Chapter 1: What is black fatigue and why is it a relevant topic?
Now this conversation might piss a lot of people off, but it's time we get into black and ghetto fatigue. Let's talk about it.
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I don't know how this one's going to be taken, but I feel like this is a conversation that needs to be had because I keep seeing this particular phrase or these particular phrases pop up all over the place and it's black fatigue and ghetto fatigue. And first we have to talk about what these things mean. Okay, so the phrase black fatigue has actually changed over time.
Interestingly enough, when you look up the term black fatigue, you're going to find that it's derived from an author, Mary Frances Winters, and her book titled Black Fatigue, How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit.
And the term was originally used to describe the feeling that black people have in facing systemic racism and systemic oppression, a fatigue that only black people experience because of their black experience in a Western colonial system. But now you've seen black fatigue taking another direction online. And it's people essentially saying they're tired of black culture.
They're tired of ghetto behavior. They're tired of black people. behavior, essentially. Now, of course, I'm going to put a disclaimer on this video. Not all black people behave in a way that is later used to justify feeling black fatigue.
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Chapter 2: How has the definition of black fatigue evolved over time?
Not all black people are engaging in the black culture that we are going to talk about in today's video. But there is a very present issue I think that our society is facing right now, and it's leading to things like black or say ghetto fatigue. So we're going to break down this issue. And I've seen a number of people do this on YouTube already.
Shout out to Amir Odom who did a huge video on black fatigue and teen takeovers. I recommend you go and watch that. I'm going to show you some examples of what people are talking about when they say they're experiencing black and ghetto fatigue. This video says, quote, the definition of you can't take black people anywhere.
650,000 likes on that with people just getting down in a restaurant filled with tons of people on a packed night where people are trying to work. Here's another one. In Houston, the gas station is the after hours spot, meaning this is happening late at night at a Houston gas station. So you hear loud music playing, you hear somebody saying, we're out here in the hood, period.
Here's another one from ABC News 7, hundreds of teens take over Chicago neighborhood.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Now I'm going to read some of the comments here. Some say, I'm tired of this. Some say, well, well, well. And essentially they're going, well, well, well, I know exactly who the people are who are going to be responsible for this sort of behavior. And it's actually a pop culture reference, which I won't get into right now.
Well, well, well.
There's a lot of levels to this, and I don't even know that I can unpack all of this in an entire video. It's going to take maybe multiple parts to get down to the bottom of all this, but we're gonna start today. Another person writes, fatigue is real with a broken heart. We're gonna get into another video. This one shows a bunch of people populating in a burger spot.
So over and over again, it seems to be the same story. A ton of people getting together, a ton of it seems really young black people, loud music, screaming, congregating in areas where you probably aren't supposed to be congregating, where people are trying to do their jobs, where others are trying to get things done and lead their normal lives.
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Chapter 3: What examples illustrate the phenomenon of black fatigue in society?
So we got through kids and the dependency on government and welfare systems that we have set in place in our country. Let's talk about how these children are acting. Here's a video on TikTok that says we got to save our children.
We got to save our children. We got to save our children.
So for those of you who do not understand what these kids are saying, they're saying things like we're gonna pop their ass, we're gonna shoot people, essentially.
They're saying we have ops out here, which if you don't know what that means, they're saying they have enemies in their community and that's why they are armed with toy guns to shoot their toy enemies, I guess, and the other little kids who are running around in these neighborhoods who are their ops. Let's keep watching.
Before I blow, I'm going to blow. Before I blow, before I leave, I got to blow all this. I'm going to pray for you. You hear me, my boy? All of my water. Crazy.
And it's so crazy to watch these videos because you know that these kids are going to grow up and keep emulating this behavior, but in far more serious ways than maybe what you see displayed in these videos. You have ballet teachers, kindergarten teachers saying that kids are showing up to class, wanting to listen to rap music, wanting to dance to Sexy Red and Meg Thee Stallion.
And I mean like five-year-old ballet classes. That's what people are dealing with in some of these communities.
And I've already shown you videos of the teen takeovers that are happening in places like Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, where black teens are getting together to the tune of hundreds, if not thousands of them, and deciding particular places, establishments, that they're going to show up and essentially create mobs.
