"Was That Racism or Southern Hospitality?" · Growing Up Non-White in the South | Denver
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0:00act like they’re all nice, but it’s like, yo, like you grow up, you grew up not white in the South, right? It’s like sometimes you see [bleeped] and you don’t realize it when you’re a kid, but then you grow up, you’re like, damn, that person was actually kind of racist. You know what I’m saying? Like I think like I think,
0:15you know, to his point, I think to his point, like there’s a lot of division and there’s a lot of lack of acceptance down in the south and it’s kind of sometimes guys with like people being nice and [bleeped] you know? night.
0:28Yeah, that’s what I said too. I can’t Is there like a particular vivid memory that shows up for you when you think about that? Like I think that’s what you just came to is super sick. Like talk about it.
0:37Yeah. I mean that’s like what I want to create content, right? Like what are the subs? Yeah. [bleeped] dude. You remind me of Channel 5 News. I don’t know if you [bleeped] Callaghan, baby.
0:47All gas. No breaks. Yeah. Confidence. Everyone journalism. I think for me I have a distinct memory. Yeah. Hell yeah. Uh I think for me I have like a distinct memory during co where it’s like you know our we got a older brother he’s a doctor you know we we’re all engineers right so like we we’re like you know we believe in science right and like during co I have a very distinct memory where I was minding my own business at like a YMCA just lifting and uh this guy I was wearing a mask right and this guy starts like harassing me and he’s like yo like
1:22you know masks spread more COVID and I’m just like bro What do you mean spreads more CO? Like I I don’t give a [bleeped] Wear your mask or don’t. Right. Like that’s whatever. That’s your choice. But like don’t gaslight me.
1:33What do you mean? What do you mean spreads more CO? Right. So I’m first just minding my own business, but this guy won’t stop harassing me. And then eventually I you kind of like go back on him and like, you know, one things lead one thing leads to another. I’m like, “Bro, you research blah blah blah.” Right? And then like tell me why I got kicked out of the YMCA by the YMCA people, right? like