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  • čas přidán 25. 04. 2021
  • Roy Wood Jr. visited Boston to find out why it has a reputation as one of the most racist cities in America. #DailyShow #RoyWoodJr #Throwback
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  • @PRDreams
    @PRDreams Před 3 lety +1368

    I lived in Boston for 21 years. Love that place and I say it is my adoptive state (I am from a US territory). I left Boston because between 2015 and 2018 me and my family experienced a sudden increase in micro aggressions that culminated with a white kid attacking my black son with a metal chair in front of the teacher and the teacher did nothing to stop the attack because my son "could take it". I asked the teacher if my son would have defended himself if he would have intervene then and he said "of course, I said he can take it, not that he could fight him".
    The kid got 6 months probation and if he didn't re offend during those 6 months charges would be dropped and if he re offended, he would have done 6 months at a juvenile center. To be clear, I am ok with that.
    The next week my husband was hired by two racist guys who offered him to work "without papers" when my husband is American.
    Finally at work a new employee was annoyed that he had to ask me, as his superior, for permission to leave and sent me an email saying "I'm heading back to where I came from and you should too." and Cc'd the entire team including my superior, thinking that his whiteness was enough to protect him. He was fired after refusing to apologize to me (and the team) and for refusing to stay as he was instructed by his superior and his superior's superior.
    Regardless the damage was done. Boston wasn't home anymore, it is damaged goods.
    I'm back home and I'm happy. Here I'm just another human walking down the street. I like that a lot.

    • @Shayiamiam
      @Shayiamiam Před 3 lety +133

      I'm so terribly sorry that happen to y'all. Especially your son he was just a kid.

    • @NathanielJordan85
      @NathanielJordan85 Před 3 lety +87

      That is disgusting and I am ashamed. I'm sorry this happened to you and yours. :'(

    • @tammyjantzen9004
      @tammyjantzen9004 Před 3 lety +120

      Terrible. I too, noticed how much worse it was getting. Our former president normalized hate, disrespect, and name calling. White people have to stand up against systemic racism and push, push, push for change. It's sick and shameful. All because of the amount of melatonin in one's skin. It's ridiculous. I'm really sorry this happened to you and your son.

    • @qawamity
      @qawamity Před 3 lety +29

      On some level, as a Masshole, I feel responsible for this. I'm sorry.

    • @cocoknows
      @cocoknows Před 3 lety +32

      Thank you for sharing your story. I am so sorry this happened to you and your family. I hope that these injustices stop happening in Boston and across the country someday soon.

  • @jenniferhizzy6591
    @jenniferhizzy6591 Před 3 lety +719

    Being at the receiving end of something is very different than looking in and never experiencing it.

  • @mannysabir1339
    @mannysabir1339 Před 3 lety +628

    The old white guy said HE doesn't feel it. I laughed immediately 🤣. Then a half hour later when I finally stopped laughing, I said yeah you wouldn't.

    • @mannysabir1339
      @mannysabir1339 Před 3 lety +9

      @@bt9765
      The one that was tried on January 6th??? Oh wait, that was here 🙄🙄🙄🙄

    • @markdelaney9143
      @markdelaney9143 Před 3 lety +2

      Exactly 💯 love from Ireland 🇮🇪

    • @racheltucker8054
      @racheltucker8054 Před 3 lety +8

      @@bt9765 this isn't Myanmar. These are are black brothers and sisters in Boston.

    • @jcallender3133
      @jcallender3133 Před 3 lety +7

      Is it truly hard to empathize with others even if you have never experienced the same treatment?

    • @DinoDillinger
      @DinoDillinger Před 3 lety +4

      I guess he doesn't get invited to the meetings where they discuss how to hold the black man down.

  • @TheFunGun5
    @TheFunGun5 Před 3 lety +485

    "How can a town with so many great colleges produce nothing but dopes?"
    -Peter Griffin

    • @margaretwalsh852
      @margaretwalsh852 Před 3 lety +18

      You don't really think a Whallburger went to college. Prison yes, college no.

    • @TheoSprinkles
      @TheoSprinkles Před 3 lety +5

      Boston is or at one time was, the largest concentration of Urban White poverty in the Western Hemisphere

    • @margaretwalsh852
      @margaretwalsh852 Před 3 lety +3

      @@TheoSprinkles Right up thru the 90's until Southie and Charlestown and Rossi and JP residents sold to yuppies and retired to the suburbs with mortgage free homes.

    • @charlesstuart7290
      @charlesstuart7290 Před 3 lety +4

      Yeah -Peter Griffin would say something like that.

    • @The_Blue_Wizard
      @The_Blue_Wizard Před 3 lety

      Well, we did vote down rank choice voting...

  • @terencewright1577
    @terencewright1577 Před 3 lety +748

    Notice they had to fade that one lady out because she said Boston 😂

    • @neogenzim1995
      @neogenzim1995 Před 3 lety +31

      they sure live up to their reputation. : D

    • @tharushsomashekar
      @tharushsomashekar Před 3 lety +21

      She's a future karen

    • @leebrock4783
      @leebrock4783 Před 3 lety +56

      They didn't "have to". She must not have given consent (didn't want to be publicly outed as Boston's only non-racist white person). Btw, I think that was a joke 🙏.

    • @terencewright1577
      @terencewright1577 Před 3 lety +15

      @@leebrock4783 I understand what you are saying and I know it was a joke. Just saying that's why she didn't sign the consent form.

    • @anselmojones4392
      @anselmojones4392 Před 3 lety +2

      lol consent form? She's in public. In no way did she have to be blurred.

  • @mlggamer5296
    @mlggamer5296 Před 3 lety +654

    Wokey the Walrus. That's honestly the most hilarious mascot of all time I've ever heard

  • @dwhite8997
    @dwhite8997 Před 3 lety +587

    "Know your neighborhood, know where you are ALLOWED..." where you are allowed?! Allowed? So, I have to ask someone where I'm allowed 🤦🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️😔

    • @BrotherKnowledge.
      @BrotherKnowledge. Před 3 lety +18

      Nope. You do whatever you want to do. 😏

    • @VR6NAVYVW
      @VR6NAVYVW Před 3 lety +21

      Like there isn't neighborhoods that white people aren't allowed to go. Double standards.

