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- AN ORIGINAL COMPETITION FROM NETFLIX
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- LIVE NATION PRESENTS NOW TRIPS
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- All nice people,
- give an applause for Trevor Noah.
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- What's up, Los Angeles?
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- Welcome to the show.
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- Thank you for coming out.
- Thank you for being here.
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- This is so funny. Welcome out.
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- What an audience!
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- This is so cool. I love L.A.
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- I love everything with L.A.,
- even people hate with L.A.
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- I love the traffic.
- It's one of my favorite experiences.
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- Yes, when you do not live here it's top.
- Absolutely wonderful.
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- You will get to know it, but not forever.
- It's like another person's child.
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- You may say: "This is madness.
- You'll get it back. "That feels like that.
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- I love it. I love the atmosphere.
- I love driving out here.
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- And when I'm here
- can i listen to the radio
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- You have good radio stations,
- because you are always in the car.
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- Radio is not a big thing for me living
- In New York. I'm cycling or walking.
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- If I listen to music, I die.
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- But in L.A. I only listen to music.
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- And nowadays all that is called trap music is heard.
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- It's the big thing, the trap.
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- It's the new music on the radio.
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- I do not understand what they say,
- but I like it.
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- Every song is the same.
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- Every trap song sounds like a small child
- who complain about life.
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- That's all I hear.
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- As soon as a trap song is played
- I think of my little brother.
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- He goes out, hurts
- and comes home crying,
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- and it sounds like every trap song.
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- "What has happened, Isaac?"
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- "Calm down you," I say.
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- "You played with your friends.
- What has happened?"
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- "Friends, they died.
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- Now I've had enough. "
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- "Go talk to mom,
- I do not know what you're saying.
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- Talk to your mom. "
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- The Angels City, I love every second.
- I'm enjoying my time here.
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- I just got home from vacation,
- so I'm fine.
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- You know when you have the holiday vibes left.
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- You still feel relaxed
- and relaxed.
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- I went to Bali on vacation.
- In Indonesia.
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- Have you never been there,
- Plan a trip there, it's amazing.
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- I went there with some friends
- and learned a lot about myself.
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- The most important thing I learned is
- that someone needs to create a TripAdvisor
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- especially for blacks.
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- In general, I find
- that the white wants to do on holiday
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- is what black tries to escape from.
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- Not in a bad way.
- We only want different things in life.
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- My white friends invite for example
- always with me to camp.
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- With enthusiasm.
- "Trevor, do you want to come and camp?"
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- "Why?" I say.
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- "What do you mean?
- It is fantastic. Are you kidding?
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- No water and no electricity.
- Just us and the wilderness.
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- You get shot in a hole in the field. "
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- "Yes, that was my life," I say.
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- "Then I grew up.
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- Do you know how hard I worked?
- in order not to camp again? "
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- Every day!
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- Every day.
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- Every day I wake up thinking
- "Thank you, I do not camp."
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- If my family saw pictures where I camped
- Should they be broken?
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- If my grandmother saw me out in the woods
- would she say, "What happened to Trevor?
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- I thought he was successful.
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- It must be all crack. "
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- I refuse to camp.
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- So I went with my friends to Bali.
- The planned trip.
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- Before we left, I asked my friend:
- "Mitch, what should we do?
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- He said, "Do not ask, Trevor.
- It will be amazing. "
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- "I want to know what it is
- that's going to be amazing, "I said.
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- "Do not ask," he said.
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- I should have asked.
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- Because we had fun.
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- But there were some things that were strange
- which I had not done on my own.
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- For example, on the third day
- we had something like our travel plan was called
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- "An Authentic Balinese Experience".
- That's what they called it.
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- They woke us up at 05.00
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- and sat in a small bus,
- and we drove for three hours.
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- We arrived, got off the bus,
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- in the middle of what looked like
- a distant city,
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- and a little tour guide, very happy,
- far too happy for that time, said:
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- "Welcome, everyone.
- Are you ready to have fun? "
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- "Jippi ..." I said.
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- So he said, "My name is Dang Basaan
- and is your guide.
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- Today you will get
- an authentic Balinese experience.
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- So exciting! Follow me!
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- We followed him to a small door.
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- "It's probably a temple
- or a cave, "I thought.
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- And he said, "Welcome, my ladies
- and gentlemen, to the real Bali. "
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- And he opened the door,
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- into someone's house.
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- This was no museum,
- but just a house.
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- Everyone lives there every day.
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- He opened the door and said,
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- "Here is a balines.
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- He eats here. He is sleeping here. "
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- "Does he know we're here?" I thought.
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- We did not knock. Nobody opened.
- As far as I knew we broke in.
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- Something strange Balinese gang.
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- And just when I should ask,
- he turned around:
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- "Here you can see the owner of the house.
- He's in the corner. "
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- We turned around and saw a man,
- who has been sitting there all the time.
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- As stoned.
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- I thought, "Does he take part in this?
- I do not know if we should do this. "
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- And Dang Basaan began to speak Balinese
- with him.
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- "Okay, you can move anything."
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- So I said, "I do not think we ..."
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- Before I finish him sentence
- everyone said in our group: "Yes!
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- Touch everything.
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- Oh my God. Touch everything.
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- Lord, is he sleeping here?
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- Is this here he's eating?
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- Hello, I had never done this.
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- Oh my God.
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- Excuse me. Thanks so much
- because you receive us.
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- Hello, I appreciate my life
- so much more now.
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- Thanks so much.
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- This is terrible.
- Can we take a selfie?
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- Thanks. Are you at Instagram? I use
- hashtaggen 'men'. Thanks. Oh my God."
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- Now I was really bad at all,
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- because this was something I should not do,
- according to my culture.
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- Like Africa, I should not be in anyone's house
- and sneak into their lives.
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- So I stood in the corner, ill at ease.
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- The homeowner was very accommodating,
- he was friendly
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- He said, "Yes, thank you. Have a nice time. Thank you."
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- And then he turned to me.
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- And this was a magic moment,
- because he smiled at everyone else
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- and my completely changed mind
- when he turned around.
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- He was hospitable: "Yes, thanks, thank you ...."
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- And with their eyes,
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- he had the most thorough
- conversation with me that I've ever had.
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- Eye conversation is nothing new. You can
- Have it with anyone you have any relationship with.
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- It can be any of the same breed.
- out among people.
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- It may be between husband and wife.
- Moms are good at eye conversations.
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- They can really put one in place.
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- You are out among people together
- and you say something stupid ...
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- "If anyway she did."
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- And she: "I do not think you said ..."
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- Just with your eyes.
- "I do not think you said so.
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- Just wait.
- Do you want to air our dirty suit publicly?
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- You'll see how this ends. Enjoy
- the moment, because you know it's run. "
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- And you: "Yes, I should not
- have done it. "Just with your eyes.
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- That's what he did to me,
- for one minute he smiled at everyone,
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- and then he turned to me.
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- And just with his eyes he said:
- "What are you doing here?"
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- So with my eyes I said:
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- "Sorry, I did not know
- that this was your house.
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- They called it an authentic experience. "
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- "Yes, authentic to white," he said.
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- "You have your own poor.
- Go back there. "
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- "Yes, I should not be here," I said.
- "Sorry."
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- So I went.
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- I went out.
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- A quarter later everyone was ready
- with its poverty line,
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- so they came to me.
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- Dang Basaan followed the group.
- And he was great. You saw that.
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- He came out and said,
- "Did everyone have a nice time?
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- I know you liked it. Now its time
- for a surprise. Follow me, everyone. "
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- And he took us to the back of the house,
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- where they had a place
- where they seemed to have some sort of behavior.
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- There was a stage and seating.
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- He told us to sit down,
- so we sat down.
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- There were people from all over the world there.
- Me, my American friends,
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- some brits, and a father and son
- from France, who sat next to me.
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- I sat in the front row,
- and Dang Basaan came out again.
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- And suddenly he carried
- a huge balinese headdress.
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- Very beautiful.
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- He said, "Ladies and gentlemen,
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- Are you ready for an authentic?
- balinese experience?
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- An apple for Balis Snakes. "
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- "For what?" I said.
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- "He said snakes," I said.
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- "Balis snake ..."
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- And I looked, and there were snakes.
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- A group of men gathered snakes together
- to take out to us.
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- So I said, "No, not me."
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- No, because you understand, as a black person,
- Culturally, I try not to die.
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- So...
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- I started packing up my stuff.
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- And the French turned to me:
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- "My friend, where are you going?" The show begins. "
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- I said, "Yes, but the guy said
- that there are snakes,
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- so I move.
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- I sit at the back. "
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- He said, "Do you move
- because of the worm? "
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- "Yes," I said.
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- He said, "Why do you move
- because of the worm? Are you afraid of a snake? "
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- "Yes," I said.
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- That's exactly what I'm afraid of snakes. "
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- "Such a big man,
- but you're afraid of a worm? "he said.
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- "Yes, with a big brain," I said,
- "That's why I'm afraid. It's a worm."
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- You can not fool me
- not to be afraid.
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- My poisonous manhood is not so high
- that I say, "Yes, come on, Ormis."
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- It's a worm.
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- Instead of releasing it, he said:
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- "I do not understand. A big guy like you.
- Jean-Pierre ... "
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- He turned to his son.
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- And the boy laughed.
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- "Snake."
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- And he said, "Oui, oui, worm.
- Are you afraid? Snake."
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- What is this? It's a worm. Snake."
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- 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:31,666
- And they continued for 15 seconds nonstop.
- Back and forth.
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- "Snake, snake, snake" all the time.
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- He said, "Worm. Are you afraid? Worm."
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- And I: "Yes, yes, you lost
- all your war. "Then I went back.
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- I did not have time with this.
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- I did not have time with this,
- because there were snakes.
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- So I went back, and brought my things.
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- I sat up at the top
- because I wanted to see the show,
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- I just did not want to be a part of it.
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- So I took my things
- and sat up at the top.
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- I sat there. The show began.
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- Dang Basaan was really spotted
- and said, "Ladies and gentlemen,
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- an appendix for your first artist,
- the mighty pytonorm. "
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- 00:12:08,878 --> 00:12:13,249
- And a guy came out
- with a giant python turned around.
- 216
- 00:12:13,550 --> 00:12:17,962
- He had an awesome number in the pytonorm
- hugged him really hard.
- 217
- 00:12:18,012 --> 00:12:21,007
- So hard you almost heard
- his legs are broken.
- 218
- 00:12:21,432 --> 00:12:24,176
- And then he made a leap.
- 219
- 00:12:26,146 --> 00:12:28,014
- And the worm dropped.
- 220
- 00:12:28,648 --> 00:12:31,892
- Then it started hugging him again,
- and he let ...
- 221
- 00:12:33,570 --> 00:12:35,062
- And the worm dropped.
- 222
- 00:12:35,321 --> 00:12:38,524
- It hugged him again
- and he did the same thing ...
- 223
- 00:12:39,033 --> 00:12:42,112
- And the worm dropped.
- I thought, "This is cool.
- 224
- 00:12:42,162 --> 00:12:45,948
- They have a coherent relationship.
- I like that."
- 225
- 00:12:46,541 --> 00:12:48,076
- Then he went with the worm.
- 226
- 00:12:48,126 --> 00:12:53,289
- The next guy came out
- and he had a green mamba with him.
- 227
- 00:12:53,339 --> 00:12:54,582
- So Dang Basaan said:
- 228
- 00:12:54,632 --> 00:12:57,001
- "Ladies and gentlemen,
- the green mamban. "
- 229
- 00:12:57,051 --> 00:13:00,839
- The guy came out and he had a cool trick
- where he took the lid off the basket
- 230
- 00:13:00,889 --> 00:13:03,883
- and the green mamban came out
- and began to move.
- 231
- 00:13:03,933 --> 00:13:07,387
- Someone played music
- and then the snake joker danced with the worm.
- 232
- 00:13:07,437 --> 00:13:11,474
- They did the same movements as one
- Justin Timberlake video, just the two.
- 233
- 00:13:11,524 --> 00:13:14,102
- I thought, "It was awesome."
- The worm slid into the basket again.
- 234
- 00:13:14,152 --> 00:13:16,521
- And then Dang Basaan came out one last time.
- 235
- 00:13:16,571 --> 00:13:20,525
- He said, "Now, ladies and gentlemen,
- are you ready for the final?
- 236
- 00:13:20,575 --> 00:13:24,028
- An applause for the King of the Kings! "
- 237
- 00:13:24,829 --> 00:13:28,867
- The last artist came out with a cobra.
