Trevor Noah schools Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson on Blackness: “The things these guys seem to be ignoring is that Black people didn’t call themselves Black. You understand that, right?'
In case you missed it, podcast host Joe Rogan, a man who used to pressure people into scarfing down bull testicles on TV, and Jordan Peterson, a Canadian men’s rights activist who nearly died from scarfing down too much red meat, recentlyPeterson, addressing the time the writer Michael Eric Dysona “mean, mad white man” for “whining” about how much of a victim he was despite his millions and large platform, said that it’s “a lie” to call him white because he’s “kind of tan,” and added that Dyson...
The exchange got even more bizarre when Rogan agreed with his guest, reasoning, “Well, isn’t that weird. The Black and white thing is so strange because the shades are such a spectrum of shades of people. Unless you are talking to someone who is, like, 100 percent African from the darkest place where they are not wearing any clothes all day and they have developed all of that melanin to protect themselves from the sun, even the term Black is weird.
Feigning a look of shock, Noah stared at his hands and exclaimed, “Oh my God! I’m not Black! I’m… not Black! Joe Rogan’s right! I’m like a Caramel Mocha Frappuccino. This changes everything… This changes everything!” He then ran off the set as police sirens blared, only to return and explain that “the police said I’m Black.”
“But yeah, apparently Joe Rogan really wants to know why they say ‘Black people’ if they’re not the color of a Sharpie,” he offered, before schooling him a bit on why.Black. You understand that, right? It’s not like Black people were like, ‘We’re Black.’ No. In Africa, we have tribes. We have cultures. Zulu. Xhosa. Baganda. Igbo. Wakandans! But then white people got there, and they were like, ‘Wow. There’s a lot of Black people here.of Black people.
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