You're listening to Comedy Central. Do you guys have any questions before we move on anything you want to chat about? Are we good? Yes, sir? Do you think that reparations should just go to like one like group relation and targeting people that are in the same kind of like, Because that's an interesting question. What do you mean by that? If I like, there are like white people that have been disappranchised like recently, like recently is the key? Recently?
Is the key like the industrialized? Right? So, like a lot of people in like manufacturing job and stuff, right, but so so so to your question, to your question, I think you have to understand what the word reparations means. First. So reparations you are repairing something that you have broken. You are paying for something that you were supposed to
pay for. I'm not saying that they aren't people living in America today who are suffering and are going through pain and strife because of what's happening when it comes to um, you know, the machines taking jobs, factories becoming industrialized, etcetera. But reparation is a specific conversation about a specific time in America, and that is black people were slaves. You know what I mean. And I've even heard people say like, oh, but there were some of the Irish who are indentious,
like yeah, let's slavery. Look at the numbers, look at the time, look at the level of work. You could not work toward your freedom. For most black people in America, this was a time when you were that was it. You lived and died as a slave. And so that's
what reparations is about. And so I hear what you're saying, but I think that's a completely separate conversation that needs to be had about the now because if you if you are not careful, what you then do is you combine everybody suffering into the same ball, and you make it seem like all injustices have the same waiting, and they don't just like crimes. You know, theft isn't the same as murder. We don't try them the same way.
And as much as there is a white person who's suffering today, I feel for anybody who's suffering because I know what it's like to be poor. I know what it's like to suffer. I didn't come from a wealthy family. We struggled when I was growing up. But I also understand that there are levels of that suffering, you know, and so sometimes white people it doesn't it does block a white person because you go white privilege, and a person goes, I'm poor and I'm white, where's the privilege?
You know, White people like I wish I could activate my white privilege. I wish I could do it right now. White privilege. Give me something. I get that. I get that, trust me, I get it. It is hard to accept that you have benefits because of the color of your skin if you cannot see the benefits that you have. But the thing I tried to explain to a person is, think of it more like golf. Don't think of it as privilege, and think of it like a handicap right engulf.
They acknowledge that you are in a position where you need so many advantages to be competitive in the game. Right so what they say is you have a handicap of fifteen, So that means like you're gonna be hitting from this tea and you get more chances to get the ball in because we understand the position you're in.
And if you're a black person in America from slavery from day one, the number of injustices that have held Black people back in America amount to an insurmountable like you you look at you look at black people's freedom, you look at black people's land. Just just land alone, the oounts of wealth you can you can acquire over time if you own land is exponential because you have the land, You have the fact that you can borrow
based on the land. You have the fact that you can use the money that you have borrowed to grow more wealth. You can use it to grow your family's wealth. Just taking that away from black people alone is crippling them. And so you combine that with slavery, and then you look at Jim Crow laws. You didn't let black people in America live in the areas that they wanted to live, and they couldn't get loans from the banks that they
wanted to get loans from. And then on top of that, when they started getting the loans from American banks, American banks were found to be giving them higher interest rates when in fact they were the same risk as many of the other races that they were they were giving
loans too. So when you combine all of those things, I think it's safe to say that black Americans have a conversation that they need to be having with the United States, doesn't involve me, doesn't involve white people, doesn't mean it's like it's like, yo, American government, meet the black people. That's it. Have that conversation. Whenever, whenever I see all the stuff about voter registration and vote to
I d laws in America, et cetera. That's one of the few moments when I miss South Africa's racism, because know what I liked about South Africa's racism is that it was just straight up, you know, they're just like, no blacks, no blacks. Okay, simple as that, no blacks, and you knew where you stood. I don't like in America, They're like, they make you work for your racism. You know,
you gotta figure it out. They'd be like, we don't need certain people who are prone to hip hop and swag and you people like which people you people like which people told people know you people like. I'm like, no, man, I just want to be offended and enjoy it. You know, I don't wanna I gotta figure out my racing racis sudoku or something. I don't want to figure it out. That's where they beat around it's so slick, but I promise you I genuinely think that would stretch things up.
