainly, we fix a lot of food. My father aways say it's best to have too much than not enough. Yes, we play card games or board games.
That’s the truth about fixing plates. It’s a sanitary thing.
I never knew that there was a difference. In most white household at a barbecue you just line up and get what you want. Sometimes the line is filing around three tables if it’s a big fam jam. Parents serve little kids of course because you don’t want grubby hands touching the food. Also a lot of times at our big fam jams everyone brings something like a salad or a dessert. Oh and in Canada we grill just about everything including the veggies and corn. Sometimes pizza but I have a wood burning pizza oven. Then after the barbecue when it gets dark then we have the fire pit with marshmallows and weenies. In my family we never did games. My family mostly played music by ear and they’d all grab their instruments. I hated the bluegrass music as a teen the memory makes me smile.
I remember a few years back my best friend who's black invited me to his family's thanksgiving bc my family wasn't having a get together that year and I was really close w him, his siblings and his mother, and everyone else there was black and I was the lone white guy just like in his story, nothing crazy happened but it was a great time and the food was some of the best thanksgiving food I've ever had
I'm a bit late but I've seen this before, and I'm a white man from the South with black friends and I completely relate to this on a spiritual level. The only good thing about me is that I'm a skinny white guy with a bottomless pit of a stomach so I wind up with extra food without asking because grandparents and aunties just keep going "Are you eating enough?"
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Hilarious🤣
They keep trying to put some meat on your bones. 🤭😉 Some cultures believe that a little extra fat = wealth. It's a sign that the person has enough money to eat
@@MrsNicolas oh I'm used to people just offering me food, I'm cursed with an unreasonably high metabolism but I also love food so they were happy to have a person who just wanted to try everything.
@@vincentstuart9562 Well it can be a blessing. One day they'll get the hint. Lol.
Love this video and your reaction! As a white man with lots of black friends, it's great to see others breaking stereotypes as well
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It’s all ! I’m glad he enjoyed his self 😅❤
Black friends like Candice Owens 🤭🤭
Love this! I’m a old southern white grandma and lived here all my life. It does not matter white cookouts or black cookouts … it’s just friends and family … every race and every religion… enjoying one another all of my 62 years. Not one negative word but plenty of southern hospitality!
“I’m white, not stupid!” I am dead ☠️☠️💀💀🪦🪦Boy is funny as hell!
Zach Rushing, is a perfect example of how people in the south really are, not how we are portrayed in the media. He is from my home state of Mississippi. He doesn't do stand up this is honestly just him, he is a good ole southern boy that's it. He has some great videos on youtube and tiktok. You should check them out. Great reaction btw.
he does do stand up check out his page zach rushing on yt. also a lot of charity work.
he does do standup, recently had a video about y he had to cancel tour dates.
Im a mississippi girl
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Regardless of the stand-up comedy, there’s a great message here that I wish everyone would take to heart. People are generally good when they don’t have crooks and politicians deceiving them and taking advantage of them to have control over them. Turning people against each other using the victim versus oppressor narrative is one of the oldest tricks in the book to weaken people and control them easier
As a Samoan I can relate to this story so much! Our cookouts are so similar, especially if a random guest is there. Love it.
Me being a skinny white kid in Carson at my Samoan friends cookout. They thought I wasn't fed at home and I learned that like every Samoan either knows each other or are related lol. This was the 80s
I've been to plenty of samoan and Tongan cookouts ..west coast white boy here...and somoan people are such great people.
I think that's just how us pacific islanders are. It's all love, food, alcohol and good vibes brotha
@@justanotherguywithoutamust9149 agreed dude, I was literally stumbling home drunk, our Samoan neighbours at the end of the street watching the rugby union saw i had a six pack and just wanted me to come drink, at 1am 😆 holy shit the level of food that was still out 🤤
@@tonpalacios2964 I feel that it's true..a little background I played college football at butte then USF and we had islanders of course on both teams but especially Butte so I developed a deep friendship with the Uces and I can say without a doubt the most talented and gifted football players are also islanders...th strength,size and speed ratio is incredible
I'm a white dude from the Boston area. One of my mom's coworkers had invited us to a cookout they were having. (Now for context I was just a kid so may be different now that I'm an adult) and when we got there I swear they greeted us and treated us like family. Ate to my heart's content and had an overall great time. Still look back at that day with joy and happiness. That co worker of my mom would go on to become an uncle to me and always made sure to check up on me. I miss him everyday.