    • @samuelsmith25
      @samuelsmith25 Před 3 lety +110

      @@VR6NAVYVW : Where is this neighborhood you speak of?

    • @PRDreams
      @PRDreams Před 3 lety +134

      @@VR6NAVYVW you guys are allowed everywhere. Stop it.
      You might not feel safe in certain neighborhoods and that is *your* biases making you feel that way.
      Don't be afraid, we don't bite. Ok, maybe Mike Tyson, but the rest of us BIPOC don't bite.

    • @carolynbaez6782
      @carolynbaez6782 Před 3 lety +52

      @@samuelsmith25 He said it wrong..Neighborhood where They don't want to go..😂😂😂

  • @thexalon
    @thexalon Před 3 lety +554

    Reminder: This is the metro area that arrested Dr Henry Lewis Gates, Jr, distinguished Harvard professor, for having trouble getting into his house and getting mad when the cops didn't believe it was his. Bringing truth to the Malcolm X line about what a black guy with a PhD is called in America.

    • @erik_griswold
      @erik_griswold Před 3 lety +8

      The Boston Bruins NHL team had a black player before the Red Sox did.

    • @JK-gu3tl
      @JK-gu3tl Před 3 lety +6

      Thomas Sowell said he had to change into casual clothing whenever he had to cross Southie on his way to Harvard. If (as an AA man) had a suit on, he would've ran into trouble.

    • @howardmulvihill6726
      @howardmulvihill6726 Před 3 lety +12

      I totally forgot about that, thank you for reminding me. That was truly disgusting what the police did and continue to do. 👍😷💉🗽

    • @TheMsLady4Real
      @TheMsLady4Real Před 3 lety +12

      @@erik_griswold Wow so much progress! (sarcasm)

    • @dipthongthathongthongthong9691
      @dipthongthathongthongthong9691 Před 3 lety +6

      @@erik_griswold Hahaha, so its been moving backwards since then? Boston touting its acts of racial progressivism is basically the tallest dwarf contest.

  • @h0twire15
    @h0twire15 Před 3 lety +205

    "how racist is Boston?"
    *shows Mark Wahlburg*
    Ah so that's a "yes"

  • @InteractiveIdea
    @InteractiveIdea Před 3 lety +327

    I got an Indian Friend who moved out of Boston due to racism. And he was earning 6 figures

    • @WarpraW
      @WarpraW Před 3 lety +7

      @@trumpsmum9210 What are you talking about?

    • @lucylle3132
      @lucylle3132 Před 3 lety

      Yea, wth does that mean? Coming up in here just talking trash.........

    • @flux202
      @flux202 Před 3 lety

      Annually?

    • @ChrisSamuel1729
      @ChrisSamuel1729 Před 3 lety +13

      @@WarpraW How did you do that? You asked a question and their comment vanished in a puff of code. 😂😂

    • @WarpraW
      @WarpraW Před 3 lety +17

      @@ChrisSamuel1729 they were being racist so there comment was removed ig

  • @rgwak
    @rgwak Před 3 lety +427

    3 out of 5 racists agree, that whatever you're talking about, that's not "racist."
    🤔🙄😅

    • @Bat_Boy
      @Bat_Boy Před 3 lety +2

      Racist definition:
      “a person who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.”
      How do people know the difference between the above and someone with unconscious (implicit) bias?

    • @hambone4984
      @hambone4984 Před 3 lety +19

      I don't see the kkk burning crosses every night on people's lawns and there aren't public lynchings on a regular basis, we're segregated now so obviously there's no racism going on (sarcasm in case it needs to be clarified)

    • @Bat_Boy
      @Bat_Boy Před 3 lety +4

      @@hambone4984 sigh 😔

    • @zawarski
      @zawarski Před 3 lety +23

      @@Bat_Boy pretty sure "unconscious bias" often feels the same as racism, to those on the receiving end.

    • @Bat_Boy
      @Bat_Boy Před 3 lety +1

      @@zawarski - I think people are concluding things that are not real. I offer unconscious bias as a more rational causation, however, even that, is not proven.

  • @TJwon9457
    @TJwon9457 Před 3 lety +160

    Before moving to boston I had heard how liberal the city was. When I moved there I was surprised at how segregated it is.

    • @bettathanu2244
      @bettathanu2244 Před 3 lety +23

      That's most cities and neighborhoods. Atlanta is diverse, but step outside Atlanta and you're right back in Georgia. I'm glad people feel welcome to the ATL though.

    • @yawos9024
      @yawos9024 Před 3 lety +3

      @@bettathanu2244 Atlanta is still pretty conservative as compared to other major cities. Coming from Chicago, I find Atlanta pretty stuck up!

    • @bettathanu2244
      @bettathanu2244 Před 3 lety +3

      Trees and scenery are being replaced with tons of buildings, homes and traffic. These are big changes for rural areas, so we are allowed to be conservative in that regard. Chicago and Atlanta have drastically different origins, cultures, historical context, and economies. The bible belt is conservative, but its slowly changing. Just understand Atlanta is a unique metro area and pretending like all cities are the same is silly. We are all conservative to one degree or another in varying ways. You shouldnt let that turn you away from experiencing what's around you.

    • @vibesmom
      @vibesmom Před 3 lety +1

      Hugely segregated and it took me traveling down south to realize that. We live next to each other not with each other.

    • @bixnood7273
      @bixnood7273 Před 3 lety +8

      For White people being a liberal is a status symbol. If they can afford to live away from Blacks, they can pretend to care about them. The ones who can't afford to live with other Whites don't have the patience for it.

