Name: Are Commercials Inciting Racism? | Theo Von and Andrew Santino
Uploaded: 2020-08-07T18:17:22.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Are Commercials Inciting Racism? | Theo Von and Andrew Santino' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-08-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Are Commercials Inciting Racism? | Theo Von and Andrew Santino' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-08-07. Transcript available.

I think we need to get back to a place where we step back after all this chaos
and we start to
understand that like agenda isn't the way to get messages across. We need to
have conversations
because people are just hearing stuff and then they get mad. Like I got mad the
other night,
not mad, but I just got, I was like, this is fucked up. There's a Procter and
Gamble commercial.
Procter and Gamble is a major fucking corporation. And it's a commercial where
it's a young,
it's a young black dad with his son and they get looks everywhere they go,
right? There's a little
girl waving out of a Mercedes, a little white girl. And the mom rolls up the
window when she
sees that she's waving at a black kid. And then he puts his son in the pool and
a, and a white dad
gets his son out of the pool because the black guy is in the pool. And then the
very end of the
commercial, you see that he's actually, they were in a courtroom and then you
pan around and he's a
judge, the, the, the, the, the dad, the black dad. And it's this thing that's
like, it's a conversation
we need to have about, um, racial inequality and judgment and silent racist, uh,
intentions. And
yada, yada, yada. While I know what they're saying, I know what they're trying
to communicate.
I think that is so poorly done. Yeah. This is the commercial because all this
does to me
is you can play it and play it in the background. Cause I don't think there's
any, it's just music.
There is no, uh, there's no dialogue, but you know, they show him and his son
having a good day.
And then it's waving at a white girl and a Benz. And the mom is like, no way
you don't get to wave
it. Blacks. Like what, what is this from 1940? This is, this is now they're airing
this shit
right now. And look, don't hold the elevator for the black guy says the three
whites in the elevator.
Oh my God. Well, I mean, dude, this is insane. This is going on. I just saw
this last night when
I was watching baseball. Ooh, is that a thought coming in the door? She's cute,
huh?
Mm-hmm. But look, what would you like to sit at that table next to the black
guy? No way.
We'd rather sit over here. You know, let's get out of the pool. I don't want to
get in the pool
because the black guy's in there with his son. Right. Oh, you're in a fancy
shoe store. Look at
the black guy. Look at the black guy. Checked on the black guy. He's black. We
don't know what
he's going to do in here. So, right. The message is extremely obvious of what
Proctor and Gamble is
saying. I just want to see what the script is at the end. You know. Should I
skip ahead? Yeah. Skip
to he's a judge now. You know, we cut to a courtroom. They turn the cameras
around and
obviously we see he's a judge. And their statement is. Good for him, man. Yeah.
And this is based on a
true story? Yeah. Yeah. But it turns out he didn't even go to school to be a
judge. Let's all talk
about. Let's all. Let's all. What is that? Let's all talk about the look so we
can talk about the look
so we can see beyond it. OK, so here's my here. Here's what I here's what I
want to say about this.
And then I don't want to ramble on to more about it. But it made me mad last
night because
I know what they're saying. Do do many black people in America or the maybe all
maybe a high
majority feel that they get that they get things like this, that things like
this happen to them?
Perhaps. Yes, perhaps so. That is that can be true. Right. Yes.
This message, though, is almost like saying all white people do this stuff.
Yeah.
All of you do this, which is so fucking wrong and not true that this should say
there's a very small
percentage of white people who publicly have no shame in being racist. Right.
And they're fucking assholes and fuck them forever. Yeah.
But but the conversation that should it should say, let's talk about how people
are blatantly racist
and why it's wrong versus this shows different factions of white people at
different levels of life
shunning black people. And it's almost saying this is what you do without
knowing it.
It's like, no, the fuck, I don't. Right. No, the fuck. I don't put that saying
like it's a
this. I believe in my heart that most the high majority of whites in this
country aren't inherently
racist towards black people in that fashion. I agree. Right. I just don't
believe that.
I agree. And I've agreed it for a long time. Do I think there's some people
that are?
Yes. Right. Yes. There are probably a portion of people that see a black guy in
a pool and don't
swim in it because that black that white guy's racist. Right. Okay. Do I think
most do that?
