A brief YouTube monologue (by Anwar White) arguing that many white men have simpler life experiences compared with people of color and women. The speaker contrasts an uncomplicated, linear experience (work → promotion → home) with the heightened vigilance and complex planning (multiple contingency plans) that people of color often adopt.
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How are they? Simple?
Are you guys gonna get me canceled?
Are you guys gonna get me canceled? Okay.
A lot of white men don't have to experience a lot of the things that people of color and women have to experience. So their, their, their whole perspective on life is different.
For them it is.
I go to work, I get money, and I come home.
And I get promoted, and things are easy for me. It's very black or white. It's very 0 or 1. That's it.
Overall, for the most part, generally very happy. Don't have to go through a lot.
Right? So they don't have to think about all of these different things. Like, as people of color, most of us that are in here, we're like doing calculus like our. We're trying to figure out, okay, if this happens, what, what's my plan? A, B, C, D, E, F. Right? So we're hyper vigilant. Our nervous systems are on high alert.
They don't have to, they don't do that. They don't have to do that.
So when I talk about simple, it's because our lived experiences are different.