Don't forget who I am..
Don't forget what I am..
I am a black dude.
(audience laughs)
And don't ever forget how I got here.
My ancestors were kidnapped.
I don't even know where the fuck I'm from.
They were put on the bottom of boats.
They sailed 'em across the Atlantic.
Many of them died, only the strongest survived.
And once they got here, they beat the humanity out of my people.
They turned us into beast of burdens.
They made us do their work and the irony is; hundreds of years later, they called us lazy!
We fought in the Civil War.
We damn near freed ourselves.
Then in reconstruction, black people did great.
My great-grandfather was a very wealthy man!
But then the Black Codes came, Jim Crow came, and it was a hundred years of unspeakable oppression again.
Lynchings, all kinds of terroristic acts to keep us in the margins of society.
Yet we still fought!
[Black Codes - restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.]
[Jim Crow Laws - state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.]
And Dr. King was born.
And then, things got better!
20 years after Dr. King was assassinated, Michael Jackson was moonwalking on television!
Something, something, something…. Barack Obama.
[Dr. King = Martin Luther King Jr. = A key person who led the civil rights movement and fought for equality among racial groups]
(audience laughs)
Then Donald Trump.
And now here we all are.
400-year nightmare.
Took us 400 years to figure out as a people that white people's
weakness the whole time was kneeling during the National Anthem.
[referring to the controversy surrounding athletes kneeling during the national anthom for"Black Lives Matter"]
(audience laughs)
That's a brittle spirit.
That's right, n****.
[NOTE: Black comedians usually use the word N***** which is a derogatory term towards black people. It is currently unacceptable for other nationalities/racial groups to use this term]
♪ And the rocket's red glare ♪
(Dave screams)
(audience laughs)
“What are you doing, n****, stand up!”
(audience laughs)
The vice president of the United States got involved.
Mike Pence got involved!
He went to the game himself.
“These n*****s will have to stand when they see me.”
(audience laughs)
And all them football players looked up in the stands and saw Mike Pence..
“Is that Mike Pence?”
“C'mon y'all, Wu-Tang, bah!”
[Wu-Tang = refering to iconic Hip Hop group Wu-Tang-Clan - used as a battle cry]
(audience laughs)
(Dave yells)
“Foiled.”
(audience laughs)
Brittle spirit.
I could kill every white person in America at one time, you know how I'd do it?
I would just wait for the Super Bowl.
And right when they sing the National Anthem, I'd have OJ Simpson walk to the 50 yard line with them bad knees.
[OJ Simpson - former legendary football run back, who is controversial due to the courts ruling over his murdered wife; who he was suspected of killing, but was acquited for. The controversy would usually split opinions between the black and white communities]
(audience laughs)
“Is that OJ Simpson on the field?”
“What the hell's he doing here?”
“Oh, I know what he's gonna do, stop him!”
(audience laughs)
(Dave yelling)
(audience laughs)