We're Not White | Amer Zahr | TEDxDetroit
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2018
- Arab Americans need a box, like everyone else, so we can be counted and so we can count! Amer is a Palestinian-American comedian, musician, & writer. As the child of Palestinian refugees, his special brand of comedy is fresh, enlightening, and, of course, hilarious.
He has performed to live audiences throughout America, Canada, and the Arab World, making people laugh in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Boston, Toronto, Amman, Muscat, Beirut, Nazareth, Haifa, Yafa, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Jerusalem. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I once drew a box and wrote Arab next to it and checked the box🤣
Wsnk J, good move. Arabs are not white.
You shouldn't have to arabs are originally from Asia. Lebanon is in the continent of ASIA. So is the country of Qatar, on the continent of ASIA.
There you go my friend
this guy is too good for this crowd
@@averagebodybuilder what are you talking about ...what about Egypt, morocco, Algeria, lebia, Sudan.... half of the arab world is in africa too
bruh what a dead crowd that guy was killing it
sambulls not really, it wasn't that funny
@@tigerheaddude its not suppose to be a stand up comedy show anyway .
NOWRAX I think it was obvious that he was going for a stand-up comedy routine
Cuz he said Palestine that’s why
@@tigerheaddude yeah but he wasnt forcing it. He was simoky incorporating comedy to what he was truely trying to get across to keep the audience captivated and it definitely worked. Dude was great
I’m of African decent & I’m 200% w/you Amer. Start a petition & I’ll definitely sign it.
Most Mediterranean countries, Spain, Italy, Greece... were considered non white, but then they changed it for higher percentages
Arabs are African ! No such place as the Middle East ... there is Eastern Africa !!
@@johnmartin3134 lol i believe it
@@abortionismurder4265 abortion is murder
@@rykson161 Arabs are not African. True that part of Arab countries are located in Africa like Egypt morocco Tunisia Algeria Sudan Mauritania and Libya, but there are more Arab countries in Asia in total of 11 or 12 countries.
He's good, but more importantly........he is right!
MENA : Middle East and North Africa
Nice 👍🏽
@Fuckya Lookin at they as white as a Greek so
@Sirush Levonyan What's a race really ?
lilahdog 568 lmao arabs are olive most
You are White, grow up.
My name is Jihad and i'm proud, I won't change it.
@Tony BANDS Holly War
@@neoottomanempire3898 look up the arabic definition
@@neoottomanempire3898 . It means struggle in Arabic.
@Tony BANDS ?
My name is karo-kari nice to meet you. If you were wondering my name translates to honor killing.
Better idea... Get rid of all the boxes, and add a blank space. Let people define for themselves
👏👏👏👏👏👏
I completely agree with you 🏅 If they continue this race thing..sooner or later they wouldn't have anymore space for people who are becoming more mixed. Some people are very mixed these days. They can tick on all of the boxes to pleased themselves and their relatives hahaha!
BC Do you know how slow the bureaucratic system is? How long it would take to file millions upon millions of forms, and you also have cases where people put in the same word spelled differently, and then those end up classified as 26 races but theyre really one race (written the same). There is no perfect system.
Why even ask about nationality can’t we all just be recognized as humans ?
No
My parents are from Morocco so I would check the African box and put in Arab down !
Derek Von Hohenheim why not Maghreb? What you mean ?
Derek Von Hohenheim lol u talkin to a moroccan guy .. tell me something new 😉
Derek Von Hohenheim and it’s similiar to Latinos they are carebean and from South America
Derek Von Hohenheim i was born in Germany so I am German Moroccan ... but I can tell u for sure that many Latinos think I m Cuban or Dominican and start talking in Spanish . And that’s not just me ... many North Africans pass as carebean Latino or Brazilian . The other thing is that maghrebis are at first Amazigh aka Berbers or mixed with Arabs . We are also mixed with south Spanish / Portuguese ( andalasusiens) and sub Saharan Africans
I check african american because morocco is in africa. So i m african.
Sydney, Australia has a politician named Jihad Dib. Didn't stop him from being voted into state parliament!
@Shahid Hussain He didn't have to be "Jay"...
@Shahid Hussain Look harder mate 11:40
Jihad is Arabic word mean using all your power to say or do something. there is nothing wrong about the name. people used e=mc2 to make nuclear bombs how about that.