U r SO right. Food is the one thing we all have in common. If we could all just sit down with each other and eat it would probably heal a lot of things. I'm handicap and in a wheelchair. One day at the beach there was a huge mexican family set up next to me. They were making and bringing SO much food and it smelled amazing!!!. I was sitting on my blanket reading a book and all of the sudden I looked up and this little old mexican lady was standing there with a HUGE plate of food and she said, "Here you go, baby. You need to eat." Best mexican food I've ever had!!!!
It's just a culture thing. I lived in Detroit area ran a kitchen at Ford stamping plant and I'd cook for thousands of plant workers majority being black. Whether it was my black-eyed peas, smothered pork chops, or peach cobbler(with extra crust on demand) I was just another person who knew how to fix food. The potato salad thing is real though it took people two years to even try mine but I had great teachers. Food is love y'all
Most ppl don’t get what a culture blend Detroit is. Biggest middle eastern population in this country. I grew up Flint/Detroit
He explained in another interview that they set him up with an awesome hand while he was passed out. Hysterical storyteller. Do Momma T’s fish fry if ya haven’t!
though I heard that somewhere.
Hahaha 😆... Much love. RLTW
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I heard that Zach’s friend, his buddy who invited him there, later told Zach that the guys at the table fixed his spades hand (while he was in his food coma) so that he would have the best hand ever and they could mess with him 😂😂
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Loved this reaction! The world needs more BBQs that get us out of our comfort zones and just allows us to get to know one another better.
He's so hilarious and your commentary is spot on. Can't explain it, but this white girl has always felt more at home with folks in the black community and made better friends faster with individuals of a more pigmented skin tone than I do in white circles, even though I make friends fast there. I love the culture, the family focus, the sometimes loud and proud personalities. So welcoming and friendly! No aires. Thank you for doing this reaction video! Love it! New subscriber here !
Zack is an amazing dude! He's beaten cancer 3 or 4 times and still finds the humor in everything. You gotta watch Momma T's fish fry.
Thanks
My first black cookout was about 20 years ago. I went with a guy I was dating who was on the DL, so I had added pressure of acting like we were just friends on top of navigating the social norms of the event. 😂 I was so overwhelmed with food I thought I was going to explode at one point. They played dominos, spades and were target practicing. I managed to avoid all activities by sticking to the dance area. 😅 I’ve been to maybe 8 black cookouts since and all have been equally fun and less stressful than that first one.
Y'all was not on the dl, baby... EVERYBODY knew about him so they knew about you.
Trust.
@@negranomicon Yeah, a lot of times the family already knows, so when they bring their "friend", especially to several family occasions, they usually already know what's up lol...
Ewwww
@@AlmostReady504 how to know your about 5 mentally
The media and the extremists want you to think that we all hate each other and that racism is the norm. It's not. We're so much close to being the same that it's crazy. We need to stand up and tell the people trying to start the drama that we've had enough. Let's come together and just be people.
I'm with you 💯❤️
Indeed
Hear hear!
There's profit in allowing us to hate one another while the people that are pitting us against each other are getting away with all types of crimes. There's no place for hatred.
Sadly the majority are racists and anti-lgbt.
I'm a Brit and we were on holiday in the US visiting friends in Breaux Bridge Louisiana ,and were invited to a cook out and my god i had the best day and food i ever had in my life.My friends came to the UK (up north) and we treated them to a Brit bbq of burned sausages and burgers in the rain lol ,the look on their faces was priceless so we took them for fish and chips so they were happy.
I loved this. We need to talk about this stuff to expel lots of misconceptions and stereotypes between our communities
I can absolutely say black BBQ is the best god damn BBQ ever, the ribs, the corn bread, the hush puppies, the pulled pork its just so damn good
Dan Monster, try the beer chicken it's very tasty
Amen to that, and dang right too!
When I was maybe 14, back in the early 90s, my best friend was black and I was invited to his birthday party which was at his grandmother's house in a rougher part of Philadelphia than my neighborhood. I had no idea what to expect but I went. It was a backyard barbecue and it was just his family members but they were the nicest people. I had a really good time.
Hahaha…not my best friend is black.
…yet you had never been over his house?????
