Being Black in Britain vs America - Gina Yashere

So I'm British from London. LONDON! I'm British. You guys are pretty educated. You knew there were black people in England, right? Because we are everywhere. You cannot escape us. Wherever white people go, we follow. That's how that ---- works. My mother came from Nigeria, West Africa. To London. Nigeria! Don't woo that. Don't woo that. Don't woo that. What the hell was she thinking? My mother had the pick of the globe. San Francisco. The pick of the globe. She could have gone anywhere in the world. I imagine my mother in Nigeria. With all her maps spread out before her. Where shall I go? Where shall I go? You know what? I am fed up with the sunshine. I want to go somewhere with a lot of drizzle. And subtle racism. That's what I want. Subtle. Because the Brits are the best at subtle racism. I'm an American. I prefer American racism. I do. I prefer the American way. You know where you stand? With American racism. It's in your face. It's there. I kind of like it. I know where I stand. This is the only country in the world where some reality TV wig wearing twat is able to force the president. The president. To produce his birth certificate. The apprentice guy. Really? Trump the chump. Really? The president. Force the president to produce his birth certificate. I don't know. I'm just from England. Maybe I don't know much. But I thought to become the president of the United States. There'd be some pretty stringent checks. I don't know. Because I know I had to fill out a **** of a form to work at Red Lobster. If I liked it better. But you know, American racism is in your face. At least I know where I stand. I know there's certain places I'm not going to. I know I can come to San Francisco and be welcomed. I know that. Certain places I won't be going to. I will not be going to Alabama. Or Mississippi. Because I've seen the movies. Not going there. But I'm not saying that England hasn't got their races. England's got their races as well. Because I used to be an engineer. Before I did comedy, I used to be an engineer. I used to build and repair elevators for a living. And I worked on building sites. Building sites, people. With my hands. Hammers and wrenches. And I worked on building sites. On building sites, they don't have equal opportunities on a building site. People say whatever the hell they want to. To you. And I worked with some rednecks. British. There are British rednecks. There are. There are some races. I remember a guy coming up to me at work one day. True story. He comes up to me and he's like, Gina. That's how it is. Gina. He's like, Gina, come here. Guess what? You know what your name spells backwards? A-nick. And I was like that. Ah, ----. And I went up to my mum. I was like, Mother, you have ruined my life. You know what my name spells backwards? And my mother tried to console me. She's like that. You go back there. And you tell that bastard, your full name is Regina. And I was like that. A-nick. Write that ---- down. Write it down. You'll see. Black people, when you're naming your kids, check out all the anagrams and ----. London. London's had it up and down. Yeah, we've had it up and down here in London. Yeah, the riots. Did you hear about the riots? The London riots. Like, kids just running amok. Now, at first, when the riots started, I've got to admit, I was behind them. Because I thought, no, because the police shot a guy. And I was like, yeah, they shot a black man. That's right. Get out of there. You know, police brutality. Riot! So we heard that the guy was a drug dealer. I was like, okay, don't riot so much. Okay. And then it turned from just rioting to kids just stealing ----. And that's all it was. Just kids running amok and stealing stuff. Just looting anything. They're like, oh, the country's in disarray. Let's go out and take stuff. Woohoo! And that's what it was. There were kids just running around, just breaking into any stores they wanted. Like, some kids broke into a McDonald's. A McDonald's. Jumped over the counter and started flipping their own burgers. And I was watching that. I go, you could have done that for $4 an hour, you dumb ----. They were just looting everything. These kids broke into a store and looted a store called Primark. Primark makes Forever 21 look like Prada. Exactly. It's cheap tack. And they looted this store. The stuff they were stealing was worth less than the bags they were putting in. They were just running amok, just looting everything. Just television, everything. Some kids looted a KFC. Why would you loot a KFC? Really? A KFC? And the thing is, right, when they caught those kids, because they did, everything was on camera, it was all over, they caught those kids and they're jailing them. They give them really heavy sentences. Like, six months and above. Can you imagine going to prison for looting a KFC? What are you in here for? I'm in here for, like, murder. Burglary. Beating people up. Robbery. What are you in here for?