Name: “Keeping It Real”: A Social and Cultural Maze - Dark Humor
Uploaded: 2021-03-01T18:10:09.000Z
Duration: 18 min 59 s
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- I grew up in my neighborhood skateboarding.

and they would joke with me because they were like,

It's like, "You ain't gotta lie to kick it, my nigga."

Like niggas will like you more if you are that corny dude

and you are solid and authentic and yourself

than if you're trying to be another nigga.

I think it's hard for Black men especially

because we have so many cool words available

Like a couple of years ago I was having some

And I know you guys are looking at me like Jordan,

but you're so handsome and well put together.

and a friend of mine was like, "Are you okay, man?

But I had so many cool words available to me.

authenticity I think it was important to Black people

because self preservation and self care is very important

If we don't have that, we don't have anything.

because that's something that they've been trying

- There's a huge social and cultural maze

that are unlike any other ethnic group in the country.

- A lot of our stuff comes from what we've been through,

what we think about what we've been through,

how we feel about what we are going through.

And then what are we gonna go through next

I think we haven't had the luxury of being inauthentic.

When I was a kid, I'd just sit in my room

which is not a kid you want to talk to, you know?

just sitting in my room, read like, world history,

'Cause I grew up in Louisiana, I just wanted to know.

So you probably ran into your ex-slave like all the time.

In a weird way, you know, plantation owners were such pimps

we're all trying to decide if we're the real version

my Blackness the most have been Black people.

And if you don't do this, then you're not Black

When they started targeting DARE commercials

Perhaps this predominantly white audience

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