@D Goshay Australia is significantly more White than the USA.. USA was made up of many different European ethnic groups from all over Europe, Australia was made up of the British almost exclusively. So i have no idea what you're trying to say about it being smoother for "jihad" to get elected because the contrast between him and the rest of the population is even more pronounced yet he was elected.. White countries are the most tolerant open nations on earth.. The flood of outsiders into them now have resulted in the racism of others being imposed upon us and used to extract special treatment... In many cases there is irrational hatred towards European people because of our accomplishments and the insecurity that strokes within people of other backgrounds.. All manor of accusations and slander laden with enormous bias, double standard, omission of fact and selective exaggerations about history are used to justify this hate fuelled hostility and the fact we are WILLING to consider the opinions of others is used against us and seen as weakness rather than appreciated .. Soon patience will run out and tolerance will turn to self defence.. Then everyone will remember what happens when we have been pushed too far.
@@jennas9033 if they had brain cells they wouldn't have given up their guns
Long Live PALESTINE.
Much Love from Tunisia North-Africa.
Weld bledi
Long live ISRAEL
@@lucius5787 LONG LIVE ARAB, AND ARAB PALESTINE,
@@aharonmizrachi440 shame on you. You're a Muslim and that's your support.? Shame on you
@@aharonmizrachi440 eedjit
He is really good and funny. However, the crowd is not that much.
* The crowd is not that much (participating) because they are White and so much truth is beaing spoken from this brother. In other words stepping on white people's toes/striking a nerve/making them feal guilty.
I do standup, and when you drop truth sometimes the audience nods in agreement instead of laugh.
The "crowd" doesn't like Truth 😏. Shalom 🕊️
this isnt a stand up comedy special?
That's because it's a Ted talk, not a comedy club
I can’t understand, why this man is not a famous stand up comedian, he is fabulous,
He should be same level as Ressul peter and Traver Noah
Palestine 🇵🇸 always and forever ♥
Respect, thank you for speaking loud and clear and how proud you are of our culture!
Jesus ate here hahahaha beautiful
GIT DAH FUQ OUTTA HERE ! He was from the levant, look at the people of the levant, they look like this comedian and not like white western europeans for the most part
@GIT DAH FUQ OUTTA HERE ! if Jesus was white, that is all the Bible would ever talk about.. it would literally be a miracle..
@GIT DAH FUQ OUTTA HERE ! This is your sick wish but genealogy says YOU ARE LAIR
@Abomi Nable jesus is semetic like arabs
@@AkshayKumar-tm7lb if jesus was white no miracles would occur he'd always be in the shade scared to be sunburned
Great message, thank you.
“You’re older than your uncle” lol so true
I think the box shouldn’t exist. It’s just a way of dividing people!
it's just to know the ethnic diversity in ur country
@@alialahmad4329 its actually for Equal Employment Opportunity... but clearly i dont know if it works..
Next time someone inquires about your race when filling out a form for employment or whatever you should write, "There is only one human race."
Us is built on race so its not gonna change because you want it 2.
In the US the boxes are needed due to systemic racism. Sadly, in America, the lighter your skin the more privileges you receive. Since this is the majority of the population, the US has laws to protect persons that are in the minority. Some of those laws mandate diversity and inclusion in different organizations of people. Therefore, it is important to have the "Arabic American" box so that Arab Americans in the US can be represented adequately in the USA.
This perfectly captures how I feel. Yeah, my skin might be white, but until you treat me and my Arab family just as you treat the European side of my family, you cannot lump us into the same category
We can tho
@Jefferson Marques yeah go ahead idc
Jefferson Marques what?? I don't support mass immigration full stop. Regardless of who's doing it, thousands upon thousands of people have died in wars protecting their countries from people intruding their land and now we are just letting people waltz right in?!? How does that make sense??
@Azzury Street but they all get treated as tho they are
@Derek Lowe .........this comment really makes no sense..... There are non white countries that are perfectly fine..... Go study. And even the ones that are messed up now, it is not because its people are not white. Your statement is empty. Maybe look at the West's relentless interference in the east, look at Iraq for example when Europe was excreting in the street, they were the height of scientific discovery. Just one example
Hilarious but with a serious message.
I notice a lot of whites are saying to abolish race or consensus boxes. As the world becomes less white, now all of a sudden race doesn’t matter! You see the my are moving the goal posts to suit themselves again.
