W. Kamau Bell
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
This is actually hard for me.
This is actually not fun for me.
And I would hope that you understood that.
white guy, you know what I mean?
So it's really the, yeah, yeah, no, it's some of my best whites are friends.
Uh, so, but it was really just the idea that like I had to do, there was two battles to fight the battle of like getting, dealing with the clan and then the battle with like showbiz not being designed for people who aren't white men.
The funny thing was, so there were some people that there was split into two groups.
There was one group of the clan members who were like, they're wanting to talk to me and explain to me what they believed and why black people were inferior, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And then there were people, there were some who just wouldn't talk to me because it was like the, you know, a snake has entered the parlor.
You know what I mean?
So it just like stayed clear for me.
The person who was the most angry at me was this blonde, white, young, white, young white woman.
who looked like she would come in third in a Britney Spears, young Britney Spears lookalike contest.
And I remember thinking like,
Your biggest problem is you live here.
Like if I took you to L.A., you would have a totally different life.