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Exactly. This song magically makes all of the white people he’s mocking, crawl out from under their Starbucks rocks and expose themselves for what they really are. For us to then entertain ourselves, with their virtue-signaling madness and flailing responses. 🤦♀️🤣
@@js2184 Poe's Law just describes dumb people. Satire is supposedly impossible to understand without the work in question blatantly pointing it out? Ya, maybe for dumb people.
I also cringe when people say "the Blacks" or just "Blacks". However, I'm fine with "Black People". When asked what I think the difference is, I try to explain it this way. Saying "the Blacks" is just boiling me down to only my skin and nothing else, almost like I'm not even a person/individual, but a color of skin. While "Black People", "Black Man", "Black Woman", etc are just descriptors. They still acknowledge us as an individual person or group of people, that just so happens to be black. Also, in my opinion, it has less negative connotations than just calling us "the Blacks". TLDR: "The Blacks" - at the end of the day we're just a color. "Black People" - at the end of the day we're just everyday people, who just happen to be black.
And frankly you should only be adding the specific type of people when it's relevant. If you're telling a story that has nothing to do with blackness or civil rights there's no reason to bring it up in the first place. They're just people. It actually makes the story worse because you're adding unnecessary details and taking away from the focus of the story.
The exception being when one is referring to a family with the surname Black as a group. i.e."The Blacks are coming over for dinner." Or "That's the Blacks' house."
I hear "the blacks" and think of it similarly to when people say "females." If you use "female" as an adjective, such as "a female cat" or "female squirrels," sure. But if you use it as a noun, it's pretty indicative that you're using it for an object and not a person.
Thank you! I have gotten shit from people in situations that I'm just trying to describe the person. Like at my job we had one black person on our shift so when talking about him with another worker who didn't know his name I was like "Yea he's the black dude." Just giving a descriptor so you know who I mean. Just like I'd say "Yea he's the tall dude" or something like that. If I worked in a place that has mostly all black people and they referred to me as the white guy when talking to someone who didn't know my name it wouldn't be a big deal.
Nah prob the ending of make happy "cant handle this". It perfectly described in a hidden manner how the music and comedy industry drags you in and then starts exploiting you for money, also how he wished he could have a private life. For example the burito part was about how when the contents spilled out he wished someone whould have warned him about it bc he whould have done it diferently. The "a part of me" part is about his audiance defines him but also destroyed his private life. Definetly the best made song he has ever made.
As a straight white man, I can promise you I've walked around Baltimore, DC, Atlanta, Richmond, Denver, Tampa, Philly, Chicago, Austin, and several other major cities with COPIOUS amounts of weed and have never been randomly stopped or searched for drugs.
john mulaney had a great joke during one of his specials around the time several states started legalizing weed recreationally. he told the crowd the news, everyone woo’d, and his response was “well dont woo if youre white, its always been legal for us.” hilariously true.
White woman here, never been randomly searched on the street, at the border or for a flight. I’ve literally been on the street with friends with less privilege while they were harassed and when I objected the officers apologized for interrupting my evening. The level of discrimination aimed at anyone other than middle to upper class wasps is so blatant that I have no idea how anyone manages to normalize or ignore it. The ease with which I walk through the world compared to how other people are treated is so so wrong. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect all the time.
Same thing has happened to me (white) when i when to the airport with my wife and a friend of hers. My wife, who’s family is originally from Guatemala, got a little separated from me and was with her friend, who is also white. Both myself and her friend got through, while my wife was taken out of line and searched. I have never in my life been searched, for any reason. I grew up in east Texas, so I always knew people were really racist, but seeing it in person with my wife has been a more visceral experience.
@@kaiserofkush accurate take. I’ve literally forgotten I picked something up and walked out of a store with it, without paying, and no one said anything to me. It is easier to keep a reasonable perspective now, having lived with my somewhat darker skinned wife for over ten years now. I think it’s almost like a drug, because it allows a person to go through life assuming that life is fair, and everything they’ve gotten they’ve earned through merit. Because that’s what people tell us. That’s why for a lot of people it’s a tough pill to swallow, the idea that they’ve basically had a leg up on a large portion of the population since before they were born.
I've lived in Chicago, and Detroit. Never been "randomly" searched. I got blonde hair, and blue eyes. I'm not saying that there's a correlation. I'm just saying. IM JUST SAYIN
Same lived in Minneapolis for 21 years brown hair blue eyes not once got searched for anything moved to Wisconsin haven't gotten searched here in 2 years
I got pulled over once and refused a search and it actually worked. He literally told me "I think there's some illegal drugs in your car(there were), but you're free to go." The context is not lost on me.
The funny part is as he introduced the song and said problems, my man here rolled his eyes. The very next sentence Bo said I say problems and people roll their eyes 😂 😂🤣🤣🤣 Nailed it
I mean, everyone does. There's 330 million people nationwide in the U.S.. I'd bet that all people including Latino, Black, White, Asian, etc. will get stopped for something. Unless you like...met every single person and concluded some races are stopped and some aren't, which I very highly doubt.
Nope. White, 30 years old. Never been randomly searched for drugs. Most likely never will be. Song is very accurate for the vast majority of the demographic mentioned. btw I agree about the adoption thing. It sucks that the adoption process is so convoluted and expensive.
Just adding in here: I'm a white woman. Piercings, tats, dyed hair - I definitely look like I smoke pot. Never been searched for drugs. Not randomly, not even at large parties the cops busted up. The racial disparities in policing are bullshit. Great video! Had a lot of fun watching you react
42 yr old Straight White male - I've been in nearly every major city in the country over the years and I've never been stopped or randomly searched for drugs or anything else.
Absolutely love your reactions and your ability to take a joke. Side note, I'm a straight white male and have never been randomly searched for drugs....the cops definitely had a reason when they searched me..
43 year old white dude. I've been searched for drugs once 20 yrs ago. My home state borders Canada, it was common at the time for college students to travel to Canada to party, as the drinking age in the provence was 18 vs 21 state side. On one trip 4 or 5 carloads of us were re-entering the US from Canada. As we pull up to the American gate, the Border Patrol/Customs Agents tell everyone to get out of the vehicles. A few agents led us inside the building next to the gate and begin searching us and asking about the purpose of our visit, asking if we have any items to declare, any drugs etc. Meanwhile a few other agents are searching the vehicles quite thoroughly. All our bags taken out and searched, etc. The search comes up empty and we are sent on our way. I'm sure we were a sight to behold after a long weekend. I have crossed the US/Canadian border at least a dozen times. Only searched on this one occasion. I've never been searched by any US law enforcement officers.
white guy out here on the West Coast. never randomly stoped in the city. only stopped once as teenager my beater car was full of friends. Who had all of their tomatoe plants from their horticulture class on their laps. they were trigger happy county sheriff's. Was super privileged & lucky to not get a ticket or arrested. If I had to deal with that shit all the time. I don't even know how I would even deal with it.
