No one should have to feel like they need to act different temporarily to mask their culture and heritage. I loathe racism and wish for peace amongst all of humanity and for people to love, honor, respect and tolerate everyone and to know that no one asked to be born in whatever body they’re in. Be kind to each other.
@Loveispainj
Ай бұрын
The system is evil
@Darknamja
2 жыл бұрын
As long as they have most of the control, you must learn to be adaptable. Most of them are uncomfortable when we are around them because they can't be their true selves. I spent 24 years in the USAF and another 21 years as a military contractor.
@terrywhite1182
2 жыл бұрын
"...to make them feel more comfortable".... it's time for "them" to be uncomfortable.... we've been long enough
@NotYourTypicalNegro
2 жыл бұрын
I greatly enjoyed your presentation. Your channel is about to blow up. I can feel it.
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I hope so too!
@smitajoshi
2 жыл бұрын
Great analysis Netta. Like it or not, perception matters and verbal and non-verbal communication are crucial.
@SpringboardThought
2 жыл бұрын
Jeez. I feel like I just show up parroting amazing all the time but all your content is just so well done and immaculately produced.
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
Fraser, I appreciate you so much! Your kind words and those from others are the exact motivation I need to keep plugging along. Thank you!! ❤️❤️❤️
@the_creepy_geek
2 жыл бұрын
Another amazing video Netta 💜The thought, research and planning that goes into your videos is fantastic!
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, always lovely to see you around here!
@Youcifer
2 жыл бұрын
I think linguistic purity and prescriptivism is where all of this originates. Love the video. Subbed! Also love _The Vanishing Half._ Hope this channel blows up in popularity.
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I think that's def part of it! Thank you so much for dropping by (and subbing), and for the kind words
@Youcifer
2 жыл бұрын
@@NettaSelene np :)
@CursiveDragon
2 жыл бұрын
Worked for a company that had issues with my braids, my walk, my dialect, my durag, my everything. Actually got called to HR because associates felt I was arrogant. Asked my coworkers what the Hell made them feel I was arrogant, and they told me they could tell I was proud of my race. How can you tell me I'm proud of my race? You walk with your head up. What! Can't make this shit up. They wanted me to dress just like them, cut my hair down to a military cut, and not walk so proudly.
@brucelee5576
2 жыл бұрын
Dude there’s a time and place for everything, you don’t just dress walk and talk how you want ! I don’t go to my work place with my Bruce Lee shoes and Raider hat , and when you say dress like them I’m sure the people you refer to as them don’t dress like “them” at home ! A dew rag is not going to be acceptable at 99% of work places , sometimes a regular plain T-shirt is not acceptable , sometimes a bow tie is not acceptable or nice pair of dress pants is a no no . If HR says it’s no good then it’s no hood ! Sometimes you’ll be off and they check out you’re dress in your Facebook page and find a problem. Life has rules , workplaces have rules .
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
Yep, there’s definitely some instances where the call for code switching will be a lot less subtle than others, but like what I was trying to get across in the video, it’s almost always needed in order for us to keep and advance in jobs, i.e. survive.
@CursiveDragon
2 жыл бұрын
@@brucelee5576 You missed the point she was getting at, as well as my point. What is wrong with me walking with me head up? Before you respond to anything, answer that. What is wrong with speaking like an adult? I've NEVER been ghetto, hood, ratchet, or anything. I had a proper upbringing. Durag was written under an ISSUED cap because of my braids. How is braids hood? They had issues with my braids! Contact me in private, and I will show you a picture and your jaw will drop. Don't add in your own assumptions. If I were to include every detail, my comment would have been pages long.
@CursiveDragon
2 жыл бұрын
@@NettaSelene So true, and so sad.
@brucelee5576
2 жыл бұрын
@@NettaSelene I haven’t watch the full video , just went to the comment section, going to watch now.