And in these mobs, there's loud music, there's screaming, there's often violence, sometimes shootings. It's getting out of hand. And when you watch videos like the little kids I just showed you, it's very easy. easy to figure out how they may end up at some of these teen takeovers and in other horrible positions within these communities.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of ghetto behavior on community perceptions?
Who said that suits were for white people? Who said that cordyceps were for white people and that machos were for white people? And of course we draw these lines in sensing certain patterns and you do see predominantly white people or white men in particular dressing in these ways and acting in these ways.
But just because a black man chooses to then engage with that part culturally or to dress in that way culturally does not mean that he's in fact trying to be white. And if you don't think this runs deeper
than a tiktok video i'm gonna bring up some interesting research that was done by none other than roland fryer and paul torelli now roland fryer has spoken about on this channel before he was a harvard professor he had a very tumultuous career because of a lot of the things that he was studying but he did an empirical analysis on acting white and he actually found that within low-income predominantly black communities what would happen is that as black kids started to achieve academically so
started to raise their standards and perform better within education, they were labeled as acting white and they became far less popular within their respective communities and with their friends and peers. Now, when they stepped out of these communities into places of different economic statuses and of different racial makeups, this idea of acting white essentially disappeared.
People were not making this accusation against other students. They were not treated in a similar fashion for being successful and for achieving academically. And beyond that, we have to acknowledge the fact that this is not always what black culture was. And with that, I'm going to get into this video that sort of spawned this entire idea for me.
I wonder why so many people recoil away from us. They don't recoil away from us because of the color of our skin. That's foolish. They recoil away from us because our culture sucks. And I know that's a lot for a lot of people to take in because we're supposed to be nice. We live in a very PC culture, but you're not going to get that from me. Our culture, black culture, sucks. It just does.
Nobody wants to live around it. We have to look at how black culture has so put an impression in people's minds that that's something they want to get away from and not something that they want to be associated with. It's 100% cultural. The fact is, black culture today is in such shams that it causes people to recoil away from it.
Before the 1960s, the man to aspire to be in the black community was the pastor, the entrepreneur, and the father. Those were the three. Wow. What we've managed to do since the 60s, going into the 70s, there was something called blaxploitation films.
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Chapter 5: How does black culture influence societal norms and expectations?
Blaxploitation films were films that glorified Things that used to be taboo in black culture, namely pimping, hustling, drug selling, being a degenerate. They glorified all these things in the 70s films. And it wasn't something that the whites or the Jews were doing to us. No, you have black actors who are all too willing to play the part.
As you get into the 80s, into the 90s, you have the introduction of gangster rap and you have the introduction of all these things which are leaning heavy into this degenerate culture. If you look at black and white photos from the 40s of black families and white families, you see no distinguishable difference. They dress the same. They look the same. They walk the same.
They take care of their families the same. Everything's the same. There's no emphasis on being black and being separate and being different. You don't get that until the 70s with the say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud, this kind of black culture.
He's saying the uncomfortable part out loud, that not only do people not want to engage in this behavior, they don't want to be around people who are engaging in this behavior. And instead of having a conversation about that, I think we sort of deflect and stop people from taking accountability. We blame others. We blame whiteness. We blame racism.
Sometimes when you look at lower income communities who are struggling with
these issues and maybe white people or higher income people or differently educated individuals move into these communities we call it gentrification when those people can no longer withstand living in those communities and they leave because this behavior is taking place we call that white flight and an important part of this discussion is that black culture was not always like this as he stated in that video but that it also doesn't have to continue to be like this
We can work our way out of this. And where I could go a thousand more directions in this video. And as I said before, I will probably need a part two. I will close out this video with black people who are also experiencing black and ghetto fatigue, because I think this can so often be packaged as white people judging black people or white supremacy or bigotry.
And I've already stated that a million times, but black people are over this too. And it's okay to say that. So here are some examples.
If you're a black American, I need you to stay right here. If you're not, I'll give you a few seconds so you can go on and scroll on by. Great. Okay. We need to have a talk. You know, it comes to a point where supporting and defending your community just is, it becomes so exhausting that you feel this frustration that
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