Also why is it necesary instead of just american, why are white people in the states not called european american? Stupid need for people to label everything and divide us into tribes.
2:08 when you said you didnt believe him about getting randomly searched. I have never been randomly searched by cops/tsa despite being pulled over a few times and flying numerous times. despite living in a bad part of town, i am never stopped when i leave a grocery store to check my receipt where as i have seen numerous people of color get stopped/searched
White man, live in The Netherlands. Never have been random searched for drugs. But I can confirm that it is not equally threated. People from abroad / non white people are way more often randomly checked. Even when there is no reason for it.
Honestly, were you kidding on the random drug search bit? I’ve never been randomly searched for drugs. I’ve been stopped for looking like a weirdo, but never searched.
As someone who worked in the mental health field, specifically with children, in my opinion having an expensive, convoluted adoption process is important. The horrors of the foster system are no joke, and children being easy to acquire will lead to far more abuse and neglect. That being said, the current adoption system is terrible, but making it cheaper and easier is not the answer. Getting organizations who won't adopt to non-white and/or non-christian parents out of the business would be helpful. The fact that it is a business in the first place is probably the biggest problem. Just my thoughts. First time watcher who enjoyed your video!
Currently lowering the price will do nothing, at the moment the prices of adoption should be high just to help prevent (won't stop but help prevent) a large amount of abusive and neglectful people from having kids The problem is their being a price on human beings in their first place
Aren't there social workers who check the family condition and finances to determine if they can adopt children? That's an unfair system for those who genuenly want these children
White woman here. I walked up to a police officer once while tripping on acid with weed in my pocket and asked him for directions and he pointed me in the right direction. Did not care about the weed smell lol
You are just a human, and I love your content. You are one of the only reactors who feels natural. You aren't just going for shock value. You don't over react, or pretend that you have never heard a song that everyone has heard. Keep it coming.
I have never been searched for drugs in my life. 40 year old white guy here. Not once. I smoke roll-up cigarettes using large papers, so they look like a joint would look where I am, and the police once stopped me as they were walking past me and there was a strong smell of weed in the air (weed is illegal here), and they asked me if that smell was me, pointing at my joint-like cigarette and I said “no, it’s just a roll-up.” Guess what they said….(?) “Ok, sorry to have bothered you - have a good day” And then we carried on walking in different directions. I’m sorry to say, but every man I know well, who is white, has never been searched randomly. Every person I know well who isn’t white, has been searched for drugs. Unfortunately, you are wrong here, but you really shouldn’t be. Being wrong here is nothing to be happy about.
I'm a white male, Flint MI, was with my girlfriend who is African American, we were both exiting a store at the same time and the alarm went off that goes off if something is stolen. We both stopped, they told me, without checking me or anything, that I was ok, and then they stopped her and asked to search her/her bag.
Probably because she had a bag. You know, to PUT stuff in. Perhaps someone thought they saw you sjoplift and they were just doing their jobs. Unless this instance occurred decades ago, I think you're oversimplifying. Even if what you said is true and they are racist, that's a single occurrence out of 100s of millions a day.
@@spartanswhatisyourprofessi2825 I had a bag too. And maybe it's my area, seems decently common here, her response was pretty much like this happens all the time.
@@Guffrs this is anecdotal. One occurrence out of millions, you're painting a picture with little paint and a large canvas. Besides, why are you commenting thus instead of taking g legal action. It was racist, wasn't it? Or do you just not care and you know it's not race related and your just trying to be a white knight?
@@spartanswhatisyourprofessi2825 I wasn't making a point or saying my experience represents America or anything more than sharing my anecdote because it had something to do with the video. I think you are reading into this more than what it was. I was just sharing my experience because it surprised me that it happened. I'm not trying to crusade for a bigger cause or even make a point of any sort. If you read back over what I said, all I did was share the story. I didn't say it means America is bad or racist or draw any conclusions from it. You are the one who drew conclusions from an anecdote.
straight white male here, definitely have had a no turn signal coming off a frontage road turn into me and my veteran friend handcuffed on the side of the road "for our safety" as officers Rufus and Doofus searched my car for 40 mins. They found some CBD and a .5g of weed. They seized the CBD for testing and gave the weed back 😂 gotta love Illinois.
White dude here, mid-30s, lived in and around major cities my whole life and I've never been stopped and searched by the cops. The fact it's so common for people who...aren't in my demographic group, let's say...is information that should not shock me, given everything I know about the way this hell country operates, but somehow still did shock me.
The conversation about "the blacks" reminds me of a Seth Meyers joke from a few years ago. "Donald Trump says he has a great relationship with the blacks. Unless the Blacks are a family of white people, I highly doubt it."
My whyte spouse was pulled over before we met driving drunk and had drugs on him. He fought the cop and ran. Got to go home. They called a friend to pick him up. It’s insane the privilege!
We do not, in fact, all randomly get searched lol. Never been searched at random in my life. Closest thing was being randomly selected for extra security at an airport.
White dude here: Never been searched for drugs even when caught in seriously sketchy positions. I in fact offered the knowledge to the cop that I had weed and a knife in my pocket and he didn't care one bit then gave me a ride home with the other white guy who was walking ahead of me (we didn't know each other)😂😂😂 Edit: He did search me for safety before letting me in his front seat, but I was walking on a back county road at pitch dark nighttime so that's expected. Beward driving rural roads at night in California; you may encounter two random white guys with weed GOD FORBID they smoke you out
Mind being blown on the adoption costs. That sounds insane and such a barrier, the wellbeing of children should not be run for profit. I (UK) have three adopted siblings, there were no fees or anything near those kinda of figures. It took around a year to go through the process, several rounds of background checks and interviews (with a social worker and a local police officer, etc), financial stability checks and all that. There were some minor costs involved, such as an enhanced DBS background check (under $50 per person) and travel - But the state gave a grant towards providing support for the kids, which completely covered buying a new people carrier and helped towards furnishing & decorating their bedrooms.
If it were cheaper so many more people would do it. When I’m retired I’ll probably adopt some kids since I’ll have the time to be there for them without sacrificing the money to care for them. Like a full time grandpa figure
- I was absolutely stunned when Mr Boyd revealed these criminally ridiculous costs - it's actually criminal, they are selling children; I'm in Canada, and do not know if this is the same as in the States (I'm going to assume not since Canada was colonized by the U.K. originally, so would assume we follow a similar system but who knows), but either way, I feel that the U.N. should actually step in and intervene in this matter, it's literally selling children, there is no legally viable excuse for thousands of dollars in fees to adopt a child, let alone TENS of thousands. Thank God the U.K. is doing it the correct way.
This is America, where you can be bankrupted by a medical bill. Looks like learning about the adoption thing is as shocking to people in other countries as the fact that an ambulance ride can cost a month's salary.
