01x04 - Allyship

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Today on ziwe, I'll be talking about allyship.

Allyship is the act of using one's privilege to advocate for

People in less advantaged positions.

It's an important part of any movement but oftentimes when the

Movement becomes trendy or popular, allyship becomes more

About the performance.

I can't breathe.

An iconic ally so I invited the legendary singer-songwriter

To the song. She talks identity politics.

Appropriation.

Would you like to apologize?

And so much more.

And later we talk about even more insight.

So stay tuned. It's going to be iconic.

Um, ziwe starts right now.

Joining me today is the brilliant singer-songwriter and

Ally to the black community, bibi bridgers.

Welcome. Thank you so much for doing the

Show.

Any time. It's an honor.

Today is our allyship else. Do you identify as an ally?

Yes.

Yes. Would you like to look to your

Camera and say I identify as an ally?

I identify as an ally.

As an ally would you ever feature a black woman on any of

Your records?

Yeah.

Perhaps a black woman named ziwe?

Any time. Come through.

You say that.

I haven't heard your singing voice.

Okay, so you often wear a skeleton costume.

Is this your way of appropriate rating dead culture?

I guess, kind of.

Would you like to apologize to the unliving?

Yeah. I apologize to everybody dead

Who I ever offended by my skeleton costumes.

You heard it here first, an apology and not on the app.

If I stabbed you, in an alley way, you have to call .

What would you say? What is a description as an

Ally? How would you call police?

Let's role play.

Nape . What's your emergency?

I was just stabbed.

By who?

My friend ziwe.

What's her race?

She's black. Baby call the com

Baby call the cops on black people.

So you're a fan of asmr. I would love for you to read a

Couple statements. Asmr.

Don't mind the mic.

I will do it on emotional labor.

I apologize for all racism. Here's my pin number.

Insert pin number.

You're supposed to say the number.

. I will never get married on a

Plantation. g*y rights.

I famously love all black people especially an iconic woman named

Ziwe.

I hear you laughing. I think that's weird because I'm

Right in front of you.

I'm not going to read that. [ Laughter ]

Wow.

I'm not reading this. This is ridiculous.

I'll take that. I'll read it.

I'm not afraid.

I will not retweet shawn king.

You did a really good job of that.

Would you like an ally cookie?

Always, please. These are fresh cookies we made

Just for you. If you could just hold up your

Cookie -- just go ahead. Bite into that black man.

Sure.

Go ahead.

Okay.

Whoa, whoa! Whoa, please don't eat me white

Lady.

That's what this is?

Wow! Blackness is not for

Consumption. Your song, savior complex is an

Absolute banger. So we have this game called

White savior complex. Savior complex

Now, I'm going to show you an image and you're going to tell

Me how you save these black people.

As you can see, we have a roomful of underprivileged

Children who are attempting to learn.

How are you going to make these inner city kids do their

Homework?

I graduated high school with a . Gpa so I'm not qualified

To have anybody do their homework.

So there's no saving these kids.

Great, thanks. Next, he's really good at

Football. He's huge.

How are you going to encourage him to pursue his passion of

Football so he can get a scholarship to college and

Change his life and get out ofport?

I don't know. He looks like he's doing great.

He's the only one I focused in that photo.

So no help for this black man either.

Wow!

A dying art. You're a white savior.

How are you going to save jazz?

I think jazz is doing great. I think jazz will always be

Fine.

That was really, really problematic.

Now, this is trifling. How will you help this h* stop

Being so trifling?

I love sex positivity. I think trifling in honess is

Great great.

You really knocked it out of the park.

Which is why I have a new game for you.

The n*gro spiritual. So rarely ever hits the charts.

How do we make a n*gro spiritual into a banker?

I'm not qualified. Maybe we should ask like moby.

Moby? Doesn't he like samp stuff?

We'll ask him about wind and the water.

Do you think that's a song that could use a rebrand?

It's worth a shot.

