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This is my favorite form of podcasting. Really? Just chatting.
Yeah, like, yeah, chatting. Too many podcasts now are like, okay, before you come on, make a list of your 19 least favorite.

There's too much going on in the world. I can't do that.

Okay, so I put out a

threads post a couple days ago asking if anyone wants to come on this podcast and talk about how everything is racism. I posted it because I don't feel like that's a controversial opinion.

Like, I don't, I grew up in a small town in the middle of Michigan, mostly white town, but even I knew, like, slavery actually happened.

That, like, our economy as like the American dream was built on,

let's see,

you wouldn't have clothing, cigarettes, uh, food,

railroads. I could keep,

there's a lot of things that made prosperity

the brand of America, right? That were built on slave labor.

And the reason that they were, that they look really good from the outside, like everybody's rich. It's like, cause they don't pay labor.
They don't pay for labor.

Like there's no labor costs in anything. So

anyway, that seems like common sense to me. And then the fact that I was born a mere 13 years after the Civil Rights Act.

13. And like children were still children, you know, when I was a child who had, who had been alive for that.
Who had police stopping them from going into their schools. Yeah.
Yeah.

And been murdered and all kinds of horrible things. And then, and then someone signs a new piece of paper and there was one, you know, 100 years prior to that.

The fact that that happened once, then it happened with Jim Crow.

then we said, okay, we're just going to keep changing things on paper, but like we're not actually ever going to address the real problem.

So I just have that as a basic understanding of what America is, right? And I keep looking at news or hearing people talk or being part of like a public discourse where I'm like,

is it new that everyone's changed their mind about that?

Is why is it controversial all of a sudden? It wasn't even in the Reagan era, I didn't think. I mean, I know the war on drugs was like incredibly racist.

There was always racism, but you could say that there was racism. Why? What happened? That's what I want to talk about.

My name is W. Kamal Bell.

I am a stand-up comedian. documentary director, producer, author, writer,

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Yeah.

I didn't mention the awards. I didn't mention any of the awards.
Oh, Celebrity Jeopardy Champion 2025. Okay, now we're done.

Apologize in advance if I do any microaggressions or any racism because I am a white person.

I mean, to be quite honest, first of all, I know you, so I have an idea of the range of where you could air.

I know you well enough that I could be like, I don't know about that. Yes.

Good. And also, like, like,

the honest truth is that if a black person who is aware enough of what microaggressions are,

if we called them out all the time, we would never talk about it. We were psychologically exhausted.
Right.

Like, it would just be like, I said a long time ago that, like, racist things happen to me all the time that I don't tell anybody about because it would just be like.

My friends would even be like, come on, get, like, you know, not that they wouldn't, yeah, it would just be like, ah, you know, like, even just the way that sometimes somebody looks at me I'm just like oh okay you know like or or the way somebody doesn't look I mean so it's yeah so let's go

well but does it okay but here's the question so you don't have to call it out every time but does it affect you yeah well I'll tell you this this happened to me today I was I was uh sitting outside at a coffee shop which is not a thing I do that often for various reasons because you're famous that's that is a big part I mean I'm also in in my town I'm extra famous because I live in Oakland and yeah so that is one of the reasons I just don't want to sound like that guy but let's be put it on the table because i can't just sit and read a book or work on my computer because it's like there is

whatever that's luxury problems but i this woman was sitting across from me like we were on the sidewalk and she's on the other side of the sidewalk and i looked at her and i and shortly after i looked at her like i think i just like oh look at that person over there she got up and like walked away and i thought oh did i just like

look like a dude who was staring at you know i mean like yeah yeah yeah like she just got up and didn't even, didn't ever look at me, but could have seen me and could have seen me looking at her.

And although I don't believe I did anything to look like a lech, but I understand. So I say, I understand this side of it, just like I would hope people understand the racism side of it.

So I might have like microaggressed on her in some way without realizing it. And she got up and left.
And I, and I had that moment of like, did I just, did I look too long? You know what I mean?

