Hodgetwins critique a "ghetto" high school Christmas performance featuring Bunny B, arguing that sexual innuendos and cursing signal a future of incarceration or adult industry involvement due to a lack of accountability in black culture. This observation connects to a 1982 Virginia spelling bee where the host was denied victory against white student Troy by teacher Miss Drew, whose Jim Crow-era bias punished black students harshly while enabling white success. Ultimately, the episode suggests that without systemic accountability, the outlook for black youth will deteriorate significantly over the next two decades. [Automatically generated summary]
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Mean Teacher's Christmas Warning00:08:28
All right, I came across this on Twitter.
It says, This is a beautiful high school Christmas performance.
A classic rendition of In It by Bunny B.
And I'm not in a rap, so I'm not sure what that is.
Bunny B and your niece, yeah, this is gonna be ghetto.
All right, here's the performance.
I'm thinking this is Christmas time.
you see like christmas yeah okay it's christmas time so it makes sense yeah it's gotta be
They got Christmas hats on, but this doesn't feel like Christmas to me.
All these yeah, he's dressed up like the Grinch, right?
This is nuts.
This is a hot school, uh.
He said the P-word.
Yeah, this is genetic.
They say, like, um, racist only skin deep.
I don't think so.
We all the same.
When they say that, I was like, man, you're so full of it.
Why people not even all the same?
For us to say races are all the same is just this like very probabilistic.
I mean, all these people need is a jungle and some some and some spears.
What Keith, this is uncivilized.
Imagine if you're a white family, you've seen your kids, they're up there cursing, using sexual innuendos in school on stage.
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure the teacher's okay with this.
Well, I've seen a woman filming to begin with.
Yeah, so of course the teacher.
These are kids and they're being sexually provocative.
Yeah.
Did you see that simp walking up to the simps all right?
Look at this.
You still think I was too over the top when I said all they need is a jungle and some fears?
Yeah, this is nuts.
I think this is high school.
Looks like a tribe that got imported here to the American United States.
It's crazy!
Shake it?
You're saying shake it?
Yeah.
Let him hit it!
I mean, black people should be up in arms about this.
And if you call me on Uncle Tom or Sella, because I'm criticizing this abnormal behavior, school kids, you need to go take a long look in the mirror.
Man's been so long ago, since I was in school, like I didn't see nothing like this when I was in school.
If we seen something like this in school, miss Drew would have beat all these kids oh, that black teacher.
She would have took out a whip and beat all these kids in front of everybody and then, after she get done beating them, she would send them home.
Yeah, y'all don't know who Miss Drew is.
Oh man, she was a.
Miss Drew was, oh man, she was a black teacher and she was really mean.
She was really.
She was especially hard on the black students.
I remember this black girl, thick black girl girl had hips and and tatars.
She was like 13 years old.
She looked like a grown woman.
She showed up to school one day.
Well, she was a dark.
She had dark skin, dark complexion right, she showed up to school at 13 years old right well, she didn't show up.
She went to the bathroom, came back she had on bright red lipstick and Miss Drew went in on that girl yeah, made her cry, made her wipe off the lipstick and I never understood why miss Drew was so mean.
But she was a whore.
Huh, I knew the girl she was.
She got pregnant, but I now being.
But I remember yeah, but she was uh, she was a slut.
She was just in the bathroom sucking all the dudes off.
Yeah, looking back on it now, when I was a child, when I was younger, I thought it was just a mean black woman.
But nah, she was hard on black kids because she wanted them to to do better.
Yeah, because she's seen some things, i'm sure, in her.
Oh yeah, she grew up to uh, Jim Crow, all that.
Yeah, yeah.
And I remember Keith was in the spelling b.
Keith was the best kid.
Kept Keith you putting the f on it, stop sounding like a negro.
I said Keith.
You said hey Keith, I said Keith yeah Keith, Keith was in the spelling bee and it was.
It was.
That's my story, let me tell it.
I was in the spelling bee I already told him that and it was only two people left with me and this white kid named Troy.
Right, they asked me to spell Almanac.
This is in front of the entire school, middle school, I think I was in fifth, sixth grade right, mom and dad was there.
Mom and dad was there to watch me.
I was on all the roll I was doing good, I don't know, cute dude, you was getting decent enough, you didn't care, I wasn't on the road, but anyway.
Uh, she asked me to spell Almanac.
I said a-l-m-a-n-a-c.
Almanac.
I was like that's easy, I got this.
And then the Uh woman that had me spell the word she was a teacher as well at the time, white woman.
It was a white woman.
I have to specify that.
She said I spelled it wrong.
Yeah, and I was like I spelled it wrong and everybody, everybody didn't even catch that.
I spelled it right, because nobody can spell.
And my Mama, I was like wow, I thought he had that.
My mom and dad didn't know how I spelled it right, and I remember.
And then the Uh Troy, he spelled the Uh word correctly and then I was like I was so I was like wait a minute, I spelled that right.
And then I get to miss Grew's class and she was crying and she was so like proud of me, Even though she was so mean to me.
And then I was like, but Miss Grew, I spelled that word correctly.
Yeah.
She said, I know you did.
But she said, there's some things you don't understand right now.
Right.
And I was like, I didn't understand it was because of my race at the time.
And I'm not a guy that plays the race card.
But this was in what?
Man, 1982.
Yeah, yeah.
In the South in Virginia.
Miss Grew told me the reason they wasn't going to let no little black kid beat the white kid.
They was not going to have that.
Right, right.
Yeah.
And she's so proud of me.
And I remember that same black teacher.
I remember she.
I remember the music teacher came up and said, man, you did a great job.
You spelled it right.
But they didn't want you to win because you were up against a white kid.
Yeah.
Yeah, but Miss Grew, I remember one other time.
It was this black kid in the class just turned the class up.
She would throw him out the classroom.
I remember that.
Send him to the principal's office.
And then she sat down in front of the class, told everybody, said, Hey, that kid's going to be locked up.
I've seen it over my 20 years of teaching.
He's going to be locked up.
And all you other kids in here act like this, y'all are going to be locked up too.
Looking back on it, that kid was locked up the day he got out of high school.
All of us locked up.
I think he recently got out.
He'd been in jail.
It's not jail, prison for a majority of his adult life.
Racial Bias in School00:01:03
Yeah.
But all these kids that behave like this in school, that's exactly where they're going.
And a lot of them are going to be fans.
They're going to be only fans.
EBT, all this stuff.
EBT, all that.
I mean, because that's what our culture, black culture, we embrace and champion.
Yeah.
Like, this is hood.
I mean, this is appalling.
Yeah.
But nobody will call it out because it's part of our culture.
Yeah, it is.
We think that's cool.
Yeah.
See, see that?
I don't know who.
I think this is the teacher.
That's crazy.
And you know what?
I don't mean to sound pessimistic about black coaches' future, but if you think black people are doing rough now, man, give it another 20 years.