In “Woe to You, Teachers of the Law,” Trey Knowles delivers a short comedic message aimed at college students studying to become attorneys. Using humor and satire, Trey challenges them not to imitate the hypocrisy he sees in past generations of lawyers and judges who present themselves as morally superior while judging others. He points out the contradiction of enforcing the law unevenly—punishing some harshly while excusing the same offenses in others—and exposes the pretense of appearing holy without acknowledging personal wrongdoing. Beneath the comedy, the message carries a serious critique of hypocrisy, urging future attorneys to pursue honesty, humility, and integrity rather than self-righteous judgment.
00:00A lot of you guys, moms and dads, were judges and attorneys.
00:09Your mom and dad threw rocks at these people for using drugs.
00:13And they gave them many years in prison for using drugs.
00:17Remember, they threw rocks at them.
00:21And they persecute them.
00:26And they continue to persecute them.
00:28But they'll tell you, don't be around black people or don't be around brown people because they're going to cause you to use drugs.
00:37They're going to cause you to do bad things.
00:41But you guys, getting ready to go to a frat party.
00:49Now, once you look at your mom and dad, who are judges and attorneys, and they put people away for using drugs, but they didn't put themselves away.
00:58I know it's disgusting to look at your parents in this kind of way.
01:05And you're probably like, mom, dad, how could you?
01:08What they're saying.
01:11Well, I was young.
01:13I didn't know.
01:14I didn't know.
01:17And then when I look at a young black kid or a young brown kid, they had no sympathy.
01:25A young black kid, a young brown adult kid is saying, have mercy on me.
01:31Have mercy on me.
01:32Now your parents are trying to explain their actions to you.
01:42And they're telling you, have mercy on me.
01:43Have mercy on me.
01:44But they didn't have no mercy on anyone else.
01:47And now you're about to go to this frat party and do all these type of things.
01:57Drugs, sex, and all this stuff that goes on in a frat party.
02:03And then you're going to become an attorney.
02:05You're going to become a judge.
02:06And those people are going to say, have mercy on me.
02:10Have mercy on me.
02:12I want you to remember the day that you did the same thing.
02:17Did anybody have mercy on you?
02:22If one of these white girls' dads is a lawyer and I get an email saying they need to take this video down,
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