A FCKH8 video campaign is using six young black kids from Ferguson, Missouri -- from the very block where Michael Brown was shot -- to tell white people that they are still racist.
Wearing T-shirts that read, "Racism is not over. But I'm over racism," and that prominently display the FCKH8 logo, the kids say, "Hey white people…" and then proceed to lay out the various and racist ways racist white people continually say racist things:
Hey white people! What's up? We're kids from Ferguson, Missouri. You know that little place where white police shot an unarmed black teen…in the face. It was a national disgrace! So listen up. Cause we're here to talk to you about race.
Sometimes white people are like, 'But is racism still a thing?' Spoiler alert! Duh! Yeah!
Just because Beyonce is on your playlist, and you voted for Obama doesn't mean that our generation has seen the end of racist drama. Racism is not one of those things. So, go away if you pretend it doesn't exist, like Crocs or Justin Bieber.
One girl who was obviously prompted to mock a white person's voice, says, "All this focus on race makes me uncomfortable." The other kids respond, "Uncomfortable? Try being black!"
Then a slew of "fun facts" are presented about the NYPD frisking more blacks and Latinos during traffic stops than whites. The kids pretend to smell something and reveal, "That would be racism!"
The most absurd line of the video is this: "We just want an equal shot in life, not to be shot to death."
The white-voice mocking is back as the girl sarcastically says, "It's you people who are making this about race. I don't see color."
More "fun facts" are then given saying employers will choose a white job applicant over a black one, even with the same resume, just because of black-sounding names, like Taneesha or Tyrone. The kids say, "Employers don't even need to see the color of our skin for the discrimination to begin."
The kids have a message for any white person that accuses blacks of playing the race card: "No one's playing cards, and this is not a game. Complaining about this race card BS is just an obvious way of trivializing and marginalizing people. So stop."
The white mocking continues:
'Some of my best friends are black.' [slow clap] You get a cookie! Here's a hot tip: You're not really being a friend.
A couple of millennials appear with a poem; the first line by a black girl, the second by a white guy:
"The continued discrimination against black people,
Us white people, we have to erase it. And the first step is to own up and face it.
Then the two begin to sell the T-shirts and arm bands the kids were wearing in the video saying, "Be the sh*t, get a shirt!" Then they explain that a whole five dollars from each sale goes to charities that fight racism...because T-shirts will end racism.
Watch the campaign below via Vimeo.com:
