Bring back segregation
Summary
A straphanger delivers one of the show's wildest takes: bring back segregation so everyone knows where they're not welcome. His reasoning? "Colors only" restaurants would have seasoning, turmeric, and paprika, while "whites only" spots are stuck with mashed potatoes and mayonnaise. The playlist argument seals it. Carrie Underwood and Kid Rock versus Babyface and Digable Planets. Kareem's intrigued. The conversation spirals through which side gets Italians, Black spending power topping a trillion dollars a year, and Soul Plane nostalgia. Then it gets darker. The rider wants sundown town signs reinstated, the kind that warned Black travelers during Jim Crow. Kareem points out those towns never really disappeared, they just took the signs down. By the end, Kareem's sold on the bit.
Full Transcript
So, what's your take? Bring back segregation. 100% disagree. Dead at bring it back. I want to know where I'm not welcome. Okay, put them signs back up. Colors only. Whites only. Let's do it. All right, rip the band-aid off. Especially for a restaurant. Are you kidding me? Whites only. What do I want to do in there? What they got? Mashed potatoes, mayonnaise, hot dogs. Colors only, we got seasoning, turmeric, paprika.
Okay, I like this. Hey, you were saying that the black excellence, the segregation is to get the colored excellence. Okay. What's the playlist in the whites only spot? They playing Carrie Underwood and Kid Rock. We playing Babyface and Digable Planets. Ain't no overhead lighting.
What are you talking about? Wait, where am I going? Colors. Hell yeah. Look at his hair. Talking about where am I going? That's the problem with North Africans. That's what I'm talking about. Hell yeah, I'm 100% agree. Let's go. Talking about where I'm going. Oh man.
What happens to you in the summertime? Where are we putting the Italians? Listen, I just want to know. I don't need their food. I don't like tomatoes. So, they're going on the white side. Black people spend over a trillion dollars a year. I would love for the government to force us to spend it on our own people. You know, this is, this is very good. I like this a lot. I brought you over to the side. I and the Black Airplane.
Oh, come on. The Soul Plane, baby. I want to be on Soul Plane. Yes. It's going to be noisy on there, but that's what noise cancellation headphones are for. You know what I'm saying? And they're going to have all the good movies. All the good movies, all the good music. Oh man. And while we at it, bring back sundown towns.
They never left. But what's that?
Well, a sundown town was back in the day during Jim Crow where black people weren't allowed to be in a town after the sunset. Wow. So those towns never left. They still exist in America, but they took the signs down. I want them to put the signs back up. I wanted to say 248 miles to the next town that likes colored people. Get your gas in Atlanta. Don't stop till you get to Savannah.
All right, I'm with her. He with me.