- He put down the basket,
- 238
- 00:13:28,917 --> 00:13:31,202
- lifted the lid and the worm came out.
- 239
- 00:13:31,252 --> 00:13:34,205
- And I do not know what it was
- with this worm,
- 240
- 00:13:34,255 --> 00:13:37,375
- but one could feel
- that the energy changed.
- 241
- 00:13:37,383 --> 00:13:38,918
- Everyone was snakes ...
- 242
- 00:13:39,344 --> 00:13:42,088
- but this worm looked ugly.
- 243
- 00:13:42,138 --> 00:13:45,592
- It seemed to hate life.
- There was something about it.
- 244
- 00:13:45,642 --> 00:13:48,427
- This worm looked like
- as if it had home loans.
- 245
- 00:13:53,900 --> 00:13:55,726
- Because it looked at us,
- 246
- 00:13:56,027 --> 00:13:59,146
- and then fixed his eyes on the candler.
- 247
- 00:13:59,239 --> 00:14:01,065
- He was cool and calm.
- 248
- 00:14:01,115 --> 00:14:03,443
- He did not even look at the worm
- but on us.
- 249
- 00:14:03,493 --> 00:14:05,778
- He said, "Ladies and gentlemen,
- 250
- 00:14:05,828 --> 00:14:10,157
- It is said that kobran can attack
- faster than a man can blink.
- 251
- 00:14:10,416 --> 00:14:14,829
- But can a man move faster
- than the worm can think? "
- 252
- 00:14:15,838 --> 00:14:17,915
- And I thought ...
- 253
- 00:14:19,634 --> 00:14:21,794
- "I do not know what it means...
- 254
- 00:14:22,387 --> 00:14:23,963
- but I'm in. "
- 255
- 00:14:24,472 --> 00:14:27,633
- It sounds like a silly thing
- Instagram quote, but I'm in. "
- 256
- 00:14:27,934 --> 00:14:31,387
- And the guy had the most
- amazing numbers. What he did was ...
- 257
- 00:14:31,896 --> 00:14:36,643
- He really walked close to the snake,
- with his hands behind his back,
- 258
- 00:14:36,693 --> 00:14:40,188
- Then he got it to work
- as if he were kissing the snake.
- 259
- 00:14:40,238 --> 00:14:44,108
- And the worm was no longer
- than 30 cm from his face.
- 260
- 00:14:44,951 --> 00:14:48,071
- And then he did the pusslΓ€tten.
- 261
- 00:14:48,121 --> 00:14:52,867
- Then the worm tried to bite him,
- and he moved. Completely unmanageable.
- 262
- 00:14:53,001 --> 00:14:56,203
- But he leaned forward and said,
- "Come on, worm."
- 263
- 00:15:01,718 --> 00:15:03,252
- "Too bad, the worm."
- 264
- 00:15:05,138 --> 00:15:06,547
- Try again.
- 265
- 00:15:09,934 --> 00:15:12,344
- No love for you, my friend.
- 266
- 00:15:12,729 --> 00:15:13,888
- Come on, the worm. "
- 267
- 00:15:13,938 --> 00:15:15,640
- And everyone was spellbound.
- 268
- 00:15:15,690 --> 00:15:18,768
- No one gave a noise,
- no one moved.
- 269
- 00:15:18,818 --> 00:15:22,062
- And he did it over and over again.
- And then,
- 270
- 00:15:22,196 --> 00:15:26,734
- to take it to the next level,
- he slammed and plucked his lips,
- 271
- 00:15:26,743 --> 00:15:28,819
- and I suppose by now,
- 272
- 00:15:28,953 --> 00:15:33,032
- that the snake probably thought:
- "I think I've cheated it out.
- 273
- 00:15:35,043 --> 00:15:38,829
- The guy will make the noise
- and then move.
- 274
- 00:15:39,172 --> 00:15:41,457
- But if I bite before the sound ...
- 275
- 00:15:42,008 --> 00:15:44,376
- can I change everyone's life. "
- 276
- 00:15:45,595 --> 00:15:48,255
- Because that was exactly what the worm did.
- 277
- 00:15:51,351 --> 00:15:53,594
- The guy shut up and pecked his lips.
- 278
- 00:15:53,644 --> 00:15:57,265
- Before he makes him smile
- the snake attacked him,
- 279
- 00:15:57,315 --> 00:16:01,894
- and met him on his mouth.
- Sprang up his lip, the blood was sprinkling.
- 280
- 00:16:01,944 --> 00:16:05,565
- That should be the end of history,
- the craziest part of history. No.
- 281
- 00:16:05,615 --> 00:16:07,149
- This is the middle.
- 282
- 00:16:07,950 --> 00:16:11,070
- The worm hit him on his mouth.
- The blood sprayed.
- 283
- 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:12,905
- The guy jumped away,
- 284
- 00:16:12,955 --> 00:16:16,575
- and pretended he was not
- just had been bitten by a worm.
- 285
- 00:16:17,085 --> 00:16:20,872
- Which made us think we were crazy,
- because we saw it. The whole crowd fled.
- 286
- 00:16:20,922 --> 00:16:24,417
- And then he jumped back,
- and just mess it off.
- 287
- 00:16:24,467 --> 00:16:26,085
- He did the way people do
- 288
- 00:16:26,135 --> 00:16:28,713
- when they get their hand squeezed in a car door
- or something.
- 289
- 00:16:28,763 --> 00:16:32,883
- They squeeze and just ...
- 290
- 00:16:34,644 --> 00:16:37,096
- He did it, but with a worm.
- 291
- 00:16:37,438 --> 00:16:39,557
- Then the worm attacked him,
- the blood was sprinkling
- 292
- 00:16:39,607 --> 00:16:42,059
- and he jumped off and ...
- 293
- 00:16:46,823 --> 00:16:49,108
- "Do not worry. We're fine.
- 294
- 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:53,363
- No danger. Everybody, we're fine.
- Relax, we're fine. "
- 295
- 00:16:53,413 --> 00:16:57,157
- But we did not feel good for his face
- began to melt on one side.
- 296
- 00:16:57,917 --> 00:17:00,620
- The face began to melt,
- The lips turned blue
- 297
- 00:17:00,670 --> 00:17:03,706
- and he tried to make the trick again,
- but he could not even stand.
- 298
- 00:17:03,756 --> 00:17:09,003
- And he looked at the worm and said,
- "Okay, the show is over. Good night, everyone."
- 299
- 00:17:09,554 --> 00:17:11,046
- Then he ran away.
- 300
- 00:17:11,264 --> 00:17:15,426
- And now we all thought:
- "What the hell happened right?"
- 301
- 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:18,846
- He ran away,
- I had questions in my head.
- 302
- 00:17:19,021 --> 00:17:20,723
- "Will he do it?
- 303
- 00:17:20,773 --> 00:17:22,892
- Do we get our money back?
- 304
- 00:17:22,984 --> 00:17:24,643
- How does this work? "
- 305
- 00:17:25,820 --> 00:17:28,647
- And then we turned around and realized ...
- 306
- 00:17:29,157 --> 00:17:31,025
- He had forgotten his worm.
- 307
- 00:17:33,369 --> 00:17:35,571
- And do you know what the worst was?
- 308
- 00:17:35,580 --> 00:17:38,991
- The worm seemed to realize the same thing
- at the same time.
- 309
- 00:17:39,917 --> 00:17:41,869
- For the serpent also saw him go,
- 310
- 00:17:41,919 --> 00:17:46,248
- and then when we return
- we saw the worm: "Devils."
- 311
- 00:17:50,761 --> 00:17:54,256
- So now it was just us ...
- 312
- 00:17:54,932 --> 00:17:56,342
- and the worm.
- 313
- 00:17:58,436 --> 00:18:01,305
- And remember, there was no barrier.
- 314
- 00:18:01,355 --> 00:18:03,724
- No concrete, no glass, nothing.
- 315
- 00:18:03,774 --> 00:18:06,602
- It was an authentic one
- balinese experience.
- 316
- 00:18:09,739 --> 00:18:12,858
- So everyone stared at the snake,
- the worm stared at us.
- 317
- 00:18:14,035 --> 00:18:17,613
- And then decided a genius
- to be the perfect opportunity now
- 318
- 00:18:17,663 --> 00:18:19,698
- to take an Instagram image.
- 319
- 00:18:20,124 --> 00:18:23,369
- And I do not know if it was the camera,
- the sound or the flash.
- 320
- 00:18:23,419 --> 00:18:27,331
- All I heard was "click",
- and the snake jumped up and wested.
- 321
- 00:18:28,132 --> 00:18:29,750
- And we only ...
- 322
- 00:18:31,052 --> 00:18:33,921
- And it became a chaos. Tumult arose.
- 323
- 00:18:33,971 --> 00:18:35,923
- I was at the back,
- so I just jumped.
- 324
- 00:18:35,973 --> 00:18:38,384
- "I was afraid I'm black."
- 325
- 00:18:40,394 --> 00:18:42,012
- I fled the field.
- 326
- 00:18:44,482 --> 00:18:45,933
- Panic occurred.
- 327
- 00:18:46,150 --> 00:18:49,896
- Everyone jumped up,
- people trampled down each other.
- 328
- 00:18:49,946 --> 00:18:53,524
- The Frenchman was my favorite.
- He jumped up and shouted: "Sacre bleu!
- 329
- 00:18:56,410 --> 00:18:58,029
- Allez, Jean-Pierre, Allz. "
- 330
- 00:18:58,079 --> 00:19:01,240
- He pushed out people and shouted:
- "Allez, Jean-Pierre!"
- 331
- 00:19:01,290 --> 00:19:04,577
- And when he turned around
- had his son not moved.
- 332
- 00:19:04,627 --> 00:19:07,079
- Little Jean-Pierre stood firmly,
- terror.
- 333
- 00:19:07,129 --> 00:19:10,791
- You saw his face
- and he shouted: "Daddy, Daddy!"
- 334
- 00:19:11,259 --> 00:19:13,544
- "Allez, Jean-Pierre, Allz, Mon Ami."
- 335
- 00:19:13,594 --> 00:19:15,463
- "Daddy, Daddy!"
- 336
- 00:19:15,513 --> 00:19:18,799
- So the dad realized he had to go back
- and save his child.
- 337
- 00:19:18,849 --> 00:19:21,552
- But this one of those moments
- when you see the difference
- 338
- 00:19:21,602 --> 00:19:23,929
- between mothers and fathers.
- 339
- 00:19:23,938 --> 00:19:28,184
- Because a mother would run in
- without thinking and saying:
- 340
- 00:19:28,234 --> 00:19:33,022
- "I would die for my child.
- Attack me now, worm. "
- 341
- 00:19:33,072 --> 00:19:34,440
- So are mothers.
- 342
- 00:19:34,490 --> 00:19:37,652
- Daddy also saves his child,
- but in the back they think:
- 343
- 00:19:37,702 --> 00:19:38,903
- "I'll save my child.
- 344
- 00:19:38,953 --> 00:19:41,280
- But I do not want to die. I mean...
- 345
- 00:19:41,330 --> 00:19:44,742
- I do not want to die
- because this dummy did not run ...
- 346
- 00:19:45,835 --> 00:19:47,036
- when his dad ran.
- 347
- 00:19:47,086 --> 00:19:51,666
- Is there a worm and I'm starting to run,
- why do not you run at the same time?
- 348
- 00:19:51,716 --> 00:19:54,085
- Now I have to die for you, dumber,
- which is illogical,
- 349
- 00:19:54,135 --> 00:19:57,546
- because I can make one more of you,
- You can not make a difference from me.
- 350
- 00:19:57,555 --> 00:20:01,509
- I should make a brother to you
- so we can make you together, dumber.
- 351
- 00:20:01,559 --> 00:20:03,302
- I do not know what we are dealing with. "
- 352
- 00:20:03,352 --> 00:20:06,597
- That's probably what the dad thought,
- because he did not really give everything.
- 353
- 00:20:06,647 --> 00:20:09,975
- Instead, he tried to sneak in
- behind his guy.
- 354
- 00:20:10,234 --> 00:20:13,145
- Then he took his hood
- and pulled him in security.
- 355
- 00:20:13,195 --> 00:20:16,482
- So now little Jean-Pierre chipped
- after the breath of the ground.
- 356
- 00:20:19,535 --> 00:20:21,487
- He eventually pulled him aside.
- 357
- 00:20:21,537 --> 00:20:24,907
- Another snake rushes out,
- took the worm, put it in the bag,
- 358
- 00:20:24,957 --> 00:20:28,368
- and at last the danger was over.