Which is entirely too long is in the eye of the receiver. So I'm not saying that there is, but I certainly, all i say is like i'm aware as a man especially as a six foot four

200 and blah blah blah pound man that i that i have to be aware of my presence in the world as a man and as a black man and how i'm putting myself out there and also how i'm and how i am being received You know who talks really thoughtfully about that is Dan Gallucci, who's right over there.

Plus, he has a lot of tattoos. So it's like, there's, you know, there's things that add on top of just being a guy.
And I think most people, I would say most people,

you know, aren't aware of all the different slices of them that are, that exist out in the world.

And therefore, when things happen, they respond like, as if it's, they're an individual and not a part of the

society's sort of like racial caste system and, and, and the gender hierarchy. And also, are you short? You know what I mean?

There's just all these different things. How do you dress?

Do you, because now I think it was all the time, when I was a kid, if you had one tattoo, you were a criminal. Now it's like, you might be loaded in tattoos, but what type of tattoos? Yeah.

Like the sort of the fun tattoos or the scary tattoos? You know, you know, there's, there's soccer mobs with full sleeves, but they're like, it's all like, you know, mermaids or something.

You know what I mean?

I think that like,

but I think they're not like Russian prison tattoos on a soccer side. Exactly.
Yeah. They're not on their face.

Although we'll get there.

But I think that for me, it's like, i'm like i was uh as a kid when i got to be tall which was like sophomore year of high school i was aware suddenly i might as well have been a 35 year old man to most people like i was over six feet tall and i was aware at some point like oh you know you you know it's it's sort of the

the bare scratching the surface of what professor kimberly crenshaw sort of coined his intersectionality My identity is as a black man, not as a black person and as a man, it is a black man.

Like that is, those two things cannot be separated you and you could almost say big black man like you could just do like just because because there's that's a certain identity and so therefore everywhere i walk through the world i'm aware and this is where the fame part comes in funny like sometimes people will look at me and the look on their face i'm like is that the look because you are surprised to see a famous person or are you surprised to see a big black guy you have to do some calculus most people don't do that because if they did, we would be able to have an easier conversation in this country about race and racism.

Let's talk about that. Great.

Let me just, as an exercise, I'm going to open up the front page of the New York Times right now.

Okay.

First breaking news article on the top of their website right now. Harvard secures a court victory in its fight with Trump.

Harvard has sued Trump in an effort to restore billions of research funding, blah, blah, blah. Right.

Most of that's racism. Okay.

The second thing is about vaccines. Also, we can talk about medical.
Is that the Florida thing? Yes.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Where Ron DeSantis found

a black doctor who's an immigrant from Nigeria to wipe out the vaccine mandates in Florida. So he's like using this black guy is being used and willingly so

to wipe out the vaccine mandates. And so Ron DeSantis gets to like point at the black guy.
He did it. You know, he didn't.

Then just a couple of stories later, it's about Laura Loomer, who is on the wrong side of everything um yeah well that's the maga movement which is certainly about white supremacy uh trump considers sending national guard to new orleans but when he said the list of cities he wanted to send the national guard to or send send troops to they were yeah they were all cities with black mayors first of all even new york and with huge black populations right and also not the most dangerous cities in america also not the most dangerous cities in america because those are all in red states so uh yeah

so again that's my question like i understand i mean it's a dumb question actually now that i'm we're talking about it i'm like of course we're not talking about reality yeah we're not and we're being encouraged to get further and further away from reality

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Is this different?

Like, is this time different?

Yeah.

The thing that is that is different, that different, that I like if you think about the history of black people in this country, that was the, the generation that we grew up in was the first generation of black people where you actually kind of could become a doctor.

It wasn't like you were the only black doctor in the neighborhood anymore. You actually like, oh, no, he went to medical school.

And you could become a businessman and you could, you could like own some things. So it felt like, oh, we're on our way, but then you realize there's a ceiling here.

