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.