- Everyone was in safety.
- 359
- 00:20:28,544 --> 00:20:30,496
- Everyone was safe but terrified.
- 360
- 00:20:30,546 --> 00:20:33,374
- Some cried, others were shocked.
- 361
- 00:20:33,424 --> 00:20:37,378
- I stood by and watched.
- Jean-Pierre and his dad were tear-eyed.
- 362
- 00:20:37,428 --> 00:20:39,254
- "DesolΓ©, mon ami."
- 363
- 00:20:43,351 --> 00:20:44,427
- I do not speak French,
- 364
- 00:20:44,477 --> 00:20:47,638
- but I know the kid said,
- "Shit, you left me!
- 365
- 00:20:48,356 --> 00:20:50,474
- I'll tell mom. "
- 366
- 00:20:54,737 --> 00:20:58,649
- So I stared at them,
- and they must have known it.
- 367
- 00:20:59,617 --> 00:21:02,361
- So both ended at the same time.
- 368
- 00:21:02,620 --> 00:21:05,406
- And they turned around and looked at me,
- and I looked at them.
- 369
- 00:21:05,456 --> 00:21:08,700
- And at that moment I realized
- 370
- 00:21:08,918 --> 00:21:10,369
- that we are all human beings.
- 371
- 00:21:10,419 --> 00:21:13,331
- We experienced the same thing,
- we went through the same trauma.
- 372
- 00:21:13,381 --> 00:21:16,000
- No matter what happened to us before
- so we are all people.
- 373
- 00:21:16,050 --> 00:21:17,877
- I saw in their eyes
- 374
- 00:21:17,927 --> 00:21:20,338
- what they had just experienced,
- what I had experienced.
- 375
- 00:21:20,388 --> 00:21:24,634
- And in that break I bent down,
- really close to them, and said:
- 376
- 00:21:24,684 --> 00:21:28,262
- "Snake."
- 377
- 00:21:40,950 --> 00:21:42,901
- That is how racism begins.
- 378
- 00:21:45,037 --> 00:21:47,406
- But do you know what? It was worth it.
- 379
- 00:21:47,581 --> 00:21:49,449
- Yes, it was worth it.
- 380
- 00:21:50,167 --> 00:21:53,579
- I love to travel
- and learn about new places.
- 381
- 00:21:53,921 --> 00:21:56,456
- To read things and meet new people.
- 382
- 00:21:57,216 --> 00:21:58,500
- I ...
- 383
- 00:21:59,051 --> 00:22:01,170
- When I think of the history of racism ...
- 384
- 00:22:01,220 --> 00:22:04,298
- I am fascinated by racism as a concept,
- 385
- 00:22:04,432 --> 00:22:06,008
- as action,
- 386
- 00:22:06,475 --> 00:22:10,262
- as politics ... I am always fascinated.
- I read stories in history.
- 387
- 00:22:10,354 --> 00:22:14,183
- And one of the most fascinating places
- I read about recently
- 388
- 00:22:14,233 --> 00:22:16,768
- was a place called rochester
- In New York.
- 389
- 00:22:17,361 --> 00:22:19,897
- This really surprised me.
- 390
- 00:22:19,947 --> 00:22:25,527
- It was a city as practically
- was intended to rehabilitate ...
- 391
- 00:22:26,078 --> 00:22:28,531
- people who had escaped slavery.
- 392
- 00:22:28,581 --> 00:22:33,077
- Blacks who moved from the south
- and got north,
- 393
- 00:22:33,127 --> 00:22:34,745
- rehabilitated here.
- 394
- 00:22:34,795 --> 00:22:37,248
- Frederick Douglass wrote many
- of their works there,
- 395
- 00:22:37,298 --> 00:22:41,168
- suffragett movement began there.
- It's a mighty little place.
- 396
- 00:22:41,218 --> 00:22:43,879
- What they did was ...
- 397
- 00:22:43,971 --> 00:22:47,925
- Slaves fled from the south,
- went north and came to rochester
- 398
- 00:22:47,975 --> 00:22:49,885
- The underground railroad
- took them there,
- 399
- 00:22:49,935 --> 00:22:52,888
- and then they rehabilitated them,
- put them on boats
- 400
- 00:22:52,938 --> 00:22:56,100
- and sent them to Canada
- so that they could live free.
- 401
- 00:22:56,150 --> 00:22:58,561
- It's a fascinating story
- for two reasons.
- 402
- 00:22:58,611 --> 00:23:01,981
- One: it reminds of there were
- many good white people out there.
- 403
- 00:23:02,031 --> 00:23:06,360
- I often get angry at white and think later
- I: "No, there is good white. Calm down."
- 404
- 00:23:07,161 --> 00:23:09,613
- And the other part that was amazing
- 405
- 00:23:09,663 --> 00:23:13,992
- was that they persuaded blacks
- to board boats again. I think...
- 406
- 00:23:15,252 --> 00:23:19,456
- that it is one of the most
- incredible stories I have read.
- 407
- 00:23:19,548 --> 00:23:22,960
- Do you know how convincing you have to be ...
- 408
- 00:23:23,594 --> 00:23:27,339
- to convince anyone
- Who just escaped slavery?
- 409
- 00:23:27,389 --> 00:23:30,009
- Think about it for a second.
- Someone has just moved from slavery.
- 410
- 00:23:30,059 --> 00:23:32,052
- They finally got there,
- 411
- 00:23:32,102 --> 00:23:35,222
- they wake up
- after a night's sleep in freedom,
- 412
- 00:23:35,439 --> 00:23:40,728
- and they go out saying, "I just want
- thank you for everything you did for me. "
- 413
- 00:23:40,778 --> 00:23:43,689
- "Do you know what, my friend?
- No one deserves to live as you lived,
- 414
- 00:23:43,739 --> 00:23:45,483
- I'm glad we got you out. "
- 415
- 00:23:45,533 --> 00:23:47,860
- "Thanks so much.
- I appreciate you, brother. "
- 416
- 00:23:47,910 --> 00:23:51,822
- "Thank you, my friend. All we need to do now
- is to fix actions,
- 417
- 00:23:51,872 --> 00:23:54,408
- some new clothes
- and put you on a boat to Canada,
- 418
- 00:23:54,458 --> 00:23:56,994
- then you can live free.
- Everything will be better. "
- 419
- 00:23:57,044 --> 00:23:58,912
- "Sorry. Wait a minute.
- 420
- 00:24:00,422 --> 00:24:03,125
- Yes, can you change that?
- 421
- 00:24:03,467 --> 00:24:04,335
- What did you say?"
- 422
- 00:24:04,385 --> 00:24:08,297
- "I know it's difficult,
- but we have to fix ID documents. "
- 423
- 00:24:08,347 --> 00:24:10,424
- "No, you said about a boat?"
- 424
- 00:24:10,850 --> 00:24:12,718
- "We are setting you on a boat to Canada."
- 425
- 00:24:12,768 --> 00:24:14,887
- "Yes. No, I'm not ...
- 426
- 00:24:14,937 --> 00:24:19,099
- We do not go boat anymore. I do not know
- if you know our story,
- 427
- 00:24:19,149 --> 00:24:23,186
- but me and my people took a cruise
- once. It did not work well.
- 428
- 00:24:23,654 --> 00:24:27,607
- So, yes, we may find another way
- to come to Canada. "
- 429
- 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:30,152
- "Boat is the best way
- to get there from Rochester. "
- 430
- 00:24:30,202 --> 00:24:32,571
- "Yes, maybe it's the best way for you.
- 431
- 00:24:32,663 --> 00:24:34,114
- But we go.
- 432
- 00:24:34,665 --> 00:24:36,659
- We can run,
- We can run really well.
- 433
- 00:24:36,709 --> 00:24:38,953
- We can run,
- but we do not go on any boat. "
- 434
- 00:24:39,003 --> 00:24:40,746
- "My friend, you have to go on the boat."
- 435
- 00:24:40,796 --> 00:24:42,623
- "I do not have to do a joke.
- 436
- 00:24:42,673 --> 00:24:45,876
- I just got free. Imagine if I'm going on
- the boat and end up in the same place?
- 437
- 00:24:45,926 --> 00:24:46,961
- What do they say then?
- 438
- 00:24:47,011 --> 00:24:50,047
- "Why did you go on the boat?"
- 'Because he was nice.' Hell either!
- 439
- 00:24:50,097 --> 00:24:51,173
- No boat for me! "
- 440
- 00:24:51,223 --> 00:24:53,384
- "But you have to go on the boat.
- 441
- 00:24:53,434 --> 00:24:56,095
- You are free now.
- You have to get over this. "
- 442
- 00:24:56,145 --> 00:24:58,222
- "One day, in a few hundred years,
- 443
- 00:24:58,272 --> 00:25:02,184
- maybe one of my descendants Kanye West
- have come over it, but not me.
- 444
- 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:05,520
- So I do not go on any boat. "
- 445
- 00:25:07,531 --> 00:25:09,650
- "We have to get you on the boat, hell."
- 446
- 00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:11,943
- "I do not go on any boat."
- 447
- 00:25:12,494 --> 00:25:16,782
- And that was the day
- then the phrase "Nigger, please" was invented.
- 448
- 00:25:24,590 --> 00:25:28,627
- The white man turned around and said,
- "Nigger, please, you have to go on the boat."
- 449
- 00:25:33,641 --> 00:25:36,760
- And that story was passed on
- from generation to generation,
- 450
- 00:25:36,810 --> 00:25:39,221
- black person to black person,
- free man to free man
- 451
- 00:25:39,271 --> 00:25:43,142
- "And the white man knelt down
- and said, 'Nigger, please.' "
- 452
- 00:25:43,192 --> 00:25:47,021
- "Nigger, please?"
- I have never heard that phrase in my life.
- 453
- 00:25:47,071 --> 00:25:50,107
- - Nigger, please ... Nigger, please.
- - Nigger, please? "
- 454
- 00:25:52,743 --> 00:25:55,863
- I know it's probably a phrase
- Barack Obama used
- 455
- 00:25:55,913 --> 00:25:58,323
- at least once in the White House.
- 456
- 00:25:58,540 --> 00:26:00,242
- At least once.
- 457
- 00:26:01,043 --> 00:26:03,954
- "Mr. President, do you think that Trump
- are you wrong?
- 458
- 00:26:04,004 --> 00:26:07,082
- "Do you think you caused this?"
- - "Nigger, please"
- 459
- 00:26:08,717 --> 00:26:12,337
- Only once, once.
- I know he used it.
- 460
- 00:26:15,641 --> 00:26:18,928
- I actually met President Obama
- during his time as president.
- 461
- 00:26:18,978 --> 00:26:23,181
- It's probably one of the craziest experiences
- I had in my life. Yes, I was ...
- 462
- 00:26:24,316 --> 00:26:26,184
- It came completely unexpectedly.
- 463
- 00:26:26,318 --> 00:26:30,230
- I worked at The Daily Show
- and received a call from the administration.
- 464
- 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:31,649
- And someone at the other end said:
- 465
- 00:26:31,699 --> 00:26:35,402
- "Hi, Trevor. Do you want to interview
- US President of the White House? "
- 466
- 00:26:35,452 --> 00:26:38,447
- And I thought, "Are you stupid questions?
- 467
- 00:26:38,539 --> 00:26:42,117
- Of course I want to meet
- United States President. Are you kidding?"
- 468
- 00:26:42,126 --> 00:26:44,078
- And the day came finally.
- 469
- 00:26:44,128 --> 00:26:46,372
- I went to DC with my TV team,
- 470
- 00:26:46,422 --> 00:26:47,998
- They placed us in a room,
- 471
- 00:26:48,048 --> 00:26:50,917
- which was literally low
- opposite the oval room.
- 472
- 00:26:51,051 --> 00:26:53,087
- We rigged all our cameras.
- 473
- 00:26:53,137 --> 00:26:55,422
- Then we were just waiting for the president.
- 474
- 00:26:55,472 --> 00:26:58,008
- We stared at the door.
- 475
- 00:26:58,058 --> 00:27:01,470
- They do not give one
- President's exact arrival time,
- 476
- 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:02,429
- for his safety.
- 477
- 00:27:02,479 --> 00:27:05,474
- They only give a period of time,
- as with the cable duct.
- 478
- 00:27:08,318 --> 00:27:10,270
- So we're waiting everyone in there,
- 479
- 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,439
- listening to every footstep, every moment,
- 480
- 00:27:12,489 --> 00:27:16,110
- and then he just pops in behind us
- and scare the shit out of all.
- 481
- 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,946
- There is a secret door,
- but they do not tell either.