It's still not going to stop America's white supremacy from like, if a, you know, like the New York Times did an article years ago about,

specifically about black boys, that black boys who are born into wealth are still going to fall or are likely to fall out of wealth in their lifetime, which is different than white people born into wealth.

The wealth accumulates and gets bigger. Yeah.
So you can't earn your way out of it. And I think that's the first time we found, like, we found this out.

It's like, there's no sort of like, oh, I've made enough money and now I don't feel the effects of racism because the whole system is built on racism, specifically the financial system.

So that racism is always going to be taking something from you. And I remember we did an episode of United Shades about environmental racism And Dr.

Robert Bullard, who's the father of environmental racism, credited the study of environmental racism, said, if you give me your zip code, I'll tell you how long you're going to live.

So we're talking about like, if just being born into a,

you know, black people tend to live, there's a thing called Lulus, which are, which are like

land that is bad, like land that is like next to the, that used to be on a landfill or, or that used to be, that is near a factory.

Black people tend to, black and brown people tend to live in those parts on land that that is bad that white people would never live on.

You're born in a place where you're growing up with asthma and you also, you're black and also you're not going to be,

your life expectancy is going to be lesser. And you also have the economic pull of racism stopping you from like achieving what you can achieve.

So I think the idea being that like, this is why I think it's different now because it's like, oh, it's we're all the data's in. Yeah.

Like there's no, there's no like, well, the next generation will, like there's no, like we've, we've got LeBron James as a billionaire and Oprah and Jay-Z, but that doesn't mean what we thought it was going to mean.

When I've argued with like racists in general, and especially ones in my family, like the old people who really hate affirmative action and DEI initiatives and all that shit.

And I'm like, I don't know why they forget how

recently there was any sort of moving the needle on like what black people were quote allowed to do. But why isn't that like

solve it for me? Go solve racism.

Tell me why all these old white people are so racist that they can't even accept reality, which is.

So here's what I, here's what, here's the way I think about it. And I started thinking about this a few years ago.
You know, Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929,

which means he could still be alive. He would be 96.
That's not the, he's not even making the news on his birthday.

I mean, he would be because he's Martin Luther King Jr., but they don't go, happy birthday to a 96-year-old. They don't do that.
Like, he's still four years away from the Today Show caring. Right.

Which means, I think, and this is the thing I think is the great question.

When he was assassinated by white supremacy and, you know, by a tool of white supremacy, and we were sort of the nation, racists were gaslit into thinking.

This racism ends now. We have killed this man.
Racism ends now. And then I grew up thinking somehow the assassination of Martin Luther Luther King Jr.
was the end of racism.

Wait, we were sort of like back up there.

That the idea that like I like I was like that like his assassination was so tragic that basically

you're saying it would affect people so much? That it was so tragic that we thought it had somehow healed racism and we could get to the colorblind era. I've never even heard of this before.

See, that's how racist I am. Accidentally.
I didn't even know that was a thing.

That we thought that like, you know, he get, you know, that like, and remember, when he died, he was not popular, but when he died, he becomes like a saint figure.

And what that, and when he becomes like sort of a saint in certain corners of America, what we didn't realize is that his, he didn't, people weren't healed by his death.

They just got quiet and they got shamed and they got quiet for years.

And though, and which means there are still people alive right now who hated his fucking guts.

and they had to be shamed and they had to do it behind closed doors and they had to talk about hating his guts there are people alive right now who boycotted him and and young and who are now you know who are still alive and also raised kids who hated his guts but they had to be quiet about it and then trump came down that escalator and said nope we can still be as we can still be racist in public

And so it's not that certain people became racist when he did that. They were like, finally,

finally, I can do this out loud again. And some young people are like, finally, I can do it the way my grandpa did it.
Right. Out loud and in public.

So this is what gives me the sense that things are different, right?

And I didn't want to be wrong about that, but I'm okay if I am, you know? But I was like, I think I'm pretty right about this. This is like a different environment.