@Jesusjablo
2 жыл бұрын
Well of course code switching is real, but white people living in predominantly black places also code switch. This is nothing to do with white supremacy. For instance if you behave differently while with your grandparents than while with your friends it´s also code switching. You appropriate your behaviour to the situation you´re in, and yes, race might be one of the factors, other being social status of said group, relation to the function of the environment etc. You don´t go to court and act as in a dance club. Also while at home you might not wear make up, but once going out you do.
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
And these are the exact points I make in the video. :)
@rickyjames4228
2 жыл бұрын
YES white in black areas do code switching nut what 4 ? To be cool to fit in with a majority BLACKS do it to survive I think 2 get a job to not let police think they are a suspect, to show your new neibour when you move in your not like the rest etc etc. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
@MargaretPinard
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, I had not thought of the body language aspects over virtual media! Great video. 🔥
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙌
@seanm8734
2 жыл бұрын
WOW! Thank you. This hits home.
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, so glad it resonated! Thank you for dropping by ❤️
@moisel6303
2 жыл бұрын
Man, this video made me realize how indoctrinated we are to the. white man stigma. Thank you for the enlightenment
@edgeinscarride
2 жыл бұрын
I am white and I am just as expressive as you are when I talk . I use both my hands and facial expressions when talking and have my whole life .
@kimobrien.
2 жыл бұрын
That's probably because your working class and its just natural to use your hands expressively. Lots of hand signals and motions are cross cultural and don't require a specifically language.
@donniebrasco1364
2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video. Code switching is just a term though. In the 70s many black people spoke much louder as a revolutionary for fighting injustices like Muhammad Ali and Ron O'Neal. They might have sounded white by today's black youth. But their swag was indescribably sophisticated and badass. I don't want this generation to think the old school badasses of the 70s as illustrated in channels like reelblack didn't have a powerful voice against white supremacy. In fact it was much more powerful than a tekashi 69 or a Kodak Black. Because they conducted interviews with white interviewers not act out like some protesters did. We do tend to code switch but not energetically.
@frequentlycynical642
2 жыл бұрын
You had me until AAVE. People have always code switched. It's normal human behavior, probably since forever.
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
Perhaps, but in this video I’m specially talking about the Black experience.
@micah717
2 ай бұрын
you deserve more recognition
@NettaSelene
Ай бұрын
This comment means a lot to me, thank you.
@doubleutee2100
2 жыл бұрын
I guess it also depends on which White people someone from the Black community would code switch for. Someone from the Black community may code switch to greet House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; however, just short of using the N-word in a conversation with him, they may be much less likely to code switch if they greet Rapper Eminem (Or possibly Ariana Grande who has in the past been accused of Black fishing, but whom also was once labeled by Patti Labelle as "A Black White girl"). As a native person from Detroit, Eminem grew up only a short distance away from the Black community, while people would accuse Ariana Grande of having a "Blaccent". If Black people use code switching as a survival mechanism when necessary (for example, to interact with corporate America), are Eminem & Ariana using appropriation tactics to make a career for themselves by using the very same long term code switching for an equal $opportunity$ and acceptance? Or is this mere subconscious learned behavior, cause it's how they adapted as they see fit for the norm regarding daily living?
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
I've thought about this comment all day; I don’t quite have the language for what I'm feeling around this, but can say it's a complicated matter with lots of nuance. There’s doing something for fame/profit which is clearly appropriation/being a culture vulture, then there’s assimilating to the environment you grew up in/feel close to, even if that culture isn’t your own. And then there’s Rachel Dolezal, lol. I didn’t know Patti said that but just looking into it and kinda glad I missed that! Thank you for dropping by, and for the food for thought!
@doubleutee2100
2 жыл бұрын
@@NettaSelene You're very smart. I truly liked the video, and I thank you for the feedback. So, because you're smart, I'm going to go forward with a little more, and then I'll back off. Black women. I'm going forward, because I feel you can handle it. When Black women wear pressed hair, or blond colored hair (with/without extensions), would that be cultural appropriation? Why or why not? Or would it merely be a subconscious adaptation to assimilate the beauty standards sanctioned by another community without an up close and personal acknowledgement of a racial dichotomy? Then again, since nearly all Black Americans (and other New World Black people), have some form of European DNA (which they will or won't feel comfortable acknowledging), it kinda makes me wonder if the chromosomes, at times, generate a supernatural law of attraction to do certain things. LOL. Of course one could say Lil Kim & Nikki Menage wears green hair, and pink hair, and orange hair, and blue hair. Who are they copying? Very original indeed! One used to say the other was appropriating her! Ha! Enjoy the day. Again, thanks for the feedback.
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
Oh no, this one is much easier and a lot more straight forward. Cultural appropriation is defined having an explicit adoption that's inappropriate. The most common examples that we point to are when people appropriate other cultures' traditions or styles (hair, clothing, etc) for profit. This happens in communities other than Black communities such as the rise in white people creating Mahjong sets, and obviously in the Black community with countless things (take the history of boxer braids, for one example).
@andreabrown4541
2 жыл бұрын
You may need to take another listen to the video because at the end of the day Eminem and Ariana still white.
@doubleutee2100
2 жыл бұрын
@@andreabrown4541 Take another listen to the video for what? I brought them up, she didn't. I know who I'm bringing up and why I'm doing it. If you don't understand, then you don't understand. Leave it at that. It didn't involve you. Bye!
@kimobrien.
2 жыл бұрын
Ruling classes always speak the Kings English. Black speech isn't about Blackness as much as its about class. Nobody if Africa spoke English so different speech pasterns devolved from Blacks being segregated and the speech of southern white English speakers not the northern Yankee elite.
@donniebrasco1364
2 жыл бұрын
Muhammad Ali spoke the king's english but still fought for black rights and was a scholar in his own right. I wish every black man spoke like Ali. They feared Ali and Mandela more than a thug committing crimes.
@terrywhite1182
2 жыл бұрын
YES....I SUBSCRIBED
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Terry, I appreciate you!
@It-xo6ej
2 жыл бұрын
So did you just code switch when you said " we still black" ?
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
You caught it!
@MargaretPinard
2 жыл бұрын
Interesting background on Toomer, too. Filing away for May of the Moderns!
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
Oooh, what's May of the Moderns?
@MargaretPinard
2 жыл бұрын
@@NettaSelene a readathon I run focused on books written/published 1901-1945! Check it out, I’ve got a couple playlists from two previous years, and always looking for new ways to liven it up! ⚡️🤗🙌🏽
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
whoa, very cool, I'm gonna check this out, thanks for letting me know!
@MargaretPinard
2 жыл бұрын
@@NettaSelene My pleasure! :)
@jeremyhodge6216
2 жыл бұрын
This is a very fantastic video. I certainly don't see nothing wrong with it long as you know when to do this 🤔
@acwilson4714
2 жыл бұрын
Why do you think you have to stifle gesticulating and moving your eyebrows as you speak in an effort to make 'white people comfortable'? If you're going to reduce it to race, I know plenty of white women (some men) who gesticulate and change their facial expression constantly as they speak... I think you're making a lot of assumptions that aren't in any way productive.
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
This is explained pretty clearly as two of many things done as part of the code switching I do. I’d argue that this comment reduces 30+ years of lived experience and an 8 minute video down to a few sentences which also isn’t productive.
@BassGodPantheon
2 жыл бұрын
Good job Sis…👌🏾
@NettaSelene
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊
@anwornation3399
2 жыл бұрын
Well said thank you thank you it's true
@keithharris1672
5 ай бұрын
Are you related to that Senator Hakeem Jeffries, Mr. Hands ?
@NettaSelene
5 ай бұрын
Nope.
@keithharris1672
5 ай бұрын
@@NettaSelene Lol, you said you talk with your hands nothing wrong with that. He does, he really does. Lol. I didn't think you'd respond. I posted your on Code, post to Blaggenuff, we have those kinds of commentary there.
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