Between the Scenes - America Should Take a Cue from South Africa on Conversations About Racism (Rebroadcast)
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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4.2 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:02.7 | BAM! |
| 0:04.7 | If there was one aspect of South African culture that I could... |
| 0:07.8 | Transplant to America. |
| 0:09.1 | Transplant to America, what would it be? |
| 0:11.1 | Huh. |
| 0:12.1 | What would it be? |
| 0:13.1 | I think it would be maybe our general ease of talking about race and our racial past, you know? |
| 0:19.6 | Because South African America had very similar histories, you know, in that there was like... |
| 0:23.3 | There were many things that were done to people of color that were extremely heinous, |
| 0:27.1 | but we... |
| 0:28.0 | We... |
| 0:29.0 | Just maybe because of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in our country, |
| 0:31.0 | we were forced to talk about it and we just talk about it. |
| 0:33.7 | It's painful, but we laugh about it and it's out there. |
| 0:36.0 | Whereas in America, I find there's like a lot of tension in and around that a lot of people are just like, |
| 0:39.8 | Oh, well, come on, we don't have a... |
| 0:41.5 | Do we have to bring that up? |
| 0:42.8 | And it's like, dude, I'm not saying you did slavery. |
| 0:44.9 | Calm down, you know what I mean? |
| 0:46.5 | Because that's how a lot of people treat it. |
| 0:47.8 | They're just like, I wasn't there. |
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