  • @dasikakn
    @dasikakn Před 3 lety +126

    That “mm” after Jeff sessions said everything we needed to know how she felt about Jeff Sessions😆

  • @michaelmorningstar8645
    @michaelmorningstar8645 Před 3 lety +25

    "How racist is Boston."
    Shows a celebrity that took out a guys eye in a hate crime.

  • @SourGir1986
    @SourGir1986 Před 3 lety +209

    I KNOW that this is a video from "the before times," but I still had the impulse to yell "ROY! You're too close! Six feet!"
    That impulse is never really gonna go away, is it?

    • @trevordavis9390
      @trevordavis9390 Před 3 lety +6

      Sounds like a lib problem. Normal people don’t worry about silly things like that

    • @SourGir1986
      @SourGir1986 Před 3 lety +38

      @@trevordavis9390 🤣 gosh you're cool.

    • @Vashy434
      @Vashy434 Před 3 lety +41

      @@trevordavis9390 you realize by definition those who worry about covid are the majority and thus would be considered "normal." You are not normal.

    • @DJ_TRON
      @DJ_TRON Před 3 lety +2

      Yes it will. I've already forgotten it now

    • @colaboytje
      @colaboytje Před 3 lety +12

      I had the same thing. 'Put your mask on'.

  • @paulkeith5000
    @paulkeith5000 Před 3 lety +61

    Aaaargh! White guy here, born in Boston. I took over management and operations of the Boston School Transportation system under an independent management contract just a few years after Judge W. Arthur Garrity's desegregation order and was in that system for nearly 20 years. About 68% of my workforce of +/- 1400 employees - drivers, mechanics, supervisors, etc. - were non-white. In accordance with the terms of my contract I scheduled "Diversity Training" sessions at the outset of the contract. At one of the first meetings I made a reference to "minorities" but was called out on that. "Mister, just so you know. You are the minority here, not us."
    It was a wake-up call and then I started to learn and become aware of the challenges my employees faced - every day - in their respective neighborhoods and while on the job in some parts of Boston where they were not really welcome. It was humbling to say the least. Yeah, "Blue" Boston still has a deep "Red" streak...

    • @lokitus
      @lokitus Před rokem

      Actually a lot of Red states are more welcoming than Boston. This has nothing to do with politics.

  • @diesel2x
    @diesel2x Před 2 lety +12

    I think the biggest problem in Boston is the teachers do nothing, if they see bullying. My daughter who is not black has experienced that and has observed that kids get away with a lot of aggression on minority kids and the teachers do nothing. Most of this happens in middle school. In high school things get much better

  • @JM-vj7we
    @JM-vj7we Před 3 lety +138

    Even Denzel Washington was harassed there when he was on his hotel balcony! Back in the day 🧐

    • @spirithawk2418
      @spirithawk2418 Před 3 lety +9

      Wow

    • @LaughingMaRevolution
      @LaughingMaRevolution Před 3 lety +16

      it's not just him. Bill Russell of the Celtics was called derogatory names too

    • @leonardwhite7838
      @leonardwhite7838 Před 3 lety +2

      @@LaughingMaRevolution Bill Russell first came to Boston in 1957.

    • @leonardwhite7838
      @leonardwhite7838 Před 3 lety +2

      @Mr Man That is was 64 years ago: that should have been obvious.

    • @leonardwhite7838
      @leonardwhite7838 Před 3 lety

      @Mr Man What I'm saying is that people love beating up Boston as if there is no racism anywhere else in the country. With all the events of last year, we know that isn't true.

  • @haruruben
    @haruruben Před 3 lety +244

    The unit of measurement for racism is a Fuhrman. So saying one N-word outside the context of a rap song is one Fuhrman. So Boston is 278,000,581 Fuhrmans

    • @haruruben
      @haruruben Před 3 lety +1

      @@marragonn Marsha Marsha Marsha

    • @evilhorst2249
      @evilhorst2249 Před 3 lety

      As someone whos name is Fuhrmann i am confused

    • @leonardocucchiara4782
      @leonardocucchiara4782 Před 3 lety +1

      @@evilhorst2249 look up Mark Fuhrmann tapes

    • @evilhorst2249
      @evilhorst2249 Před 3 lety +1

      @@leonardocucchiara4782 Ah no i remember he was the guy in the O.J Simpson case , right?

    • @haruruben
      @haruruben Před 3 lety

      @@evilhorst2249 Google “Mark Fuhrman”, he became famous for using the N-Word at work

  • @jimcooper1251
    @jimcooper1251 Před 3 lety +449

    How racist is Boston?
    Yes.

    • @kaitlnwhite6809
      @kaitlnwhite6809 Před 3 lety +24

      Gotta say, it’s definitely one of the most racist places I’ve been to. And my family’s from the South. I visited the city once and went to two stores while I was there. In both stores, I was told I was supposed to pay for the items I had in my shopping basket and a little girl asked me how “my skin got this way” before her mother ran over and said “we don’t ask them that question”.
      It’s probably a wonderful city for some people, but certainly not a place I’d go to without an incentive.

    • @sheilameyers152
      @sheilameyers152 Před 3 lety +12

      Don’t go downtown on St Patrick’s Day at night!!

    • @MarGotDaHeat
      @MarGotDaHeat Před 3 lety +1

      @@sheilameyers152 is there a backstory to this

    • @sheilameyers152
      @sheilameyers152 Před 3 lety +7

      @@MarGotDaHeat ...Yes... some of the St Patrick revelers have a tendency to call out racial slurs! That usually causes street fighting and chaos!

    • @sheilameyers152
      @sheilameyers152 Před 3 lety

      @ben brody ......Was talking about 2019!

  • @Me-zm7cr
    @Me-zm7cr Před 3 lety +237

    You know what, Bill Burr should probably get a real kick out of this one

    • @edwardmorvan5809
      @edwardmorvan5809 Před 3 lety +4

      Don't talk for other people.