@Jo Jo 😂😂😂
Brilliant 🤩
Mashaa’Allah
“We are not white” lol
Sarah Kilimanjaro , who would think it?
allah does not exist
John David not all arabs are muslim call down, arabs that are christian or atheist say mashallah too just like me, i say it but i’m christian
@@JohnDavid-vh3rn There is no God but Allah
Profit Muhammad was white
HE LOOKS LIKE THE THE CHARACTER WHO PLAYS IN DESPICABLE ME
bruh
Now that you mention it... He does look like Gru
@@alhumdulilah4ever not Disney :/ it's universal
He technically doesn’t “play” in it, because he is a cartoon character not an actor.
@@alhumdulilah4ever you mean Jewish?
Lmfaooo I started dying when I saw the school logo “go arabs,” Jesus omg lolll how did a school even think that was okay in the first place.
So proud of you 👏🏻❤️❤️
Love it!
"when they see this scarf, they think something is about to go down"
heheheheheheh, soo true
I wear mine to work as a scarf when cold. I don’t care. It’s a beautiful scarf!
This is a great routine man . God bless you
I don’t know, I’ve been to Jordan and they are pale white. I mean blonde hair and blue eyes, even gingers. Iraqis are also “white”, as well as Syrians.
small pencentage
Does white means better or what?
as a north african arab
African box check.
Bruh I thought calling myself Afro-Arabian was my own thing. Guess I'm not alone lol
Stanley Childs
😂 Wth. Who doesn’t have melanin?
And nobody is beneath anybody.
We are all part of the human race.
Smh.
what!! Al
Stay proud ✊
@@thequestioner9634 the laws that are still on the books state otherwise.
Ask Ra/Sol/Apollo about that
this seems more like stand up comedy than a ted x talk
Very interesting and edifying thank you.
Me in America: my name is Abdulrahman
People: what?!?
Me: Abdulrahman
People: Abaramen?
Me: Good enough.
It’s hard I know, I am abdelrahman too
Theres Abdulrahmans as a traditional name in Serbia lol
The reason is that a long time ago by law only a person considered legally white was allowed certain privileges like openening a shop or specific investments so an Arab went to court and argued for him to be registered as white and he won the case and gained full rights as a result of that and since then Arabs are conveniently considered white in this weird dynamic that the USA has. After him a Japanese man tried to argue the same case that japanese are white but failed to do so.
and now they do not want to be white ???
@@marcfavero4632
No it isn't they do or don't. One person got a ruling and as a result everybody was labeled as such. The term white is very ambiguous and very weird as an umbrella phrase so what if someone was from an Arab country but is of Indian or Nigerian decent is he then white? I think all this sensus thing needs to be evaluated but hyphenation has become an American traight, that and the excessive use of flags.
Because the Arab group who fought it that time were very white blonde so they give them the white box not to the Japanese one. There are some Arabic countries are seriously white and blonde!
@@LA-qt3tr such as?
@@Androvich91 yemen pure yemeni are white yiu can see them in my channel they are been killed by saudi arabia these days old pure arab are coscasian
My first time seeing him. As much as he is funny, he is right. He was really entertaining. Thanks for posting this.
And as he said, "Arabs aren't white."
Your akhadouha mafrousheh is a piece of art. Genious. I loved it.
I learned something good today thanks Amer
The concept of human race has no scientific backup. We should use ethnicity.
Americans use skin color to define race, and Europeans emphasis on ethnicity more than one's skin color. That's the difference.
@@tayirnull1567 But skin colour can vary within ethnicities. Skin colour caries even among families where everyone is of the same ethnic background soooo how does that makes sense?
Scientifically there is only one race. The human race.
@@deniserutkowski9028 Bingo!
then call all bears by the same name, not grizzly or panda.
Thank you for that Amer, you were great. It was very informative. I get that question too... where you from from😂 I am Canadian, living in UAE, and I am from from East Africa😁
On fcbk I am from Detroit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Man this guy put a smile on my face the entire video
Amazing!!! Yessss!!! Well said
My brother dropped some jewels 💯
@TEDx Talks Islaam and As Salaamu Alaikum. When people fail to realize that "white" is a legal status and not a skin complexion. Salaam and Thanks!
Ppl need to learn from MOORS like you.
I wish folks would speak to this. what is white? are you Palestinian if born in America? Native American or American?
@@causeeffect7624 I was born in America but I'm definitely Palestinian. Where you were born doesn't change your DNA
@@NikoBellaKhouf your DNA reads Palestinian? It is a 'race' or ppl of a place? Tell me more. I'm of African decent no matter where my bodies are?
@@causeeffect7624 yes it does. It's an ethnicity and people of a place
Lmaooo I love this dude already. He is so entertaining
Love him...Hilarious and amazing ❤❤❤
Im Egyptian n my DNA shows 90 percent African.