- 482
- 00:27:18,996 --> 00:27:22,073
- We are staring at the door and suddenly we hear:
- "Hello".
- 483
- 00:27:24,293 --> 00:27:26,578
- But I had a great interview
- with him.
- 484
- 00:27:26,628 --> 00:27:29,247
- He was very kind to everyone in the room.
- 485
- 00:27:29,465 --> 00:27:33,502
- Then we closed the cameras and he stayed
- Even nicer, we just conversed.
- 486
- 00:27:33,552 --> 00:27:36,755
- I thought he should go.
- He is president and has things to do.
- 487
- 00:27:36,805 --> 00:27:39,842
- But he left for a while
- and we spoke like people,
- 488
- 00:27:39,892 --> 00:27:44,555
- and it went well
- until he turned to me and said,
- 489
- 00:27:44,605 --> 00:27:47,141
- "Trevor, I have a show
- 490
- 00:27:47,191 --> 00:27:50,269
- which I will do in a few weeks,
- a little thing,
- 491
- 00:27:50,319 --> 00:27:53,105
- and I thought you might
- want to look past and behave. "
- 492
- 00:27:53,155 --> 00:27:56,275
- "Mr. President, it would be a glory.
- Just say when and where.
- 493
- 00:27:56,325 --> 00:27:57,901
- What is the purpose of the show, sir? "
- 494
- 00:27:57,951 --> 00:28:00,154
- He said, "I'm doing a little thing
- for my aides,
- 495
- 00:28:00,204 --> 00:28:02,239
- and thought you might come. "
- 496
- 00:28:02,289 --> 00:28:04,033
- I said, "Please, thank you.
- 497
- 00:28:04,083 --> 00:28:05,951
- Sorry, a show for what? "
- 498
- 00:28:06,043 --> 00:28:08,411
- He said, "For my aides, my coworkers.
- 499
- 00:28:09,046 --> 00:28:10,330
- I said:
- 500
- 00:28:10,923 --> 00:28:12,249
- "Do you have AIDS?"
- 501
- 00:28:19,139 --> 00:28:20,423
- And then...
- 502
- 00:28:21,350 --> 00:28:23,635
- Then he explained ...
- 503
- 00:28:24,645 --> 00:28:26,304
- what he meant.
- 504
- 00:28:28,357 --> 00:28:31,184
- And I wanted to earth
- would devour myself completely.
- 505
- 00:28:34,947 --> 00:28:39,859
- Because I had just watched
- on the US president ...
- 506
- 00:28:40,953 --> 00:28:43,989
- and asked if he had AIDS.
- 507
- 00:28:47,876 --> 00:28:50,996
- And the worst is
- that he was kind to me too.
- 508
- 00:28:52,047 --> 00:28:55,709
- Because he explained and I said,
- "Forgive me. I did not mean it.
- 509
- 00:28:55,759 --> 00:28:58,545
- I do not even know why ...
- You said 'aides' and AIDS ...'
- 510
- 00:28:58,595 --> 00:29:01,048
- For my defense ...
- 511
- 00:29:01,098 --> 00:29:02,132
- I'm taking now.
- 512
- 00:29:02,182 --> 00:29:04,384
- He means "aides",
- assistants at the White House
- 513
- 00:29:04,434 --> 00:29:07,054
- the people who help the president.
- I'm taking now.
- 514
- 00:29:07,104 --> 00:29:11,474
- But where I come from is AIDS
- Anything else that does not help anyone.
- 515
- 00:29:11,942 --> 00:29:15,854
- No one in Africa walks around and says,
- "Let me introduce you to my AIDS."
- 516
- 00:29:17,614 --> 00:29:20,734
- I'm crushed and saying:
- "I'm terribly sorry, president.
- 517
- 00:29:20,784 --> 00:29:23,779
- I did not mean it. You do not have AIDS,
- and even if you had AIDS,
- 518
- 00:29:23,829 --> 00:29:26,448
- then nothing is wrong with that.
- No stigma.
- 519
- 00:29:26,498 --> 00:29:28,575
- I do not know what I'm saying. Sorry."
- 520
- 00:29:28,625 --> 00:29:30,536
- "Trevor, calm down."
- 521
- 00:29:30,586 --> 00:29:31,829
- Trevor Trevor, calm down. "
- 522
- 00:29:31,879 --> 00:29:34,206
- "I am terribly sorry,
- I should not have said that.
- 523
- 00:29:34,256 --> 00:29:36,875
- I'm probably the dumbest you met. "
- "No, Trevor ..."
- 524
- 00:29:36,925 --> 00:29:39,086
- "I'm the dumbest one you've ever met."
- 525
- 00:29:39,136 --> 00:29:42,672
- He said, "No, Trevor, that's not true.
- I've met Trump. "
- 526
- 00:29:43,307 --> 00:29:45,300
- Stop it!
- 527
- 00:29:49,771 --> 00:29:51,097
- So witty.
- 528
- 00:29:54,359 --> 00:29:55,894
- But I'm used to it in life.
- 529
- 00:29:55,944 --> 00:29:59,898
- This happens to me often,
- since I lived in the United States.
- 530
- 00:30:00,115 --> 00:30:03,318
- I understand it as an idea.
- If you move to another country,
- 531
- 00:30:03,368 --> 00:30:05,529
- so one must learn
- another language.
- 532
- 00:30:05,579 --> 00:30:08,574
- I did not realize that would happen
- In the United States, because I speak English.
- 533
- 00:30:08,624 --> 00:30:11,868
- But here people speak American.
- Similar, but not the same.
- 534
- 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:14,788
- Small things are different.
- 535
- 00:30:14,838 --> 00:30:16,874
- I accept that,
- small things like pronunciation.
- 536
- 00:30:16,924 --> 00:30:20,627
- For example, what you drink,
- I call it "water".
- 537
- 00:30:20,677 --> 00:30:23,046
- Water. In American
- do you say "wadder".
- 538
- 00:30:23,096 --> 00:30:24,506
- Right? "Wadder". Yes.
- 539
- 00:30:24,556 --> 00:30:27,676
- I say "water"
- because there is a T in the word.
- 540
- 00:30:29,937 --> 00:30:31,847
- The glass you look at each morning
- 541
- 00:30:31,897 --> 00:30:33,932
- I call for a mirror.
- 542
- 00:30:33,982 --> 00:30:36,101
- In American you say "Ameer".
- 543
- 00:30:36,151 --> 00:30:37,936
- "Ameer." That's not the same for me.
- 544
- 00:30:37,986 --> 00:30:40,606
- "A mirror" is the glass.
- Ameer is a man in the Middle East.
- 545
- 00:30:40,656 --> 00:30:41,899
- Very different experiences.
- 546
- 00:30:41,949 --> 00:30:43,692
- It's not the same.
- 547
- 00:30:44,618 --> 00:30:46,569
- And that's just the pronunciation.
- 548
- 00:30:46,912 --> 00:30:50,699
- You must also learn the meaning
- in words you already could
- 549
- 00:30:50,749 --> 00:30:53,452
- when moving to the United States.
- For example, where I come from
- 550
- 00:30:53,502 --> 00:30:56,330
- is there a garment
- which men often wear under his shirt.
- 551
- 00:30:56,380 --> 00:30:58,457
- It's white and sleeveless.
- 552
- 00:30:58,507 --> 00:31:01,043
- Where I'm from
- we call it "west".
- 553
- 00:31:01,093 --> 00:31:01,960
- Okay?
- 554
- 00:31:02,010 --> 00:31:05,714
- In america it is called "wife beater"
- wife beater.
- 555
- 00:31:06,723 --> 00:31:09,551
- Yes, I have so many questions.
- 556
- 00:31:10,852 --> 00:31:14,806
- My best and worst experience
- when it comes to learning American
- 557
- 00:31:15,023 --> 00:31:17,684
- happened when I first moved to the United States.
- 558
- 00:31:17,734 --> 00:31:22,105
- I lived in California, in Pasadena,
- when I first came to the United States.
- 559
- 00:31:22,364 --> 00:31:24,691
- The reason I lived in Pasadena is
- 560
- 00:31:24,741 --> 00:31:27,027
- that it was where I felt
- my first american friend,
- 561
- 00:31:27,077 --> 00:31:28,528
- a guy named David Meyer.
- 562
- 00:31:28,578 --> 00:31:32,366
- He came to South Africa to film
- a documentary, and we became good friends.
- 563
- 00:31:32,416 --> 00:31:36,035
- One day we stayed in Dave's apartment.
- 564
- 00:31:36,628 --> 00:31:40,498
- Dave sat in his seat bag
- and looked at me and said,
- 565
- 00:31:40,716 --> 00:31:43,001
- "Trevor, the polar ...
- 566
- 00:31:43,844 --> 00:31:46,671
- I do not know how it is with you
- right now,
- 567
- 00:31:46,847 --> 00:31:49,090
- but I soon die of starvation. "
- 568
- 00:31:50,726 --> 00:31:52,010
- I said:
- 569
- 00:31:52,227 --> 00:31:54,971
- "You mean you're hungry, Dave."
- 570
- 00:31:55,981 --> 00:31:56,848
- "What?"
- 571
- 00:31:56,898 --> 00:31:59,559
- "It does not matter, what do you want to eat?"
- 572
- 00:32:00,819 --> 00:32:03,188
- He said, "Do you know what I'm craving?
- 573
- 00:32:03,238 --> 00:32:05,398
- I'm crazy about tacos. "
- 574
- 00:32:05,782 --> 00:32:07,734
- I said, "That sounds fun.
- 575
- 00:32:07,784 --> 00:32:09,527
- We are going to Tacos. "
- 576
- 00:32:10,537 --> 00:32:11,821
- "What?"
- 577
- 00:32:13,248 --> 00:32:16,576
- "Is not that the restaurant you're craving?
- Tacos? "
- 578
- 00:32:17,544 --> 00:32:19,704
- "Do you mean seriousness right now?
- 579
- 00:32:20,630 --> 00:32:23,249
- Have you never eaten tacos? "
- 580
- 00:32:24,051 --> 00:32:26,586
- "No, I do not know what tacos are."
- 581
- 00:32:26,636 --> 00:32:30,340
- "Have you never eaten tacos?"
- 582
- 00:32:31,933 --> 00:32:35,053
- "My response has not changed since now, Dave.
- No.
- 583
- 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,682
- "I have never eaten tacos."
- "Have you never tasted tacos?"
- 584
- 00:32:38,732 --> 00:32:40,934
- By the way, I apologize when people do.
- 585
- 00:32:40,984 --> 00:32:43,228
- When they ask the same question
- over and over again,
- 586
- 00:32:43,278 --> 00:32:46,898
- because they can not imagine not
- have had exactly the same life experience.
- 587
- 00:32:46,948 --> 00:32:49,318
- "Hello, have you heard Beyonce's new?"
- 588
- 00:32:49,368 --> 00:32:51,987
- - "No."
- - "Have not you heard BeyoncΓ©'s new?"
- 589
- 00:32:52,037 --> 00:32:54,448
- - "No I have not..."
- - "Have not you heard ...?"
- 590
- 00:32:54,498 --> 00:32:57,492
- "Well, now I have it."
- 591
- 00:33:00,045 --> 00:33:01,955
- No, I had never eaten tacos.
- 592
- 00:33:02,005 --> 00:33:05,542
- In South Africa we are not right
- Mexican food.
- 593
- 00:33:05,592 --> 00:33:10,338
- We do not have any Mexicans.
- They never came over, it's not my fault.
- 594
- 00:33:12,307 --> 00:33:14,926
- Dave was personally insulted.
- 595
- 00:33:15,811 --> 00:33:17,971
- I never forget that,
- he jumped up and said,
- 596
- 00:33:18,021 --> 00:33:22,100
- "I do not think you've been in the United States
- so long and never ate tacos. "
- 597
- 00:33:22,150 --> 00:33:23,810
- "Why is that such a big thing?"
- 598
- 00:33:23,860 --> 00:33:27,647
- "Because, Trevor,
- nothing is as American as tacos. "
- 599
- 00:33:32,619 --> 00:33:34,237
- "Really?" I said.
- 600
- 00:33:34,871 --> 00:33:37,824
- "Is nothing so American
- like Mexican food? "
- 601
- 00:33:39,751 --> 00:33:42,204
- The funny thing is
- that at that moment I knew
- 602
- 00:33:42,254 --> 00:33:44,289
- that Dave was a deeper man.
- 603
- 00:33:44,673 --> 00:33:49,294
- He did not even realize it, but it was
- a deeply small gold cliff.
