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Racism
We got to deal with it, It is going to be the demise of our country if we don’t fucking deal with it
Look, I’m from Virginia, right? And whenever I go home… (Woo)
Wait a minute
Off of 95… Right outside Chester, Virginia, there is a big, giant Confederate flag
Big Confederate flag, Every time I go home and I pass that flag, it hurts me to my core
It fucking hurts
‘Cause it’s racist, It’s racist and it’s wrong
And I’m sick of this bullshit of, “Well, that’s part of my Southern heritage.”
Well, your heritage is shitty. It’s garbage. Your heritage is trash.
The atrocities that happened under that flag, are you proud of that shit? (Yeah)
What the fuck? There are so many other things about the South that you can be proud of
Right? Moonshine, Dollywood... Come on, You got to love Dolly Parton and Dollywood
Clay Aiken. Come on, Why don’t you tear down those statues and put up a statue of Clay Aiken drinking moonshine, wearing a Dollywood t-shirt?
Race means a lot, It does
I think about it a lot, just because of the makeup of my family
Look, I’m married to a white French woman and we have two white kids. (Woo!)
Yeah
And now white supremacy is on the rise, and I’m living with a house full of white people
I took them to DC over Thanksgiving break
I took them to DC and we went to the museum, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. Yeah.
Oh, beautiful museum, I’m telling you, you got to go.
If you’re in DC go to this museum, Seriously. Yeah.
I see the white people are like…
“It’s gonna make me sad.” “I don’t want to be sad. Oh.”
It made me proud. It made me proud. Yeah.
It just reaffirmed what I always knew, I was like, “I can do anything.” I can do anything.
To come from people who survived all that shit and we still here and kicking it, I’m like, “Pff, I can do anything.” You know- Yeah
I can… I can do anything
I know this
Southern Heritage was written by Wanda Sykes.
Wanda Sykes released Southern Heritage on Tue May 21 2019.