There's a new young punk rock band
in LA, and as you can tell,
they're really young, okay?
[LAUGH] And they did a fascinating
song called Racist Sexist Boys.
Tick, tick, tick,
tick until the right wing starts
attacking ten year olds, okay?
So let me tell you who's
in the band.
The band, made up of Mila, who's
10, Eloise, 13, Lucia, 14, and
Bella, 16, performed at the library
as part of its TEENtastic Tuesdays
to celebrate Asian Pacific Islander
Heritage Month.
So now,
I think it's Mila that explains why
they came up with this song.
>> A little while before we went
into lockdown,
a boy in my class came up to me and
said that his dad told him to stay
away from Chinese people.
After I told him that I was
Chinese, he backed away from me.
Eloise and I wrote this song based
on that experience.
So this is about him and
all the other racist sexist boys in
this world.
>> Hold on, we're going to give you
the badass song in a second, okay?
[LAUGH] But yes, that was Mila,
the 10 year old, and she lived it,
she lived it.
That's in LA, and
that happened to her, right?
Now I told you guys story before
about my son coming home and
saying that he heard in school that
the Chinese eat bats and rats,
and that's what caused coronavirus,
etc, right?
And my son's half Chinese,
my wife's Chinese.
So let's give you a little piece of
the song before we react,
let's watch.
[MUSIC]
>> All right, well,
part of the reason I love that is
because we're going to have over
under of three conservative
politicians slash pundits,
implode when they watch that video.
Just [LAUGH] all right, thoughts.
>> I love it, I was definitely
a young punk rocker riot girl.
So I love this, I love that they're
following in the legacy of riot
girls calling out sexism and
racism through music.
I'm just happy to see these girls
doing this.
Their song rocks,
I was dancing to their music when
you were showing it, I love it.
>> Woz? >> Yeah, I mean, for
me I'm not going to lie when
the young one gave the speech to
introduce the song to talk about
her experience, I got emotional.
And then I watched these girls
perform this song and the power,
and fearlessness is just amazing.
I actually have six nieces myself,
they're some of the most impressive
people I've ever met in the world.
And there's so much nonsense that
we sort of encounter on a day to
day basis here in America.
But to watch these young women, and
they remind me of my niece and
think to myself wow,
we're raising a group of fearless
young women who are going to lead
this country forward man.
And the song is jamming,
it's going hard.
I was head nodding
when we just started playing that.
I wanted to get in the mosh pit,
Cenk, when I saw that damn clip.
>> [LAUGH] Yeah, I know,
they're great.
Of course, conservatives won't
understand what punk is,
right, punk rock.
These girls look like
they're rebelling.
>> [LAUGH] That's the point.
>> Yeah, that's kind of the point.
[LAUGH] >> And they already,
I mean, Tom Morello tweeted that.
Apparently they've got a small clip
in the Netflix movie Moxie, so
they're red hot.
I'm bummed I missed that public
library performance that they had.
But look, to their point again,
my guess is that the right wing
will take it personally, right?
Yeah, look,
they teach the kids to think that
the boys are racist and sexist.
No, she actually lived it,
nobody taught her,
it actually happened to her, right?
And I think that a lot of people
who are not minorities don't
understand is how often it happens.
So I told you the recent
examples and
then you go back to the old days.
I have a friend who's South Asian,
hence Indian.
And when we were growing up in
New Jersey in a different school
that he went to before he moved to
our town, the kids got around
him at recess and started doing
the Native American war chants.
Imagine how humiliated you'd be if
a bunch of kids circle around you
and start chanting like that and
making fun of you.
Another person, Steve O,
who you've seen him on air here.
Same story, before he got to our
town in New Jersey,
he was in a different town,
I think it was in Virginia.
And he had a crush on a young
white girl.
And one of the guys,
I think in school says something to
the effect of,
why would she ever go out with you,
you're a [BLEEP].
And the whole class laughed,
[LAUGH].
So if you're white you never
experienced that,
you might have experienced other
things that are awful.
[LAUGH] That's being a kid,
we get it, right?
But you never experienced it, but
don't discount the experience of
folks who went through it.
because no matter what the right
wing tells you,
it is actually real.
And so, here's some young girls who
are taking out their frustrations
in a super constructive way.