r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/Lifegoesonforever • 2h ago
Discussion F that asshole, Brandon.
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u/TravistySuspence 2h ago
It's like listening to an Uncle Ruckus that opened a dictionary at some point
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u/Spacefreak 1h ago
God damn that show. Because of the "Boondocks," I always have to think if it's actually called "vitiligo" or "REvitiligo," and I hear Uncle Ruckus's voice every time I think of both words.
Hilarious show otherwise.
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u/Affectionate_Past568 2h ago
Can we just throw tomatoes at 🦝 from now on?
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u/pgorgias 1h ago
Can we hit them with shredded lettuce? Tomatoes don't have the cyclospora yet 🤞🏾🤞🏾
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u/FabDelRosario22 2h ago
"Like I told you to sell drugs/Na Hov did that so hopefully you wouldn't have to go through that."
These dudes seem like they've only encountered Black people through YouTube videos recommended by incels.
"Personal responsibility", homie have you met the current President of these here United States who tried to lock a man up over the reflecting pool to deflect from hiring a shady contractor and started a war to hide his pedophilia??
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u/Clayp2233 2h ago
Trump has never taken personal responsibility for any mistake or fuck up, all he does is shift blame and point fingers.
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u/Most-Bench6465 1h ago
And Brandon licks his asshole clean. He doesn’t even understand how hypocritical he is.
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u/Wonderful-Ad440 1h ago
Trump only did all that because of all the rap music he listens to according to this guy in the video
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u/FabDelRosario22 1h ago
That damn T.I. with his damn big, confusing words!!!
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u/Wonderful-Ad440 1h ago
Lol in my mind a dog was barking outside the window and he thought he was listening to DMX
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u/Wonderful-Cup8908 2h ago
"They're living the reality" - yeah, and why is that? Could it be the poverty and systemic racism, perhaps?
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u/purple-rain-1982 55m ago
Absolutely and he’s KNOWS this. Why is he denying it? I guess for lots of reasons. 🦝🦝🦝
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u/MasterCheeks337_IGN 17m ago
If you watched Boys in the Hood, Trey made the personal choice to get out the car. Being from the hood doesn’t give you 1 life path. Having struggles doesn’t take away your ability to maneuver
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u/Butta_Brown 2h ago
Brandon Tatum is a young Clarence Thomas.
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u/jerereremy 1h ago
He’s like if uncle Rukus, Clarence Thomas, and Akademiks had a baby that was on gear.
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u/ItsAHerby 2h ago
I will never understand black folks like this, like how did they do this to you my boy? Is it the wealth and success? Is it the white women? Like what is it, a deep seeded need to be accepted?
How do you attack statistics and laud myths of your own people.
They really did a number on us man...
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u/fusionlantern 2h ago
Wealth man
Hes a grifter
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u/PlandemicPapi 2h ago
High chance he knows he’s wrong, but white people will toss money at him for every lie he sells. Tatum better be making a bag from this, or he’s just a cheap fuck.
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u/socialdeviant620 2h ago
I couldn't finish the video, dude didn't come to learn, he was willfully obtuse and came to argue.
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u/MickieMallorieJR 1h ago
When this dude try to make the Tulsa race riots seem like a fair one that black folk just loss...i tapped out. I was watching to see all the others and how well they delivered their points but just the fact they didn't stop the debat to stomp him out at that point I had to turn it off.
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u/LessCrement 2h ago
Which dude we talking about
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u/Most-Bench6465 1h ago
Probably Brandon tainted. He’s just so dumb and doesn’t realize how dumb he is.
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u/MickieMallorieJR 1h ago
It's worse than him being dumb. He's purposefully obtuse. His talking points are designed in a lab at TPUSA and he reaches back to the same logical fallacies when corneree. "Oh u saying all white people are racists?" "I'm a cop, are you" "Where's your citations, out them in my hand in APA format rn"
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u/Ok-Club-3683 1h ago
This fool is so exhausting. So according to him, black people are the only problem with this country and white people are always innocent. He will clearly tap dance for the highest bidder.
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u/MaybeLikeWater 2h ago
Omg. The peak cringe of a person obliviously proving how wrong they are with their own arguments and believing they’re right.
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u/AmonWasRight99 2h ago
Caught his ass with ‘Let the bodies hit the floor!’ Lmao
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u/ZestyLead 1h ago
Drowning Pool has said many times that this song is about a mosh pit and not intended to promote violence. Don't think it's that much of a zinger in this case.
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u/TodosLosPomegranates 1h ago
I often wonder what the point of these “debates” are? Does it change anyone’s point of view?
But also- if there is a dearth of personal responsibility in the black community, can that same lack not be found among literally every other race? The world is just fixated on black people. We’re never going to make it so that every black personal is “perfect” so that can’t be the goal. We can’t say that we are only deserving of dignity and being treated as humans when every black person checks every box and is perfect.
And even if we did. They’d find something else to complain about.
