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Andrew Schulz is known for his off-the-wall comedy and doesn’t shy away from making jokes about race, either.
However, on a recent episode of his aptly titled Flagrant podcast, he went overboard when hosting James Duncan and Fuhad Dawodu.
The two Black British hosts the immensely popular ShxtsNGigs podcast, so the two linked up for some cross-content full of laughs until Schulz brought up the Black girlfriend effect, and Duncan attempted to explain that when a white person dates a Black girl, their appearances begin to change.
“You’ll see a guy who’s had a black girlfriend, and all of a sudden; he’s got a buzz cut, clean shape-up, tattoos,” Duncan jokes.
Duncan is interrupted when Schulz brings up the angry black woman trope.
“They shave their hair because they start losing it because they so stressed being around this black girl that’s complaining about sh-t all the f-cking time,” Schulz says while laughing. “They grow a beard because there’s more cushion when they get slapped. I think the black girlfriend effect might be a protective instinct.”
Duncan and Dawodu are laughing pretty hard in the clip and didn’t bother to attempt to get Schulz to stop the rhetoric, which has them catching heat for not protecting Black women.
The clip has gone viral online, leading many to speak out, including former football player Ryan Clark, who used his Pivot platform to shun Schulz’s joke, and Duncan and Fuhad Dawodu for not correcting him in the moment.
“I’m not sure what black woman experience @andrewschulz has had, but it hasn’t been the real “black girlfriend effect”. To insult black women and described them as complainers & abusive isn’t just untrue. It’s disrespectful. Even worse, James Duncan & Fuhad Dawodu allowing him to say it is more insulting,” he wrote while expounding on his thoughts in a near-six minute video. “Andrew Schultz spoke that way in front of two black men because they allowed him to. They made him comfortable enough to disrespect black women because they didn’t force him to respect them.”
He went on to champion Black women calling them “powerful, beautiful, strong, and supportive” and they “prioritize black family, community, & culture.”
See how social media is reacting to the controversy below.