Gee, I appreciate Seattle more when I realize that people think you get searched for drugs in every major city. 32 years and a cop's never bothered me for anything except for that time a racist cashier tried to claim I was shoplifting. We have a lot of cop problems here as well but more and more I think it's not as bad as other places. Except for during the protests...
Wow... in Norway it costs a total of 20-25k dollars to adopt a child... and an annual fee if a whopping 75$! That being said, the state of Norway will pay about 10k of the adoption fee. On top of that, every parrent, including those that adopt, receive an annual payment of around 9k per child.
It's amazing how there are two songs called "Straight White Male" and one of them is a pointed look at our culture through a musical lens and the other one is by Tom MacDonald.
Tom MacDonald is the king of making the dumbest possible point at the worst possible time and tricking people into being a little more racist with each song.
@@JTidiotboy "Racism" is when you make 20 songs in a span of a year talking about how the system divides people by race. Wait, that's the opposite of racism...
I am a white guy, I have never been searched for drugs on the streets but I live in New Zealand where that's not really a thing, and police mostly just leave you alone. I have been patted down randomly at an airport but that may just be that I'm in my 20s and have a beard.
2 things: 1. As a white male (in the US), I can also say I, well as nearly every white personal I know has never randomly been searched for drugs. 2. Exactly.. why is adoption so expensive? WHO is making the majority of that money, too? The biological mother isn’t making 70-100K per child..
As a straight white male, I have been “randomly” searched at airports, on the streets, and “randomly” stopped by police when driving including “random” car searches.
Same here. Curious what all the “never been searched” people look and dress like. ….and Im white white. Pale, strawberry blonde, freckles. Lol Ive just been sitting in my car doing nothing, and they roll up, called the dog in, etc.
The comments are filled with the type of people who spend their entire day on Reddit and Twitter while thinking that transferring power between federal and state governments is the equivalent to fascism incarnated. Absolute cringe lol. Also, most of these people saying "I've never got searched, we feel the ''''''pREVILIGE'''''' of being White" are literally committing to what's known as an anecdotal fallacy, basically stating that their experience is representative of 234 million people nationwide. I hope most can actually learn nuance and logic before realizing that maybe those 234 million people do have challenges like the other 96 million these same people like to paint a broad brush with.
@@91GT347 It's because they aren't hanging around in bad places, or with bad people. It all depends on your location. If you're in a area known for drugs, crime, leaving a drug house, or something like that you have a pretty good chance of being pulled over or stopped.
I think he is just making fun of well-off white guys complaining about how their lives are so complicated when their problems are very low level compared to others. Also making fun of how they complain about being "attacked" for not letting gays adopt kids or women wanting equal rights as if they're being victimized when the natural reality is when you oppress someone they fight back. It's being a cry bully or shedding crocodile tears. Other people have real problems like .. not being able to adopt a kid because you're gay or not being able to control your body when you're a woman.
White German Woman here I was searched once in my life and it was not a search it was a check if I was fine with my parents in a big city cause of bruises
White-passing biracial woman (white and Asian), obviously I've never been searched for drugs. But i specifically recall the fcked revelation that hit me after I switched schools from elementary school (northern Virginia) to high school (Washington DC). I went shopping with my friends after school and smiled at the shopkeepers as I was accustomed to always do. but it was weird--it was like the 1st shopkeeper, 2nd shopkeeper-- they must have been in a bad mood; they didn't smile back as they have my entire life. By the 5th store and after being followed around by some of the store employees mugging us the entire time with a 😠 attitude, it dawned on my dumbself that shopping while black was a different experience, a much less friendly less welcoming experience. and the weird suspicion that was bothering me that day was culture shock at experiencing a slice of life in America inside a black friend group rather than a white friend group. Wtf.
I am a straight white male, and I think your outlook on foster care and adoption is 100% correct. My parents are "foster parents" and I personally believe they did an amazing job preparing a child for the world. Thank you Mr. Lboyd.
I am white and have been pulled out of my car and put in cuffs, for my protection mind you, then had my car torn apart in a drug search. That was the worst incident but not the only. There have been more times where I was searched.
So with the adoption thing, it actually depends on how you’re adopting and what agency you’re adopting through. For example if you get licensed through the state, like directly through the child protective services agency, then it might even be free to adopt and the state actually pays you to do it. But if you’re going through a private adoption agency or adopting from overseas etc. then it’s gonna be really expensive. The thing is that even though it’s way cheaper to adopt from the foster care system some people don’t want to do it because the kids are traumatized and “problem children” and many of those adoptions end up falling apart when the family realizes the child is not a perfect angel
Another white woman here who has traveled across borders and been on many flights, as well as many big cities in different countries of the world and I have never been randomly searched for drugs. In fact, no one in my family has either, nor many white friends of mine. Btw, a pat down before going on a flight, if you’ve set off the metal detector is not a “random search for drugs”. I HAVE been in lines for flights or at customs where a black person or a poc man wearing a traditional head scarf WERE chosen for the “random” drug search. As a teenager, I was in a very shady situation with some older people when they were stopped by a policeman. This situation had so many red flags but I don’t feel comfortable giving the details. Needless to say, the cop assessed the situation and….promptly let everyone involved go without even asking for a breathalyzer test for some of the people or the ages of my friend and I. Everyone involved was white. I can’t imagine that, had this happened to a group of poc, particularly with a white cop, the outcome would have been the same.
Ok so I grew up in LA in the 90s and I wasn't in the best neighborhood and I never got randomly searched by myself. Now if I had my friends with me we always did.
White woman here, never been randomly searched for drugs but I’ve seen other people get searched! (Not white people) we really don’t fear or even have to worry about it unless we look homeless or like a skater teen, that’s literally all we have to worry about
The closest I’ve ever gotten is a cop once asked to search my car after I was driving home from Wisconsin to Iowa with California plates at 1am lol. He asked if he could search my car, I said sure, and he didn’t end up searching it anyway lol. I think he just asked to gauge my reaction. When I cooperated, he didn’t bug me further and didn’t even give me a ticket for speeding or whatever I did to get pulled over. That’s the thing, when you’re a white guy in the Midwest, politeness and cooperation basically gets you out of most police encounters. I’ve had two or three cops act like assholes when I get pulled over but I usually talk em down pretty easy. With how many risky ass situations I’ve been in (eg, drugs in the car, expired plates, no insurance etc) I know that if I was a different color there’s a great chance I’d be dead today.
I had a pipe and weed on me and was pulled over for “speeding” and he didn’t search for drugs. I wasn’t high atm. And he was also wrong about speeding cause I was going 35 in a 35 and he thought it was 30. It was the first time I got angry at a cop and bitched at him; and I got grounded cause I got home at 1115 instead of 11. Yes I was 18 at the time but still in high school under parents curfew.
He didnt like my anger. And my friend was telling me to chill. But he didn’t give me a ticket at the end of the day. Though I could have been randomly searched and arrested In 2007
Straight white man from Canada here. I am always the "random bag check" when I travel internationally. Ive also been searched for drugs in many cities I've visited - but it entirely depended on where I went. Walking into the movie? No. Going into a music festival? Yes.
they search almost everyone if youre going into an EDM festival. A majority of people have drugs. As long as you hide them in your sock/undergarments you're generally good.