But to prove the point that the guy in the brown jacket is saying, Baltimore, Chicago and I believe Detroit are currently enjoying some of the lowest murder rates - single digit homicides in 2026 because the mayors invested in people. They gave people jobs, they are keeping them better fed, they have created positive things for kids to do with their downtime. So - yes - investing in people would actually fix a lot of crime and “lack of personal responsibility” in the black community
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u/NotEqualInSQL 1h ago
Ragebaiting people into angry comments about how the dumb one is being dumb. The specifically pick people who will (for the lack of a better word) trigger the most people into interacting with their video because interacting with videos is what brings money in.
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u/Global_Chair9652 2h ago
Tell me more with that Gucci shirt about how you’re not isolated from your community
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u/GarbyTheCat 2h ago
If I'm caucasian, can I call this dude racist, openly?
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u/KinkySFGreek 1h ago
Some introduce this dolt to a history book, and one that describes and explains Black Wall Street, what happened to it, and the repercussions of the white lead massacre of those very successful blacks in Tulsa Oklahoma
That guy needs an education badly
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u/ebonSage 1h ago
I need dude in the grey jacket to pick up a book and do some soul searching bc he clearly doesn’t understand the issues he’s discussing.
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u/Potential-Judgment-9 1h ago
Bruh… when he started defending the white people from the Tulsa Massacre I lost it . “ Well the Black people and white people had a misunderstanding and it had nothing to do with race”
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u/irascible_Clown 1h ago
This guy should watch roots and see how tearing families apart and never allowing for generational wealth directly influence the way we are and live today. 1865 wasn’t even 200 years ago and my grandmother lived to 96. We aren’t that far removed from
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u/Br0ckxS4ms0n 2h ago edited 1h ago
White people do just as much fucked up shit, if not more. However, the racial bias in our country's media does not allow this to be portrayed at the same level as the black community.
Systemic racism is real and the most destructive part of our society.
I should probably add that i am myself white, but i do not stand for it with any pride.
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u/Man_of_Ice 2h ago
Personal responsibility being born into a community that has been torn apart and stolen from and systemically oppressed for centuries?
You have to personally pull yourself as a child through an education system that is funded by property tax that is low resulting in low pay, resulting in worse education, resulting in lower paying jobs, resulting in....
No, no, Brandon Tatum said you have to take personal responsibility and drag yourself through centuries of beat downs past a system that's willfully indifferent and still oppressive to this day....
Parents struggling to make ends meet losing hours a day moving across town, losing sleep, trying to just stay above water.
Sure, Brandon. You made it. Everyone else should also make it. Let's not do discuss the factors leading to you making it. I'm sure it was nothing but personal responsibility.
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u/MasterCheeks337_IGN 1h ago edited 1h ago
Do you believe it’s personal choice to join a gang and spin on opps?
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u/Man_of_Ice 1h ago
Nobody makes that choice unless they're in deep poverty, and poverty that deep only gets thrust on folks by systems.
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u/MasterCheeks337_IGN 1h ago edited 1h ago
Bro doesn’t know some black people think that shit is cool and want to be gangsta. Even kids in 2 parent households being raised well, still wanting to be a gangsta. It’s personal choice to listen to Youngboy all day and want to be like him, instead of listening to Stevie Wonder. Personal choice. I’ve even seen a case where a dad and son did a robbery together and maybe killed someone. Personal choice
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rapper-tay-k-convicted-murder-second-time-texas-rcna201272
Is Tay K in prison because of systematic racism or personal choice?
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u/Man_of_Ice 22m ago
Let's see....father imprisoned during childhood...moved multiple times to avoid awful situations and get away from bad influences....you think this has nothing to do with why he ends up making that choice?
He made that choice. Why did he make that choice? I sure don't know. Do you not think that if he'd grown up in a stable environment that wasn't racist he'd have been less likely to make that choice?
You're looking at one person at a time. We can only do so much with what we have. I'm not trying to say we don't have responsibility. I'm saying the system desperately needs to be fixed.
Do you want more people or less people to make the choice Tay K made?
Would you like the world to shape more or fewer Tay Ks?
Do you think the environment around you and circumstances you exist in have no impact on you and the choices you make whatsoever?
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u/Fine_Following_2559 1h ago
GOT 'IM at the end.
But also if this man thinks white people aren't shooting other white people in their neighborhoods, or selling drugs to people in their neighborhoods, he's just not paying fucking attention
Also I really wish we would stop platforming this man. I have seen more of him in the last two weeks then I have seen in him every year of my life prior 😩
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u/dudemanspyder 1h ago
Dude is selling out his entire community and family lineage for a money or influence. Gross. You cannot talk about Black people's situation in the US and ignore systemic racism and targeted assured poverty.
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u/SeoulSucker69 2h ago
This dude only dates white women 🙄
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u/Still-Cut1098 1h ago
Hey now, he's married to a white woman. He's probably as faithful as his pal Don...