Because I remember doing reporting ahead of when Obama got elected.

And there were lots of stories where one in particular, I went out to Pennsylvania to interview Amish people who were heavily against Obama.

No one would say on the record or on my microphone anyway. And I was just like a baby reporter with like a tiny microphone, you know.

And they wouldn't say

that it was about race. But the minute I turned the microphone off, N-word flying everywhere.

Yeah.

Yes. Yeah.
Among the Amish. So I, but, but because I didn't get it on tape, I couldn't make the story that would be the story I would, you know what I mean? Like I couldn't

tell the story. And that,

I feel like that's what's changed is you would, you could get those people to say that on tape now.

Yeah, no, they, because there's no, because the consequences aren't severe anymore.

You would, they would like, you know, like the woman who called the little black autistic boy the n-word in a playground made, like, raised money off of it.

The, the thing I've been looking looking at recently is the, the, my favorite Martin Luther King Jr.

quote is the, is this passage from the letter from a Birmingham jail where he talks about like the plague of the white moderate.

And I think now we call that maybe the white liberal, the white Democrat, the white, sometimes even the white progressive of like,

because they're like,

I'm not, I'm not MAGA,

therefore I'm, I'm okay.

And, and black people are like, you're really not, you're really not okay.

Can I read this quote from the,

I just, cause I just think this is like, this is,

when I looked it up, I was like, this is the whole thing. So this is from Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter from Birmingham jail in 1963, like a few months before the March on Washington.

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who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom, who lives by a mythical concept of time, and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a more convenient season?

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I mean, you basically just said what he said, but that's the thing. When I read this, I'm like, this is right now.
This is nothing has changed from this.

He thought he was talking about a problem to be overcome, and we're still living it right now.

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But then I don't want to contradict the

premise that I'm proposing here, which is things feel different right now, right? Like it is the same problem. But why right now is there,

is it so almost cool, you know, to be racist?

I think that, I think because

so many,

well, I think it is, it is, it is, it is, it does feel different because the problem has metastasized. Yeah.

Like, so the problem that he was confronting in his mind, he was like, I'm proposing here's the problem and I'm about to do the march on Washington which hopefully will help address the problem

He was working for the solution But I think if he was alive right now He'd be like you mean to tell me that you people haven't figured out that thing that I set forth in 1963 you haven't gotten you've actually gotten worse I think people in this country Trump has allowed people certain aspects of people to believe to openly say that white supremacy is their birthright and that racism is justified.

I think we all, and this is how I'm starting to feel, which is like, wait, here's the big, here's the big funny closer from the comedian.

I think we all thought America was always in the act of getting better.

And I think we were wrong.

And I think that means that in, it's very possible.

And this, and, you know, world history supports this, that we look up in 50 years or less and go, man, remember what America was like

cool

in the same way that like, remember the Roman Empire? Remember the British Empire?

Remember Genghis Khan when he ran everything?

Remember, like, I think that it's very possible that, because especially with the fact that we're not, that we're sort of demonizing immigrants, those geniuses who helped define this country that we allowed to come here are just going to end up somewhere else.

And if they all end up in the same place, then that's the new spot that everybody goes to to sort of like make their dreams come true.

And I don't know what that spot is, but I know that it doesn't, it doesn't have to be here. And that's how you start to change the, the identity of a nation.

Cause if eventually people start to actually, if immigrants can't show up, if immigrants of like think about this, Trump is kicking out international students who pay full freight to go to the most expensive and elite schools in the country.

And where there's a totally legal visa system. Yeah, no, where they, where they've done all the right things and the schools want them there.
Yeah.

And the country wants them there because a lot of those people go, now I'm going to start

Google or eBay or like I'm going to start a company

because I, because I met people at this elite institution and that's going to be an American company, even though I come from somewhere else because I'm now a citizen here or now I started the company here.