I get "randomly" searched for drugs any time I get pulled over. From a Marijuana charge from literally 20 years ago. So not factual but I get the point he is trying to make.😂😂😂😂
I, white, grew up in southern California so calling people by color,race and culture was never a matter of negative It was appreciation for each others cultures My friends with Mexican, Indiana and black were all equals to me but I knew were all different cultures and that was bad ass. Different food, parties, traditions were to be celebrated and looked forward to. Now that I've traveled to different areas of the US I've seen the same terms used to divide and hate, so in my mind it's like all terms, it's how you use them
Never been searched for drugs. In fact, fell asleep in my car in a parking lot. Woke up to a cop flashing a light in my window and knocking on it. (Driving home from a gig and was too tired to keep driving so I pulled into a closed has station parking lot to sleep). He thought I was maybe OD on heroin or something. I showed him my bag a weed and was like 'No not into that stuff. I do have some marijuana, just played a show with my band and too tired to keep driving'. He didn't check my eyes or even ask questions. Told me to have a good night and sleep in the parking lot with lights on next time.
@@jeffconn722, the Supreme Court just made supported anti-abortion efforts in an effort to "increase the domestic supply of infants", so yes adoptions should be funded.
Adoption from foster care is F-R-E-E free! Adoption from private organizations is essentially for profit. But adoption from foster care is often going to be children over 5 due to the process of TPR and they often have special needs. Either as a result of trauma or they are born neurodivergent. So there is this perception that they are less optimal than a brand new baby. Unfortunately, those same people have a lack of education on mother wounds and preverbal trauma. But that's for another time.
100% agree on the adoption stuff, just also thought I’d mention that it shouldn’t be just any body able bodied because many disabled people would be and are very capable parents as well!
White guy. Basically my only interactions with law enforcement in the wild have been voluntary outside of traffic stops. Never searched for drugs. Some random casual conversations. Once got asked for directions. My only negative experiences have been a handful of speeding tickets. It’s extra odd because I’ve driven with expired plates about a third of my adult life.
I’ve not really heard of any significant issues from any of my white friends except the ones you’d probably expect looking at them or talking to them (stoners, goth kids, people who actually were doing crimes-mostly drug related). Most black or Hispanic people I know have at least one story.
I guess my point in all this being I get why a large number of white people don’t believe this kind of discrimination is a real issue. Until it’s become a more common news/political issue in the last decade or so, if you didn’t have minority friends comfortable enough with you to tell you things like this it was entirely possible to go all the way to adulthood just not even being aware other people might have a different experience.
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Hey I've heard the music from you're intro literally everywhere, could you please let me know what it's called?
Bo Burnham does satirical comedy. It’s complete sarcasm.
@@millroyboy07 as was my entire response to this video
I’ve never seen someone drain all humor out satire like you have. If only this video was a joke.
@@JC-bs5pd He told me that he knew it was satire. Which i find it hard to believe.
why does no one realize that it’s satirical 😭 he’s playing a character. he’s making fun of people who truly think the things he is singing.
Exactly
@@artvandelay9131 because that’s always been his thing. he’s a comedy artist who sings about random stuff and throws dark/taboo topics in with it.
@@artvandelay9131 have you watched “make happy”. He literally says it was sarcastic
Yeah, no shit. Maybe you're the one missing when reactors are being sarcastic?
Exactly. This song magically makes all of the white people he’s mocking, crawl out from under their Starbucks rocks and expose themselves for what they really are.
For us to then entertain ourselves, with their virtue-signaling madness and flailing responses.
🤦♀️🤣
Bo is so good at satire that people often struggle to realise something absurd he says is satire despite it being absurd.
I blame Poe's Law
@@js2184 Poe's Law just describes dumb people. Satire is supposedly impossible to understand without the work in question blatantly pointing it out? Ya, maybe for dumb people.
It's not that he's "so good" at satire. People are just stupid as fuck
Same, but I'm either at home or at work so I don't know when I would be.
When has that ever happened?
As a white man, I have never, in my life, been randomly searched for drugs
Neither have I, but maybe it has something to do with the fact that I don't live in the US...
I have, kinda. Random traffic controll, usually only at around 1-3am.
Same
I have.
Define randomly... :3
BO: "Why did God curse me to be a straight white man?"
Loyd: Rolls eyes
BO: "I state my problems, other people roll their eyes"
Me: Dying.
I also cringe when people say "the Blacks" or just "Blacks". However, I'm fine with "Black People". When asked what I think the difference is, I try to explain it this way. Saying "the Blacks" is just boiling me down to only my skin and nothing else, almost like I'm not even a person/individual, but a color of skin. While "Black People", "Black Man", "Black Woman", etc are just descriptors. They still acknowledge us as an individual person or group of people, that just so happens to be black. Also, in my opinion, it has less negative connotations than just calling us "the Blacks".
TLDR:
"The Blacks" - at the end of the day we're just a color.
"Black People" - at the end of the day we're just everyday people, who just happen to be black.
And frankly you should only be adding the specific type of people when it's relevant. If you're telling a story that has nothing to do with blackness or civil rights there's no reason to bring it up in the first place. They're just people. It actually makes the story worse because you're adding unnecessary details and taking away from the focus of the story.
The exception being when one is referring to a family with the surname Black as a group. i.e."The Blacks are coming over for dinner."
Or
"That's the Blacks' house."
I hear "the blacks" and think of it similarly to when people say "females." If you use "female" as an adjective, such as "a female cat" or "female squirrels," sure. But if you use it as a noun, it's pretty indicative that you're using it for an object and not a person.
Thank you! I have gotten shit from people in situations that I'm just trying to describe the person. Like at my job we had one black person on our shift so when talking about him with another worker who didn't know his name I was like "Yea he's the black dude." Just giving a descriptor so you know who I mean. Just like I'd say "Yea he's the tall dude" or something like that. If I worked in a place that has mostly all black people and they referred to me as the white guy when talking to someone who didn't know my name it wouldn't be a big deal.
Goes from a noun to an adjective. From WHAT you are to an ASPECT of who you are. Makes perfect sense
This is probably my favorite Bo Burnham song. The epitome of satire
The last line is his best work.
Nah prob the ending of make happy "cant handle this". It perfectly described in a hidden manner how the music and comedy industry drags you in and then starts exploiting you for money, also how he wished he could have a private life. For example the burito part was about how when the contents spilled out he wished someone whould have warned him about it bc he whould have done it diferently. The "a part of me" part is about his audiance defines him but also destroyed his private life. Definetly the best made song he has ever made.
All of his songs are so good
yea too bad everyone here takes his sarcasm seriously lmao
Yeah my man reacting is missing all the satire.
