The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Between the Scenes - America Should Take a Cue from South Africa on Conversations About Racism

Episode Date: January 11, 2020

Trevor compares South African culture's general acknowledgment of its racist history to the unhealthy denial and discomfort surrounding the topic in the U.S. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it. This is 60 Minutes. It's a kind of a magazine for television. Very few have been given access to the treasures in our archives. But that's all about to change. Like none of this stuff gets looked at. That's what's incredible. I'm Seth Done of CBS News. Listen to 60 Minutes, a second look, starting September 17th, wherever you get your podcasts. 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 maybe our general ease are talking about race and our racial past, you know, because South African America have very similar histories, you know, in that there was like, there were many things that were done to people of color that were extremely heinous, but 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 find there's like a lot of tension

in and around that. A lot of people are just like, yeah, well, come on, we don't have to. Do we have to't that. Dude, you're 37. 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. theirse. thii. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. thi. thi. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. their tho. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. thea. to. toe. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. th 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.

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or how they got there in the first place. Does that make sense? Like, imagine, imagine, like, I think,talk to your doctor about something that happened inside your body and then you know your doctor scans and then you like dog I think I think I might have like a cancer your doctor like I wasn't there I wasn't eating with you like I wasn't eating it's like no man just chill out you know just that's the one thing I'll transplant that and chickens that don't like do like do weights and stuff that's the other part like chickens that that's the th like th like th like th like th like the th like th like th like that that th like th like that that that th like that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that th I th I the the the the thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi's thi's thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. I thi. thi thi that's the other part. Like chickens that just like are normal. Because American chickens is just like, what, what is it? 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

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I was like, how big is the wing of this chicken? What, what dinosaur chickens do you guys? 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. The Daily Show with Covernoa, Ears Edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and the Comedy Central app. Watch full episodes and videos at the Daily Show.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and subscribe to the Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and more. This has been a Comedy Central Podcast. When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it.

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