“I Had to Turn My Blackness Up” - Comedians on Being Black 

Why Philadelphia 🌹, come up to west Philly love ur comedy 👍

Indeed. I love Roy.

It's not WOW. But yes it was perfectly said.

I loved his segment. Really honest!

Pure GOLD

All day everyday.

I've ALWAYS thought that, ever since Blackish

Yes he is.

Right 🤤

Kinda??????

I liked how some audience members got that joke late. You can hear the laughter build slowly after he already told the joke.🤣

I saw the whole show, he is 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯

Yep. Pure class. He’s got funny in his bones.

😂😂😂

Facts LOL

He telling the truth. Its called Code-Switching..

Whenever we need to lol!

Right😅

I’ve never heard it put that way, “We have to manage our blackness” … too funny! This is a great show

You go to work, usually around 1 or more people from a different tribe, and say to yourself, "here comes this bullshi_ I gotta put up with , damn! Be free as a mutha when you leave to be around those who you voluntarily want to be around. 🤣

I love that you were once so naive, you didn't know what black person meant. I think that's beautiful

My son didn’t know he was fully black until he was like 9 He’s 11 now…. And i was the white parent of his mixedness lol All i could do was laugh. He used to be very literal he was caramel so he was mixed and anybody darker than him was black anybody lighter than him was white 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

@@elisepentz1063 I didn’t know I was black until I went to college

@@elisepentz1063 what's more beautiful is that his white friend also didn't know that he was black. think abou thtat.

@@j9ke3r you're right!

IKR😂😂😂

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ME TOO

😂😂😂😂WOOOOOORD WE WENT SWIPING LEFT ON SOOOOO MANY COMEDIANS JUST NOW .. Seeking NEW and DOPE TALENT ..SOH‘s .. like NOT REALLY LOUGHING ONCE UNTILL FINNALLY DION SANDERS HIT IT DA MAGIC BUTTON 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

he is might that is wrong with America white people been mess it up for years look how much debt we are in because of white people. they do not hold no one back they can't even get ahead.

He's everything.

He is Sooo Fine!❤

lol When you said "a whole bird," I somehow pictured a live bird of any random type and wondered, where is this story going..? 😂😅

@@TaylorMaurandbhangra 😃 - I can see the confusion.

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Dionte'.....😂😂😂😂

Funny how white ppl LOL HARD at jokes about US BUT ABOUT THEM ,selectively lol.

Me too

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You mixed your comment does count for black people. Please bleach your skin

@ngalahansel6066 I think that's why I'm starting to love music from various countries in Africa so much now because it's SOOO different from ours, but in a beautiful way. Not that ours (American Descendants of Enslaved Africans) isn't beautiful, because we created life from the death they they forced upon us. But, there's a happiness or a different story being told and reaches something deep in me on a spiritual level.

Is there not sad music in Cameroon recently about the civil war and violence? I will admit the only Cameroonian music in the U.S. I hear is Daphne

@@lyndseyfifield you've not heard of Manu Dibango? Michael Jackson copied the guy's song "Makossa" and it's not one bit sad lol. Daphne I'd certainly a big deal but she's not aa famous and has for the past few years nor dropped a hit

Nah bro west africa has sad music veeewry close to what we call blues

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Ikr? Roy Woods is 🔥

I’m not saying black people didn’t have a history of oppression in this country in the past. And I’m asking this sincerely and respectful, not to cause an argument…why is only America blamed? Africa sold their own people so why isn’t African countries blamed for black American oppression and slavery? And while the country isn’t perfect, and nothing will ever be perfect, there’s such a huge difference in the country today compared to other centuries and even as recently as the 1960s. Roy was talking about singing songs of freedom in Africa but how was there so much freedom and happiness if they were selling slaves?? Our country is no where close to where it was and this isn’t a racist country. There are racist PEOPLE. I’ll never argue that because there is. But there’s racist people in every race of people. I don’t argue that there wasn’t oppression or slavery and that black Americans did not have very very hard times in the past. But I just feel like most people in this country want to constantly focus so much on the past and aren’t able to recognize just how much this country has changed and ALOT of facts about the present and past are overlooked.

​@@ryanwilson5914not all Africans are the same ethnic group or country and will have different cultures, the Arabic or Bedouin originated Africans mostly sold the more bantoid and adjacent related Africans like lemba and the Ashanti etc. Africa is a continent not a country, unfortunately America just happens to own a huge chunk of the north American continent as their country.

@@nazareneoftheway3936 I understand that but people from this country didn’t go over and just take people. The slaves that were in America were bought from these African countries. People didn’t just go steal people. That’s what I’m trying to say.