- 604
- 00:33:49,344 --> 00:33:51,922
- "Nothing is as Amean as tacos."
- 605
- 00:33:51,972 --> 00:33:55,634
- I have had the privilege of traveling
- everywhere in this beautiful country.
- 606
- 00:33:55,684 --> 00:33:58,428
- I've been to places
- like Erie in Pennsylvania,
- 607
- 00:33:58,478 --> 00:34:00,889
- El Paso, Texas, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- 608
- 00:34:00,939 --> 00:34:03,892
- I've been everywhere,
- and one thing that I have learned,
- 609
- 00:34:03,942 --> 00:34:05,810
- generally in the usa ...
- 610
- 00:34:07,362 --> 00:34:09,147
- is that americans ...
- 611
- 00:34:09,197 --> 00:34:10,774
- love ...
- 612
- 00:34:10,824 --> 00:34:12,692
- tacos.
- 613
- 00:34:14,953 --> 00:34:16,571
- Wherever you go,
- 614
- 00:34:17,122 --> 00:34:20,534
- so love american tacos.
- 615
- 00:34:20,584 --> 00:34:22,410
- Love tacos
- 616
- 00:34:23,128 --> 00:34:26,498
- Even totally unexpected people.
- I watched the news one day,
- 617
- 00:34:26,548 --> 00:34:28,583
- and they showed a guy at a mass meeting,
- 618
- 00:34:28,633 --> 00:34:32,587
- and they asked him about immigration
- and families that were divorced, etc.
- 619
- 00:34:32,637 --> 00:34:38,135
- And this guy, whatever his policy,
- was a mean, xenophobic racist.
- 620
- 00:34:38,185 --> 00:34:40,137
- Very presidential.
- 621
- 00:34:40,187 --> 00:34:42,513
- And the journalist asked him ...
- 622
- 00:34:43,148 --> 00:34:45,725
- The journalist asked him about children,
- 623
- 00:34:45,775 --> 00:34:48,311
- and he answered directly:
- "I'll tell you,
- 624
- 00:34:48,361 --> 00:34:51,189
- I do not care about it
- here damn the Mexicans.
- 625
- 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,858
- They came here. They should not be here.
- 626
- 00:34:55,368 --> 00:34:59,822
- It's our country now, do you hear that? Right.
- Go back where you came from.
- 627
- 00:35:01,374 --> 00:35:05,871
- These Mexicans have not done well.
- They have not brought anything good to the United States.
- 628
- 00:35:05,921 --> 00:35:07,038
- Come on, Bubba.
- 629
- 00:35:07,088 --> 00:35:09,666
- It's taco Tuesday. "
- 630
- 00:35:14,596 --> 00:35:17,215
- Stick from here, but leave the recipe.
- 631
- 00:35:19,601 --> 00:35:21,428
- There should be a rule in the United States
- 632
- 00:35:21,478 --> 00:35:24,639
- which says you can hate
- immigrants how much you want,
- 633
- 00:35:24,689 --> 00:35:27,642
- but if you do,
- you should not eat their food.
- 634
- 00:35:27,651 --> 00:35:28,935
- Or?
- 635
- 00:35:30,445 --> 00:35:33,106
- I think that is fair.
- 636
- 00:35:33,448 --> 00:35:36,943
- Do you hate immigrants,
- no immigrant.
- 637
- 00:35:37,244 --> 00:35:40,280
- And when I say no immigrant food,
- so I do not mean anyone.
- 638
- 00:35:40,330 --> 00:35:44,701
- No mexican food, no western Indian food,
- no Dominican food, no Asian food.
- 639
- 00:35:44,751 --> 00:35:47,203
- Just potatoes.
- 640
- 00:35:50,632 --> 00:35:54,794
- And I do not even mean flavored potatoes.
- Just potatoes like it is.
- 641
- 00:35:54,844 --> 00:35:56,295
- No spices.
- 642
- 00:35:56,888 --> 00:35:59,757
- For no immigrant, no spice.
- Never forget that.
- 643
- 00:36:00,141 --> 00:36:03,011
- Both figuratively and literally,
- no seasoning.
- 644
- 00:36:03,061 --> 00:36:06,681
- And I know some would take it.
- I know people who would say:
- 645
- 00:36:06,731 --> 00:36:10,601
- "Take your immigrants, take your spices
- and stay out of here for the fan. "
- 646
- 00:36:11,361 --> 00:36:12,979
- You're saying that now ...
- 647
- 00:36:14,656 --> 00:36:17,358
- because you've never lived a life
- without seasoning.
- 648
- 00:36:18,451 --> 00:36:19,861
- But never forget.
- 649
- 00:36:21,204 --> 00:36:24,032
- A life without spices was so difficult ...
- 650
- 00:36:24,833 --> 00:36:26,242
- so hard...
- 651
- 00:36:27,127 --> 00:36:30,872
- that it got white people
- to sail around the world to find them.
- 652
- 00:36:34,342 --> 00:36:35,626
- And so ...
- 653
- 00:36:40,473 --> 00:36:44,093
- This was not common sailing,
- There was no Disney cruise.
- 654
- 00:36:44,144 --> 00:36:48,681
- These people sailed for a while
- when they thought that if you sailed this way,
- 655
- 00:36:48,773 --> 00:36:52,643
- one would fall from the ground and die.
- 656
- 00:36:54,029 --> 00:36:55,354
- And yet...
- 657
- 00:36:56,072 --> 00:36:58,066
- was there anybody out there
- 658
- 00:36:58,116 --> 00:37:02,695
- who ate some white women's food and said,
- "I do not stand out with this shit!
- 659
- 00:37:03,455 --> 00:37:05,323
- I'm going to say that. "
- 660
- 00:37:06,750 --> 00:37:08,034
- "Imagine if you die"
- 661
- 00:37:08,084 --> 00:37:10,369
- "It's at least exciting."
- 662
- 00:37:13,340 --> 00:37:14,749
- No immigrants,
- 663
- 00:37:14,924 --> 00:37:16,209
- no spices.
- 664
- 00:37:17,218 --> 00:37:19,378
- And definitely no tacos.
- 665
- 00:37:20,096 --> 00:37:22,924
- Dave would never allow it.
- He was so passionate.
- 666
- 00:37:22,974 --> 00:37:27,387
- He spoke about tacos as if he were
- were heirs to a tacodynasty.
- 667
- 00:37:27,437 --> 00:37:30,348
- In the end he said:
- "As your friend and as an American,
- 668
- 00:37:30,398 --> 00:37:34,727
- I'll make sure you get tacos
- if that's the last thing I do! "
- 669
- 00:37:35,153 --> 00:37:38,689
- "Why not now, Dave?" I said.
- "It works," he said.
- 670
- 00:37:39,032 --> 00:37:43,236
- I love when somebody believes
- that you intend to mess with them,
- 671
- 00:37:43,286 --> 00:37:46,072
- but you agree with them
- and they have already chosen anger.
- 672
- 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,035
- For nobody just changes his tone.
- 673
- 00:37:50,085 --> 00:37:54,205
- Everyone must hold on for a while,
- because they think they seem less crazy then.
- 674
- 00:37:54,255 --> 00:37:58,043
- It happens even in relationships.
- You have a noise that is not a fuss.
- 675
- 00:37:58,093 --> 00:38:00,879
- "To hell, Karen,
- every time I ask for your support,
- 676
- 00:38:00,929 --> 00:38:03,131
- then you're not there,
- and sometimes it hurts me. "
- 677
- 00:38:03,181 --> 00:38:06,759
- "I'm sorry, Bob."
- - "No, do not try ... Thank you very much.
- 678
- 00:38:07,018 --> 00:38:09,554
- I was not expecting an apology
- so I chose this tone,
- 679
- 00:38:09,604 --> 00:38:11,639
- and now I feel like an idiot.
- 680
- 00:38:11,731 --> 00:38:13,850
- I leave the room and change. "
- 681
- 00:38:18,655 --> 00:38:21,232
- I did not want to bother, I wanted tacos.
- 682
- 00:38:21,282 --> 00:38:23,109
- We go and eat tacos, Dave.
- 683
- 00:38:23,243 --> 00:38:25,695
- So we jumped into the car.
- 684
- 00:38:26,162 --> 00:38:29,615
- We drove for around 20 minutes.
- 685
- 00:38:30,792 --> 00:38:34,453
- To what I thought
- would become a restaurant.
- 686
- 00:38:36,923 --> 00:38:38,291
- Instead...
- 687
- 00:38:38,925 --> 00:38:40,543
- does dave stay
- 688
- 00:38:41,344 --> 00:38:43,588
- in a deserted parking lot.
- 689
- 00:38:47,934 --> 00:38:52,972
- He turns off the engine, looks at me
- saying, "Okay, buddy. Here it is."
- 690
- 00:38:54,858 --> 00:38:57,685
- I say, "Where were you at my murder place?"
- 691
- 00:38:58,027 --> 00:39:00,772
- "No, we're going to buy tacos, over there."
- 692
- 00:39:00,822 --> 00:39:03,524
- He points,
- and in the corner of the parking lot is a car.
- 693
- 00:39:03,700 --> 00:39:06,861
- A food car,
- which I have learned is common in the United States.
- 694
- 00:39:06,911 --> 00:39:10,907
- Food cars have some of the best food,
- but just then, you have to excuse me
- 695
- 00:39:10,957 --> 00:39:12,867
- I was a little suspicious.
- 696
- 00:39:12,917 --> 00:39:16,663
- Okay. I was not comfortable with the thought of
- to buy food from an establishment
- 697
- 00:39:16,713 --> 00:39:19,415
- which would not be there the next day.
- 698
- 00:39:20,550 --> 00:39:24,754
- I feel that resistance results
- a certain amount of accountability.
- 699
- 00:39:28,266 --> 00:39:30,427
- But Dave said,
- "You have to eat them from a car.
- 700
- 00:39:30,477 --> 00:39:31,761
- Then they know they are genuine. "
- 701
- 00:39:31,811 --> 00:39:34,472
- "Okay, let's get over it," I said.
- 702
- 00:39:34,522 --> 00:39:38,184
- So I went to the food car,
- and it was definitely a tacobil,
- 703
- 00:39:38,234 --> 00:39:41,562
- because there was a flashed sign hanging over it
- where it was called "tacos".
- 704
- 00:39:41,613 --> 00:39:43,147
- tacos
- 705
- 00:39:43,656 --> 00:39:44,982
- Tacos.
- 706
- 00:39:46,117 --> 00:39:48,778
- By the way, a little peculiarity I have:
- 707
- 00:39:48,828 --> 00:39:52,240
- I hate signs that flash
- without changing text.
- 708
- 00:39:52,624 --> 00:39:54,325
- Yes, I always feel
- 709
- 00:39:54,375 --> 00:39:58,996
- that a sign should not blink
- if it does not change information.
- 710
- 00:39:59,047 --> 00:40:02,333
- Otherwise, it's a waste of excitement.
- It should be illegal.
- 711
- 00:40:03,301 --> 00:40:06,337
- It always catches my gaze and then
- I'm waiting for something more. "Tacos"
- 712
- 00:40:06,387 --> 00:40:09,507
- and ... tacos. "And what more?" Tacos. "
- 713
- 00:40:09,557 --> 00:40:10,633
- Anything else? "Tacos."
- 714
- 00:40:10,683 --> 00:40:12,551
- Just stop at tacos!
- 715
- 00:40:13,436 --> 00:40:15,513
- Anyway, now I'm annoyed.
- 716
- 00:40:15,522 --> 00:40:18,099
- I'm going to get my car to the car.
- A little guy looks.
- 717
- 00:40:18,149 --> 00:40:20,393
- He was in a different mood than me.
- 718
- 00:40:20,443 --> 00:40:24,772
- You saw that. He stabbed his head:
- "Hi, the situation? Do you want tacos?"
- 719
- 00:40:25,031 --> 00:40:27,900
- I said, "It would be cowardly
- if we did not want it. "
- 720
- 00:40:29,118 --> 00:40:32,489
- He said, "What? Yes. Of course, man,
- but you never know.
- 721
- 00:40:32,539 --> 00:40:34,032
- You may want something else. "
- 722
- 00:40:34,082 --> 00:40:35,784
- I said, "What are you more, my friend?"
- 723
- 00:40:35,834 --> 00:40:38,452
- He said, "No, man.
- It's a tacobil. "
- 724
- 00:40:40,338 --> 00:40:41,831
- "Thank you," I said.
- 725
- 00:40:41,881 --> 00:40:44,584
- "It's a while in my life
- I never get back. Thanks."
