“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. 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.
