Why Nicole Arbour Sucks More Than Anyone: A Response to 'Dear Black People'

By Max Berman on November 6, 2015

If you haven’t heard of Nicole Arbour and her Youtube channel, all you basically have to envision is a way more vapid, racist version of Jenna Marbles. She managed to piss off pretty much the entire world a couple months ago with “Dear Fat People”, which now has over seven million views and subsequently was fired from her job from being such a moron. You think she would have learned her lesson by now, but nope! She was back in at it posting “Dear Black People” a couple of days ago.

Beginning with the title itself, seriously? Dear Nicole Arbour, you are the most out of touch, overly privileged moronic girl out there. In order to detract from the obvious racial stratification this video creates, Arbour does the classic white girl trick of including one female of color in her video, her “token black girl’ to make everything she says acceptable and totally not racist at all. She talks about cultural appropriation, saying she doesn’t understand why black people are so sensitive to white girls utilizing their culture, she goes on to talk about how black girls have such nice, long fingernails and “stick anything to them”. She then continues on, joking about how black people have appropriated “white culture” when they go to Starbucks and order their lattes and coffees. Yet, when she goes to a “jerk chicken” place, everyone gives her strange looks. Well, Nicole maybe people are giving you strange looks because they see an overly privileged, uneducated girl who looks at other races as novelties and trinkets, things to make you seem accepting and tolerant.

What really irks me here is not only the blatant racism and divisiveness of this video in itself, but it really brings the sad reality of the post racial “colorblind” society we’re living in. People such as Arbour exemplify this when they just want to “share cultures” and don’t want anyone to be offended because it “looks cool” and helps with their bland aesthetic.

What you fail to realize is that race does matter because social constructs are what society functions around, and there are historical and societal implications that go along with each. You can’t ignore the plight of segregation and discrimination, when there are people still alive who used to have to use “colored only” restrooms. We can’t just forget about internment camps the Japanese were corralled into during the Red Scare, and the people who are part of these cultures have every right to be offended when the white people who oppressed them and degraded their entire heritage now come back and want to incorporate it into their everyday life because it’s the new modern “trend”.

It’s upsetting that Arbour has such a massive platform and uses divisive language to further separate black and white Americans. You may have millions of views and sponsorships and advertisements from great companies, but at the end of the day you’re an overly privileged, uneducated white american who refuses to acknowledge the hardships that differing races have had to face, and are further perpetuating the notion that we exist in this post-racial society, something detrimental to us all.

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