We have a musical instrument for you.

Beside you.

Cute!

You are a songwriter, a talented performer.

So we would love to get it to hit the charts.

If you could think of a wispy long version.

I can't.

You're refusing to sing it.

I don't play a ukulele.

I guess we're at a standstill.

In the water

If you want to, we could break these ukuleles.

I would love that.

That would be sick.

When are we going to do this?

You are literally going to break these ukuleles.

I'm into it.

Is that a safety protocol?

I'm the boss. Don't look at that.

Easy, see?

Harder.

Oh, my god! Be careful!

Thank you. This has been a fantastic show.

Look at that.

Wow, you k*lled that.

I got super carried away.

Be an ally by pre ordering my book how to be an ally by pre

Ordering my book.

Hi. I'm ziwe.

You know that. Celebrity and celebrity rights

Activist. Because of social media

Celebrities are expected to care about the news.

We're expected to care about black rights and trans' rights

And immigrants. Its about those white

Celebrities who must have struggled to post that black

Square on their instagram. No more.

As a celebrity, I know first hand the pressure to appear

Politically engaged.

I'm taking a stand and saying --

No more.

No more.

No more.

No more. It's too much.

Does it seem like I'm doing enough?

You guys. Does it seem like I'm companying

Other celebrities?

Do I post that thirsty pic now or wait a day?

Our job is to make you laugh.

Make you cry.

To make you money.

It's easy to criticize celebrities.

Until you become one.

The risk of becoming a celebrity is very low, it's

Never zero.

Hug yourself in a celebrity's shoes.

If you had fame and money, wouldn't you just want to enjoy

It and not think about anybody else?

I remember being a regular person just like you.

I remember seeing famous people tv and thinking --

Wow! Their success in their chosen

Field has afforded them the resources to live comfortably.

Now that I'm on the other side, I can say with absolute

Certainty, that's actually true. It is really hard.

And like khloe kardashian once said, so money means you don't

Have any problems?

That is so true.

Be an ally to the celebrity community.

We need you. Celebrity rights are human

Rights.

Be an ally.

Be an ally.

Be an alley.

The worrying starts today. Celebrity rights.

Love means never having to say you're sorry but allyship

Means always having to buy me lunch.

You know, at the halloween party, it was, I'm not r*cist.

How many black friends do I have?

I didn't really ask.

Too many to count. Here are some of my favorites.

Please don't listen.

The best dancer. Monica makes the best soul food

And rogerer is my home boy for life.

Hey, man. You don't have to list it out.

A lot of them seem like huge stereotimes.

The sweetest man I know is chris.

The toughest man I know is ron. All these people definitely

Exist and I think racism is wrong.

Matthew is a great rapper. Thomas, kanye is a beat knicker

And chip makes me laugh.

Did you say kanye and chappell?

You're friends with them?

Yeah. I'm friends with all of them.

All of them?

Yeah. And a few more.

Tia and tamara, nelson mandela

Raven and simone

Half those people are black panthers characters.

You're my best friend.

I just met you at this wendy's.

You just started talking at me. Do you know any normal

Noncelebrity black people?

Deon, denzel,

Deon, denzel --

I just saw you take out your phone and google popular black

Names. What's your problem?

I'm friends with too many black people.

Yeah.

Ladies and gentlemen, my best friend, aretha franklin.

Nope, she's dead.

That was the most r*cist thing I ever heard.

Thanks.

You would be an iconic guest.

What did you hear?

Why are you looking at me like that?

Like what?

Mad.

The following is a conversation between ziwe and

Her complicit asian writer.

This is my base. Are you saying black women are

Angry?

No. I think black women have, are,

Have the capacity to express all emotions.

You look very angry at me right now is what I'm saying.

You wrote that music video black friends.

You did come up with those names, correct?

I did, yes.

What are some of the names just to recall?

Ron, dion, jilly, javonte.

Would you like your face to be blurred out?

Yes.

Okay. That would be preferable.