    • @johnsnow5955
      @johnsnow5955 Před 3 lety +54

      White people: "I have never seen Racism in Boston."
      It is like they are not the victims of racism or something.

    • @jashanestone
      @jashanestone Před 3 lety +1

      💯 😂😂😂

    • @user-rl1vd2lu9x
      @user-rl1vd2lu9x Před 3 lety +4

      Bill burr a real one

    • @AlmostaFlipinSkater
      @AlmostaFlipinSkater Před 3 lety +17

      Bill Burr describes Boston as a "racist San Francisco".

  • @ModernDayWarriorz76
    @ModernDayWarriorz76 Před 3 lety +40

    Roy Wood Jr is so underrated, if you haven’t watched any of his stand up specials go do that right now!!!

  • @y1521t21b5
    @y1521t21b5 Před 3 lety +41

    3:46 Had to laugh at the sounds that lady made in reaction to the names _Jazzy Jeff_ and _Jeff Sessions._ :-D

  • @shayjones5099
    @shayjones5099 Před 3 lety +54

    I went to Boston to record at Rick Ocasic's studio with a Chicago heavy metal band. Afterwards I was taken to the airport to wait for my flight, and if you've been there you know how the seating used to be. A white woman told the waitress that she didn't want to be seated near me and asked her to move me and the roadie some place else. The waitress told her to sit somewhere else. Yeah, that was in the 80"s.

    • @bluekitsune20
      @bluekitsune20 Před 3 lety

      Smdh.

    • @LindaC616
      @LindaC616 Před 3 lety +2

      When my niece and I were walking around and we got to the North end (v. Italian neighborhood) and asked for directions to Paul Revere's house, someone actually said "and turn left at the only Chinese restaurant on the North end". My jaw was hanging open

    • @joshuajagmohan4553
      @joshuajagmohan4553 Před 3 lety +1

      @@LindaC616 What is that suppose to mean?

    • @LindaC616
      @LindaC616 Před 3 lety

      @@joshuajagmohan4553 it means exactly what they said

    • @NatTurnergrandsonChrisdorner
      @NatTurnergrandsonChrisdorner Před rokem

      I bet if you ask these white walkers why don't they like black people they couldn't give you a valid reason. Black people hate and dislike is engrained in a lot of Caucasians yet they dont know why! 🤣🤦🏾‍♂️

  • @connerswift7939
    @connerswift7939 Před 3 lety +270

    Lol did you blur that one person's face because of how vocally they agreed with the racism? Just an odd observation I made, not sure if anyone else saw that 😂

  • @magellanmax
    @magellanmax Před 3 lety +70

    Racism in Boston mostly manifests itself in home ownership/rentals. There are places where a highly educated & distinguished black person/family won't be allowed to live and this is accomplished through homeowner associations or realtors (or both). Fenway Park is notorious for racist punks because the club ignored the issue until recently when it got splashed in the major newspapers around the country and brought enormous shame to the city/area and threatened their ability to sign quality talent. I lived there for over 20 years so I'm speaking from firsthand experience.

    • @lexkanyima2195
      @lexkanyima2195 Před 3 lety

      Why there is a problem ?

    • @mjerome1457
      @mjerome1457 Před 3 lety

      You are correct about the Housing discrimination. I totally experienced that two years ago...and just posted about my experience in Boston on here.

    • @lexkanyima2195
      @lexkanyima2195 Před 3 lety

      @@mjerome1457 ouch

    • @bluscorpion
      @bluscorpion Před 2 lety +1

      I noticed. I spoke to a guy about buying a house and the condescending tone was wild!

  • @hafsaummmusa9923
    @hafsaummmusa9923 Před 3 lety +50

    "Know where you're wanted?" That's tragic.

    • @karlnewton1958
      @karlnewton1958 Před 3 lety +4

      That "knowing" avoids the bigger tragedies of injury or even death. So, I'm for knowing NOW, and changing attitudes, and self-awareness, and practices as I am given the inspiration to do it with some compassion (for everyone!).

  • @alexisc6136
    @alexisc6136 Před 3 lety +88

    Roy Wood Jr is hilarious

    • @michaeljackson8390
      @michaeljackson8390 Před 3 lety +1

      I expose our government! I have 2 million overall views..

    • @Monk-Amani.
      @Monk-Amani. Před 3 lety

      Failed to feel the humor.

    • @Threezus17
      @Threezus17 Před 3 lety

      @@Monk-Amani. ah cause you like WS huh?

  • @deborahmillette
    @deborahmillette Před 3 lety +121

    Lol 😂 I grew up in Boston they IS RACIST, but walk away a few blocks and they’re not racists it’s crazy, even I was targeted by Caucasians even though my Mom was Caucasian, my Dad was mixed , and my husband was shot at 16 for being half White and Pacific Islander , I can tell y’all some stories

    • @airplanes_aren.t_real
      @airplanes_aren.t_real Před 3 lety +3

      Can I hear it?

    • @RedBloopCreature
      @RedBloopCreature Před 3 lety +10

      Let me go get my popcorn

    • @user-dg8le6ut1u
      @user-dg8le6ut1u Před 3 lety +4

      😎🍿

    • @TheGenericAssasin
      @TheGenericAssasin Před 3 lety +3

      Can we hear one of the stories?

    • @kaitlnwhite6809
      @kaitlnwhite6809 Před 3 lety +17

      Gotta say, it’s definitely one of the most racist places I’ve been to. I'm Black and my family’s from the South. I visited the city once and went to two stores while I was there. In both stores, I was told I was supposed to pay for the items I had in my shopping basket and a little girl walked up to me and asked me how “my skin got this way” before her mother ran over and said “we don’t ask them that question”.
      It’s probably a wonderful city for some people, but certainly not a place I’d visit or live in without an incentive.

