Reverse Racism by Aamer Rahman Lyrics
A lot of people don’t like my comedy. A lot of white people don’t like my comedy: a lot of white people say this to me, “Hey Aamer, hey, you get on stage, you make your jokes about white people, you say ‘white people this, white people that.’ What if I did something like that, huh? What if I got on stage and said, ‘yeah black people are like this Muslims are like that?’ You’d probably call me a racist, wouldn’t you?”
And I say…
“Yeah, yeah I would. You should never do that, that’s…. that’s bad for your health.”
They're like, “Well you do that, Aamer. You do that: you get on stage, you make your jokes about white people, don’t you think that’s a kind of racism, don’t you think that’s” duhn duh duh [whispers] “reverse racism?”
I say “No, I don’t think that’s reverse racism.” Not because not because I don’t think reverse racism exists, right? If you ask some black and brown people they’ll tell you flat out there’s no such thing as reverse racism.
I don’t agree with that: I think there is such a thing as reverse racism and uh… I could be, I could be a reverse racist, if I wanted to, all I would need would be a, uh, time machine, right? And, uh, what I’d do is I’d get in my time machine, I’d go back in time to before Europe colonized the world, right? And uh, I’d convince the leaders of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central and South America to uh, invade and colonize Europe, right?
Just occupy them, steal their land, resources; set up some kind of like, I don’t know, trans Asian slave trade where we exported white people to work on giant rice plantations in China — just ruin Europe over the course of a couple centuries so, all their descendants would want to migrate out and live in places where black and brown people come from.
But of course, in that time, I’d make sure I set up systems that privilege black and brown people at every conceivable social, political and economic opportunity, and white people would never have any hope of real self-determination.
Just every couple of decades make up some fake war as an excuse to go and bomb them back to the Stone Age and say it’s for their own good because their culture’s inferior.
And then just for kicks, subject white people to colored standards of beauty so they end up hating the color of their own skin, eyes and hair.
And if, after hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years of that, I got up on stage and said, “Hey, what’s the deal with white people? Why can’t they dance?” That would be reverse racism.
And I say…
“Yeah, yeah I would. You should never do that, that’s…. that’s bad for your health.”
They're like, “Well you do that, Aamer. You do that: you get on stage, you make your jokes about white people, don’t you think that’s a kind of racism, don’t you think that’s” duhn duh duh [whispers] “reverse racism?”
I say “No, I don’t think that’s reverse racism.” Not because not because I don’t think reverse racism exists, right? If you ask some black and brown people they’ll tell you flat out there’s no such thing as reverse racism.
I don’t agree with that: I think there is such a thing as reverse racism and uh… I could be, I could be a reverse racist, if I wanted to, all I would need would be a, uh, time machine, right? And, uh, what I’d do is I’d get in my time machine, I’d go back in time to before Europe colonized the world, right? And uh, I’d convince the leaders of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central and South America to uh, invade and colonize Europe, right?
Just occupy them, steal their land, resources; set up some kind of like, I don’t know, trans Asian slave trade where we exported white people to work on giant rice plantations in China — just ruin Europe over the course of a couple centuries so, all their descendants would want to migrate out and live in places where black and brown people come from.
But of course, in that time, I’d make sure I set up systems that privilege black and brown people at every conceivable social, political and economic opportunity, and white people would never have any hope of real self-determination.
Just every couple of decades make up some fake war as an excuse to go and bomb them back to the Stone Age and say it’s for their own good because their culture’s inferior.
And then just for kicks, subject white people to colored standards of beauty so they end up hating the color of their own skin, eyes and hair.
And if, after hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years of that, I got up on stage and said, “Hey, what’s the deal with white people? Why can’t they dance?” That would be reverse racism.