Gigi Bella – White Boys [Video]

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Gigi Bella, performing at WoWPS 2020 in Dallas, TX.

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white boy says
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i had to wait in line at starbucks today
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so i know about oppression
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white boy retweets npr and watches
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jeopardy for fun white boy won’t admit
0:11
it but
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he likes it when you get the answer
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wrong likes the feeling of knowing just
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a little bit more than you do white boy
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listens to indie music
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and paints his life of 500 days of
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summer shade of mope
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because the whole world loves him the
0:24
least white boy is glad parasite won the
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oscar and not glad trump is the
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president not glad
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but safe happy to know he will not have
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to live in a world where white people
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are the minority white boy says aren’t
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you white
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white boy says he knows all about brown
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people because of all the spanish girls
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he’s dated
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says real tacos have radishes on them
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says horchata
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is mexican titty milk and i’m like damn
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i wish my titties were full of horchata
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or maybe i don’t because white boy would
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just set me up at a hipster called brew
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coffee shop somewhere
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and start turning a profit while i bust
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my horchichis in another episode of
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cultural appropriation at its finest
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white boy thinks my brown mouth is dirty
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with every flip of my chinguna tongue
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and every [ __ ] you shouted at the orange
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tv
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peneho white boy thinks my brown mouth
1:11
my brown friends my brown life
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is dirty when i tell him that i am tied
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to this land
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through my native ocelon blood and the
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red dirt in my teeth white boy responds
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by texting me a picture of a cartoon
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pocahontas
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naked ass out standing next to john
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smith who was holding a looped belt
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smiling white boy says jk lol white boy
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thinks it’d be kinky if i said colonize
1:33
me daddy right before he comes
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white boy tells me this in a tinder
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message tells me he does not believe in
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privilege meaning it is not a privilege
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to love me
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not a privilege to hold me or [ __ ] me or
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whisper in my ear white boy just
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expects these things just like his
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ancestors did white boy says he could
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beat me at
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a job interview or a sport or a poetry
1:53
slam white boy says he could beat me
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white boy says i don’t need your consent
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i’m your boyfriend doesn’t understand
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the word no since he is the only one who
2:00
ever gets to say it
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white boy tastes like expensive
2:03
toothpaste and entitlement
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his favorite movies are the social
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network an american psycho he jokes
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about luring me in like prey tells me
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about the way bunny rabbits are calm to
2:13
stillness and force to trust just before
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someone slides the skin off their small
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bodies he tells me this while playing
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with my hair
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as i am splayed across his chest
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wondering why i keep making the same
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mistakes over
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and over again he’s so comfortable with
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the way that history keeps
2:29
repeating itself and i just want to kick
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and push my way out of his palms i
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am all bunny rabbit heart beating sudden
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will to live white boy always leaves me
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hoping that i won’t have to run away
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screaming this time
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leaves me wishing he was better than all
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of the men and mistakes before him white
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boy says
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he is already the best that there ever
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was
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[Applause]

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