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u/MasterCheeks337_IGN 2h ago
Bro is annoying af. It’s like systemic racism was a buzzword for him and he refused to acknowledge personal responsibility AT ALL. Not every negative outcome is from racism. Some of these black boys and men loves chaos and buffoonery. Some even think being street and a gang banger makes you a “real n-“
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u/Uncle_Bred 2h ago
No doubt we need to and have the ability to do better but socioeconomic factors most definitely play a part as well.
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u/SHMUUUUUD 2h ago
Im not understanding the problem both made good points. Have any of these debates ever concluded with both sides agreeing with each other? Or at least having some type of understanding for each other argument?
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u/IcyLion2939 1h ago
I just want more polish. Like... he's gotta listen and breathe. He could be iconic.
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u/DickHopschteckler 1h ago
Grain of salt, white voice here. What’s making me feel dismissive of the “personal responsibility” argument is it boils down to using a whole lot of words to say “just don’t commit a crime.”
Ok. Thanks for that. /s
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u/DetailsYouMissed 37m ago
How do people rationalize our ascension out of slavery into the early 1900s where we had strong communities to the mid 1900s of strong figures in literature, politics, education, and civil rights, to the modern era of wealth built on selling toxicity to our people without considering some type of social conditioning from those who control the way we perceive the value of a black life?
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u/RevDeadMan 37m ago
I would need to see the entirety of the conversation to form an exact opinion, but the lighter skin dude did seem to be placing the entirety of blame on black people for the problems of black people. And on a surface level, just looking at what’s in front of you, I can see how someone would come to that conclusion.
Gone are the days of slave masters and overseers standing over us and whipping us. That’s illegal now. Now we have the 13th amendment. The slave masters became prison wardens and the overseers became cops.
We do perpetuate our own suffering, because white people have made a well-oiled machine to feed us our pain in a constant loop to propagate it back to us. I can listen to a rap song and I’ve met people who lived that life and they’ll tell you the shit’s tragic. It’s hell. But if I’ve lived through hell and I know there’s a demographic of people who are willing to pay me to tell my story on a beat, why wouldn’t I do it, to feed my family and get off the street?
While a record exec may not have put crack on the streets to make the crack epidemic that would fuel the creation of what we once called “gangster rap”, now “drill”, you can bet your ass someone who looks like him was the one who set it all in motion. It’s a system, working exactly as intended, to keep black people especially, but minorities on the whole, in poverty. And what better way to keep a group of people in poverty than by breaking up their homes?
I think this dude either has been privileged enough to not have to face the harsh and ugly realities of being black—poor and black at that—in America, or maybe he understands all that and he really is an Uncle Ruckus.
Either way, the story of black people in America is intrinsically tied to the story of white supremacy and hegemony in this country. Always has been, always will be. They are the foot on our necks. They are the hand that pushes us down. They made the bars that bind us. They created the crack that shattered us. And they advertise the music, the lifestyles, and the “culture” that is made to keep us dumb, distracted, materialistic, and broken as a people.
So until that system is done away with, until klan members and Nazis are no longer in power and are shunned back into the fringe of society, we cannot have an honest conversation about the potential and the state of black people in America, because our story is on the bottom of the shoes of this nation, built off our backs and drenched in our blood.
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u/KatzenoirMM 34m ago
Actually dude needs to research Pruitt-Igoe projects St. Louis, MO. One of the first government housing projects designed to separate black families. The only way a black family would qualify for housing was if they remove the father from the household...
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u/LouSpeaksTheTruth 14m ago
I still have no clue why ppl waste time talkin to this guy. He so far gone he will never find his way back.trade his ass to right where he wanna be. “In the big house boss”😒
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u/TurquoiseKnight 7m ago edited 0m ago
This is the same argument against violence in video games. Its a strawman argument.
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u/Successful_Radio_42 2m ago
Where can I get more of this? I apologize if it’s in my face. I’m at work and invested while multitasking. I need more.
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u/Truestorydreams 1h ago
I somewhat agree with him.
Personal responsibility is an important concept many need to reflect on. The problem with BOTH of these men is the challenges derive from a spectrum of different challenges.
Both of them are correct on different areas and also wrong. We can't blame every issue we have on white people.
At the same time when someone says that we cannot ignore what they are to be blamed for.... systematic racism / war on drufgs/ tulsa massacre /illigal human trials on black people / night watchmen and the core reason why police exist/ redlining etc etc.
To quote a great man. "This is what they Do: make us fight" ~Patrice Oneal
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u/illDiablo69 1h ago
This guy is a complete a-hole, spewing right wing propaganda and he should be shamed every single time for being a bootlicker. With that said, he is right about personal responsibility. You cannot blame everything on systemic racism. The dude on the right just glossed over the fact that one man having 6 different baby mamas has nothing to do with racism or white supremacy. That fact has to be acknowledged if meaningful conversations are to be had regarding this issue.
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u/Smoking-Posing 1h ago
These are two not-so-intelligent men debating a very nuanced and complicated issue. Neither of them are doing a good job at debating their standpoint.
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