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Druski is back with another racial skit ... and this time he's playing a white man who is proud to be an American ... and his hair and makeup are something to behold.

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00:00Welcome back to TMZ Live.

00:02Pretty clear that I think Eddie Murphy has a very big influence over Drewski.

00:09Based on this new skit that he just put out,

00:13and I'm dying to know what social media thinks of this,

00:18but he did something that Eddie Murphy very famously did.

00:21What I think of this.

00:21Or what you think of it.

00:23How ominous.

00:25Many, many years ago, I was young,

00:28Eddie Murphy did a skit on SNL.

00:30It was a different time.

00:31Where he dressed up in whiteface, essentially,

00:35and went out around New York City,

00:37and basically the skit was to point out how he was treated differently

00:41because he's white instead of black.

00:45Drewski decided to put a twist on that.

00:48He went out in whiteface and went to a NASCAR race

00:52and basically played up every stereotype possible

00:56about Southerners, hillbillies, NASCAR fans,

01:04right down to the tan lines on his body.

01:08So watch this.

01:10This is Drewski in the makeup,

01:13pretending he's a white hillbilly NASCAR fan.

01:17Here's the love.

01:19Here's the honor.

01:20If you can't in her, on her.

01:22Hey, you lost, boss?

01:45No, I'm going to the race.

01:47What race?

01:48NASCAR race.

01:49You're going to NASCAR?

01:51Yes, sir.

01:52A little bit.

01:55He ain't lost, is he?

01:57No, I'm good.

01:57I'm going to the race, sir.

01:58You sure about that?

01:59Yes, sir.

02:02Find something safe to do, boy.

02:04There's a different tone to this

02:06than the classic SNL thing that I'm talking about,

02:09where it was talking about society at large, right?

02:14And I think there's a better point to be made.

02:18This one...

02:18He's mocking a group of people.

02:21This is mocking a group of people.

02:22This is mocking a group of people.

02:22Method acting.

02:23You know, like, calling it whiteface,

02:25that's just generic.

02:26What if they method act in blackface?

02:29What if they method act,

02:30somebody method acts in blackface?

02:32Then they would method act in blackface.

02:33And that's okay?

02:34No, it wouldn't be okay.

02:35But it's okay for a black person

02:37to method act in whiteface.

02:38We've been through this.

02:39We've been through this.

02:40Majority rules.

02:41In numerous times.

02:42We have been through this.

02:43It's okay for them to be way of hoonies in this instance.

02:45The difference is one is the majority

02:47and one is the minority.

02:48Our hillbillers are...

02:50It's punching down...

02:50Hold on.

02:51...as opposed to punching up.

02:52When you take back road people...

02:55You're right.

02:56That's why this one is...

02:57That's not the majority.

02:58That's why this one is a little less...

03:00Because, yeah, you could say that poor white people...

03:04And I don't buy the...

03:04You know what I don't like about it is...

03:06It does...

03:07The part that I find troubling

03:09because having been a NASCAR fan...

03:11I haven't been to a race in a long time.

03:12But having been a NASCAR fan

03:14and been to races,

03:16that is a stereotype, right?

03:17Yeah.

03:18But the reality is...

03:19At least that was...

03:21Very rarely was my experience...

03:23But even if...

03:24Actually, it never was.

03:25It doesn't matter.

03:26Even if it is the reality,

03:28you know, you're mocking...

03:29If it was...

03:30Look how well he blended in.

03:32No one was offended.

03:33No one looked at him like,

03:34hey, this guy's acting...

03:34Well, they don't know he's in whiteface.

03:36They don't know who he is.

03:37They don't know he's in whiteface.

03:38By the way,

03:39we're talking about the content,

03:41but just the makeup?

03:43The makeup...

03:44It's a pretty amazing makeup job.

03:46It's just...

03:46To put the tan lines on or on.

03:48There was a book I read

03:50when I was a kid

03:51in the early 60s

03:52called Black Like Me.

03:53And I believe it was

03:54a New York Times reporter.

03:56And he put blackface on

03:59and he was walking around New York...

04:01The New Yorkie skit

04:01was played off of that.

04:02Played off of that.

04:03Yes.

04:03And it was...

04:04And he wrote a book about it

04:06and it was how he was treated differently

04:08when he was a black man.

04:09And he wrote a whole book about it.

04:11You couldn't do that today.

04:13But that was not done...

04:15Why couldn't you do that today?

04:17I think he'd get trashed

04:18if he did it today.

04:19Why couldn't he do that?

04:20Because the point of that book...

04:22I know what the point is.

04:22The point of the book was

04:23to show that it is...

04:25I agree with you.

04:25Harder to be black in America.

04:27I agree with you.

04:27All I'm saying is

04:28that when you start mocking

04:31hillbillies or southerners

04:33or whatever else...

04:34Really, you know,

04:35spitting on the ground

04:36and doing the whole thing.

04:37Sorry.

04:38Hold on a second.

04:38But you want to act like

04:39that doesn't happen?

04:41Now, like I said,

04:42in full disclosure,

04:43I've been to a NASCAR race,

04:44many of them,

04:45and that never happened to me.

04:46Do I think that

04:47that's ever happened

04:48to a black person

04:49at a NASCAR race?

04:50Of course it does.

04:50Okay, so what's wrong

04:51with pointing it out

04:52if it does happen?

04:53Because you're not

04:53pointing it out.

04:54You're basically trying

04:55to reinforce something

04:57that's really negative.

04:58You could say the same thing

04:59about a white person

05:00putting blackface on

05:02and doing something

05:03that's a, quote,

05:04stereotype,

05:05and to show,

05:06oh, that this is what happens.

05:08It's just not done anymore.

05:10You do understand

05:12the difference

05:13between someone

05:14like you putting on blackface

05:15and me putting on white makeup.

05:17You don't understand

05:17there's a difference, right?

05:18I see the difference,

05:19but when you're,

05:20but hold on.

05:21You don't see the difference.

05:21That's it.

05:22That's all.

05:23But hold on.

05:23That's it.

05:24But no, it's not it.

05:25When you're mocking somebody

05:28and you're denigrating them,

05:30it doesn't matter

05:32if they are black or white.

05:34There's no pass on that

05:36if you're mocking them.

05:37I'm not going to try

05:38to have the last word

05:39because you clearly

05:40will not let me.

05:41So you got it.

05:42Okay, thanks.

05:43Hey, it's AF

05:44currently down in Florida.

05:46I have no idea

05:46why Drewski's getting

05:47any hate at all.

05:48I literally think

05:48that this is one

05:49of the funniest things ever.

05:50Like, I don't get

05:51the hate whatsoever.

05:52People are just way

05:53too sensitive these days

05:54with everything.

05:56Well, that's the other thing,

05:57too, by the way,

05:58which is the other way

06:00of going is just to say

06:01as long as it's in good fun

06:03and it's not, you know,

06:06demeaning or degrading

06:07or anything like that,

06:08I think Drewski would say

06:09he's doing it in good fun.

06:11Then can that work

06:14on both sides?

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