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Trey Knowles’ The Visit of Definition is a comedic piece that uses humor to explore why meaningful improvement in the Black community is often difficult. He jokes that the issue is not a lack of money—in fact, more money could make things worse—but rather a poverty of spirit. Through satire, Knowles imagines what might happen if he openly confronted Definition’s friends with this uncomfortable truth.

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00:00I'm in Chicago being reunited with my friend Def Finition. I call my friend Def Finition

00:09because he defines himself and his behavior as black culture. Anything that is the opposite,

00:16that is ethical, is not considered black. It is odds. So I get to my friend Def Finition's house.

00:26Before I can just get in the door, I hear it already, calling me names. They're like,

00:33who invited that bougie inward? Calling me bougie. And Def Finition to the brother, 25 cents.

00:41He's like, he ain't bougie, he's Uncle Ruckus. Call me Uncle Ruckus. If you don't know who

00:48Uncle Ruckus is, you need to watch Boondocks. Because I'm like, what's up with all this hostility?

00:56Man. And Def Finition's finally coming to my aim. He's like, he's not bougie. He's not Uncle Ruckus.

01:05He's an undercover cop. He's making the situation worse by calling me an undercover cop.

01:13And everybody's like, why you bring this pig around the house? You invited a pig to her house?

01:20He's calling me a pig. He's calling me a snitch. Like, what you want? And so I'm like,

01:30okay, I'm just going to say this. I'm going to leave Chicago because I came here for nothing.

01:36Seemed like y'all still the same. And one of the friends said, hurry up. I'm trying to smoke my weed.

01:46All right. I'm just going to say this. My brother, my sister, all that hating each other,

01:55and all this sexual immorality. We're always talking about y'all want to have sex with all these different women and, you know,

02:05all this stuff got to stop. Calling each other the N word, calling each other B words.

02:12You flashing all your money and flashing your gold in your teeth.

02:18Gold on your neck, sagging your pants. Showing your underwear.

02:26Tattoo wearings of destruction and death. Look at you. You got gang affiliation on that.

02:36Oh my God. All this Crips and Bloods. MS-13. All this stuff got to stop. All this hating each other.

02:46Pulling each other down. All this stuff got to stop.

02:50They're looking at me like, okay, you're judging me. You came here to judge me.

03:02You pull out his gun. I'm like, why are you condemning me? Put down those guns.

03:08That's what I'm talking about. Put down your guns and stop, stop beefing.

03:12All this malice and all this jealousy and you with your homosexuality.

03:20All y'all want to do is drink all day. Alcohol. You want to take alcohol all day.

03:25And smoke weed and blackened mouths.

03:29You, look at you.

03:33Right. You smoking crack. You doing heroin.

03:39You smoking blackened mouths. All these cigarettes around the place.

03:45All this stuff has got to stop.

03:49This is not living.

03:51This is not living.

03:53This is not living.

03:55That's all I'm here to say.

03:57I'm going. I'm going.

03:59This is not living.

04:10This is not living.

04:12It's not living.

04:14This is not living.

04:17This is not living.

04:18I'm going.

04:19This has got to stop.

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