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Can You Recognize These Common Black Phrases?

The Bert Show

The Bert Show

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Can you recognize these common phrases used in Black households? Turns out it's hard for The Bert Show members of the caucasian persuasion!

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It was a confusing time for some of the whites in here yesterday.

0:39.6

Katie, you want to taken it from here.

0:41.3

Yeah, yesterday I was just talking about a situation that my friend's in that I don't think

0:45.1

she should be in, and I said the phrase, a hard head will make a soft behind.

0:48.7

And Abby looked at me like I was crazy.

0:50.7

I had never heard that.

0:51.9

I was like, what do you mean her behind is soft?

0:53.5

How do you know?

0:58.7

And that's just a saying that's in a black household. If you're going to be hard-headed,

1:02.2

you're just going to face the consequences later, basically. I had never heard of that. Abby had never heard of that. Had you heard of that? I knew what it meant, but I hadn't, like, I haven't heard of the definition. So the whites were aligned yesterday.

1:13.7

So I asked these guys, I'm like, I love these cultural differences.

1:20.6

So are there other cliches and phrases in the black community that the whites might not know?

1:22.9

And I think there's probably a few.

1:29.7

So Mo and I think we put together a list that, yeah, we're going to see you guys know some things.

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