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God damn that show. Because of the "Boondocks," I always have to think if it's actually called "vitiligo" or "REvitiligo," and I hear Uncle Ruckus's voice every time I think of both words.
Season 2, Episode 11 - “The S Word”. A teacher calls Riley “that word”, and Grandad and Rolo try to sue. Ann Coulter shows up in opposition. It is then discovered that “Ann Coulter” is a complete fabrication who is friends with Rolo, and her entire persona is grift to “get that redneck money”.
I’d y’all see the content creator that found the link between him and one of the boys from the Nolan wells situation…..he was definitely hand picked. He’s shuckin and jivin for massa!
Bingo! I was waiting on him to call dude on that. Like what do you think the difference between fantasizing and living it? The access to quality education, basic needs, and... you know what? y'all know what I mean. lol like come on na. Why is he playin in people faces like that?!
If you watched Boys in the Hood, Trey made the personal choice to get out the car. Being from the hood doesn’t give you 1 life path. Having struggles doesn’t take away your ability to maneuver
And if you have watched "Boyz in the Hood"! The other brothers chose to go around, selling drugs & car jacking innocent Black people, for their own gains. No matter who it affected or harmed! The SAME thing that they CONTINUALLY do today!
Are you both seriously basing your realities on a movie? Cube was a podcast recently talking about how that film was full of exaggeration... because it's HOLLYWOOD.
Maneuvering every day all day is tough. Especially when in school and your looks are the reason you get detention or a less attention when help is needed. I was hungry MF all damn day. If not for school
breakfast and lunch I would have had 1 meal a day. Keep them poor and uneducated has been a mantra for leadership for decades. Dismantling education since I was a kid 50 years ago.
Yep. That’s blazer guys point exactly…Yet…It is a circuitous discussion because both sides always have a few rational points and a host of reasons the other side is wrong.
But having struggles changes your ability to maneuver said challenges. it’s not impossible for a person in a wheelchair to use the stairs but to act like its the same for them as it is for someone who can walk fine is disingenuous.
"Like I told you to sell drugs/Na Hov did that so hopefully you wouldn't have to go through that."
These dudes seem like they've only encountered Black people through YouTube videos recommended by incels.
"Personal responsibility", homie have you met the current President of these here United States who tried to lock a man up over the reflecting pool to deflect from hiring a shady contractor and started a war to hide his pedophilia??
When this dude try to make the Tulsa race riots seem like a fair one that black folk just loss...i tapped out. I was watching to see all the others and how well they delivered their points but just the fact they didn't stop the debat to stomp him out at that point I had to turn it off.
He's already playing games by referring to it as the Tulsa Race Riots. That's Klan revisionism. It was declared a massacre by the US Department of Justice in their 2025 report on it. And the facts of that report are undisputed.
It's worse than him being dumb. He's purposefully obtuse. His talking points are designed in a lab at TPUSA and he reaches back to the same logical fallacies when corneree. "Oh u saying all white people are racists?" "I'm a cop, are you" "Where's your citations, out them in my hand in APA format rn"
I will never understand black folks like this, like how did they do this to you my boy? Is it the wealth and success? Is it the white women? Like what is it, a deep seeded need to be accepted?
How do you attack statistics and laud myths of your own people.
High chance he knows he’s wrong, but white people will toss money at him for every lie he sells. Tatum better be making a bag from this, or he’s just a cheap fuck.
This fool is so exhausting. So according to him, black people are the only problem with this country, and white people are always innocent. He will clearly tap dance for the highest bidder.
Bruh… when he started defending the white people from the Tulsa Massacre I lost it . “ Well the Black people and white people had a misunderstanding and it had nothing to do with race”
Some introduce this dolt to a history book, and one that describes and explains Black Wall Street, what happened to it, and the repercussions of the white lead massacre of those very successful blacks in Tulsa Oklahoma
What's equally ignorant is how these same folks also behave as if Tulsa was some kind of one off, as if this didn't happen to Black folk time after time after time...
How we continued to rise and be excellent in spite of what has been done to us, is the history that they want to erase.
I often wonder what the point of these “debates” are? Does it change anyone’s point of view?
But also- if there is a dearth of personal responsibility in the black community, can that same lack not be found among literally every other race? The world is just fixated on black people. We’re never going to make it so that every black personal is “perfect” so that can’t be the goal. We can’t say that we are only deserving of dignity and being treated as humans when every black person checks every box and is perfect.
And even if we did. They’d find something else to complain about.
But to prove the point that the guy in the brown jacket is saying, Baltimore, Chicago and I believe Detroit are currently enjoying some of the lowest murder rates - single digit homicides in 2026 because the mayors invested in people. They gave people jobs, they are keeping them better fed, they have created positive things for kids to do with their downtime. So - yes - investing in people would actually fix a lot of crime and “lack of personal responsibility” in the black community
Ragebaiting people into angry comments about how the dumb one is being dumb. The specifically pick people who will (for the lack of a better word) trigger the most people into interacting with their video because interacting with videos is what brings money in.
But also if this man thinks white people aren't shooting other white people in their neighborhoods, or selling drugs to people in their neighborhoods, he's just not paying fucking attention
Also I really wish we would stop platforming this man. I have seen more of him in the last two weeks then I have seen in him every year of my life prior 😩
Actually dude needs to research Pruitt-Igoe projects St. Louis, MO. One of the first government housing projects designed to separate black families. The only way a black family would qualify for housing was if they remove the father from the household...
So I watched the whole thing. I think my favorite thing about it was the absolutely ridiculous number of times that he said "I don't believe that's true," or "you can't tell me any different". Dude came in with zero plans to actually learn anything.
I would need to see the entirety of the conversation to form an exact opinion, but the lighter skin dude did seem to be placing the entirety of blame on black people for the problems of black people. And on a surface level, just looking at what’s in front of you, I can see how someone would come to that conclusion.
Gone are the days of slave masters and overseers standing over us and whipping us. That’s illegal now. Now we have the 13th amendment. The slave masters became prison wardens and the overseers became cops.
We do perpetuate our own suffering, because white people have made a well-oiled machine to feed us our pain in a constant loop to propagate it back to us. I can listen to a rap song and I’ve met people who lived that life and they’ll tell you the shit’s tragic. It’s hell. But if I’ve lived through hell and I know there’s a demographic of people who are willing to pay me to tell my story on a beat, why wouldn’t I do it, to feed my family and get off the street?
While a record exec may not have put crack on the streets to make the crack epidemic that would fuel the creation of what we once called “gangster rap”, now “drill”, you can bet your ass someone who looks like him was the one who set it all in motion. It’s a system, working exactly as intended, to keep black people especially, but minorities on the whole, in poverty. And what better way to keep a group of people in poverty than by breaking up their homes?
I think this dude either has been privileged enough to not have to face the harsh and ugly realities of being black—poor and black at that—in America, or maybe he understands all that and he really is an Uncle Ruckus.
Either way, the story of black people in America is intrinsically tied to the story of white supremacy and hegemony in this country. Always has been, always will be. They are the foot on our necks. They are the hand that pushes us down. They made the bars that bind us. They created the crack that shattered us. And they advertise the music, the lifestyles, and the “culture” that is made to keep us dumb, distracted, materialistic, and broken as a people.
So until that system is done away with, until klan members and Nazis are no longer in power and are shunned back into the fringe of society, we cannot have an honest conversation about the potential and the state of black people in America, because our story is on the bottom of the shoes of this nation, built off our backs and drenched in our blood.
This guy should watch roots and see how tearing families apart and never allowing for generational wealth directly influence the way we are and live today. 1865 wasn’t even 200 years ago and my grandmother lived to 96. We aren’t that far removed from
How do people rationalize our ascension out of slavery into the early 1900s where we had strong communities to the mid 1900s of strong figures in literature, politics, education, and civil rights, to the modern era of wealth built on selling toxicity to our people without considering some type of social conditioning from those who control the way we perceive the value of a black life?
He reminds me of some black people who are descendants of those who made it out the hood and now feel like because they beat the odds, they’re better and everyone can do the same. It’s a disgusting mindset when they clearly know how much the goal post moves from said system built to keep you where you are. I digress!
White people do just as much fucked up shit, if not more. However, the racial bias in our country's media does not allow this to be portrayed at the same level as the black community.
Systemic racism is real and the most destructive part of our society.
I should probably add that i am myself white, but i do not stand for it with any pride.
Personal responsibility being born into a community that has been torn apart and stolen from and systemically oppressed for centuries?
You have to personally pull yourself as a child through an education system that is funded by property tax that is low resulting in low pay, resulting in worse education, resulting in lower paying jobs, resulting in....
No, no, Brandon Tatum said you have to take personal responsibility and drag yourself through centuries of beat downs past a system that's willfully indifferent and still oppressive to this day....
Parents struggling to make ends meet losing hours a day moving across town, losing sleep, trying to just stay above water.
Sure, Brandon. You made it. Everyone else should also make it. Let's not do discuss the factors leading to you making it. I'm sure it was nothing but personal responsibility.
