Have Over-the-Top Proms Replaced Weddings for Black Americans? | Jason Whitlock Harmony
Fearless with Jason Whitlock
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4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome to the harmony. |
| 0:11.0 | All right, welcome to the Harmony Channel. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm Jason Whitlock, your host. |
| 0:19.5 | I want to apologize for anybody that listen to the end of Fearless, and you're expecting |
| 0:24.5 | an interview with Gabrielle Clark and the story that I promised. |
| 0:30.3 | We had some technical difficulties, and the interview got compromised. |
| 0:35.5 | And so what you saw for me and Eric Schmidt, the senator from Missouri, |
| 0:40.0 | was an interview I taped with him this morning where I was previewing Gabrielle Clark. But anyway, |
| 0:48.2 | it's been compromised. We've switched topics. What you're seeing to the right of me or I don't know where to the side of me are these black prom videos and these these extravagant deals that people are throwing for the prom they're spending a lot of money on these proms going to a lot of trouble and expense for these proms. |
| 1:14.5 | And there's a woman I had never heard of until yesterday or this morning named Mary Morgan |
| 1:21.2 | that tweeted out something that I found fascinating. And I was like, man, I got to talk to |
| 1:26.2 | Chameka and Delano about this uh a so here's |
| 1:31.7 | the tweet a white woman on TikTok said that ghetto prom is flashy and over the top because it's |
| 1:40.0 | the closest thing they have in their culture to weddings. |
| 1:49.4 | She got dragged for saying it, but many black people in the comments begrudgingly agreed with her point. |
| 1:51.9 | In this kid's case, it's a last to rob, blah, blah, but you don't need that part. |
| 1:56.0 | This is someone that had one of these extravagant black proms and ended up getting harmed, |
| 2:02.1 | I think killed. |
| 2:03.2 | But regardless, the point that I want to talk about is have things gotten so bad as it relates |
| 2:12.6 | to marriage and family that we've started a new tradition that the prom is the peak of black love |
| 2:24.5 | and it has to be celebrated and money spent on it like it's a wedding is that where we've gone |
| 2:33.5 | it's a fascinating question It's a fascinating point that |
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