Me when The Race War Starts and I Gotta Kill X

Me when The Race War Starts and I Gotta Kill X, also written Me when The Race War Starts and I Gotta Shoot X, is aphrasal templatememe that humorously lists a white celebrity that people of color would be torn over killing when an imagined "race war" begins. The phrase is most commonly captioned over an image of Black actor Wesley Snipes crying and pointing a gun at the meme's viewer, also known as the meme format Wesley Snipes Crying, which is originally taken from the 1991 movie New Jack City.The phrase is also used to caption Jesse Pointing a Gunfrom Breaking Bad. It was first used on Twitterin 2017 but its most viral usage occurred when skater Tony Hawkreplied to a tweet that referenced him in 2018.