How many black friends do you have?

You know, my childhood best friends were black.

They really were?

They really were.

They were blacks?

They were black. I didn't put a plural.

In middle school, I had one friend.

He was black.

What was his name?

His name is will. I'll just say it.

That was a sad day. When you moved away, I made a

Music video of pictures of us.

Really? What was it to?

These days by niko.

How many asian friends do you have?

How would you define asian?

Just a country, maybe minus russia.

Asia the country.

Yikes!

If an ally helps a black person but doesn't post a photo

About it, did it ever really happen?

Welcome! This is the game show where I

Give random points to determine who is the wokest ally.

First we have connor versus his best friend amanda.

And zach versus his cousin mike.

Let's play woke wars. First project.

I'm going to go with probably not.

I love someone who can say, hey, I'm not doing the work.

You.

I would say minimally. My

I would say minimally. My fee anssi did the work.

Shot out.

Hey, shout out! How many times have you said the

"N" word? Be honest?

With the "a" or the "er"?

Like rapping some songs.

What songs are you rapping?

Like tupac.

Let me hear something. Really get a little -- in the

Middle east. The w*r on poverty.

I got a w*r on drugs so the police can't bother me.

I never did a crime.

That was a performance.

How many versus of the black national anthem do you know?

None. There's a black national anthem?

That was a trick question.

Yeah. Do you know it?

Yeah. Have you seen coachella beyonce?

Beyonce?

I don't know beyonce, man.

Now it's time on play, who is this black person?

You have to tell me who it is.

That was an historical icon or something.

No. It's totally wrong.

What did you whisper to him?

It's a secret. It's a secret.

It was an embarrassing one, too.

No.

Should we know it?

That's a face I've seen.

Okay. Who is this?

I'm terrible with any type of history.

I choose america.

All right. This guy.

Come on.

I want to say he's another republican.

Edward james? Omar?

Edward james omar? That's who is a black person, I

Think both of you lost. Now it's time to play the

Empathy game. One of the most important parts

Of being an ally is the ability to empathize.

In this next game, whoever cries first, wins.

Please look at the camera and someone start sobbing.

Out of nowhere?

You can put every time they say hey, feel bad.

Think about racism. Think about sl*very.

Think about the tragedies that black people have to end dur.

Muster a taker of apology, a tear of tyranny.

Cry. Every tear is a tear for

Equality. Every tear is a tear for

Survival. Every tear is a tear for

Liberation. White tears, white tears, white

Tears. There.

It's hard to cry when someone is screaming at you.

Are you mad at me?

No, no.

I don't like that.

It sucks, huh? Racism does suck.

It makes me sad.

Next game. It's called black friends.

You are going to list black frengds back and forth and the

Last personal to have a name wins.

No.

Would you like to rattle off a couple games?

Sure. Curtis.

A few others.

Keep going, keep going.

That's all I got right now.

Okay. So you won.

Matthew --

[ Bleep ].

Jordan. [ Bleep ].

Michelle, I don't know her last name.

Michelle.

Yeah.

This girl that I'm friends with.

I don't know her last name.

You won. This is our game called the

Culture which you call them on speaker phone.

The name says curtis so it sounds legit.

He said -- ignore.

He is busy. He ignored you.

It is a real person. I have pictures of him.

What's up with you? I'm on this show that's called

Woke wars. They told me to call a black

Friend.

I'm actually caucasian.

Oh, my god.

Come on, bro. Face time me right now.

Can you endorse her as a white woman that is cool?

Oh, amanda is frosty.

Is she woke though?

Oh, definitely woke.

She said you're definitely woke.

Thank you for competing in woke wars.

When it comes to race politics, only one person can win.

Do you know who won this game?

You?

The winner of course, is me, but also the winner of woke wars

Is mike! Obviously, amanda is the woke

Champion.

I don't know about that. There is a prize for you.

There is a prize for you. The wokest girl in the room.