@@YouAREyoubeYou my best friend didn't come to my house until I was like 16, my parents weren't the type to have people over. It's not as weird as you're making it
@@YouAREyoubeYou My daughter is 14 and I just allowed her to visit her best friend or any friend house two months ago. She is not allowed to spend the night but she has attended two parties with the family. It's called protecting your children! Her "best friend" may be a bad influence but she isn't going to be able to see it like adults with experience does, so until I trust that friends intentions and trust that family with my child, she won't be going!
@@YouAREyoubeYou I'd been to his house a number of times, I liked his mom a lot, she was really nice. But he lived in my neighborhood, which was a little more upper class from where the party was held.
I'm from MS same as Zach. That's his natural accent. He has a FB page also. He is hilarious in his story tellings. He has no tolerance racism. He is a good hearted person.
I’m Creole and went to South Carolina with my husband to a family cookout. The only foods l developed a life long love for was the barbecue pigs feet and creamed spinach one of his uncles made. It was also my sorts time eating sweet potato pie. To this day, whenever we can l don’t mind going to SC. I fix him up a pot of seafood gumbo and potato salad and he makes me those pig feet and spinach ❤❤❤
Went to a Juneteenth/birthday party for one of my friend's "mama-Ts" in Midland TX and it was the same thing. Scared shitless but the nicest damn people and amazing food, and I couldn't fix my plate. Being able to be a part of other peoples cultures is one of the greatest things any of us can do.
"you ain't gotta hit me in the face with a wet mop" means that something is glaringly obvious and that they don't have to drag you and coerce you to see the clear truth of a situation
Thank you for the definition. It was still funny as hell 😂😂😂
Yeah, except the derivation is a little more disturbing and (unsurprisingly) racist. Police used to elicit confessions by beating prisoners with broad, comparatively soft objects like phone books and wet mops- inflicting pain with fewer telltale marks than with billy clubs or rubber hoses. Not in any way saying Zach’s being racist here, but it’s good to remember where these expressions come from.
I'm a new subscriber this was hilarious. I'm 56 a widow and my very best friend is a amazing and funny, spiritual black woman. We laugh so much at each other all the time. Sadly I think the media doesn't ever show that we care deeply for all races and to be able to laugh about things makes us all better people. With that being said. I have to make collard greens for Thanksgiving and she said I can't buy the canned kind. She stress me out lol. I don't want to be in charge of that to bring holy Jesus why can't I bring pies lol.
Man if many of our youth of today & racist would grasp this reality that WE are all but one people no matter the color or status we'd live a much happier life!!💯 This was an awesome story to share, hope it helped to shine a light that sooo many have tried to dim for far too long!!🙏🏾💚💛💙💜
This guy had me in stitches he's so darn hilarious I couldn't stop laughing 😂
It’s the “Pick ‘Em Up Truck” for me! 😂🤣
You have to do part 2 to this now, Mama T's Fish Fry, its just as hilarious 😂 😃
Love this. I believe that first-hand exposure to different cultures and people is key to breaking the barriers. At the end of the day we are all human. We all strive for acceptance, love, approval...sense of belonging. These things make us thrive...
Zach and I are a lot alike ,I'd say he's a very average southern white guy like myself. As southern white men we get a bad wrap by the American media ,Zach is under constant assault by the media for sharing his experiences. Thank you for reacting, I absolutely love you're channel.
Aw I love Zach… I’d invite to my family cookouts. And Jeff I’d loved to have there too 💕
I'm just trying to figure out why all this fake ass brotherly love is popping up now when Southern Conservatives Ass when Trump was acting like Black Lives didn't matter I'm a Georgian born and raised plus I'm a Veteran and my Father is as well what's fake is how everybody's ready to kill one election and now acting all buddy buddy.
This is authentically funny and absolutely beautiful!! Eat, love and enjoy one another! Cookouts are the best!!! He was hilarious and I hope he has continued to indulge!! 👑🤘🏾🤣🤣
Like your reactions Polo! FYI -- the spades hand was a set up by the friend who invited him to the bbq. Totally out to shake him up! Zach is a remarkable cancer survivor and philanthropist. And he is a big guy, as he says. He's like me: 6' 5" tall with size 15 feet! He owns a Fish & Game shop and has a large connection of people who follow his example. Pretty good crew to be a part of from the sound of it. Total respect. Take care Polo!
I just love this guy narration of his cookout experience. He had to have a good spirit in order to be invited to the cookout and meet the fam. To top it off, the dude is super hilarious. I see why he went viral. Just a down-to-earth, down-home boy (not to be confused with a good-ol-boy). The content creator commentary was hilarious too. He gets a like and sub.