And Trump, Trump is so anti, you know,

immigrants and

so well, so racist that he doesn't even want the race, he doesn't even want races, other races to come in when they're actually helping his own reputation.

Those people will go somewhere else, and then we're going to look at be like, wow, it's weird that the newest, coolest invention came out of blah, blah, blah country.

And it's weird that another cool invention came out of that same country, and another one, and another one.

And it's weird that America doesn't is now importing everything and doesn't manufacture anything and also doesn't even

have cool ideas anymore.

Do you get policed on like how you should be talking and how you should be act doing your activism and how you should be entering the space of like,

you know,

is there, is respectability politics a problem for you?

I mean, so I think that like by the nature of who I am in the world and even by the nature of like how I have, how, how I do my hair or don't do my hair, I am walking here to be like, like, I'm going to be me in whatever space I am.

And yes, this t-shirt says whatever it says. And yes, I'm, and yes, did I comb my hair? No one knows.

You know, so I'm like very focused on like being me in whatever space I'm in and just and

owning it in a way that I think age also helps. I think for me, It is so clear that you cannot achieve your way out of racism.

And there's so many examples of black people just living their lives and being killed by state power or being unfairly treated.

That it is that respect, that anybody who wants to lean into respectability politics is just not dealing with facts. They're just not.
And so, for me, I would love, again, it would be great.

Like, and I grew up in that generation where we thought we could.

I mean, I'm

when people found out that Oprah wasn't let into the Hermes store in Paris. It was like the end of respectability politics.

I think that's the best argument. Oprah wasn't allowed into the fancy store in Paris, you know, because they were just like, no, black lady, no, no, no.
So, for me, the idea

we have seen over and over again that no matter how successful a black person is, it cannot stop

the state from coming after them when the state wants to.

I write on Substack once a week now. And every week, I'm like, how can I put it this week?

Like, and I do the weekly. You're like, it's the same goddamn thing every week.
Same, yeah. What, what's the angle?

So I think that, like, I think, I think part of the thing I'm doing right now is to be like, I just want to be so clear about where I stand on these things so that you can know.

So, you know, my substack's called who's with me. Are you with me on this? Yeah.
You're not, that's fine.

But I, it's the least i can do is be clear especially at a time where some people are acting like things are either already back to normal or they're gonna go back to normal or this is gonna be fine right and i'm like for and i'm like for three weeks in a row i've been writing about how they're current the the washington dc is being illegally invaded is been been illegally invaded by the united states government yes anyway i saw this new movie and uh you know it's just like

it's not gonna it's not gonna leave my, this list of things to talk about. It's just not going to because it's too dangerous.
It's too dangerous.

Well, I love talking to you and I want to do it again soon. All right.
Let's do it.

I'll be having this conversation. As soon as we get off, I'll still be having this conversation.
So I'm happy to.

I speak Karen.

Through my wife, I have white family members, so I speak Karen. I think you also speak it from your

what would you do experience, right? Oh my God. Oh my God.
What would you do?

I don't think it was like a fever dream. I think it's so funny that I got to do that.
It's so weird, but that's like, it's just, it should have just been called like, how would you handle a Karen?

Yeah. And they also just put me in all the racism situations.
Like, don't I get any fun one about like somebody found five dollars? Like I thought

these are all like the racism ones, but they're not going to let me do what I would normally do. And really, I have to sort of somebody help the lost kid.
Nope.

I'm in like, what would you do in the middle of this racism?

When I'm at the airport with my, especially my middle kid, who's very, you've met, who's very fair complexed, when we go through security, if it's just the two of us, I'm like, look, I know we like to joke around.

Now's not the time.

So, so when they say, when they say, what's your name? Who is he to you? Yeah, I know that thing.

I was like, so I was like, I'm always like, look, this is, this is the most serious you'll ever see your dad is when we're about to walk through airport security. Like,

we've run through all the questions. When's your birthday? How old are you? What's your middle name? Yeah,

I do a pre-test.

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