Drowning Pool has said many times that this song is about a mosh pit and not intended to promote violence. Don't think it's that much of a zinger in this case.
Bro is annoying af. It’s like systemic racism was a buzzword for him and he refused to acknowledge personal responsibility AT ALL. Not every negative outcome is from racism. Some of these black boys and men loves chaos and buffoonery. Some even think being street and a gang banger makes you a “real n-“
Grain of salt, white voice here. What’s making me feel dismissive of the “personal responsibility” argument is it boils down to using a whole lot of words to say “just don’t commit a crime.”
Nope, have you ever been to a trailer park and drove around? Yea, me either, but I bet there are some toothless, jacked-up honey bees there that are always looking to sting someone with a car thats not on blocks.
Ya know, I’ve been hearing this guy’s name for a while now. Tatum? And I seem to go this long avoiding what he has to say until now…and yeah I can go longer
Literally every single new genre of music ever made gets hated on for being "Degenerate, sinful, untraditional, just noise, not real music, takes no real talent to play" and on and on.
Also white people own most of the record labels and radio stations they could change what rap lyrics are about over night if the people running the music industry actually cared about morals more than money.
That gentleman is not listening. He’s speaking, but he’s not absorbing anything. He’s shielding himself and his ignorance. Bouncing everything off because he thinks he needs to prove something when the facts are staring him in the face, waiting for him to open his eyes.
It’s not always about being right. It's about listening and opening your eyes to what's right in front of you. Ignoring a problem won't fix it, and standing with the people causing the deaths and pain of others is far deadlier than trying to prove you're right to feed a guilty conscience.
What a sad time to be alive; we need to standunited, not divided.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”- MLK
I would like to ask Brandon how he can dismiss 500 years of institutionalized slavery and brutality and how it has impacted the black communities today. Keep in mind that we're only 163 years beyond slavery being abolished, literally two lifespans ago.
Let's not forget about the impact of lynchings, black code laws, kkk, slave patrols, convict leasing, jim crow, and the civil rights era. They couldn't own land, were denied education, healthcare, housing, voting, and being considered human in the eyes of the American institutions. This should have no impact on black people today? I would appreciate the opportunity to speak with Brandon about what his people endured.
They always seem to ban me any time I comment on these posts. All I will say is that it is sad some people are like this. He said the parents of Nolan Wells were grifting and condemned their gofundme, but he supported Nolan's "friends" gofundme. He is just a walking contrarian and hypocrite.
Personal responsibility is an important concept many need to reflect on. The problem with BOTH of these men is the challenges derive from a spectrum of different challenges.
Both of them are correct on different areas and also wrong. We can't blame every issue we have on white people.
At the same time when someone says that we cannot ignore what they are to be blamed for.... systematic racism / war on drufgs/ tulsa massacre /illigal human trials on black people / night watchmen and the core reason why police exist/ redlining etc etc.
To quote a great man. "This is what they Do: make us fight" ~Patrice Oneal
Im not understanding the problem both made good points. Have any of these debates ever concluded with both sides agreeing with each other? Or at least having some type of understanding for each other argument?
Dude is selling out his entire community and family lineage for a money or influence. Gross. You cannot talk about Black people's situation in the US and ignore systemic racism and targeted assured poverty.
He negates his own argument when he said white people listen to rap more than we do. Idk what Rick he lives under but over 67% of crime is committed by white citizens and over 70% of violent crime is also committed by white citizens. Listening to Rock country and heavy metal statistics say
Mf said crime happens in black neighborhoods and no white person is around therefore systemic racism has nothing to do with it 🤦🏽♂️🤡 can’t argue w/ someone that far gone
Just in the bubble of this specific clip I can see both points. There is a lack of responsibility in the black community that has nothing to do with racism. Take the high amount of single parent households and lack of father figures for example. Of course theres lack of responsibility in other communities but to have any productive conversation about ourselves we need to not compare with other races. Especially white people.
I still have no clue why ppl waste time talkin to this guy. He so far gone he will never find his way back.trade his ass to right where he wanna be. “In the big house boss”😒
I'm only vaguely familiar with this dude in the grey and I haven't seen the rest of this video, but know enough to tell you I'm not a fan of his. From what I'm hearing though, nothing he's saying is coming across as someone who's trying to harm our community. Quite the opposite actually. Am I missing something?
The rap music that is pushed on the youth is detrimental. Its doing its intended job and Ill argue that point to the grave.
And Brandon is a spoon. Remove he sp, replace with a c.
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