Just curious as to your definition of "good ol boy"
The most vicious Spades game that I was ever part of involved an 87 year old British lady who scared the crap out of me. I was certain that she would poison your tea if given the opportunity, especially since both of her husbands died of undetermined causes.
Years ago, I went with a friend to a Sons of Italy BBQ, and after about 90 minutes of listening to old Italian men talk about me, assuming that I'm Irish (I have red hair), I went off, cussing them in rapid-fire Sicilian. I married a man with an English last name, but my dad was Sicilian.
A stereotype is a type of loose truth. Not only am I white, but I'm from England and I ended up at a black BBQ in Cincinatti. The older people were awesome, the younger guys were obviously not as thrilled and a gorgeous girl started feeding me. This is where I learned that black girls don't flirt like white girls, they are just "so who's this handsome man?" as they grab your hand and flash a smile. I loved it.
I think xenophobia is natural, and it gets confused with racism. We are allowed to be cautious of different scenarios as its unfamiliar. But that's what makes it so exciting isn't it? We go outside our culture, our comfort zone and we experience things we wouldn't normally. That's the spice of life.
Awesome day.
He was really funny! Very vivid and true to life experience at a cook out! 😂 I loved his comical visualizations 😂
“ Y’all need some ice, cause I’m not trying to cook with y’all”🤣🤣
“At the end of the day we’re all just people.” Yeah man, that’s the truth.
zach is amazing he is a pure country boy who owns bucks bass and birds company...he does amazing fund raisers and contributes to his community...most of his stories are true life experiances and he tells them as they happen which always turns out to be funny....great human being in every way
I'm white and we played Spades as a family almost every day when I was a kid. My dad used to get so mad when my brother (his partner) messed up! He would throw his cards on the table and walk out, ending the game! My mom and I would laugh so hard because we knew we were gonna win that hand!
OMG!! Thank you so much for explaining why they fix your plate for you!!!! I’m a white girl from the south, but one whole side of my family is black and we have these huge cookouts for family reunions. I thought it was just to streamline things, but it makes sooooo much more sense that it is to stop greedy ass people (MY DAD) from taking more their fair share!! I’m gunna start doing that for thanksgiving and Christmas too!! My poor dad would be DEVASTATED! 🤣
Lol he's hilarious 😂 I love any gathering with my black family and friends there is always so much energy and community ❤️ church, even funerals is the most uplifting experience I've ever had. ❤️
I laughed until I cried. This gentleman is hilarious and not trying to be. Thank you for sharing this and making my day.
I appreciate your reaction.
Sharing food with anyone is special, no matter what day of the week, no matter the day of the year..
Sitting, sharing some food and talking (not gossip) is so important. Family , friends, loved ones are forever yours, if no longer in you life, but in your hearts and that of your children's, grandchildren and generations to come.
I'm mostly white and my first black bbq...similar.
I brought potato salad (tbf, I'm a chef. Everybody's mother told me I done good.)
Then we played Spades for loot. I knew how to play...but I kept being dealt a library. As everyone started hating me more and more, I tried to lose...but the Lord kept tossing me queens and aces. Had $400 sitting before me when I taught everybody how to play Black Jack, Irish style (so it's more like poker...the dealers a player too.) Damn me to Heck...I just kept getting 20's and 21's.
I finally folded on a Q+A hand and a fella next to grabbed my cards (not cool) and said WTF! And I apologized, saying y'all hate me cause of the cards.
Then we threw bones until I lost most of what I won...except I said I'm out with $50 after I only ever put in $20 to start and "I ain't leaving empty after I took y'all to school." And everybody laughed, and all was cool.
One of the best days I remember. It was a *good* day.
Ur mostly white? Ur half black or something?
I went to visit my cousin at college in Miami from Jersey. He had a black dad, but it never made any difference to us that we were different colors. He took me to a black strip club in Miami, and suddenly I realized how he felt in situations where he was the only black guy. 700 black folks and me, a 6'4" white dude walking through the crowd in EVERYONE's view... on display, but we all had FUN!
I loved it, had me in tears! He sounds like a great guy I would love nothing more than to be around. He is so full of character!