Egypt is in Africa tho
Jesus saw that, it’s not inconceivable that medy has African DNA but as most people consider Egyptians to be Arabs it’s just an interesting example of how humans don’t fit in little boxes.
you probably are Nubian, not real Egyptian then
Medy هالفحص كله كذب بكذب....لاتصدقهم
@@albreiki5725 الفحص سليم
أفريقى لا تعنى أسود
المصريون جيناتهم هى مزيج من العرق الشمال أفريقى (كالبربر و الأمازيغ) مع هجرات قادمة من الشام و الأناضول منذ ما يقرب من 10,000 عام أو أقدم
يعطيك العافية 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Very intelligent man, loved this Ted talk👌
The bargaining and auction joke was funny lol
This guy is great
I’m a Yemeni and I have a light medium skin tone. I once filled out an application at a doctors office and I checked ‘Other’.
The receptionist takes the form from me, looks at me, and checks White. I told her
“I’m not White, I’m Arab”.
She laughed and said
“Same thing. Arabs are the seen as White.”
I don’t have a problem with white people but that seriously annoyed me.
@@AthenaMinerva1 Fact. They're worried about their declining numbers so they're trying to claim different cultures to boost their numbers. Even though theyve been discriminating against them for decades now
@Deutschland Über Alles Arabs are NOT white. Some may look White but there is nothing about their culture that is WHITE. White refers to European culture which is something that Arabs completely lack.
@Deutschland Über Alles we are semetic we have are own skin
Light skin just like greeks south italy we are not white like germans or north europe
@Deutschland Über Alles real arab or semetic skin are light skin not far white and not far brown like Jesus Christ
@Deutschland Über Alles blacks are not real arabs bro
This guy is hilarious, love him
Amazing.
Jaber 👀
Phew I loved the ending so much!! If ur name is jihad, get Jay lol
This guy is so funny I 😆😆😆😆😆 from my heart
Amazing man
rolls eyes as he is told, "white people don't be scared"
I m moroccan i check african. Because we are proudly african.
Ayyee you guys have some good food lol.
This race stuff is very confusing in America
Bunch of lazy indoor cats clawing their eyes out over breeding and pedigree. They have nothing better to do with their lives.
@@donkeyshow8543 - novel assessment.
The United States is of America not itself America. The whole continent of the New World is America.
Time to get rid of it. It is really just a scratch off since so many Americans are of mixed decent. Grow up everyone.
It is, but is just normal here, lol. Having grown up in Michigan, it's cool to see and hear places I know being referenced here. Also nice to see the Masonic Temple, too.
I enjoyed your words..
Love from Nigeria Africa
All the sudden being reccomend lol
The funniest Arab comedian lol
I watched him before, he’s really good never boring.
He is an American.
@@SKhan-fk7cn, with Arab roots.
That's awesome 😍
very funny, great speaker
Not true that arabs can’t have English names, i am a Lebanese christian and my name is johnny my friend’s name is michael and most of my friends have english or french names.
unkouwn figure Lebanese Muslim and half my family has French rooted names 🤷🏼♀️
Resistance 313 we were concurred by the French in Lebanon and Syria. Also u could name ur kid any name it doesn’t matter... we have many Arabic names as well... and English names since were Lebanese AMERICAN. I’m not married to an Arab either... the world is becoming globalized and America is a Melting pot. I have kids with Arabic and English-French names. Don’t talk without knowing anything ur embarrassing urself
@Resistance 313 Well it's not really "English" names but rather French, the names George Jessica etc etc are all names of saints for you should respect those names, that are not limited by a certain area.
Resistance 313 whatever makes u sleep at night.
You should have Levantine names
He shouldn't have to address this issue this way but it is awesome that he can...laughter, joy, and love are colorless
The best food court ever - hilarious!
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Great Man.
This guy came to my school
Well done amer I love you
The whole thing is amazing especially 11:32 part
Love the Ted talk.. so funny. Lol we’re fighting to make the price higher.🤣
I am arab and i relate to this video 😂😂😂😂
bruh this man is hilarious. 100% agree with everything he said.
Excellent
' well Jesus ate here". LOLOL
I almost cried at the end well done
Viva Palestina with its capital al-Kuds (Juralism) ❤️
you know it didnt belong to them in the past
Palestine forever✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌
@@ogasontop On yah? And American didn't belong to any American in the past. So probably they should go back to Europe, eh?
@drc ula F**k off
*Jerusalem
God bless him, maa shaa Allah.
