SNEAKO tells Aba N Preach that Black identity should not be centered around the history of slavery

Indexed: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]There's a genocide going on. But, when you ask her to define Palestinian culture, you don't define it based off of hardship. It's defined based off of their weddings, off of their ceremonies, off of the successful Palestinians part of the diaspora. I don't think it should be defined based off of trauma.

[00:00:15]Defining it based off of slavery No, wait.

[00:00:19]I disagree. I disagree so much.

[00:00:21]Palestinians are definitely defined by their history, by what they're going through right now, and they will be defined by that for generations to come.

[00:00:28]When people talk about relocating Palestinians, they talk about the mental health aspect and how they're going to have to fix the ongoing issues that are going to be there for generations based off what they're experiencing. They may not be defined by it right now, but I can promise you everyone who's living in Palestine is defined in large part by this occupation. Doesn't mean that's all of them. And you can't look at black folks and say that's all of them either.

[00:00:46]There's a lot more to them than just slavery. No one would ever say black >> Well, that's how you just defined it.

[00:00:51]That's why I'm responding. You said it was defined >> not what I defined. I I I talked about linguistics. I talked about cuisine. I talked about music. I talked about history. I talked about many things. And the same thing for Palestinians. This what they're experiencing right now for generations, they're going to look back on this time period and talk about how it has affected them. So, you can't just tell a Palestinian 15 years from now, let's say if Gaza was free today, 15 years from now, they're still going to feel the reverberations of that. There's no way you're just going to recover from that. Your parents are going to have to have lived through it. Your brothers, whatever it might be. These things don't And like, the reason why it bothers me is that there's no place on this planet that I've ever been to that don't have a particular sensitive sport about something in their history. Whether it's like Here's an If you If you go to China, they'll talk about how rude and ill-mannered Chinese people are.

[00:01:35]Now, you see these rich people in nice cars, and they just spit on the ground or whatever. And people are very judgmental about their manners, justifiably so. It's very nasty. But, people don't recognize the reason why is because they came out of economic hardship. They went from poor to rich very quickly, and so the people never had time to adapt their society. So, they still have that legacy of poverty in their manners and everything today.

[00:01:56]That If you go to insult them for that reason or if you bring these kinds of things up, if you go to Korea and talk about the comfort women, everyone's got If you go to Eastern Europe, place that used to be part of the USSR and have been freed from the shadow of the the you know, the the former Russian Soviet empire, they still have sensibilities about that. You said there's no words, bro. Go to Romania and call people gypsies everywhere.

[00:02:18]See what happens. Mhm. See what happens.

[00:02:20]Every places got their words. Right.

[00:02:23]But, you shouldn't give them attention.

[00:02:24]That's the point. If someone's going around screaming themselves in Romania saying gypsy, gypsy, the correct response would be don't give this person attention. Don't give them exactly what >> going to get [ __ ] up. What are you Go ahead. Yeah, you shouldn't, but that's not what's going to happen. That's not how reality is. You said there is not You said there is not one word in the world that is like the N-word.

[00:02:45]>> In the English language, it's the strongest word. It's the word where people so many people expect if you say this word, even if you say the soft A, people respond, "Oh, I'm going to This person should get beat up. This person should Something violent should happen to them." Giving that much power to the word is not right. That's not the correct response.

[00:03:01]Right. I'm not saying that is the correct response or not. I'm reacting to what you said. You said that in the world, there is not a word like that a word like that. That is not true.

[00:03:11]That is Go ahead.

[00:03:12]>> And then he changes it to the English N-word is as strong as gypsy?

[00:03:16]If you go to Romania, it's very strong.

[00:03:18]Not not It might be a degree or two, but yes, it's a big problem if you call somebody over there. They take it. I've seen them get offended by that deeply and they will have issues. But, we both agree that the correct response would be to ignore somebody like that. Although some people might act violently, there's not going to Hopefully, there's not like a nationwide upset and they're not all going to say somebody should go and martyr themselves and attack No, no, but we We agree. We agree it's the correct response.