The wokest girl in the room.

Oh, my god. Would you like to say something?

Any words?

Wow. I mean I just --

We did it.

How do you feel? Do you feel like racial parity

Has been achieved?

Not really. I am proud to win and definitely

Want to be a better person.

I feel sorry.

Sorry to who?

Everyone.

And that's woke wars!

Next, I'll be talking on comedian, hi.

You're an icon.

I'm doing my favorite show on television right now so I'm

Happy.

So you're a wildly successful adult comedian.

You've done get out, tom and jerry, fatherhood.

The list goes on. So my first question is, how

Much would it take for you to win a white ally call you the n

Word?

It has to be a sl*ve film. That is the only way they could

Do it. And they are master.

That's it. They are playing master and I'm

A sl*ve.

Top tier white guys.

And it has to be leonardo dicaprio.

It can't be machine g*n kelly.

Who are some of your favorite white allies in hollywood?

I mean -- it's some solid white people out here.

I don't know. I'm not doing a whole list of --

It's always certain moments that I think test the waters of, you

Know, who is a good ally. We came back to film and a lot

Of us was in quarantine. We were at home when everything

Was going on. They had the breonna taylor, you

Know, charging those comes. I couldn't work.

I didn't want to be funny. I know it is million of dollars

To make a movie. I don't feel like it.

I appreciate, I guess, white allies for letting me have their

Moment. I can't do it.

A lot of black people on the set were thanking me for standing

Up. We had a therapist the next day.

They brought in a therapist. I think they should have on the

Sets anyway, to be quite honest were you.

How have you been an ally to black women today in.

I have a black owned streaming service owned by a

Black-owned woman.

Look ought. Doing lord's work.

Thank you. Are there any black women in

Your phone who could vouch for you as an ally?

I have quite a few.

Could you phone a friend?

I can do that. Do you want me to?

If they don't pick up, by the way, there is no black woman

With you.

If she answers the phone.

Are you okay?

Michelle. I'm okay.

Just answer this. Okay?

Do you consider me an ally to black women?

%.

Thank you.

Wow, not even a hesitation. Your friend michelle.

I don't know if she's black but I'm assuming she is.

That's their black woman checking on you.

How many protests have you attended in your life?

Quite a few. I've been protesting since I was

. .

Did you ever meet any hot women there?

Gorgeous black women protest all the time.

I'm like attracted to that. That's a weird thing.

I like, like, freedom fighters and civil rights attorneys.

You like freedom fighters and civil rights attorneys.

Let's unpack that. Fannie lou?

If I was around that time. On it.

Coretta scott king.

If she was not married, definitely.

Coretta scott king was the real huxtable.

I would have been --

Sojourner truth.

If I was existing at that time, yes.

Wow! Wow!

What does the word allyship mean to you?

It means more or less listening to me.

I don't need you to say help me, help me.

But listen and hold your people accountable.

If you're going to be an ally to somebody, you know who your

People is. Say something.

Don't say nothing to me. Don't come crying to me.

Call your friends and y'all come down here.

Okay?

Last summer, people would text me.

They would text me and ask if I was okay and they would venmo me

$.

When people would say, are you okay?

Is everything fine? Next time you go to a protest,

Can I come with you? Just go.

You're not like, no, I'm not calling you.

No. This is naturally you wouldn't

Want to go to a protest with an ally because you're there to

Pick up black women. Thank you so much.

A fantastic interview. I've been an iconic guest.

If you could just lean in for me.

Your pitches in the writer's room are weirdly horny and or

Xenophobic. Could you read this pitch that

You sent?

Disney imagineer who across the cartoons hot.

Which one are you attract attracted to?

The that one is undeniably hot.

Everyone on the internet is like she's thick with two c's.

She's like elastic of the bendy and stuff.

What? It's not crazy.

You're weird.

I probably won't get hired back for this show.

So I have a spec that I think is very funny.

A very unique p.o.p. And it important to hire me.