Great Delivery 👍
My name is Amal, and it will always be♥️ I never understood people who have Americanized names
I have a name so difficult to pronounce than the majority of Arabic speakers can't even pronounce it right. And I hate how it sounds when they try to pronounce it. Plus my nickname has the same meaning as my given name.
The ancient name Palestine and Syria is the land of Canaan in the bible.
You did your homework. Love it
After Cnaan - Israel, and Judea... A Roman emperor changed it to Palestine (after the greekl philistins) to revenge the Jews that fought him in the Jewish-Roman wars
You forgot Lebanon honey
1000 Subscribers Without Videos nobody forgot Lebanon. I didn't draw the line. It's apart of Syria. At the end of the day it's all Israel now.
Resistance 313 And Lebenon one of the oldest cities....
8:20
😂😂😂
"That's all"😂😂
Sad part is, I can imagine some White Evangelicals pointing spots in the U.S. and saying, “Jesus ate here.” 🤦♂️
LMAOOO
In America, race is strictly political.
if your name is JIHAD..... be J..🤣
hhhhhhhhhhhhh LOVE the ending !!
Wow. Standup comedians can now perform on Ted Talks.
I'm not scared of you.
@truth will set you free You conflate nationality with race.
Yeh be proud of your race and culture ..
Ali Abbas Agha , why? It wasn't earned.
If U go through the extensive process...! 😂
11:52 I'm dead 🤣
Barev aper jan :)
We may not be white, but some of us pass as white. I have Armenian-Iranian roots and I have blue eyes and I look white, so I would never classify myself as a „Person of Colour“
Your race is Caucasoid. You are the same race as white Europeans.
You are a White person, Persians and Armenians are white.
@@worthlessdollar1 caucasoid is unscientific and the three race theory has been debated heavily due to the lack of real science. Middle easterners are not the same race as white Europeans. There genome is different
Persians and Armenians are genetically identical. You are a caucasoid
@@khmatjshmid1591no Middle Eastern and Europeans share the most common dna ancestry and it’s not hard to see giving the close distance, unless you want to align yourself with Pakistan and india but go ahead saarr
As a Turk i can relate to all of the things he said
@Mr K I have been living in Turkey for 21 years and I still can't tell. Western Turks tend to be European with white skin, light colour eyes and European culture (like myself) Eastern Turks have more Middle Eastern and Central Asian look and culture.
@Mr K Actually "real" Turks are northeast Asian looking similar to the Mongols Central Asian Turk are a mix of Turk and Scythian.
Selin Ortaboy Your people are occupying land that does not belong to them. And you look mixed race. But you’re still pretty.
@Mr K you should never say to a turk that we are not "real turks" not every turk is as tolerant as i am.
@Mr K hahaha of course not :D but no need to make anybody mad right? Well, we are Oghuz Turks not Kypchak Turks. And we are as mixed as anybody else. I'm sure you have some Indian and Afghan blood...
Damn right!
My cousin always put other on cenus and checkbox.
I am British and Egyptian, but i don’t see the fuss, maybe it’s just me but, i don’t really care about race or ethnicity or whatever, i see a lot of people, mixed race or like me who are white, but chose to embrace the ethnic side of their family and i see why, they feel ashamed, what i’m tryna say is that you should be proud of both, if that’s your case. I have experienced islamophobia once or twice, i’m only twelve so i’m probably gonna get more islamophobia as my life progresses, it’s bad.
I'm from from where this guy is from , and I like everything he complains about and I don't want them to change , GO ARABS !!! LOL . But the problem with being classified as white is that we aren't practically treated as whites , it's just a paradox. that's all . Have great one all
Palestinians aren't Arabs
@@NikoBellaKhouf what are they?
@@hitkill2 we're mixed. Originally we're Canaanite and Philistine. We mixed with other cultures over time. So my personal mix is Canaanite, Philistine, Sardinian, Armenian, and Turkish.
@@NikoBellaKhoufso we are not arabs?
@@hitkill2 Your not White(European) people. Arabs aren't WASP people! Its usually the Arabs that desperately want to part of WASP because of the enormous generational wealth they have accumulated since 1778 and present time.
WASP people have absolute control over the HARD power(Military, Security contractors, Military hardware and ammunition manufacturing)of the USA.
It seems like i'm watching a stand up comedy show.
the census thing is easy im mixed i put mixed.. im White50% (English,Irish,Scottish & German.) 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish and 1/4 Japanese.. i believe im usually listed as ''white'' or mixed (White-East Asian).. im American Above all..