[00:03:42]But, I'm trying to tell you what you're expecting of black people isn't expected of people anywhere. My whole point is that what you're expecting of black people is not a standard that exists anywhere. If you go to Ireland you go to Pakistan >> that the guy the guy with Jake Lang is a perfect example. That's one that we >> Jake Lang got attacked. He got a And that shouldn't happen, and we condemn that, and then the overall response for somebody like that is to ignore somebody like this. Do not give paid agitators exactly what they want.

[00:04:08]>> also had it did not happen. It just we just told you it did. You have to acknowledge that.

[00:04:13]Like you said he didn't get attacked. He did.

[00:04:16]Who got a Jake Lang? What you're saying is not That that one in New York was strange. That one was weird, especially with that pipe bomb.

[00:04:22]>> if it was strange or not, bro. I don't care. Well, it does matter.

[00:04:25]>> He got attacked. You said he didn't get attacked.

[00:04:28]>> And the point is we should not encourage that. The difference is I'm saying somebody like that should not attack him. I did not see the same response.

[00:04:35]Look, what I wanted to see more of is people within the black community saying somebody should not go out and seek out violence. I didn't see that response. I didn't see that as an effort. In fact, a lot of people were encouraging things to happen. That's the opposite thing that happened with Jake Lang. Every Muslim apologist, any public Muslim would say, "Don't give this guy attention. Don't give him exactly what he wants." When it goes to the black community, if you want to make that comparison, I didn't see anybody say that. I saw a lot of people putting money on his head, saying someone's going to be a hero. We're going to go pay his GoFundMe. Violence is not the answer.

[00:05:07]You can say violence is not the answer, and that's fine. But if you live in a society that venerates and encourages someone to do this, or rewards them financially, there's a frustration that builds there. This is not just somebody who's going out to say some nasty things. He's got a a bunch of people paying him money to go do it. I can understand the frustration of No, I can understand the frustration of people who then see this kind of thing unfold and be like, "Hey, you [ __ ] around, you found out." Now you can sit there and say You can sit there and say we shouldn't encourage that, and that's not the right response. But I just want to make it very clear that black people are not singular the way you made them out to be. Black folks are not the only ones who feel some glee when it comes How many people celebrated when Jake Lang I promise you Muslims all over the world were celebrating when that dude got beat up. I didn't see I didn't see that. see any of that. I didn't even see him get beat up. Well, you don't see me masturbating. Doesn't mean it doesn't matter. It doesn't Hold on. Hold on. Not because you didn't see it that it didn't happen, bro.

[00:05:56]>> [ __ ] Charlie Hebdo.

[00:05:58]Great example. So many people in the Muslim world celebrated. Celebrated when they got assassinated for the cartoons.

[00:06:06]You can feel how you want. The reality is they drew something and everyone condemned the the the the the the But in the Muslim world that was not the case. In fact, in France itself, they celebrated like crazy the Muslims did.

[00:06:17]Are you talking about Charlie Hebdo?

[00:06:19]Yes. Yeah, and that's wrong. And I don't agree That's my position that this stuff does not help.

[00:06:23]>> [laughter] >> I feel like you're not seeing on the point I'm seeing on. I'm saying that when you approach this, you pretend like black folks are singular. You say it's the only word in the English language.

[00:06:32]That's not the case. If you go to Ireland, different parts of the UK, that's not the case. If you say it's the only word in the world.

[00:06:38]I don't remember, but Ireland and if you don't know where they have some very strong tensions with their neighboring countries. And so if you go to certain parts and say something, that's going to happen.

[00:06:47]In the world, if you go to different countries, they got their sensitive spot on older history than black folks. And yet, there's a standard for black people to just like get over it considering the dark history, considering how recent it was, I just don't think that's fair.