  • @jennyborahae2123
    @jennyborahae2123 Před 3 lety +107

    I’m Asian American, born and raised in NYC. Oh yeah, I felt the racism for sure when I visited Boston a few years ago. I got stares by white folks as if I’m some alien foreigner. And no, I wasn’t wearing some outrageous outfit or anything that would attract attention other than the color of my skin. The last time I had this happening was when I visited Frankfurt, Germany with my family couple of years ago, everyone stared at us on the train. I would assume this happens if I visited somewhere south of the USA, but I wouldn’t of thought a huge city in the northeast would act this way, but YUP.
    The reason I bring this up is because for centuries nobody listened to Asian voices about racism towards us, this new generation is tired of it, time to speak out especially now more than ever before. No more sweeping it under the rug. This so called “model minority” is very damaging. Side note: I grew up with racist remarks since I was a kid by white neighbors, and I lived in the most diverse city on earth, QUEENS NY. racist folks are everywhere.... even where you think there won’t be. Unfortunately.
    Let’s spread love not hate. Also - first and foremost - Black Lives Matter. The Black community are the only ones I was able to confide in and look up to because of the struggles they’ve been through, I couldn’t relate my own experiences with any other, there were no Asian representation or voices heard anywhere when I grew up. Let’s love one another 💜

    • @hubertcumberdale2651
      @hubertcumberdale2651 Před 3 lety

      "Borahae". Didn't know Asians were Celtic.

    • @thesauceman8457
      @thesauceman8457 Před 3 lety +11

      @@hubertcumberdale2651 Many non-white Americans have Euro-centric last names. What’s your point? The OPs comment still stands.

    • @karlnewton1958
      @karlnewton1958 Před 3 lety +4

      My siblings and I were "mixed" in Brooklyn in the 1940's, when even that was very rare. So, yeah, more love, lots of love, and no more sweeping any of that hate - even subtle hate - under the rug.

    • @desinho9
      @desinho9 Před 3 lety +9

      'Everyone stared at us'? in Frankfurt, Germany?? Probably looking at the loud Americans rather than 'the Asians' 😏

    • @DWilliam1
      @DWilliam1 Před 3 lety +4

      Serious question: are you concerned about all the assaults on Asians happening across the country and especially in NYC?

  • @eltejarocho
    @eltejarocho Před 3 lety +62

    Wokey the Walrus should be its own segment from now on 🤓

  • @sebastianrook5478
    @sebastianrook5478 Před 3 lety +49

    My buddy moved back to Philly from Boston. He said it was too racist aaaand He's white.

    • @noorykorky5056
      @noorykorky5056 Před 3 lety +9

      What??????? Really?????
      Oh, wow. Then we know that it is not obscure to white people if your friend saw it; the people in this video are just turning a blind eye towards it.

    • @raventv9826
      @raventv9826 Před 3 lety +5

      @@noorykorky5056 definitely not. I'm white and I hate the racists probably more than most people.
      They make me feel ashamed, sometimes to the point where I want to rip of my skin/whiteness Cz that's what white people be seen for.

    • @Virus-xm7qc
      @Virus-xm7qc Před 3 lety

      @@noorykorky5056 I know what you're saying about the first white couple BECAUSE as they spoke, like them I could. FEEL, that they were on the OUTSIDE just looking in...SAaaaaad.

    • @bluscorpion
      @bluscorpion Před 2 lety

      Wow! Haha! That's crazy!

    • @bluscorpion
      @bluscorpion Před 2 lety +1

      But isn't Philly segregated also??

  • @kung-fukennyfamily
    @kung-fukennyfamily Před 3 lety +57

    Shout out to The chill White people that want unity/peace and stand with minorities❤.

    • @michaeljackson8390
      @michaeljackson8390 Před 3 lety +1

      I expose our government! I have 2 million overall views..

    • @kissit012
      @kissit012 Před 3 lety

      The term minority is applied completely backwards as being white literally makes them the global minority.

    • @raventv9826
      @raventv9826 Před 3 lety

      Shout out back to you.
      One love❤️

    • @mr.dakamd5444
      @mr.dakamd5444 Před rokem

      Even amongst those whites there’s dissent

  • @thedayones4918
    @thedayones4918 Před 3 lety +27

    I moved to Boston in 2018 big mistake! I was out of there by January 2019. Bostonians you win you can keep your town white. 😔✌🏽

  • @edkerry87
    @edkerry87 Před 3 lety +32

    Born and raised in Boston and have many troubling personal anecdotes. Now I live in the burbs and have to try to explain structural racism to Republicons who don't think it exists.

    • @vibesmom
      @vibesmom Před 3 lety

      It’s disheartening because there is such a wide gap of understanding. Political affiliations aside, It’s going to take a lot of patience.

    • @angelamoore1832
      @angelamoore1832 Před 3 lety

      so true. keep having conversations

  • @professornadinelima1783
    @professornadinelima1783 Před 3 lety +29

    YES and I’m from the region. In the October of 1989 we rode the train to work the morning Charles Stuart’s pregnant, and mortally wounded wife Carol was featured on the front cover of the paper. The tension was so thick on the train, you would think we did it. By the way after going on a hunt for any African American man who the husband said shot them, it was actually the husband 😡 who killed she and their unborn son.

    • @Babylonian_Escapee
      @Babylonian_Escapee Před 3 lety +5

      Thank you for sharing. I always double check information people tell me, and I was sad to see it was worse than that.

    • @professornadinelima1783
      @professornadinelima1783 Před 3 lety

      @@Babylonian_Escapee yes it truly was. It was the first time the show “ Cops” was following live dispatches, and they filmed the whole episode and showed it on national TV. It was truly horrific seeing Carol’s head wound with her belly up in the air, and them doing CPR. How sad it was. 😭

  • @elawson1991
    @elawson1991 Před 3 lety +27

    Grew up in Beacon Hill so I definitely understood that "know your neighborhood" all to well.

  • @tyrannosaurusburke
    @tyrannosaurusburke Před 3 lety +31

    I'm white, and I lived in Boston for 11 years. Boston is a city I still love, but it has a lot of work to do when it comes to racial equality.