- 726
- 00:40:44,634 --> 00:40:46,878
- He said, "No, no, no.
- Calma-te, men.
- 727
- 00:40:46,928 --> 00:40:48,671
- I do not want to waste your time.
- 728
- 00:40:48,721 --> 00:40:51,508
- If you want tacos you will have tacos.
- How many do you want?"
- 729
- 00:40:51,558 --> 00:40:55,136
- I said, "I do not know.
- I have never eaten tacos. "
- 730
- 00:40:55,186 --> 00:40:57,430
- "Have you never eaten tacos?"
- 731
- 00:40:58,648 --> 00:41:02,060
- - "I said no.
- "Have you never eaten tacos?"
- 732
- 00:41:02,110 --> 00:41:04,895
- "You should meet my friend Dave," I said.
- 733
- 00:41:05,446 --> 00:41:08,858
- I do not intend to order food
- when I do not know what it is.
- 734
- 00:41:08,908 --> 00:41:10,235
- I do not know anything about the quantities.
- 735
- 00:41:10,285 --> 00:41:12,153
- I do not know what tacos are.
- 736
- 00:41:12,203 --> 00:41:16,157
- What do you say? How many are you taking?
- I might say, "Give me five."
- 737
- 00:41:16,207 --> 00:41:19,577
- But think if tacos are little pigs or something,
- and I say, "Give me five!"
- 738
- 00:41:19,627 --> 00:41:21,620
- Then I suddenly go home with ...
- 739
- 00:41:22,922 --> 00:41:28,461
- "And that's how I started my farm."
- I have no idea what they are.
- 740
- 00:41:29,554 --> 00:41:33,383
- So I say: "Just give me a taste."
- "Okay," he says.
- 741
- 00:41:33,433 --> 00:41:35,426
- "Then two tacos are enough."
- 742
- 00:41:35,476 --> 00:41:36,845
- "Okay, give me two tacos."
- 743
- 00:41:36,895 --> 00:41:39,180
- "Two tacos will be!"
- 744
- 00:41:39,856 --> 00:41:41,515
- The guy goes in ...
- 745
- 00:41:41,649 --> 00:41:43,601
- and start cooking the food.
- 746
- 00:41:43,651 --> 00:41:46,187
- I have no idea
- what comes out
- 747
- 00:41:46,779 --> 00:41:50,275
- He will return after a while:
- "My friend. Your tacos are ready."
- 748
- 00:41:50,325 --> 00:41:51,901
- "Thank you very much," I say.
- 749
- 00:41:51,951 --> 00:41:53,778
- "Yes, do you want a napkin?"
- 750
- 00:41:54,245 --> 00:41:57,323
- "Sorry, how did you say?"
- - "Do you want a napkin?"
- 751
- 00:42:02,420 --> 00:42:04,288
- And now, L.A.,
- 752
- 00:42:06,841 --> 00:42:09,043
- It is now getting strange to me.
- 753
- 00:42:11,721 --> 00:42:14,590
- Because you understand where I'm from ...
- 754
- 00:42:16,142 --> 00:42:20,554
- is a "napkin" that baby wears ...
- 755
- 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,560
- to keep their shit.
- 756
- 00:42:31,449 --> 00:42:34,485
- The thing man wipes his mouth with
- we call napkins.
- 757
- 00:42:35,954 --> 00:42:39,782
- But I did not know that,
- so this man had turned to me,
- 758
- 00:42:40,291 --> 00:42:42,701
- offered me food and then said:
- 759
- 00:42:43,461 --> 00:42:45,246
- "Do you want a napkin?"
- 760
- 00:42:49,550 --> 00:42:52,044
- I said, "Sorry, I'm confused.
- 761
- 00:42:52,136 --> 00:42:53,880
- Why would I like it? "
- 762
- 00:42:53,930 --> 00:42:56,674
- "You know, for the suit afterwards."
- 763
- 00:43:02,021 --> 00:43:03,514
- He said the draft.
- 764
- 00:43:05,316 --> 00:43:08,102
- "How soon will I need one soon afterwards?"
- 765
- 00:43:08,653 --> 00:43:11,522
- "You never know with tacos.
- 766
- 00:43:11,906 --> 00:43:15,359
- One minute you think you'll fix it,
- and next it's going out. "
- 767
- 00:43:16,452 --> 00:43:19,781
- "It sounds like the disgusting one
- I heard something. "
- 768
- 00:43:19,831 --> 00:43:23,451
- He said, "No, that's part
- of the experience. Everyone is doing it.
- 769
- 00:43:23,668 --> 00:43:27,121
- You are worn, you wipe off,
- and then you try again. "
- 770
- 00:43:27,171 --> 00:43:29,791
- I said, "It's an experience
- I do not want to.
- 771
- 00:43:29,841 --> 00:43:32,043
- - I'll skip it. "
- "Do not you taste my food?"
- 772
- 00:43:32,093 --> 00:43:35,505
- "Sure, I taste the food.
- But I do not take your napkin.
- 773
- 00:43:35,555 --> 00:43:37,006
- "What are you going to do?"
- 774
- 00:43:37,056 --> 00:43:38,633
- "If it's as crazy as you say
- 775
- 00:43:38,683 --> 00:43:41,511
- so I only eat my taco
- in the car on my way home. "
- 776
- 00:43:41,561 --> 00:43:44,555
- "Well, you think you're sure",
- he says.
- 777
- 00:43:46,024 --> 00:43:47,892
- You will drive.
- 778
- 00:43:48,735 --> 00:43:52,271
- Then slipping someone so you have to brake,
- and it goes out.
- 779
- 00:43:54,741 --> 00:43:56,317
- Do not be a hero.
- 780
- 00:43:57,618 --> 00:43:59,153
- Just take the napkin. "
- 781
- 00:43:59,203 --> 00:44:01,155
- "I'm not trying to be a hero," I said.
- 782
- 00:44:01,205 --> 00:44:03,491
- "I'm just an adult damn man. Okay?
- 783
- 00:44:03,541 --> 00:44:07,036
- If it's really bad, I'll just scratch
- super hard until I arrive. "
- 784
- 00:44:07,086 --> 00:44:08,496
- He said, "That's the problem.
- 785
- 00:44:08,546 --> 00:44:12,917
- Some do not know, they're cracking too hard,
- and then the juice flows out even more.
- 786
- 00:44:13,051 --> 00:44:16,671
- It can splash on the pants and the sweater ... "
- 787
- 00:44:16,721 --> 00:44:18,130
- "On my shirt?
- 788
- 00:44:18,431 --> 00:44:21,009
- "How the hell is shit
- right up to my shirt? "
- 789
- 00:44:21,059 --> 00:44:25,054
- Does it bump it up from the ground?
- What the hell are you here? "
- 790
- 00:44:25,104 --> 00:44:29,225
- - "Do you want your napkin or not?"
- "I do not even know the tacos right now."
- 791
- 00:44:35,656 --> 00:44:37,107
- So much stress.
- 792
- 00:44:42,455 --> 00:44:44,156
- Now I love tacos.
- 793
- 00:44:54,926 --> 00:44:57,211
- I love tacos.
- I love Mexican food.
- 794
- 00:44:57,261 --> 00:44:59,213
- I love Mexican people.
- 795
- 00:45:04,519 --> 00:45:07,597
- I do not even know what it is.
- We have a relationship.
- 796
- 00:45:07,647 --> 00:45:09,015
- South Africans and Mexicans.
- 797
- 00:45:09,065 --> 00:45:11,809
- People from skithΓ₯l countries. We have a thing.
- 798
- 00:45:16,155 --> 00:45:19,650
- I still can not believe the things
- Donald Trump says.
- 799
- 00:45:19,784 --> 00:45:23,821
- To me is Donald Trump
- an emotional paradox.
- 800
- 00:45:24,747 --> 00:45:28,076
- Logically, I can melt him,
- emotionally receives it.
- 801
- 00:45:28,126 --> 00:45:31,829
- On the one hand, I wake up many days
- terrified at the thought of
- 802
- 00:45:31,879 --> 00:45:34,790
- that he is president
- in the world's most powerful nation.
- 803
- 00:45:34,924 --> 00:45:37,960
- But I also wake up many days
- 804
- 00:45:38,010 --> 00:45:40,588
- and know that he will get me
- to laugh.
- 805
- 00:45:41,139 --> 00:45:44,383
- It's terror and joy,
- and I do not know how to feel.
- 806
- 00:45:45,434 --> 00:45:47,095
- Do you know how it sometimes feels?
- 807
- 00:45:47,145 --> 00:45:50,056
- Like a giant asteroid
- is heading towards the earth.
- 808
- 00:45:50,106 --> 00:45:52,266
- But it is shaped like a penis.
- 809
- 00:45:55,236 --> 00:45:57,354
- I think I'll die.
- 810
- 00:45:57,613 --> 00:45:59,982
- But I know I'll laugh.
- 811
- 00:46:04,328 --> 00:46:06,239
- Just look at everything he does.
- 812
- 00:46:06,289 --> 00:46:08,366
- The world we now live in because of him.
- 813
- 00:46:08,416 --> 00:46:10,951
- We pass on history.
- 814
- 00:46:11,127 --> 00:46:13,579
- This never happens
- in our lifetime again.
- 815
- 00:46:13,629 --> 00:46:18,042
- We live for a while
- when we all learn about the presidency ...
- 816
- 00:46:18,551 --> 00:46:22,212
- at the same time as the president.
- It never happened.
- 817
- 00:46:24,223 --> 00:46:26,425
- How crazy is that concept?
- 818
- 00:46:27,852 --> 00:46:31,764
- You wake up everyday and read the news
- and thinking: "Oh, I did not know."
- 819
- 00:46:31,814 --> 00:46:34,350
- And at least, at exactly the same time,
- 820
- 00:46:34,734 --> 00:46:38,312
- he reads the same news
- and thinking: "Oh, not me either."
- 821
- 00:46:41,532 --> 00:46:44,860
- And no one knows where it will lead,
- what he will do.
- 822
- 00:46:44,994 --> 00:46:48,156
- All we know is that he wants his wall.
- He wants his wall.
- 823
- 00:46:48,206 --> 00:46:50,616
- Donald Trump wants his wall.
- 824
- 00:46:51,042 --> 00:46:54,162
- He needs $ 25 billion
- last time he asked.
- 825
- 00:46:54,212 --> 00:46:58,165
- He needs it from American
- taxpayer, for Mexico is smart.
- 826
- 00:46:58,841 --> 00:47:00,793
- It went very quickly.
- 827
- 00:47:00,885 --> 00:47:04,005
- Do you remember how confident he was
- at the mass meetings? People cheered.
- 828
- 00:47:04,055 --> 00:47:06,090
- He said, "Good people,
- 829
- 00:47:06,307 --> 00:47:08,050
- we are going to build ...
- 830
- 00:47:10,102 --> 00:47:11,387
- a wall.
- 831
- 00:47:14,815 --> 00:47:17,142
- We're going to build a wall, everybody.
- 832
- 00:47:17,526 --> 00:47:19,145
- Who will pay?
- 833
- 00:47:19,195 --> 00:47:20,896
- Mexico. "
- 834
- 00:47:21,864 --> 00:47:24,817
- Mexico said:
- "We do not pay for a shit."
- 835
- 00:47:30,873 --> 00:47:33,909
- We may build it,
- but we do not pay for it. "
- 836
- 00:47:37,380 --> 00:47:42,001
- Mur history is enough
- the best TV comedy.
- 837
- 00:47:42,051 --> 00:47:45,922
- For now, they have begun to build prototypes
- of the wall at the border,
- 838
- 00:47:45,972 --> 00:47:48,466
- for Donald Trump wants
- that they test the wall first.
- 839
- 00:47:48,516 --> 00:47:50,092
- I do not know how to do it.
- 840
- 00:47:50,142 --> 00:47:52,219
- Should they say "try again"?
- 841
- 00:47:53,854 --> 00:47:57,266
- And because of the prototypes have
- Now trump up specifications for the wall.
- 842
- 00:47:57,316 --> 00:48:00,645
- He now wants the wall to be built
- of concrete,
- 843
- 00:48:00,695 --> 00:48:03,397
- but it must also be transparent.
- 844
- 00:48:03,447 --> 00:48:04,565
- Okay.
- 845
- 00:48:04,615 --> 00:48:09,111
- And the reason for it is that he is afraid
- 846
- 00:48:09,161 --> 00:48:12,949
- to drug addicts from Mexico
- will push bags with knots over the wall,
- 847
- 00:48:12,999 --> 00:48:16,160
- and that they meet
- passers-by Americans in the head.
