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He suggests that he isn’t against abortion, or gun control, that he watches videos about “intersectionality.” All of which throws me off. Of course, he brought this upon himself.įour years after “Whiteboy,” MacDonald is eager to “show people I’m not just some brainwashed right-wing zombie.” When we spend time together this winter at his place, he’s ultra-paranoid about Covid, requiring us to stay masked and socially distanced even outdoors. “That freaked me the fuck out,” he said, claiming that, as a Canadian, he was unaware of the chaos his track would unleash. MacDonald said he spent hours deleting their comments celebrating him. Eventually, white nationalists discovered the song. Even if you’ve never seen the video for “Whiteboy,” you know precisely the type of person who would put it on repeat. Those reactions, he hoped, would “spark the conversation.”īut MacDonald started something more vicious than a conversation. He says that he wanted viewers to get pissed off.

Almost as if it were an HBO Max original, MacDonald released an accompanying behind-the-scenes clip where he describes the concept of the song.

“Cringing With Whiteboy,” a reaction video, is currently sitting around 1.6 million views. The rest of the classroom begins to taunt him: “White boy, don’t say that/White boy, you so bad.” MacDonald overpowers them with a scream of anguish, his voice rising above all the others in the room: “White boy, white noise, saying shit I can’t say with my white voice.” Naturally, there are viral videos mocking the song.

The teacher, played by a Black actor, tries to quiet MacDonald down, waving his arms and wordlessly shouting. Just as he starts rapping about how he shouldn’t have to feel bad for being white, the students start to make faces and throw paper at him. It’s set in a Southern California classroom where the musician, who is white, wears blond box braids and sits at a desk in a row of bored-looking students.

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Perhaps you’ve seen the music video for “Whiteboy,” which currently has more than 22 million views on YouTube and made a minor celebrity of a carpenter turned pro wrestler turned rapper named Tom MacDonald.

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