    • @JK-gu3tl
      @JK-gu3tl Před 3 lety +1

      equality in what way? Equality of opportunity? Sure. Results? Oh boy.............

    • @domingofigueroa992
      @domingofigueroa992 Před rokem

      Agree and no more racist than Philly and new York or most other American cities these cities now have a majority minority population

  • @0mega.mechan1c.
    @0mega.mechan1c. Před 3 lety +29

    Been waiting for this one. Back in the early '90s I had Beantown roommates who were the most passive-aggressive, closet racists I'd ever met up to that time. Another guy from Arizona was just as bad. I lasted almost 2 years & had to get outta dodge.

  • @KamisKisses
    @KamisKisses Před 3 lety +11

    Kelly Stamps already told us the truth about Boston💅🏿

  • @jessebjorkander5324
    @jessebjorkander5324 Před 3 lety +38

    so anyone else notice how comedy central keeps posting the same videos? Jordan Klepper has the same video posted about trump rallies like 1000 times. this video was made like 5 years ago itself.

    • @moniquita720
      @moniquita720 Před 3 lety +2

      Actually, yeah, I was wondering why that is.

    • @5pctLowBattery
      @5pctLowBattery Před 3 lety +8

      They usually do this when they are on vacation. Upload old videos. There is some award show this week Trevor is involved with.

    • @htopherollem649
      @htopherollem649 Před 3 lety

      Was just commenting about similar trends with science videos.

    • @khirsah666
      @khirsah666 Před 3 lety +1

      It's about CZcams algorithms. They need to post something so they post stuff from past that is relevant to today's events.

    • @jennaliedtke6752
      @jennaliedtke6752 Před 3 lety

      I thought I had just seen them all and was rewatching them lol thank you for this I thought I was crayy

  • @adamagustus1316
    @adamagustus1316 Před 3 lety +16

    there is no non-racist place on earth

    • @vanpeters9751
      @vanpeters9751 Před 3 lety +5

      And there's no race not guilty of racism

    • @simonphillips9604
      @simonphillips9604 Před 3 lety +2

      @@vanpeters9751 you should look up the definition of racism

  • @steakknives
    @steakknives Před 3 lety +31

    I used to listen to the daily show on headphones and not actually watch it. From the way Trevor said his name, for the longest time I thought his name was: Roywood Junior.

    • @jeffryphillipsburns
      @jeffryphillipsburns Před 3 lety +5

      I thought at first that Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, was JenSOCKy, possibly a character in “Star Wars”. I was hospitalized in early 2010 with no Internet, newspapers, or TV. When I emerged a month later and saw a headline mentioning Kardashians, I thought we’d been invaded by the enemy of the Star Trek Federation.

    • @freofroid
      @freofroid Před 3 lety

      W

  • @2scoops624
    @2scoops624 Před 3 lety +1

    3:43 that jazzy jeff/Jeff sessions scale made me busy up laughing.

  • @esl4058
    @esl4058 Před 3 lety +37

    You’d think all they would need to fix things would be to learn New York is ahead of them. Usually that’s all it takes to get Bostonians into full on rage mode.

    • @charlesstuart7290
      @charlesstuart7290 Před 3 lety +1

      Hey I think New York has had about ten deaths by cop in the last few years - they are leading Boston 10-0.

    • @esl4058
      @esl4058 Před 3 lety +9

      @@charlesstuart7290 I stand corrected. Apparently all it takes is the mention of "New York" to trigger them.

    • @800mEric
      @800mEric Před 2 lety +4

      @@charlesstuart7290 New York > boston….. deal with it

    • @sachemofboston3649
      @sachemofboston3649 Před 2 lety +1

      Sadly we’re really not. All major northeastern cities have huge problems with racism

  • @alfredmontoya6740
    @alfredmontoya6740 Před 3 lety +11

    A couple of my MEXICAN friends went to go see their bro graduate from a college in BOSTON.....they got very cold shoulders in the "CHEERS" bar.

  • @311jbknight
    @311jbknight Před 3 lety +30

    When I was stationed in Connecticut in the 70's and 80s if you couldn't prove your family came over on the Mayflower you were looked down on, no matter what color. The Mayflower must have been a really crowded ship.

    • @Monk-Amani.
      @Monk-Amani. Před 3 lety +3

      That's humorous.

    • @heavymetalhomesteading
      @heavymetalhomesteading Před 3 lety +4

      Funny thing about coming over on the Mayflower, we're still 'illegal immigrants' that 'refused to integrate' and haven't 'learned the langague' (Wampanoag)...hardly in any position to look down upon anyone when we almost starved to death (twice).

    • @JK-gu3tl
      @JK-gu3tl Před 3 lety

      Money made from killing whales.

    • @sandal_thong8631
      @sandal_thong8631 Před 2 lety

      Funny how you are allowed to have pride in an ancestor on the Mayflower, but you are cursed if you try to take pride in an ancestor who was Native American circa 1700-1800, because you're off the reservation.

    • @JK-gu3tl
      @JK-gu3tl Před 2 lety

      @@sandal_thong8631 I see the opposite. Whites apologizing for slavery, nevermind many of their ancestors didn't even come from slaveowning societies and/or immigrated to America after the civil war. Everybody and their mom claims American Indian heritage it seems, and it's usually Cherokee...LOL

  • @M4tchStickGirl
    @M4tchStickGirl Před 2 lety +3

    I went to Boston for college on scholarship … from the Bronx. I attended anti-racism workshops from hosts that just don’t get it. My professors never saw a poor person before. I wish I was kidding.

  • @tiltman_420
    @tiltman_420 Před 3 lety +9

    When he said Tampa on that list I about had the same reaction

  • @royally-legal
    @royally-legal Před 3 lety +5

    I currently live in Boston & work as a Starbucks Barista, IF U FIND ME I'll give u your Grande Soy Latte FREE!
    ...But didn't grow up here. My nana here is a racist but you'd never know since she only says slurs while Maury is on and its always bothered me.