As a straight white man, I can promise you I've walked around Baltimore, DC, Atlanta, Richmond, Denver, Tampa, Philly, Chicago, Austin, and several other major cities with COPIOUS amounts of weed and have never been randomly stopped or searched for drugs.
Same here in middle america (Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, etc, etc), lol.
@@fiatche Same. Missouri lol
nyc. denver, boston, nashvile, most of the north-east, same. its SO WEIRD some of the wacky stuff he's somehow sure of.
Once rode an elevator with a cop well i had 10gs in my pocket. He definitely knew.
john mulaney had a great joke during one of his specials around the time several states started legalizing weed recreationally. he told the crowd the news, everyone woo’d, and his response was “well dont woo if youre white, its always been legal for us.” hilariously true.
It'll always be funny and a bit painful seeing people reacting to Bo Burnham's songs and getting the completely wrong message from them. It's satire.
White woman here, never been randomly searched on the street, at the border or for a flight. I’ve literally been on the street with friends with less privilege while they were harassed and when I objected the officers apologized for interrupting my evening. The level of discrimination aimed at anyone other than middle to upper class wasps is so blatant that I have no idea how anyone manages to normalize or ignore it.
The ease with which I walk through the world compared to how other people are treated is so so wrong. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect all the time.
Women, especially white women, are way more powerful than the fascist peeps, who seem to be mostly just white males.
Same thing has happened to me (white) when i when to the airport with my wife and a friend of hers. My wife, who’s family is originally from Guatemala, got a little separated from me and was with her friend, who is also white. Both myself and her friend got through, while my wife was taken out of line and searched. I have never in my life been searched, for any reason.
I grew up in east Texas, so I always knew people were really racist, but seeing it in person with my wife has been a more visceral experience.
*ignores class
What IS it like playing on easy mode?
@@kaiserofkush accurate take. I’ve literally forgotten I picked something up and walked out of a store with it, without paying, and no one said anything to me. It is easier to keep a reasonable perspective now, having lived with my somewhat darker skinned wife for over ten years now.
I think it’s almost like a drug, because it allows a person to go through life assuming that life is fair, and everything they’ve gotten they’ve earned through merit. Because that’s what people tell us. That’s why for a lot of people it’s a tough pill to swallow, the idea that they’ve basically had a leg up on a large portion of the population since before they were born.
I've lived in Chicago, and Detroit. Never been "randomly" searched. I got blonde hair, and blue eyes. I'm not saying that there's a correlation. I'm just saying. IM JUST SAYIN
Same lived in Minneapolis for 21 years brown hair blue eyes not once got searched for anything moved to Wisconsin haven't gotten searched here in 2 years
Watch for Waupaca county... they will search you and illegally change reports. "Sheriff" Wilz is as crooked as a question mark.
I got pulled over once and refused a search and it actually worked. He literally told me "I think there's some illegal drugs in your car(there were), but you're free to go."
The context is not lost on me.
@Jay do you speak German, asking for a friend
you just sayian??
The funny part is as he introduced the song and said problems, my man here rolled his eyes. The very next sentence Bo said I say problems and people roll their eyes 😂 😂🤣🤣🤣 Nailed it
they want you to think everyone gets randomly searched for drugs, so you don't feel the blatant discrimination.
I mean, everyone does. There's 330 million people nationwide in the U.S.. I'd bet that all people including Latino, Black, White, Asian, etc. will get stopped for something.
Unless you like...met every single person and concluded some races are stopped and some aren't, which I very highly doubt.
@@FlipDaMushroom02 you cannot be serious
@@nairdacnalbel I am, because I used these things called "logic, reason, and the most minimal of critical thinking skills".
@@FlipDaMushroom02 what'd you even say? I wanna hear this possible ignorance
@@EtherealAfro In a country of 330 million people, it's impossible for one skin color to be stopped.
This is logic. Cope, seethe, and mald even...
Nope. White, 30 years old. Never been randomly searched for drugs. Most likely never will be. Song is very accurate for the vast majority of the demographic mentioned.
btw I agree about the adoption thing. It sucks that the adoption process is so convoluted and expensive.
Just adding in here: I'm a white woman. Piercings, tats, dyed hair - I definitely look like I smoke pot. Never been searched for drugs. Not randomly, not even at large parties the cops busted up. The racial disparities in policing are bullshit.
Great video! Had a lot of fun watching you react
you live in a state where pot is legal?
I live in Texas and I'm a straight hippie. Never randomly searched anywhere.
Lucky, I just have long hair and I've been stopped about 30-40 times.
@@MS_Fdgod what southern state do you live in? Texas hippie here.
do you live in a neighbourhood ravaged by crime and drugs?
42 yr old Straight White male - I've been in nearly every major city in the country over the years and I've never been stopped or randomly searched for drugs or anything else.
Y’all know Bo is a comedian right?
Right? Is this dude aware of satire?
i know right 😭
🙌
The fact you didn’t do research for this person, proves you don’t do research for anything else on your page.
Absolutely love your reactions and your ability to take a joke. Side note, I'm a straight white male and have never been randomly searched for drugs....the cops definitely had a reason when they searched me..
i have and im white so its not a racial thing.
43 year old white dude. I've been searched for drugs once 20 yrs ago. My home state borders Canada, it was common at the time for college students to travel to Canada to party, as the drinking age in the provence was 18 vs 21 state side. On one trip 4 or 5 carloads of us were re-entering the US from Canada. As we pull up to the American gate, the Border Patrol/Customs Agents tell everyone to get out of the vehicles. A few agents led us inside the building next to the gate and begin searching us and asking about the purpose of our visit, asking if we have any items to declare, any drugs etc. Meanwhile a few other agents are searching the vehicles quite thoroughly. All our bags taken out and searched, etc. The search comes up empty and we are sent on our way. I'm sure we were a sight to behold after a long weekend. I have crossed the US/Canadian border at least a dozen times. Only searched on this one occasion. I've never been searched by any US law enforcement officers.
another song that is proof bo is a genius songwriter
Yeah, I'm a 49 year old straight white male that's spent plenty of time in big cities and I've never been searched for drugs.
As a white-passing latino, I have NEVER been "randomly" searched for drugs, not in south america, not in the US and not in europe.
white guy out here on the West Coast.
never randomly stoped in the city.
only stopped once as teenager my beater car was full of friends.
Who had all of their tomatoe plants from their horticulture class on their laps.
they were trigger happy county sheriff's. Was super privileged & lucky to not get a ticket or arrested.
If I had to deal with that shit all the time. I don't even know how I would even deal with it.
“I don’t like ‘African-American’ see, I’m not an good example”
“I prefer human first” sir, you are the best example
Also why is it necesary instead of just american, why are white people in the states not called european american? Stupid need for people to label everything and divide us into tribes.
