South African Racism vs. American Racism - Between the Scenes
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Comedy Central
4.2 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:02.6 | Pfff! |
| 0:03.6 | Do you have any questions or anything before we move on? |
| 0:07.0 | Anything you want to chat about? Anything on your mind? |
| 0:09.5 | It's a fun part of a live show. Yes? |
| 0:11.5 | Um, what's the difference between racism and South Africa and racism in America? |
| 0:17.2 | Oh, I love that. I love how you ask such a deep question in such a bubbly way. |
| 0:20.6 | Because your tone of voice was really fun. So what's the difference between... |
| 0:25.5 | Because they... I thought you were going to say, like, oh, the difference between like summer and spring for you, |
| 0:30.3 | is there... You're like, what's the difference between racism and South Africa? |
| 0:33.9 | And the racism in the USA. |
| 0:36.2 | I want to say my favorite topic. |
| 0:39.2 | I will tell you what. I think the biggest difference between racism in America and racism in South Africa is |
| 0:46.4 | I find that South African racism is and was a lot more blatant. |
| 0:50.9 | And so there's more of an acknowledgement of it as an idea. And I always say to people, |
| 0:56.0 | I know it's strange to say this, but I often think that was the greatest gift the apartheid government gave us |
| 1:01.8 | is that it was like, it was there. It was happening to you. It wasn't hidden. |
| 1:05.6 | Do you know what I mean? So you were just like, we don't want this. |
| 1:08.6 | People would fight, stop this apartheid. It's racism. And then the government would be like, |
| 1:11.8 | yes, of course it is a racism. That's what we're doing to you. The blacks must not do this. |
| 1:16.2 | But then what happened in America is, you know, you hit that period where like, |
| 1:20.0 | they started changing things. I don't know if it was around Nixon and they were like, |
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