    • @kerseysturdivant5093
      @kerseysturdivant5093 Před 3 lety

      this comment is random AF. that being said, i'm looking forward to my Grande Soy latte

  • @mylespw4231
    @mylespw4231 Před 3 lety +2

    To be fair, Boston is an equal opportunity hater. I’ve heard people get hate for being Protestant, British, from Tennessee, Black, High School Dropout, Having a Perm, no matter what people in Boston will roast you

  • @Brokeloco
    @Brokeloco Před 3 lety

    My dude said a niccarometor.. to test racism. Haha 😆

  • @johnnylight0
    @johnnylight0 Před 3 lety +20

    “ A white person in Boston doesn’t wanna be the only white person in the room”
    No, I’m pretty sure that’s everywhere. And everyone. No one wants to be the only *anything* in a room, with a couple of exceptions

    • @Elitecommando501
      @Elitecommando501 Před 3 lety +1

      That mindset is the problem with any human. The definition of tribalism. Sometimes I feel like the odd one if I’m the only Hispanic in the room so yes. Every human is guilty.

    • @kissit012
      @kissit012 Před 3 lety

      I never feel this way, but I’m autistic so being the odd one is always the case for me. I observe it a lot in others tho. It gets old really fast, most people just need to get over themselves. You’re special group isn’t all that special

  • @ratholin
    @ratholin Před 3 lety +10

    Roy Wood Jr. really is the star of this show.

    • @kmo1765
      @kmo1765 Před rokem

      I wonder how much money was he paid to do this skit.

  • @SK22000
    @SK22000 Před 2 lety +2

    Those folks who say they don’t have a problem just let everyone know they don’t have any empathy or awareness

  • @ms.modestfreeborn2943
    @ms.modestfreeborn2943 Před rokem +1

    I have been in the Boston area for work, for 6 weeks now. I find level of micro aggressions astounding. I had to Google " is Boston racist" to find this video!!! How was I not told this prior to arriving? I thought this was the East Coast? It's sad. I can say that I don't feel safe here. That's crazy...

  • @It-b-Blair
    @It-b-Blair Před 3 lety +10

    Oh wow! Akilah’s hair is so gorgeous! 🔥💯

  • @cocoknows
    @cocoknows Před 3 lety +7

    Wokey the Walrus is awesome. He should make appearances across the country.

  • @angelesconsuelos762
    @angelesconsuelos762 Před 3 lety +5

    Roy Wood Jr is a gem💎

  • @JS-qj1rp
    @JS-qj1rp Před 3 lety +1

    The 1st 4minutes was so deep, meta, and satirical

  • @dereksmith348
    @dereksmith348 Před 3 lety +18

    Dude, sociology degree with a concentration in cultural diversity. Working cust service now. I want this voice.

  • @johnniblu6318
    @johnniblu6318 Před 3 lety +25

    So hilarious😂💙

  • @1tigerbee
    @1tigerbee Před 3 lety +2

    If you don't love Roy Wood Jr.----you just don't know how to love. He's brilliant from Birmingham to Boston.

  • @moore05586
    @moore05586 Před 3 lety +26

    I love the daily show but I am so sick of them uploading old clips.

    • @NathanielJordan85
      @NathanielJordan85 Před 3 lety +1

      I'm happy to have easier access to much of their work, I just wish they were clearly marked, like Full Frontal's "Rewind" videos, so I can make informed decisions about an intentional re-watch vs. thinking it's something new and blowing a couple minutes realizing 'I've already seen this.'

    • @moore05586
      @moore05586 Před 3 lety

      @Mass Debater no problem, if you want to watch old material. Just click onto the "daily show" and scroll back.

  • @christinet6336
    @christinet6336 Před 3 lety +10

    I was born in Boston (1973), raised in Boston, left in 2000 to travel the U.S. and now live in Virginia (the original home of the Confederacy). I'm ready to go back to Boston.

    • @JK-gu3tl
      @JK-gu3tl Před 3 lety

      First 8 presidents came from Virginia, it's a blue state now thanks to federal spending.

    • @christinet6336
      @christinet6336 Před 3 lety +1

      @@JK-gu3tl ... Yup, a blue state now, but it's new to being blue - lol. Old racist habits die hard down here.

    • @JK-gu3tl
      @JK-gu3tl Před 3 lety

      @@christinet6336 Is that why AAs are fleeing San Fran?

    • @christinet6336
      @christinet6336 Před 3 lety +1

      @@JK-gu3tl Based on the news I've read over the past 10 years, AAs are fleeing San Fran due to rising housing costs (like many other people from the area). The average person can't afford to live there.

    • @JK-gu3tl
      @JK-gu3tl Před 3 lety

      @@christinet6336 What's driving up the cost? The free market? /s

  • @jflo7674
    @jflo7674 Před 3 lety +7

    I've been to Boston ONCE. Never again. I thought I was in the twilight zone. It was bad.

  • @SaintPaulPK
    @SaintPaulPK Před 2 lety

    Absolutely fantastic reporting by Roy Wood Jr.

  • @luisfontuckey4521
    @luisfontuckey4521 Před 2 lety +10

    I visited Boston on trip with my GF a few years back. I have never in my life experienced such overt in your face racism. I thought I was being sensitive (not the sensitive type) but no, it was real. It was everywhere. I have travelled the world over and never experienced racism like I did on that trip. I will never set foot in Boston again.

  • @airplanes_aren.t_real
    @airplanes_aren.t_real Před 3 lety +25

    2:22
    That's like asking straight people about homophobia
    Or asking cis people about transphobia
    Wait that's politics

  • @sayerazifohnas
    @sayerazifohnas Před 3 lety

    love the tricycle end bit. what a witty end.. haha

  • @sisterphyllis4753
    @sisterphyllis4753 Před 3 lety

    You guys are funny as heck with truth. 💕🙏🏽✌️

  • @ottmarmontes
    @ottmarmontes Před 3 lety +8

    They released this video before. Seems they just uploaded it agian.