This was GREAT. & it’s true, we can all get along. We just need more of this happening and we are one step closer. ❤
I'm a 52 year old white man. I was born in West Philly and lived there through the 70s. I then moved into north Philly in the early 80s. I have been to several black cookouts. I can tell you this for a fact. They absolutely go out of their way to make you feel comfortable and safe. I think the matriarch of the family tells them " now when this white boy gets here don't none of you be scaring him or giving him the evil eye. Show him how we do" i never had anything but a great time. Not to mention i was too stupid to ever learn when i was in a bad situation. Thank God it wasn't like that at those cookouts. Man I miss those days.
What do white matriarchs say to the group when a Black guest is due to arrive at their cookouts? Just curious.
I just moved to North Philly this Summer from NYC and there are white, black and Hispanic people on my block. Nobody tells black people to be nice to a white guest at a cook out. If you were invited to the cookout someone claimed you as family so you were safe. 😂 On my block we all speak to each other and will look out for each other because this is all we have. I’ll see them all at next year’s block party/cook out.
Zach is a great guy... a heart of gold. Three time cancer survivor. And is funny as hell to boot. You can tell his stories come from personal experience.
this is why conversation is sometimes referred to as an art. even a slight bit of craft adds so much to the joy of conversation.
I’m a white guy, Swedish GreenCard immigrant to the US. I’m the whitest. I have no melanin, and in the winter time, I got that healthy greenish hue in my skin. I’m taller than most people here though.
I have no black friends in the US, but this video makes me wish I did. POLO you’re amazing. Keep up the great work.
I loved your reaction, especially your willingness to add commentary from your perspective.
Reminds me of my first thanksgiving dinner in Canada. My gal Sandy picked me up along with her bf and drove up north Ontario to the middle of nowhere and I was the only guy of (east) Indian origin at the table. I asked her what thanks giving was all about. She said this out loud for everyone present to hear " I dont know what's it's supposed to be about, Jay. But i know we need at least one Indian guy at the table!".
Every one laughed so hard but i still had no clue why they were laughing!! Lol. I hope they still make friends like her now too !! 😘
I'm from south Louisiana and I did a Marine deployment on a navy ship. Every night around 1 pm I'd go down to the mess deck and play spades or dominoes with the black guys. That shit was wild. My buddy and I used to make people so mad, if they underbid we'd feed em sandbags till they lost their shit. Good times man
Semper Fi
Polo, great reaction and insight on this video. It's a huge part of why I became an instant fan, that and your laid back personality where you don't jump to any serious conclusions but wait to get as much info as possible. What I'm not sure you caught , at least during the video, is the explanation that was more so unsaid. That you went to a white cookout and found that it was a great time and those folks were some of the nicest people. I think we all have been "brainwashed", indoctrinated, whatever the word or reason may be, to fear what we don't understand or what's different from us. And that's one of the truest and most vile crimes against humanity and society. Sure there's always going to be evil people and evil in general, but as I write this I will stake all that I have that if we were able to finally get ourselves out from under the hate and division those that attempt to control us push, there would be less evil people since evil is born of distrust and hate. Sorry to be so serious on such a light topic and a really funny video but I struggle with the division. I traveled the country as a corporate trainer for installers. Me! A tenth grade dropout! Experience got me there. I'm just a southern born, relocated to the north in a backwater town and i consider myself a regular guy but I have a hunger for knowledge and love to sit and hear people's stories and if you have the time, people will tell it. It's those people of other races, other cultures, from other times and their differences and similarities that has shown me that we are indeed all people, not defined by our differences but by our similarities. I grew up in an area where I'd never even seen a black person other than on tv until 8th grade. And the family was mixed, but Mike, who became a good friend and we still talk to this day, showed how out of place he felt for a while by acting the part of the stereotypical black person falling into line in a white community. When he finally realized that the people close to him were more often curious than distrustful, he opened up and it showed. Many years later, while training an installer at a black customer's home, the elderly woman's daughter spent some time talking to me. About my age she shared the same story, that she had never seen a white person until high school. She shared that she grew up in a community where school, the market, doctor, dentist, library etc, were all within walking distance so all she saw for so long were the people in that community. So similar to my life and I thought, and not for the first but maybe the hundreth time, how do people get this idea that we are so completely different?
Great video. Great timing for the video with the Dilbert stuff out there. It was great to enjoy this from all sides.
Zach is hilarious. Love the reactions bro. Channel is growing super fast! Great work big guy
Loved you walking us through that. Fun reaction!
I welded in a fuel tank factory with Men of all races. Every evening after work there was at least two tailgate parties going on in the parking lot all summer long. I miss working now that I'm retired, but I miss that great food and their friendships the most.
