Embarrassing! Embarrassing! Dang, talk about “when keeping it real goes wrong!” The black man seems to have all the markers of “hard-core” black masculinity down: Cornrows; check! Dark locs (sunglasses); check! Black vernacular; check! Snoop Dogg flannel; chezzik! Prison stance; check! Misguided rage; checkmate!
All jokes aside, the tragedy in this video comes from the girl who records this nonsense as she offers terrible advice to the drunk black man. She urges the black man to aggressively pursue the older white man, and once he begins to take a beating, she suggests suing the veteran. There is no doubt that the white man is crazy, and he did not help ease the situation with his repeated inferences to the black man’s inferiority.
The situation could have been avoided all together if both men did not have such a disheartening belief in patriarchal politics. Social scientist, Allan Johnson observes that an adherence to patriarchy, “encourages men to incorporate into their core sense of self the ability to always be in control and invest themselves to the appearance of always being in control [...] and because, like every illusion, it carries with it the potential to come crashing down with devastating effect.” This situation lends itself perfectly to what Johnson claims is the deficiency in the global system of patriarchy. The black man really does not want to go over there, but everything in his appearance encapsulates his consciousness and brings him to a false-sense of bravado that ends with him being humiliated on YouTube.
The white man suffers mental scars instead of the physical scars he inflicts upon the black man. His behavior is not befitting of a man with the wisdom that elders are associated with in many cultures. He looked more like a scared and isolated man with a terrible temper. Random ridiculousness!
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