@@arifreyr2677 Yep, it’s really just to identify the “others” from the dominant class, it’s messed up
African american doesn't even work for any black person outside of the USA
White woman, 25, I’ve had my bags searched at the airport before and high school drug searches (not targeted towards me, just school sweeps)
2:08 when you said you didnt believe him about getting randomly searched. I have never been randomly searched by cops/tsa despite being pulled over a few times and flying numerous times. despite living in a bad part of town, i am never stopped when i leave a grocery store to check my receipt
where as i have seen numerous people of color get stopped/searched
I love how defensive you turned immediately without knowing that you're in the same boat lol
The piano solo is absolutely incredible
I agree one hundred percent 🔥🔥
White man, live in The Netherlands. Never have been random searched for drugs. But I can confirm that it is not equally threated. People from abroad / non white people are way more often randomly checked. Even when there is no reason for it.
9:19 The face of a man whose telling himself "don't laugh" lmao
Honestly, were you kidding on the random drug search bit? I’ve never been randomly searched for drugs. I’ve been stopped for looking like a weirdo, but never searched.
As someone who worked in the mental health field, specifically with children, in my opinion having an expensive, convoluted adoption process is important. The horrors of the foster system are no joke, and children being easy to acquire will lead to far more abuse and neglect. That being said, the current adoption system is terrible, but making it cheaper and easier is not the answer. Getting organizations who won't adopt to non-white and/or non-christian parents out of the business would be helpful. The fact that it is a business in the first place is probably the biggest problem. Just my thoughts. First time watcher who enjoyed your video!
Currently lowering the price will do nothing, at the moment the prices of adoption should be high just to help prevent (won't stop but help prevent) a large amount of abusive and neglectful people from having kids
The problem is their being a price on human beings in their first place
Aren't there social workers who check the family condition and finances to determine if they can adopt children? That's an unfair system for those who genuenly want these children
White woman here. I walked up to a police officer once while tripping on acid with weed in my pocket and asked him for directions and he pointed me in the right direction. Did not care about the weed smell lol
You are just a human, and I love your content. You are one of the only reactors who feels natural. You aren't just going for shock value. You don't over react, or pretend that you have never heard a song that everyone has heard. Keep it coming.
I have never been searched for drugs in my life. 40 year old white guy here. Not once. I smoke roll-up cigarettes using large papers, so they look like a joint would look where I am, and the police once stopped me as they were walking past me and there was a strong smell of weed in the air (weed is illegal here), and they asked me if that smell was me, pointing at my joint-like cigarette and I said “no, it’s just a roll-up.”
Guess what they said….(?)
“Ok, sorry to have bothered you - have a good day”
And then we carried on walking in different directions.
I’m sorry to say, but every man I know well, who is white, has never been searched randomly. Every person I know well who isn’t white, has been searched for drugs.
Unfortunately, you are wrong here, but you really shouldn’t be. Being wrong here is nothing to be happy about.
I'm a white male, Flint MI, was with my girlfriend who is African American, we were both exiting a store at the same time and the alarm went off that goes off if something is stolen. We both stopped, they told me, without checking me or anything, that I was ok, and then they stopped her and asked to search her/her bag.
Probably because she had a bag. You know, to PUT stuff in. Perhaps someone thought they saw you sjoplift and they were just doing their jobs. Unless this instance occurred decades ago, I think you're oversimplifying. Even if what you said is true and they are racist, that's a single occurrence out of 100s of millions a day.
@@spartanswhatisyourprofessi2825 I had a bag too. And maybe it's my area, seems decently common here, her response was pretty much like this happens all the time.
@@spartanswhatisyourprofessi2825 Also, your condescending tone doesn't really help, especially when you were wrong.
@@Guffrs this is anecdotal. One occurrence out of millions, you're painting a picture with little paint and a large canvas. Besides, why are you commenting thus instead of taking g legal action. It was racist, wasn't it? Or do you just not care and you know it's not race related and your just trying to be a white knight?
@@spartanswhatisyourprofessi2825 I wasn't making a point or saying my experience represents America or anything more than sharing my anecdote because it had something to do with the video. I think you are reading into this more than what it was. I was just sharing my experience because it surprised me that it happened. I'm not trying to crusade for a bigger cause or even make a point of any sort. If you read back over what I said, all I did was share the story. I didn't say it means America is bad or racist or draw any conclusions from it. You are the one who drew conclusions from an anecdote.
Cmon man it’s a comedy show! There’s a crowd laughing
I LOVE how you always react like he's not being ironic hahah good video
OH AND adoption is so expensive cause it shouldn't be called "adoption" it should be named like it actually is, "child trafficking"
I really hope you know bo is not being serious right?
@@michaelramirez4107 I feel like he didn’t realize this song was a joke
@@kipherburger857 lol
@@kipherburger857 You can check his Lonely Island reactions, he clearly knows but that's just how he plays it.
As a white woman I have never been randomly searched for drugs. And I lived in the 11th larges city in the US.
straight white male here, definitely have had a no turn signal coming off a frontage road turn into me and my veteran friend handcuffed on the side of the road "for our safety" as officers Rufus and Doofus searched my car for 40 mins. They found some CBD and a .5g of weed. They seized the CBD for testing and gave the weed back 😂 gotta love Illinois.
I as a white woman have never been a victim of a random drug search.
White dude here, mid-30s, lived in and around major cities my whole life and I've never been stopped and searched by the cops. The fact it's so common for people who...aren't in my demographic group, let's say...is information that should not shock me, given everything I know about the way this hell country operates, but somehow still did shock me.
The conversation about "the blacks" reminds me of a Seth Meyers joke from a few years ago. "Donald Trump says he has a great relationship with the blacks. Unless the Blacks are a family of white people, I highly doubt it."
I’m glad you seemed shocked by Bo’s lyrics. You’re reaction is exactly what he’s looking for.
My whyte spouse was pulled over before we met driving drunk and had drugs on him. He fought the cop and ran. Got to go home. They called a friend to pick him up. It’s insane the privilege!
As a 33 year old straight white male, living in a suburb of Detroit, I can confirm I have never been randomly searched for drugs.
We do not, in fact, all randomly get searched lol. Never been searched at random in my life. Closest thing was being randomly selected for extra security at an airport.
I was just yesterday rewatching all the reactions to this and was bummed you didn’t have one! Bummed no more :)
White dude here: Never been searched for drugs even when caught in seriously sketchy positions. I in fact offered the knowledge to the cop that I had weed and a knife in my pocket and he didn't care one bit then gave me a ride home with the other white guy who was walking ahead of me (we didn't know each other)😂😂😂
Edit: He did search me for safety before letting me in his front seat, but I was walking on a back county road at pitch dark nighttime so that's expected. Beward driving rural roads at night in California; you may encounter two random white guys with weed GOD FORBID they smoke you out
Mind being blown on the adoption costs. That sounds insane and such a barrier, the wellbeing of children should not be run for profit.
I (UK) have three adopted siblings, there were no fees or anything near those kinda of figures.