I love that you don’t try to force any fake laughs. Even the channels I like feel kinda performative at times. Thank for the realness, refreshing.
I loved this. This was so funny! People are people and sharing of cultures should be the norm.!!!
I love country slang. "I was busier than a one-legged bobcat trying to bury a turd in a frozen pond," is one of my favorites, along with "well who woulda known who won the pony."
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I remember waking up from a thanksgiving coma at my friends house to a game of Spades and Dominoes. Never played before. They tried to teach me but I was still struggling to breathe from all the food. 😂
Thank you for the video. I’ve taught my kids to respect and learn about other cultures. It could be any race. We all have something to share. Blessings to all your families.
Cookouts are interesting because they so clearly show culture. I've been to white, black, latino, and native american cookouts. They're different but the same.
my step family is Cuban and the Cuban family reunion bbqs in the summer were the best istg
This is my first video from you on my recommended. I appreciate the pausing when you are speaking, it is very helpful since my hearing is not good. Loved the video! I'm not American so both sides were very interesting.
I'm so shocked it took this long for anyone to reccomend this. It'd a classic!!! Loved every minute M
Man..thank you for the reaction
What is his page? I am trying to find this dude.
One of the greatest kindnesses you can do, is to open your home, invite someone in to your family, and feed them a good meal, I've never had the chance to go to a cookout, I live In the UK, we have small BBQ's, but if I EVER get the chance, I'm gonna be there.
First time checking out your channel-I subscribed. I’ve seen the black cookout on other channels. However, I loved your commentary. You impressed me with your humanity. Thanks
That was hilarious!! You know, I think if you have a true, genuine heart, you can get along with anybody
Lol Latina here and yea the fixing of the plate for others is definitely not outta courtesy. You're spot on lol
This guy is sooooo hilarious. I thought he was a comedian also and he was doing a routine. But, what he is saying really happens at black cookouts that this has to be a real experience for him. I can literally listen to him tell stories all day.🤣😂
I'm a white guy who was invited to dinner in a Vietnamese community and had the same experience. I was the only white person there but they were super nice and the food was delicious. However while they spoke to me in English I couldn't understand a word of most of the conversations around me.
Thank you for popping up in my feed. What a wonderful commentator you are. Smooth and thoughtful. Very relaxing.
Like Denzel said “I’m from around the way, I’m leavin with Sumthin” 🤣🤣🤣
Zachs videos are the best! You need to listen to more- he’s funny as hell! He’s also a cancer survivor and does a lot of charity causes! He’s got a huge heart!
Funny and true! Black cookouts have the best food! Every kind of meat is barbecued and amazing! I didn’t play cards or dice and we did have buffet style get your own food. Super nice folks . Good reaction and explanation on some of the little things. Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving!
I love your reactions always genuine and informative. Zach is not a comedian just a really funny guy. You both give me hope for the future of our country. We need more open-minded down to earth folks like you in the world. You should check out Momma T's fish fry. It's a very funny follow up to this video.
Actually, Zach is a stand-up comic
" At the end of the day, we're all just people." Love that❤👍
Zach is naturally hilarious. Another of his saying that cracked me up is "It's as hot as two rats fugging in a wool sock!"
The meat sweats 😂😂😂.we need more of our southern reality like this brought to light. My American family is awesome.
🥩 sweats omgoodness never heard of this but He had me screaming over here over here and his thick Southern Accent....l was no good with laughing 😂 at what he said some cultures aren't dangerous but step the wrong and it can go in a different direction....It's was Great that he enjoyed himself...We are made like that!!! Bring no fear we will treat you like family!!!!
Yeah Meat 🥩 sweats had me holding my sides and hollering at the same time with laughter!!! Never heard this before!!! He ate his full huh???? 😂 😂 😂 😂 Have catch my breath.
I love catching up with folks that come from a different POV than me. My favorites are my Mexican buddies cookouts
Those cookouts be a dope parties along with a black cookout, the music drinks food lol
I've loved Zach for years. Funny as hell and his story telling is priceless. As far as I know he was considering about a year go of going on a tour, see how it goes, but I don't know unless very recently. No problem, just be you.
I love how black ppl have white friends that really appreciate us.
This is so funny 🤣. I'm not halfway through the video and I'm crying 😂
Love this, proves we are all human and just want to get along and have fun together