And black people just came out and said, hey, we're all going to vote Republican. You would be surprised, how queen this is. This is how you realize how much like black people's decisions have affect the general like Republican ideology in America. Look at the n r A is a great example. And you look at guns in America. Um, people always like, oh no, there needs to be you know, guns are free. Guns are free guns and free guns,
free Second Amendment, second women, Second Amendment. Then the black panthers came along and they were like, this country is dangerous for black people. So they said, we say, all our brothers and sisters, you go out there and you get guns. You get as many guns as you can, and you prepare for a war. And then the white people were like, we need to restrict the guns. They were like, we need no, no, no, no, no, too
many guns, too many guns. Bring it in, Bring it in, bring it in, bring it Like you see immediately there's like bring it in, bring in, and bring bringing and it's amazing. Just like the same thing with voting if they just thought the vote was going to go the other way, they would take a chance just be like, yeah, man, I'm voting for you. Like really, you're voting a Republican. Yeah, man, I'm vote Republican. It's like, oh, yeah, what who are you voting for? The dude man, you know do Scott So.
In my family, my two younger brothers are um so from my mother's second marriage, and so I'm still the only person in my family looks like this. So my my mom is uh African woman, black Cossa woman. My my father Swiss from Switzerland, so he was a white man, and so I looked like this. And then my mom remarried a black man, and so my brothers don't look like me either, right, And I remember what was really beautiful was my brothers. We always spoke about this stuff.
So my apparently they were like, yeah, different dads, we get how this works. So my brother one day I picked him up from school, right, he's like he's really young at the time, was but maybe like I think it was the nine maybe ten years old. And he gets in the car and he's like just deflated. He gets in the passengers seat and he fastens his seat belts, and I'm like, what's going on, Isaac, And he's like, hey, Trevor, he's like, kids, Man, I can't do this kids. So
I go with kids, tell me more. And then he's like, I just I just don't know what to do with kids, Trevor. You know, like today one of my friends said, are we walking home? Then I said, no, my brother is picking me up. Then he said, ah, who's your brother? Then I said Trevor. Then now when we're walking, he sees you in the cart. Then he says who's that? Then I said my brother. Then he says, but how
can your brother? How can your brother be white? Then I said he's not white, he's not white, he's mixed. Then he said, but you're not mixed. You don't look the same. How can your brother not look the same. Then so now I'm like, oh, man, I'm gonna have to like go through this. So then I'm like, so, so, what did you say to And he's like, Trevor, like, I'd have to explain it the way kids understand, he said.
I just said to him, I said, Swellie, you've got to understand like people are like chocolates, Okay, like like you can have like a white chocolate, and you can have a duck chocolate, and you can have a milk chocolate. But it's all nestly. Okay. If there was one aspect of South African culture that I could transplant to America,
what would it be? Huh what would it be? I think it would be, um, maybe our general easer talking about race and our racial past, you know, because So African America have very similar histories, you know, and that there was like there were many things that were done to people of color that were extremely heinous, but we we just maybe because the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in our country, we were forced to talk about it, and we just talk about it. It's painful, but we laugh
about it and it's out there. Whereas in America, I found there's like a lot of tension in and around that. A lot of people are just like, yeah, well, well well come on, we don't how do we have to bring that up? And it's like, dude, I'm not saying you did slavery. Calm down, you know what I mean, because that's how a lot of people treated. They's just like I wasn't there. I didn't say you were there, I'm
just like, slavery happened, Yeah, but I swear I wasn't. Dude, you thirty seven calm down, you know what I mean? And I feel like there could be it helps to be able to have conversations about those things because then it helps you understand how you got to where you got to. But if you can't have those conversations, then you just have to operate in a blind space of like, how did this happen? You know why there's so many black people living this part of Harlem? I don't know.
