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You know, maybe that's part of the problem. I mean...
Maybe we need to stop waiting for the government
to step in and save us and we need to start saving ourselves.
I mean, this is America.
Everybody has equal opportunity to make it here.
All right. Baba ghanoush over here lost his damn mind.
Eddie, that's bullshit.
You wanna know why I'm sarcastic?
Because every time I open my mouth
to say something real, you gotta make fun of me.
Meanwhile, if I say you're a watermelon-flavored fried chicken lover,
I'm a racist.
You'll get your ass beat.
Rashad, it was hypothetical.
There's no such thing as watermelon-flavored fried chicken.
Not yet, Raja.
That would be stereotypically delicious.
All I'm saying is, my parents moved here from India with nothing.
They had no money, no friends.
And their accents were so thick, they couldn't even get bank accounts.
Somehow they made it happen.
Not to dismiss your argument here, Raja,
because it is... It is riveting.
However, there were some "setbacks" that black people faced
that really made things stressful for a minute there.
Slavery being at the very top of that list.
Exactly. Your ancestors were immigrants.
Ours were imports.
- Big difference. - Not really.
How do you think the West Indies happened, okay?
They took Indians, they took black people from Africa,
they put 'em in the Caribbean,
and 200 years later, Rihanna happened. You're welcome.
I don't like white people either. Okay?
I'm just saying, maybe y'all should stop making excuses
and actually pick up the ball.
It got real Fox News-y in here for me.
Well, yeah, we do be, we do be shootin' some hoop.
What are you talkin' about, man?
You think it's a level playing field out here?
You think racism don't exist no more?
The President of the United States of America is black.
The most powerful man on the planet is black.
Just one man.
Meanwhile, only dude I have to look up to is the guy from Big Bang Theory.
He funny. He make me laugh.
So what does that mean for the average black dude walking down the street?
Does our president's blackness, did it stop Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown or...
or Walter Scott, or Tamir Rice, or Freddie Gray from being killed? Hell nah.
A madman walked into a Charleston church and killed nine innocent people.
Did his blackness stop that?
Eric Garner got killed on tape and it still didn't matter.
So what are you saying, Raja?
I'm not sayin' that stuff isn't messed up. Because it is.
What I'm saying is,
there's never been a better time
in this country to be a black person than right now.
Unless you Bill Cosby.
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