This a clip from the movie Hairspray. In this clip Seaweed (the black guy with the waves) is singing about what life is like for black person in Baltimore during the civil rights movement. It doesn’t seem like he wants to assimilate into white culture, but more of being comfortable and not having to deal with the constant stereotypes and stigmas that are associated with black people of the time. He is basically using this song to tell Tracy, Penny and Link to inform the other “white folk” that black people are not that bad, but even if the whites don’t get it, they will still be doing their own thing amongst themselves.