- 848
- 00:48:18,129 --> 00:48:23,792
- So the wall must be transparent
- so that Americans can see the drugs come ...
- 849
- 00:48:23,843 --> 00:48:25,377
- and catch them.
- 850
- 00:48:29,348 --> 00:48:32,634
- I do not know what a translucent wall is.
- 851
- 00:48:32,852 --> 00:48:37,181
- But now I'm just worried
- that any builder should fool the president.
- 852
- 00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,768
- That he takes him to the border and says:
- "There it is, Mr. Trump.
- 853
- 00:48:40,818 --> 00:48:42,436
- Your invisible wall. "
- 854
- 00:48:48,909 --> 00:48:51,946
- And because he will buy it
- Does he hire Mexican pantomimes?
- 855
- 00:48:51,996 --> 00:48:54,656
- "Lord, you will not come through.
- 856
- 00:48:59,837 --> 00:49:01,246
- It works."
- 857
- 00:49:05,134 --> 00:49:06,502
- Donald Trumps brain.
- 858
- 00:49:06,552 --> 00:49:08,504
- The other idea he had for the wall
- 859
- 00:49:08,554 --> 00:49:11,173
- where the United States should build the wall
- of solar panels.
- 860
- 00:49:11,223 --> 00:49:12,341
- That's what he said.
- 861
- 00:49:12,391 --> 00:49:15,678
- He said that the United States should build the wall
- of solar panels
- 862
- 00:49:15,728 --> 00:49:18,139
- for then the wall would generate electricity
- 863
- 00:49:18,189 --> 00:49:20,015
- and pay for themselves.
- 864
- 00:49:20,483 --> 00:49:21,684
- I will not lie.
- 865
- 00:49:21,734 --> 00:49:23,352
- That's a good idea.
- 866
- 00:49:23,944 --> 00:49:24,895
- That's a good idea,
- 867
- 00:49:24,945 --> 00:49:28,941
- unless you know anything about solar panels,
- the sun or the walls.
- 868
- 00:49:30,743 --> 00:49:33,154
- The problem with that idea is
- that the sun is above us.
- 869
- 00:49:33,204 --> 00:49:35,906
- Yes? Are we all united there?
- 870
- 00:49:35,956 --> 00:49:38,367
- The sun is above us, right?
- 871
- 00:49:38,834 --> 00:49:41,954
- A solar panel wall does not work,
- for a wall is upright.
- 872
- 00:49:42,004 --> 00:49:44,081
- It points downwards.
- 873
- 00:49:44,340 --> 00:49:48,252
- So if you do not have a really sunny sun
- which says, "I'll shine really low",
- 874
- 00:49:48,302 --> 00:49:50,003
- it does not work.
- 875
- 00:49:52,515 --> 00:49:55,051
- It just works
- if you take your border sun panel
- 876
- 00:49:55,101 --> 00:49:58,929
- and leans it to catch the sun rays,
- but then you have created a giant ramp
- 877
- 00:49:58,979 --> 00:50:01,098
- for Mexicans to enter the United States.
- 878
- 00:50:01,148 --> 00:50:03,350
- "Ora le ..."
- 879
- 00:50:08,989 --> 00:50:11,316
- Donald J. Tumps intellect.
- 880
- 00:50:12,118 --> 00:50:13,361
- The one stands for Jesus.
- 881
- 00:50:13,411 --> 00:50:15,279
- Many do not know that.
- 882
- 00:50:16,580 --> 00:50:19,032
- There is a lot of self-esteem there.
- 883
- 00:50:21,293 --> 00:50:26,582
- And he's always looking for someone.
- If it's not Mexicans, it's Muslims.
- 884
- 00:50:26,632 --> 00:50:30,002
- Are not Muslims,
- so it's Africans from skithΓ₯l countries.
- 885
- 00:50:30,052 --> 00:50:33,297
- It was my personal favorite,
- because i am african
- 886
- 00:50:33,347 --> 00:50:35,632
- and I've dumped in a hole.
- 887
- 00:50:38,144 --> 00:50:41,138
- I liked it too
- because people came up and asked questions.
- 888
- 00:50:41,188 --> 00:50:45,184
- A man arrived after a show
- very concerned. He said, "You, Trevor,
- 889
- 00:50:45,234 --> 00:50:47,019
- can I ask something?"
- 890
- 00:50:47,236 --> 00:50:48,979
- "Yes, please, my friend."
- 891
- 00:50:49,029 --> 00:50:51,065
- He said, "Trevor, I just wanted to know,
- 892
- 00:50:51,115 --> 00:50:54,902
- when Donald Trump says
- all these terribly racist things,
- 893
- 00:50:54,952 --> 00:50:58,322
- do you sometimes want to just pack, leave the USA,
- 894
- 00:50:58,372 --> 00:51:01,700
- go back to South Africa
- and escape from all this racism? "
- 895
- 00:51:08,841 --> 00:51:10,167
- "My friend," I said,
- 896
- 00:51:10,634 --> 00:51:13,629
- "You do not go to South Africa
- to escape from racism.
- 897
- 00:51:14,013 --> 00:51:16,214
- That's what your husband is going to fill. "
- 898
- 00:51:18,100 --> 00:51:21,386
- Are you kidding? That's the only thing
- which reminds me of home.
- 899
- 00:51:21,645 --> 00:51:23,263
- Rasismen out here.
- 900
- 00:51:23,731 --> 00:51:26,517
- We have a lot of racism in South Africa.
- 901
- 00:51:26,567 --> 00:51:28,769
- Do not misunderstand
- It has become much better.
- 902
- 00:51:28,819 --> 00:51:31,939
- When I grew up, we had Apartheid.
- 903
- 00:51:32,156 --> 00:51:35,817
- And apartheid was basically
- the world's best racism.
- 904
- 00:51:35,951 --> 00:51:39,697
- Sorry, I did not mean to say that.
- Now you think: "Our racism was the best."
- 905
- 00:51:39,747 --> 00:51:42,741
- No, it was not.
- It was good, but not the best.
- 906
- 00:51:43,709 --> 00:51:47,663
- I experienced a lot of racism,
- it did all.
- 907
- 00:51:47,713 --> 00:51:51,167
- I never felt it was bad,
- mostly because of my family.
- 908
- 00:51:51,217 --> 00:51:55,796
- My mother is a black woman,
- a Xhosa woman, my father is a Swiss,
- 909
- 00:51:55,846 --> 00:51:57,923
- and it was illegal for them
- to be a couple,
- 910
- 00:51:57,973 --> 00:52:00,759
- and that was a problem
- that we lived together.
- 911
- 00:52:00,809 --> 00:52:02,344
- So we experienced a lot of racism.
- 912
- 00:52:02,394 --> 00:52:06,515
- And if you wonder ... yes.
- Xhosa is one of the languages ββwith the click.
- 913
- 00:52:09,527 --> 00:52:13,230
- But not like in American movies,
- Just to let you know.
- 914
- 00:52:13,364 --> 00:52:16,817
- I have watched the movies
- where they have Africans like ...
- 915
- 00:52:21,956 --> 00:52:23,782
- There is no language.
- 916
- 00:52:24,375 --> 00:52:28,578
- Even we are watching the movies and thinking:
- "I wonder what they are saying.
- 917
- 00:52:31,340 --> 00:52:32,333
- Where do they come from?"
- 918
- 00:52:32,383 --> 00:52:34,793
- "I think they are from Cleveland?"
- 919
- 00:52:38,347 --> 00:52:42,175
- The clicks are consonants.
- We still have vowels.
- 920
- 00:52:42,268 --> 00:52:44,637
- I grew up in a family
- who could not live together.
- 921
- 00:52:44,687 --> 00:52:48,265
- Dad could not live with us.
- It was illegal.
- 922
- 00:52:48,357 --> 00:52:51,685
- People were even racist against us,
- but I was lucky when I grew up,
- 923
- 00:52:51,735 --> 00:52:55,564
- for my mother is probably one of the most
- hard-barked people you've ever met.
- 924
- 00:52:55,614 --> 00:52:57,566
- Nothing affected her.
- 925
- 00:52:57,908 --> 00:52:59,443
- Nothing bothered her.
- 926
- 00:53:00,828 --> 00:53:04,698
- I especially remember one day,
- then we walked along the street together.
- 927
- 00:53:04,957 --> 00:53:08,160
- And one guy on the other side of the street
- shouted something ugly itll us.
- 928
- 00:53:08,210 --> 00:53:10,496
- I was four or five years old,
- 929
- 00:53:10,546 --> 00:53:13,498
- and I looked at my mother and said,
- "Mother,
- 930
- 00:53:13,841 --> 00:53:17,169
- what do we do about people
- do racism go against us? "
- 931
- 00:53:17,595 --> 00:53:20,881
- And mom said, "Do you know what we are doing
- if anyone is racist?
- 932
- 00:53:20,931 --> 00:53:23,175
- We take their racism,
- 933
- 00:53:23,517 --> 00:53:27,179
- and shakes about it
- with jesus love
- 934
- 00:53:28,355 --> 00:53:30,807
- And then we'll send it back. "
- 935
- 00:53:32,401 --> 00:53:34,061
- And I said, "What?
- 936
- 00:53:36,030 --> 00:53:38,356
- "The woman is crazy," I thought.
- 937
- 00:53:43,245 --> 00:53:44,613
- She was crazy,
- 938
- 00:53:45,247 --> 00:53:46,991
- but she was also right.
- 939
- 00:53:47,041 --> 00:53:49,994
- I did not realize how right she had
- until decades later.
- 940
- 00:53:50,044 --> 00:53:52,538
- Which I always know happens
- with one's parents.
- 941
- 00:53:52,588 --> 00:53:55,749
- They are crazy, and then they reach their age
- and thinking:
- 942
- 00:53:57,217 --> 00:53:59,294
- "That's what it means."
- 943
- 00:54:00,304 --> 00:54:03,966
- I taught my homework my homework
- tried to teach me first as an adult man.
- 944
- 00:54:04,016 --> 00:54:06,676
- I walked on the streets of Chicago.
- 945
- 00:54:07,645 --> 00:54:09,429
- I handled myself.
- 946
- 00:54:09,772 --> 00:54:14,810
- Any guy drove past in a pickup
- and called me the N word.
- 947
- 00:54:16,570 --> 00:54:19,564
- And I will not lie.
- I was disappointed.
- 948
- 00:54:20,157 --> 00:54:22,943
- Mostly because he drove a pickup.
- 949
- 00:54:23,535 --> 00:54:25,738
- I just feel
- that it was an unnecessary stereotype
- 950
- 00:54:25,788 --> 00:54:28,198
- which he did not need to maintain.
- 951
- 00:54:30,084 --> 00:54:32,828
- If you are to be racist, do something different.
- 952
- 00:54:32,878 --> 00:54:34,871
- Think beyond the frames.
- 953
- 00:54:35,255 --> 00:54:36,581
- Run a Prius.
- 954
- 00:54:37,675 --> 00:54:39,000
- Yes.
- 955
- 00:54:40,219 --> 00:54:44,840
- It's better for the environment, and it's quiet.
- You can sneak on me. We both win.
- 956
- 00:54:45,683 --> 00:54:48,927
- But no, the guy drove a pickup,
- 957
- 00:54:49,061 --> 00:54:50,429
- called me the N word and ...
- 958
- 00:54:50,479 --> 00:54:53,641
- To give you the whole story,
- Then I went to the red old man.
- 959
- 00:54:53,691 --> 00:54:55,601
- It does not justify what he did,
- 960
- 00:54:55,651 --> 00:55:00,147
- I just want you to know
- that I'm not an angel. Okay?
- 961
- 00:55:00,656 --> 00:55:04,485
- I crossed the street
- and then it became red light,
- 962
- 00:55:04,535 --> 00:55:08,029
- but I decided to go anyway
- because I do not see color.
- 963
- 00:55:12,543 --> 00:55:14,077
- And this man ...
- 964
- 00:55:14,545 --> 00:55:17,623
- This man became so insulted
- of what I had done
- 965
- 00:55:17,673 --> 00:55:21,210
- that he drove his pickup around me,
- rolled down the box, met my eyesight
- 966
- 00:55:21,260 --> 00:55:24,087
- and said, "Out of the way, nigger."
- 967
- 00:55:24,847 --> 00:55:27,465
- And he saw that he would hurt me.
- 968
- 00:55:28,016 --> 00:55:29,927
- We kept each other's eyes shut
- and you saw
- 969
- 00:55:29,977 --> 00:55:32,179
- that he was waiting for me to ...