@@ryanwilson5914 well said. We have much more to consider. I heard a scientist on youtube say, "we are the universe having a human experience" This simple statement opens me to a new way of thinking. Cosmic consciousness.

@@ryanwilson5914Every country has slaves goofy. India has a caste system and wasn’t Irish people looked down upon. I’ve noticed white people always mentioning this topic seem like you want to divide black people even more but only the uneducated will fall for it

But this was posted 5 da7s ago

​@@narekhart9862 5 days ago was still during Black history month. The point was keep it going during the other months.

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@@acousticblu ik the point

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Agree, she is super clever and it's a much needed sentiment in today's social environment

I thought I was the only person who asked an older relative if they where white like that. My case it was my Great Grandma I was confused as hell that summer.

@@spiceyboogerspiceybooger6437 My daughter asked my mom when she was 3 years old (who isn't white by the way, but rather fair like myself). Her exact words were "Mimi, why are you white?" lol. My mother was so upset!! The irony is the daughter that asked, is super fair as well. All very, and wonderfully confusing.

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That is something that I always tell my biracial family members like they don't even (Or allowed to) celebrate your Whiteside, because society already deemed you as "black", and I'm like I'm no because just like I'm multiracial and I got people who just stepped off the boat from Africa and Asia I always got to tell my Caucasian afromix family members you are mixed be proud of your mix. Celebrate ALL THE COLORS. Don't be ashamed of the white history and your family even if it seems racist is still a part of what made you JUST DON'T IGNORANTLY REPLICATE IT. I LOVE YOU MY LIGHT-SKINNED COUSINS 😘

Do you live in Africa all your life?

White people are not hold no one back they are broke and don't have any money, isn't nothing worse than a white person on drugs.

Yeah, he ruled!

Right😂😂😂

📠. The only funny comedian in this clip show video

Because we are not a monolith....ijs

Thanks bcz deon Cole kinda sexy to me and I wanna see him

Thank you!

Love this! Thanks so much! ❤

Greer Barnes was amazing!

Planet BLACK BLACK

As a South African.... Okay I'll let the dance slide.

@@thandongonyama4254 🤣I'm with you on that one Thando, let's let it slide😂😂😂😂

Me too ❤S.A.

For real

Yeah, she is gorgeous.

This was my first time seeing all of them except for Deon . I literally LMAO! I will be looking for them, especially Roy Wood! Hilarious!

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😂😂😂😂

Haha😂

cousins!😂😂

I think he has become so much funnier these last years. When he entered the Daily Show staff I was like: Okay, diversity means bringing unfunny people to the set, too? But he has honed his craft so much, he leaves you with that giggle deep inside that stays with you for some time now.

He was telling the truth.

Deon is underrated as a comedian! Very funny guy.

What you trying to say

Whites too

All the bullshit black people have to endure in America yes it has to be

Aboriginal American Health is More Important

​@@GeezCte There is no "more important." It's all important. Such a weird comment.

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Hilarious and accurate!! No NBA and Track either!😂😂

CRYING

That's called code switching. All black people do it

It's called "assimilating."

Yep, Black people have to code switch often. I feel so good around my own people after leaving these negative white spaces.

We didn’t have a word for it growing up but, yes, code switching… assimilating… and being Black in America sum up the experience. White spaces are the absolute worst and my people always look forward to cleansing the palette and getting back to being ourselves.

@empresssk I try to not code switch. I try to be myself in all spaces but even with that being said it's some cases you just have to and that is sad. I should be able to be my free self just like anyone else. I agree with u. It takes a toll.

You on your on Playa 😂

Something no girl with a black boyfriend ever said.

@@2nd3rd1st ☺️

Sadness, angry,blues...Roy wood junior...I loved it. Native African songs are happy...

And the Knicks beating the celtics 15-13 in overtime, that cracked me up

Bless you

I truly missed that group of students, I know they won't be understood the way I did , and who will stand and advocate for them the way I did

totally get your point (I too have had some of my best teaching experiences with groups that were set aside by others), but I'm going to be a bit pedantic... it's so called "problem students" not "so called problem students"... regardless, upvoted

I normally don't do stuff like this, but since you are a teacher, quotations should go around "so called" shouldn't be included in quotations

Yes, caught the error, thanks 😊

I'm so white I had to google "4C hair"... a whole new world of information and classification that I knew nothing about, but makes perfect sense.

And cute

@@frederickweeks4962 yup, the three oil paintings bit touched me.

Anyone hear of "To Understand Humanity" on kindle

Anyone hear of "To Understand Humanity" on kindle

you mean 'it behooves you to leave me alone ...' 🤣 One of my nursing teachers would always say that before a test: 'it would behoove you to review chapters 8 and 9 by Friday'; she said it so much we would try to beat her to it 😂

Because it’s true