It took around a year to go through the process, several rounds of background checks and interviews (with a social worker and a local police officer, etc), financial stability checks and all that.
There were some minor costs involved, such as an enhanced DBS background check (under $50 per person) and travel - But the state gave a grant towards providing support for the kids, which completely covered buying a new people carrier and helped towards furnishing & decorating their bedrooms.
If it were cheaper so many more people would do it. When I’m retired I’ll probably adopt some kids since I’ll have the time to be there for them without sacrificing the money to care for them. Like a full time grandpa figure
- I was absolutely stunned when Mr Boyd revealed these criminally ridiculous costs - it's actually criminal, they are selling children; I'm in Canada, and do not know if this is the same as in the States (I'm going to assume not since Canada was colonized by the U.K. originally, so would assume we follow a similar system but who knows), but either way, I feel that the U.N. should actually step in and intervene in this matter, it's literally selling children, there is no legally viable excuse for thousands of dollars in fees to adopt a child, let alone TENS of thousands. Thank God the U.K. is doing it the correct way.
This is America, where you can be bankrupted by a medical bill. Looks like learning about the adoption thing is as shocking to people in other countries as the fact that an ambulance ride can cost a month's salary.
Gee, I appreciate Seattle more when I realize that people think you get searched for drugs in every major city. 32 years and a cop's never bothered me for anything except for that time a racist cashier tried to claim I was shoplifting. We have a lot of cop problems here as well but more and more I think it's not as bad as other places. Except for during the protests...
I've literally smoked a joint walking by cops maybe 50 times in my decade of smoking weed. Never once been stopped or searched. Randomly or otherwise
I am 32 year old white man that has lived in NYC my entire life and have never been searched for drugs, privilege is real
The end gets me every time 😅
Also, nope, never been searched for drugs.
It's his best line in any of his songs. So good.
Back in the day when I wasn't livin right I was pulled over and searched like it was my job.
Wow... in Norway it costs a total of 20-25k dollars to adopt a child... and an annual fee if a whopping 75$!
That being said, the state of Norway will pay about 10k of the adoption fee. On top of that, every parrent, including those that adopt, receive an annual payment of around 9k per child.
Wow your Nation doesn’t put the commodification of a human being over their importance , sentience, and well being ? Must be be Marxists . 💀
That is only for international children... It's the cost associated with administrative costs and fees. children born in norway are free to adopt.
as a white person i have never been randomly searched for drugs
It's amazing how there are two songs called "Straight White Male" and one of them is a pointed look at our culture through a musical lens and the other one is by Tom MacDonald.
Tom MacDonald is the king of making the dumbest possible point at the worst possible time and tricking people into being a little more racist with each song.
@@JTidiotboy The privilege of a virtue signaling Canadian. lol
@@JTidiotboy "Racism" is when you make 20 songs in a span of a year talking about how the system divides people by race.
Wait, that's the opposite of racism...
As a straight white man I also have never been searched for drugs, random or otherwise
I am a white guy, I have never been searched for drugs on the streets
but I live in New Zealand where that's not really a thing, and police mostly just leave you alone.
I have been patted down randomly at an airport but that may just be that I'm in my 20s and have a beard.
2 things:
1. As a white male (in the US), I can also say I, well as nearly every white personal I know has never randomly been searched for drugs.
2. Exactly.. why is adoption so expensive? WHO is making the majority of that money, too? The biological mother isn’t making 70-100K per child..
Everything is a business in the US....tens of thousands of kids needing a home, but you have to pay that much... Smh
"It's a human ugh"- any hardcore introvert XP
White male here, never been searched for drugs. Every BIPOC friend I have, has, on several occasions. This is what systemic racism is, man.
“EVeRY BIPOC fRiEnd” shut up
I may not have been searched for drugs, but for my highschool s random drug tests I was "randomly" selected 5 out of 6 times
As a straight white male, I have been “randomly” searched at airports, on the streets, and “randomly” stopped by police when driving including “random” car searches.
Same here. Curious what all the “never been searched” people look and dress like. ….and Im white white. Pale, strawberry blonde, freckles. Lol Ive just been sitting in my car doing nothing, and they roll up, called the dog in, etc.
@@91GT347 Yeah I wonder too, 27 years old now and been stopped multiple times. I wear hoodies and hats but look very pale.
The comments are filled with the type of people who spend their entire day on Reddit and Twitter while thinking that transferring power between federal and state governments is the equivalent to fascism incarnated. Absolute cringe lol.
Also, most of these people saying "I've never got searched, we feel the ''''''pREVILIGE'''''' of being White" are literally committing to what's known as an anecdotal fallacy, basically stating that their experience is representative of 234 million people nationwide. I hope most can actually learn nuance and logic before realizing that maybe those 234 million people do have challenges like the other 96 million these same people like to paint a broad brush with.
@@91GT347 It's because they aren't hanging around in bad places, or with bad people. It all depends on your location. If you're in a area known for drugs, crime, leaving a drug house, or something like that you have a pretty good chance of being pulled over or stopped.
@@DarkPassenger Yep. “Big cities” doesn’t really narrow it down much.
Agreed to the satire point. This is from a comedy show after all.
You gotta watch the whole show to get a fell for the guy. Hes great.
I think he is just making fun of well-off white guys complaining about how their lives are so complicated when their problems are very low level compared to others. Also making fun of how they complain about being "attacked" for not letting gays adopt kids or women wanting equal rights as if they're being victimized when the natural reality is when you oppress someone they fight back. It's being a cry bully or shedding crocodile tears. Other people have real problems like .. not being able to adopt a kid because you're gay or not being able to control your body when you're a woman.
Bo is being ironic and does not actually believe these things
White German Woman here I was searched once in my life and it was not a search it was a check if I was fine with my parents in a big city cause of bruises
White-passing biracial woman (white and Asian), obviously I've never been searched for drugs. But i specifically recall the fcked revelation that hit me after I switched schools from elementary school (northern Virginia) to high school (Washington DC).
I went shopping with my friends after school and smiled at the shopkeepers as I was accustomed to always do. but it was weird--it was like the 1st shopkeeper, 2nd shopkeeper-- they must have been in a bad mood; they didn't smile back as they have my entire life. By the 5th store and after being followed around by some of the store employees mugging us the entire time with a 😠 attitude, it dawned on my dumbself that shopping while black was a different experience, a much less friendly less welcoming experience. and the weird suspicion that was bothering me that day was culture shock at experiencing a slice of life in America inside a black friend group rather than a white friend group. Wtf.
I’m white and I was arrested for pot twice before even turning 17 small town tho so the cops knew me and my friends and were like out to get us
I am a straight white male, and I think your outlook on foster care and adoption is 100% correct. My parents are "foster parents" and I personally believe they did an amazing job preparing a child for the world. Thank you Mr. Lboyd.
I’m a white woman and I have been randomly searched for drugs at the airport but that was a random alert. I never have in the street or anywhere else.