No. Yeah. But this message is like saying most, if not all white people are
racist towards black
people. And I just don't believe it. I just don't think that's true because it
is perpetuating a
narrative that is that is so broad. How could you encompass all the whites? It's
almost ignorant to
have this be the narrative almost. Yeah. It's fucked up because that's not how
I fucking feel. So you're
speaking for me now. Right. Procter and fucking gamble. Yeah. And so a lot of
this comes from,
I think the people who make these commercials now and who are in the driver's
seat of a lot of the
advertising and all that, they're all from a lot of the same places. Yeah. It's
the same repeat
people over and over again who have never lived in different communities. Right.
And so they think
that this is what it's like everywhere because that's what they see on their
news. Because they
don't live in those worlds. Right. You said exactly what I said on this last
podcast I did with
Fitzsimmons. My biggest beef with a lot of white people yelling the loudest is
they don't interact with
anybody of color anyway. Right. They have no black friends. They have no, not
fuck saying just black
friends. They have no friends of any other race besides whites. So then they go,
this is what I
think other whites do. Right. Well, you don't live in the world, especially Procter
and fucking
Gamble, a massive corporation. Yeah. What world do you live in that you know
that? And what I would
rather see, what I think it would be more helpful would be to show a commercial
that shows people of
all ethnicities treating a different ethnicity a certain way. Yeah. Because I
think there's, I believe
that there's way more bigotry in the country than there is actual inherent or,
you know, like that
systemic racism people talk about. Yeah. I think there's way more bigotry that
goes all types of
ways. Oh, please. Like I see. Everyone is racist. There is so much bigotry to
any other race. Yeah.
It's not just a street of, of one-way street of white people being racist to
black people. Right. And people
are so, white people who have been doing their best their entire lives to not
be racist and to be
supportive of black community, to be supportive of black artists. My, my
favorite comedians are black
and have been my whole life. Well, the most popular ones are. Yeah. Like the
best. And they're the most
popular, the most popular musicians. Like, I feel like there's a lot of like
support of black culture.
I see that a lot more than I see stuff like this anymore. Correct. Um, cause
this exists.
I'm not saying it doesn't, but it's so small and you're making the rest of us
who aren't that way.
You're making us angry, not at black people, but you're making us angry at this
repeated beating
us over the head with a narrative that doesn't apply to us that you keep
putting us into. And I
think you're going to have a lot of people that are going to vote in, uh, in
the election against the
media. Yeah. And I don't know what that vote looks like for them, but I think a
lot of people
don't care who the candidates are, but if they can find a way to vote against
shit like this,
that's what they want to vote. You said it right, bro. They're beating you in
the head with a
narrative that doesn't apply to you. And so it infuriates people like me to go,
you're saying that you're, it's like, you're saying, I need to have this
conversation about
racists. I already know there's racist pieces of shit. Yeah. I don't need a
fuck them. The
conversation needs to have, look how many people in our communities, at least
the ones that I live in
are my friendship circle, people that I'm a part of that are supportive of
other cultures and races,
and we get along and we enjoy one another's company. If you put that image out
more, don't
you think that does better? Don't you think it does better to show us
interacting with other
cultures and races versus going, this happens all the time. This is happening
on a daily basis.
No, I have enough black friends that have told me they get treated differently
in different
situations. Yeah. I, they have to my face been like, no, when I walk into this
kind of place,
I get treated like this. That's right. It happens. Right. But this is once
again,
that is a small amount of people who are outwardly racist and do racist things.
Right. I'm not talking
about subconscious racism. I'm not talking about when you, when you, when
someone says they see
a black guy in a nice car and they go, he must be a rapper or an athlete, you
know, in their mind,
they go, he can't just be a lawyer. Right. That's subconscious racism that
people have.
I'm talking about, this is blatant, obvious, get my kid out of the pool. There's
a black guy in the
pool. This, I just don't believe that this is rampant. I just, and maybe it is
in certain parts
of the world, but our country, but I got to tell you that ain't the fucking
good afternoon and other
times. Thanks for watching that video. You just saw. I mean, it was okay, but
the next video you
could watch could be way better. What if you watch a video right now that
changes your life? Well,
you could watch this one or watch this one, watch this one, watch this one,
watch this one. Ah.