Why do you think? I don't know? Do you get what I'm saying? And it actually opens it up. I think that would be like the one part. And it doesn't fix everything, don't get me wrong, But I do think it makes it easier to address issues, to have conversations when you can just be like, yeah, man, this ship happened. You know what I mean. It can just be like, yeah, that was that was crazy, that was wild, that that happened, that this happened, that you and and
then And that's the thing. A lot of the time people think it's about a signing blame, but it's not. It's about addressing what happened so that everyone can move forward and understand why things need to be fixed or how they got there in the first place. Does that
make sense? Like imagine imagine if like your your doctor, like you want to talk to your doctor about something that happened inside your body, and then you know your your doctors skans and then you're like, Doc, I think I think I might have like a cancer, your doctor like, I wasn't there. I wasn't eating with you. You're like, no, I just need to help fixing it. Yeah, I wasn't there though I wasn't eating. It's like, no, man, just chut out, you know, let's talk about That's the one
thing I transplant. That and chickens that don't like do weights and stuff. That's the other part. Like chickens are just like are normal because American chickens is just like what what? What? What was like? Once I saw them, I was like, I'm sorry, what is that the thing I'm eating? Oh? Like I remember when I first saw a chicken wing in America. This is the this is the dumbest thing you've ever heard. And you're gonna judge me,
but I judge you back. I remember the first time I had a chicken wing in America is like I ordered like buffalo wings, okay, And I know this sounds crazy, but the reason I was intrigued because I showed on someone else's plate and then I was like, what are those? And someone said those are buffalo wings and I was like, oh, this like a part of the buffalo that I don't know. And I was like, I want to taste buffalo wings, and then I remember eating it. Then I was like,
it's sort of like chicken. And someone's like, it is chicken, and I was like, but it's buffalo and then they're like, no, it's chicken. Then I was like, but what chicken is this? I was like, how big is the wing of this chicken? What? What? What dinosaur chickens do you guys have here? Because that's not the size of any normal chicken anywhere in the world. So yeah, I would. I would. That's the one other thing I would bring is just like normal animals. Normal
that's all. Yeah, I bring normal animals and conversations about race. I really find I find it funny how Trump has stumbled across many of the things he has ridiculed black people for in America, and he doesn't even see the irony in all of this. You know, for years, like like when it came to the FBI, law enforcement, all of that, Black people like they have too much power. It's crazy how they can just say things about you. And then you know, Trump would be like, you should
go to jails. And then now he's like, have you seen how much power they have? Folks? They can do whatever they want to take your life away. I mean, listen to the thing they keep on saying about all of the people who've been arrested. It's not just Roger Stone. They did it with Manifold. They always bring up the same thing. They go, he's a sixty year old man. Is he going to spend the rest of his life in jail? And that's literally literally what communities of color
have been saying in America for decades. They're like, you're gonna let someone spend the rest of their life in jail because of because of a mistake they made, not disputing that they broke the law, but they're gonna spend the rest of their lives in jail. And the people are like, well, you break the law, you pay the price. That's what it's all about. And now all of Trump's people, this is the sixth person. Now all of them going
to jail, all of them. And now Trump is like, did you see in the middle of the night, You're like, and they came into his house because that's where he was. This is like, yeah, that's that's what it is. These guys are genuinely shocked when the police use the same force on them that they've been using on so many other people in the country unchecked. Because that's why I'm
saying I do. I didn't think it's extreme. I like American police, especially if you do travel the world weird flex You'll see, you'll see how like it's it's just police are militarized, militarized in American in a way they aunt in most developed nations, you know, Like it's it's so weird for me. Every time I go back to South Africa, I'm reminded. I'm like, oh, yeah, being a policeman just means that you are a citizen who has the job of enforcing the law. But it doesn't put
you at a different level. It doesn't mean you can treat people like ships. It doesn't you you I'll talk to a police officer, I can disagree with him. I can argue still respectful of course, that I can arrest you if you go too far. But it's not like I have to be afraid, you know, I don't have to be afraid of the person. I remember once I was driving in South Africa with my American friend and the cop car in front of me. He wasn't paying attention and he like swerved into my lane and so
then I hooted it in my haunk. I was like, bab and then he went back in and my friend was like, what are you doing. I was like, well, he came into my lane. I was like, the guy I was spend for what you hung into that. He's like, you can't hunk at the cops. I was like, but but I did. He's still a driver. I mean, the guy's driving and he does something, I gotta honk and tell him hey man. And then like in America, I learned you can't even you can't even drive past the cops.
That's like the weirdest thing for me when I was when I first when I first moved here, I lived in California and I was on the freeway and I didn't know like the rules of America, and so I was just like follow the speed limits, and I'm driving and all the cars are going slow, and I'm like, you guys are idiots. I'm gone and I'm going fifty five, having a good time fifty five and there was a cop car and then I just drove past it, right,
but the cop car was going like forty. I was going to the speed limits and then the cop cop like it came up. Yeah, this is the funnies because the cop car came up behind me then like and then I was like in my head because I've done nothing wrong, look at the speed I'm like, oh, he wants to go past. So I moved one lane over and then the cop car came behind me and then he was like and I was like, go around, man, and then I came back, and then I came back
into the lake and then he came back. Then I was like this guy, like, I thought we were doing nothing on the sidewalk, you know, and someone like like you do that. I didn't think he was trying to stop me. I was just like, go around, man, God. And then finally was like Paul, Paul off and then we pulled over and then he gave me a long speech, was like sure, you know, you drove past me. And I was like, uh huh. And he's like, well, you know, I don't know where you're from, but out here, uh, cops,
we don't like to be passed. I was like, wow, okay, I like some serious toxic masculinity right there. My friend, Like, I was like, you just don't like to be passed, And then he explained, He's like, no, we do it for traffic. So you see a cop car to stay behind it, don't you know. And then then then I learned from then on that you don't pass them quickly. You've gotta gradually. So if the cops going forty, you go like forty one slowly goal postive cup car. Then
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