  • @ChanceJolivette
    @ChanceJolivette Před 3 lety +4

    the last woman screaming BOSTON!!!!! Hilarious lol

  • @aleahhenderson-carter61

    I want to be Wokey the Walrus for Halloween !!!! 🤣🤣

  • @lemonine907
    @lemonine907 Před 3 lety +16

    Why does The Daily Show keep reuploading old clips?

  • @tylerhackner9731
    @tylerhackner9731 Před 3 lety +13

    Bill burr should probably get a kick out of this one lol. Roy Wood jr is hilarious

  • @NorseButterfly
    @NorseButterfly Před 3 lety +9

    Wokey The Walrus has a lot of work to do 😞

  • @heavymetalhomesteading
    @heavymetalhomesteading Před 3 lety +1

    Grew up outside of Boston...I'm horrified, had no idea....

  • @tonyoliver5537
    @tonyoliver5537 Před 3 lety

    K.C. Jones the former Boston Celtics player and coach received racism when he went to buy a house in Framingham the neighbors said "they didn't won't any blacks to move in the house"

  • @bella9698
    @bella9698 Před 3 lety +6

    Why is this video not made available in Australia?

    • @Mythraen
      @Mythraen Před 3 lety +2

      Because Boston isn't in Australia... obviously!
      That's a joke. I have no clue.

  • @vibesmom
    @vibesmom Před 3 lety +23

    I’m from Boston and white. Yes we have a problem, I was teased endlessly as a kid for sticking up for the rights of black people. It infuriated me as a kid and it still does today. That was outright racism I saw by kids who followed parents lead. I find most people don’t feel that way about skin, they don’t outright hate people for their skin color. They do overlook everything they are experiencing though, and part of that is the result of a systematic racism that needs to be pointed out. Thankfully we are starting to talk about it. In the media, in the news, and my hope is it will spread to white people talking with each other. I have friends from all over with different understanding of the level of systematic racism and what it is. I do hear conversations happening in different places, but people are hard to change, and the fact is for most people racism is hating someone for the color of their skin. If they don’t feel that way they feel their done with that issue.You can change the name of Yawkey Way all you want, but until black families feel welcome in Fenway Park, we’ve done nothing.

  • @Vendoman500
    @Vendoman500 Před 3 lety +17

    I been to Boston once. I’m never going back 😂

  • @amor5862
    @amor5862 Před rokem +1

    The mayor declared racism a public health crisis but OK 👍

  • @dabnailz5805
    @dabnailz5805 Před 3 lety +3

    I live in the next state over and even I know not mess with Boston. I am to "tanned" for that.

  • @MCPhaze1
    @MCPhaze1 Před 3 lety +5

    CZcams needs to pay the CC programmer a little more

  • @DJSouthFlorida
    @DJSouthFlorida Před 3 lety

    I remember in the late 80s growing up with people from different ethnic groups in the projects in Charlestown. Those childhood days were so fun.

  • @mattcarlucci
    @mattcarlucci Před 3 lety

    Roy Wood is going to join the long list of stars to come out of the daily show and shine.

  • @JimmyG415
    @JimmyG415 Před 3 lety +5

    Jeremy Renner isn't from Boston. He was in "The Town", but he got there a month early to learn the accent.

    • @DIMP11
      @DIMP11 Před 3 lety

      He is Californian.

  • @silverjay300
    @silverjay300 Před 3 lety +5

    Ok, personal experience: I'm a black guy from Mississippi. I enrolled at MIT in 2007 and during my time in the Boston/Cambridge area, I did not feel racist vibes. Granted, Boston as a city is likely very different than the collegiate environment, but that's just my experience.

  • @Bovice4
    @Bovice4 Před 3 lety

    he said on a scale of jazzy jeff to jeff sessions!! 🤣🤣🤣 she said “mmmmm”

  • @kajyakuzonik9130
    @kajyakuzonik9130 Před 3 lety +1

    Wait... I've seen this before... like ages ago... but it doesn't hurt to show it again =)

  • @user-qd4py9zx6v
    @user-qd4py9zx6v Před 3 lety +5

    Shows how important education rlly is

  • @ravenrose5712
    @ravenrose5712 Před 3 lety +3

    I think the big problem is that people are still expecting racism to be always look like n-words and white hoods, and that's just not how it is. We know racism is bad, so racist people can't admit their own racism to themselves without risking social stigma, and if they can't admit it they can't change.
    At least that's my impression.

  • @Mritsonlyaname
    @Mritsonlyaname Před 3 lety

    lol when that black lady said, "Know where you're allowed, know where you're wanted." That is super racist.

  • @dsess2001
    @dsess2001 Před 3 lety

    "...like a Negrometer? ...like a N-Word Meter?" Dying

  • @tomace7924
    @tomace7924 Před 3 lety +8

    “I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.” -Frank Costello

  • @mv3967
    @mv3967 Před 3 lety +6

    1:18 😅😂😂

  • @pangaeus
    @pangaeus Před 3 lety +1

    As a native Bostonian I have to say that the area is extremely segregated. At least it was when I went to school there. In one of the wealthier suburbs, Wellesley, out of my class of 200, there were only 2 black students who lived in town, and they were not African-American, they were British-African and Congolese. The rest of the black students were bused in daily from Dorchester or other Boston areas via the Metco system and Wellesley college also had a program to bring a couple black females from NYC to live on campus and go to the public high school. We read Black Boy and Native Son in English class and people were generally well-meaning, but it is hard to understand institutional racism when the towns around Boston are so segregated. Even when that is the definition of institutional racism.

  • @Zook_Ride
    @Zook_Ride Před 24 dny

    There’s nothing to really do in Boston, but watch sports. It’s cold and gets dark early in the winter.

  • @ashleystearns2486
    @ashleystearns2486 Před 3 lety +5

    Priceless. And so accurate.