I am white and have been pulled out of my car and put in cuffs, for my protection mind you, then had my car torn apart in a drug search. That was the worst incident but not the only. There have been more times where I was searched.
I'm a straight white man and I've been asked by police "where's the dope at," multiple times while being searched by police.
So with the adoption thing, it actually depends on how you’re adopting and what agency you’re adopting through. For example if you get licensed through the state, like directly through the child protective services agency, then it might even be free to adopt and the state actually pays you to do it. But if you’re going through a private adoption agency or adopting from overseas etc. then it’s gonna be really expensive. The thing is that even though it’s way cheaper to adopt from the foster care system some people don’t want to do it because the kids are traumatized and “problem children” and many of those adoptions end up falling apart when the family realizes the child is not a perfect angel
Another white woman here who has traveled across borders and been on many flights, as well as many big cities in different countries of the world and I have never been randomly searched for drugs. In fact, no one in my family has either, nor many white friends of mine. Btw, a pat down before going on a flight, if you’ve set off the metal detector is not a “random search for drugs”. I HAVE been in lines for flights or at customs where a black person or a poc man wearing a traditional head scarf WERE chosen for the “random” drug search. As a teenager, I was in a very shady situation with some older people when they were stopped by a policeman. This situation had so many red flags but I don’t feel comfortable giving the details. Needless to say, the cop assessed the situation and….promptly let everyone involved go without even asking for a breathalyzer test for some of the people or the ages of my friend and I. Everyone involved was white. I can’t imagine that, had this happened to a group of poc, particularly with a white cop, the outcome would have been the same.
Ok so I grew up in LA in the 90s and I wasn't in the best neighborhood and I never got randomly searched by myself. Now if I had my friends with me we always did.
White woman here, never been randomly searched for drugs but I’ve seen other people get searched! (Not white people) we really don’t fear or even have to worry about it unless we look homeless or like a skater teen, that’s literally all we have to worry about
The closest I’ve ever gotten is a cop once asked to search my car after I was driving home from Wisconsin to Iowa with California plates at 1am lol. He asked if he could search my car, I said sure, and he didn’t end up searching it anyway lol. I think he just asked to gauge my reaction. When I cooperated, he didn’t bug me further and didn’t even give me a ticket for speeding or whatever I did to get pulled over.
That’s the thing, when you’re a white guy in the Midwest, politeness and cooperation basically gets you out of most police encounters. I’ve had two or three cops act like assholes when I get pulled over but I usually talk em down pretty easy. With how many risky ass situations I’ve been in (eg, drugs in the car, expired plates, no insurance etc) I know that if I was a different color there’s a great chance I’d be dead today.
I had a pipe and weed on me and was pulled over for “speeding” and he didn’t search for drugs. I wasn’t high atm. And he was also wrong about speeding cause I was going 35 in a 35 and he thought it was 30. It was the first time I got angry at a cop and bitched at him; and I got grounded cause I got home at 1115 instead of 11. Yes I was 18 at the time but still in high school under parents curfew.
He didnt like my anger. And my friend was telling me to chill. But he didn’t give me a ticket at the end of the day. Though I could have been randomly searched and arrested In 2007
Straight white man from Canada here. I am always the "random bag check" when I travel internationally.
Ive also been searched for drugs in many cities I've visited - but it entirely depended on where I went.
Walking into the movie? No.
Going into a music festival? Yes.
they search almost everyone if youre going into an EDM festival. A majority of people have drugs. As long as you hide them in your sock/undergarments you're generally good.
I get "randomly" searched for drugs any time I get pulled over. From a Marijuana charge from literally 20 years ago. So not factual but I get the point he is trying to make.😂😂😂😂
I, white, grew up in southern California so calling people by color,race and culture was never a matter of negative
It was appreciation for each others cultures
My friends with Mexican, Indiana and black were all equals to me but I knew were all different cultures and that was bad ass. Different food, parties, traditions were to be celebrated and looked forward to. Now that I've traveled to different areas of the US I've seen the same terms used to divide and hate, so in my mind it's like all terms, it's how you use them
Just here to add to all the “I’m white and have never been randomly searched for drugs in my entire life”
You're dropping Harry Mack and Bo Burnham in the same day? Thank you sir. If you add Bill Burr and Chris Stapleton, you'll completely blow my mind.
Never been searched for drugs. In fact, fell asleep in my car in a parking lot. Woke up to a cop flashing a light in my window and knocking on it. (Driving home from a gig and was too tired to keep driving so I pulled into a closed has station parking lot to sleep). He thought I was maybe OD on heroin or something. I showed him my bag a weed and was like 'No not into that stuff. I do have some marijuana, just played a show with my band and too tired to keep driving'. He didn't check my eyes or even ask questions. Told me to have a good night and sleep in the parking lot with lights on next time.
i love bo burnham. btw, i love everyone and wish you all the best!
We love you, too!
We love you Scott!
As a white man, I've never been randomly searched for drugs.
Adopting your first child should be funded. You’re doing an amazing thing.
No. Why should it?
@@jeffconn722, the Supreme Court just made supported anti-abortion efforts in an effort to "increase the domestic supply of infants", so yes adoptions should be funded.
Only time I got "searched" for drugs was when the drug dog came to school sniffing people's backpacks
I'm literally crying at this song again, I fucking love this shit.
The last lines are his best lines of all his songs.
Never been searched for drugs in my life and I KNOW I've smelled like weed in public. The cops are not sneaky about who they're choosing to search
Never been searched.
Adoption from foster care is F-R-E-E free! Adoption from private organizations is essentially for profit. But adoption from foster care is often going to be children over 5 due to the process of TPR and they often have special needs. Either as a result of trauma or they are born neurodivergent. So there is this perception that they are less optimal than a brand new baby. Unfortunately, those same people have a lack of education on mother wounds and preverbal trauma. But that's for another time.
100% agree on the adoption stuff, just also thought I’d mention that it shouldn’t be just any body able bodied because many disabled people would be and are very capable parents as well!
Honestly I'd take anybody who's well adjusted and self aware
White guy. Basically my only interactions with law enforcement in the wild have been voluntary outside of traffic stops. Never searched for drugs. Some random casual conversations. Once got asked for directions. My only negative experiences have been a handful of speeding tickets. It’s extra odd because I’ve driven with expired plates about a third of my adult life.
I’ve not really heard of any significant issues from any of my white friends except the ones you’d probably expect looking at them or talking to them (stoners, goth kids, people who actually were doing crimes-mostly drug related). Most black or Hispanic people I know have at least one story.
I guess my point in all this being I get why a large number of white people don’t believe this kind of discrimination is a real issue. Until it’s become a more common news/political issue in the last decade or so, if you didn’t have minority friends comfortable enough with you to tell you things like this it was entirely possible to go all the way to adulthood just not even being aware other people might have a different experience.
you have such a soothing voice!
I've never been RANDOMLY searched for drugs. I have been searched for drugs but I gotta tell you I deserved it.