- 970
- 00:55:42,322 --> 00:55:44,566
- But he did not know ...
- 971
- 00:55:45,325 --> 00:55:47,068
- where i came from
- 972
- 00:55:47,745 --> 00:55:49,279
- Even more important,
- 973
- 00:55:49,329 --> 00:55:51,031
- he did not know...
- 974
- 00:55:51,749 --> 00:55:53,366
- who my mom was.
- 975
- 00:55:55,335 --> 00:55:59,080
- Because he thought it would just be
- a regular racist day.
- 976
- 00:56:03,469 --> 00:56:06,505
- He thought he would throw himself away
- N-word and move on.
- 977
- 00:56:06,555 --> 00:56:10,508
- He did not realize that it was Patricia's son
- who stepped out on the street.
- 978
- 00:56:12,227 --> 00:56:14,304
- And it happened in a moment,
- 979
- 00:56:14,354 --> 00:56:16,139
- but lasted a lifetime.
- 980
- 00:56:16,607 --> 00:56:20,810
- Because I did not even think.
- He just shouted the word and my body ...
- 981
- 00:56:25,616 --> 00:56:28,360
- I thought, "damn it's happening!"
- 982
- 00:56:33,207 --> 00:56:34,575
- And let me tell you, L.A.,
- 983
- 00:56:34,625 --> 00:56:36,910
- it was so amazing
- because I did not plan.
- 984
- 00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:39,580
- I did not think of that.
- I stepped out on the street,
- 985
- 00:56:39,630 --> 00:56:42,708
- he drove his pickup around me,
- rolled down the box and looked at me:
- 986
- 00:56:42,758 --> 00:56:44,334
- "Out of the way, nigger."
- 987
- 00:56:44,384 --> 00:56:47,295
- And I turned around and said,
- "Yo, my nigga."
- 988
- 00:56:53,018 --> 00:56:55,512
- And he almost crashed and died.
- 989
- 00:56:56,855 --> 00:56:58,974
- I've never seen anyone
- question yourself
- 990
- 00:56:59,024 --> 00:57:01,018
- so many times in a fraction of a second.
- 991
- 00:57:01,068 --> 00:57:05,689
- Before I logged in, I saw that he thought:
- "Do I know you?"
- 992
- 00:57:05,948 --> 00:57:07,608
- "Do I look like you know?"
- 993
- 00:57:07,658 --> 00:57:12,445
- And I do not know why he did
- this, but he looked at his hands.
- 994
- 00:57:17,125 --> 00:57:21,121
- He looked at his hands as if they were
- in a magic manner, had become black.
- 995
- 00:57:21,797 --> 00:57:25,250
- As if I had cast a curse.
- I do not know what he was thinking.
- 996
- 00:57:28,554 --> 00:57:30,922
- I actually felt sorry for him.
- 997
- 00:57:31,348 --> 00:57:35,218
- Because I've been called that word before
- but that was his first time.
- 998
- 00:57:35,936 --> 00:57:38,680
- You never forget your first time.
- 999
- 00:57:40,023 --> 00:57:42,184
- Sorry, but is that what he wants?
- 1000
- 00:57:42,234 --> 00:57:44,228
- Will he call me that?
- and ruin my day?
- 1001
- 00:57:44,278 --> 00:57:48,148
- He calls me "nigger"
- and I'm gonna talk about it?
- 1002
- 00:57:48,782 --> 00:57:51,068
- I do not have time for it.
- My mom always said
- 1003
- 00:57:51,118 --> 00:57:53,070
- that you can not control
- what people do,
- 1004
- 00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:55,155
- but you can check
- how to react.
- 1005
- 00:57:55,205 --> 00:57:56,406
- So I promised myself.
- 1006
- 00:57:56,456 --> 00:57:59,868
- "A racist should never have the pleasure
- in seeing my pain. "
- 1007
- 00:57:59,918 --> 00:58:01,453
- It must be painful,
- 1008
- 00:58:01,503 --> 00:58:04,622
- but I do not give them the pleasure
- to see my pain
- 1009
- 00:58:09,219 --> 00:58:10,420
- Does anyone say anything racist,
- 1010
- 00:58:10,470 --> 00:58:14,382
- Then I take racism, shaking it
- with Jesus love and throw it back.
- 1011
- 00:58:15,183 --> 00:58:16,802
- It's not always easy.
- 1012
- 00:58:16,852 --> 00:58:19,888
- Not everyone can do it.
- Not everyone should.
- 1013
- 00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,183
- I understand too
- that it is a bit different for me.
- 1014
- 00:58:23,233 --> 00:58:25,352
- I'm from a country
- 1015
- 00:58:25,402 --> 00:58:28,897
- where the word "nigger" never used
- to repress someone.
- 1016
- 00:58:28,947 --> 00:58:30,691
- We had another word,
- 1017
- 00:58:30,741 --> 00:58:33,694
- because we had the best racism.
- Come on. But not that word.
- 1018
- 00:58:33,744 --> 00:58:36,988
- The word we had was the word "kaffir".
- 1019
- 00:58:36,997 --> 00:58:40,200
- So another word, but the same thing.
- It seems crazy for me sometimes.
- 1020
- 00:58:40,250 --> 00:58:42,786
- Same racism, another word.
- 1021
- 00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:46,373
- And here it does not matter, right?
- "Kaffir"? Nothing.
- 1022
- 00:58:46,423 --> 00:58:50,001
- Some wonder: "Is there any probiotics?
- Is that what it is? "
- 1023
- 00:58:50,719 --> 00:58:53,171
- Yes, the probiotic of my pain.
- 1024
- 00:58:53,931 --> 00:58:57,217
- We do not have it in our supermarkets,
- for obvious reasons.
- 1025
- 00:58:57,351 --> 00:58:58,635
- Nobody warned me in the United States.
- 1026
- 00:58:58,685 --> 00:59:02,347
- I go there among the milk products
- and thinking: "Yogurt, ice cream ...
- 1027
- 00:59:03,941 --> 00:59:06,393
- This lactose is intolerant. "
- 1028
- 00:59:12,032 --> 00:59:14,693
- So there are different around the world.
- I get that.
- 1029
- 00:59:14,743 --> 00:59:18,613
- It's a privilege I have
- when it comes to dealing with the N word.
- 1030
- 00:59:19,039 --> 00:59:21,158
- In South Africa, nobody was called "nigger".
- 1031
- 00:59:21,208 --> 00:59:24,161
- All over Africa no one was oppressed
- with that word.
- 1032
- 00:59:24,211 --> 00:59:25,996
- So that word has no power.
- 1033
- 00:59:26,046 --> 00:59:28,874
- Wherever you go.
- "Nigger, nigger, nigger ..." Nothing.
- 1034
- 00:59:28,924 --> 00:59:32,252
- While I can now feel the excitement
- here in the room.
- 1035
- 00:59:32,302 --> 00:59:36,339
- Some think: "For hell,
- was it seven times? I'm taking, Trevor.
- 1036
- 00:59:36,556 --> 00:59:38,967
- That's my annual quota. Come on."
- 1037
- 00:59:40,435 --> 00:59:41,761
- I get it.
- 1038
- 00:59:41,979 --> 00:59:44,681
- It made me think
- that we may be able to use it.
- 1039
- 00:59:44,731 --> 00:59:47,309
- We can use it
- to help each other
- 1040
- 00:59:47,359 --> 00:59:51,271
- and create a program that you send
- all your racists to Africa
- 1041
- 00:59:51,321 --> 00:59:52,981
- only once a year.
- 1042
- 00:59:53,031 --> 00:59:55,484
- For Africans, they will be tight.
- 1043
- 00:59:55,534 --> 01:00:00,030
- The best part is that you do not even
- need to wait. There are black everywhere.
- 1044
- 01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:03,200
- Just jump straight and scream: "Nigger!"
- 1045
- 01:00:03,250 --> 01:00:06,995
- Since Africa is run and owned by black,
- then they are not afraid of white.
- 1046
- 01:00:07,045 --> 01:00:10,498
- They will only say:
- "Jimbo, he's back. Nigger man.
- 1047
- 01:00:12,134 --> 01:00:13,877
- How are you nigger? "
- 1048
- 01:00:15,303 --> 01:00:17,381
- "To hell, you're the kidney."
- 1049
- 01:00:17,431 --> 01:00:20,384
- "But you are always saying that,
- nigger-art.
- 1050
- 01:00:20,434 --> 01:00:22,177
- Yes, your nigger.
- 1051
- 01:00:22,227 --> 01:00:25,889
- Apply some sunscreen cream
- before you die, nigger. Now we're partying. "
- 1052
- 01:00:32,446 --> 01:00:34,939
- It would be different.
- That's all I say.
- 1053
- 01:00:36,533 --> 01:00:38,985
- It's always strange to me,
- 1054
- 01:00:39,036 --> 01:00:41,655
- because no one used the word
- in a derogatory manner
- 1055
- 01:00:41,705 --> 01:00:44,741
- so the word "nigger" exists in South Africa.
- 1056
- 01:00:44,791 --> 01:00:46,743
- But in the mother tongue, Xhosa,
- 1057
- 01:00:46,752 --> 01:00:49,245
- means the word "nigga" "to give".
- 1058
- 01:00:50,047 --> 01:00:52,249
- That's what "nigga" means on Xhosa.
- 1059
- 01:00:52,299 --> 01:00:54,042
- That's how to use it.
- 1060
- 01:00:59,890 --> 01:01:03,719
- So not enough that the word does not hurt me,
- when racists use it against me,
- 1061
- 01:01:03,769 --> 01:01:06,763
- it just evokes
- nice childhood memories.
- 1062
- 01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:10,684
- I get memories of when I was a child.
- 1063
- 01:01:10,734 --> 01:01:12,853
- I was playing with my cousin
- and his toy cars.
- 1064
- 01:01:12,903 --> 01:01:14,730
- I always stole his. I had none.
- 1065
- 01:01:14,780 --> 01:01:16,856
- He began to scream ...
- 1066
- 01:01:18,283 --> 01:01:22,112
- Mom came running and said:
- "Whats happening here?"
- 1067
- 01:01:22,162 --> 01:01:23,821
- And my cousin said,
- 1068
- 01:01:23,914 --> 01:01:25,240
- "Aunt..."
- 1069
- 01:01:32,506 --> 01:01:33,873
- "Do you hear!
- 1070
- 01:01:34,216 --> 01:01:36,960
- Talk properly. I do not hear you.
- What happened?"
- 1071
- 01:01:37,135 --> 01:01:38,754
- "Trevor stole my toys."
- 1072
- 01:01:38,804 --> 01:01:41,715
- And mom said, "Trevor, you stole
- your cousin's toys? "
- 1073
- 01:01:41,765 --> 01:01:44,426
- I said, "No, mom, I do not stole.
- I promise.
- 1074
- 01:01:44,476 --> 01:01:48,346
- "Trevor ... Do not lie to me?
- Do you stole the toys? "
- 1075
- 01:01:48,396 --> 01:01:50,015
- "No, I'm not stolen," I said.
- 1076
- 01:01:50,065 --> 01:01:53,184
- "What happened was his cars
- was illegally parked.
- 1077
- 01:01:54,444 --> 01:01:57,773
- So I got to wire them because you can not
- live in a society without laws.
- 1078
- 01:01:57,823 --> 01:02:01,442
- I'm just a humble official
- after all.
- 1079
- 01:02:01,535 --> 01:02:05,739
- Without laws, it will be chaos, mom.
- That's all that keeps us up.
- 1080
- 01:02:05,789 --> 01:02:08,492
- As a civilization, it is the only one
- that keeps us ... "
- 1081
- 01:02:08,542 --> 01:02:09,493
- "Listen!" She said.
- 1082
- 01:02:09,543 --> 01:02:12,036
- "Do not come here and be cheeky.
- 1083
- 01:02:12,379 --> 01:02:13,914
- Give back the toys. "
- 1084
- 01:02:13,964 --> 01:02:16,624
- "Mom, please. I just want to play ..."
- 1085
- 01:02:19,052 --> 01:02:21,546
- "Give back the toys."
- 1086
- 01:02:21,596 --> 01:02:24,048
- - "Mom ..."
- - "Listen! Nigga!"
- 1087
- 01:02:28,478 --> 01:02:31,598
- And my cousin sat there:
- "Nigga, please."
- 1088
- 01:02:34,734 --> 01:02:37,395
- L.A., you were really fun tonight.
- 1089
- 01:02:41,950 --> 01:02:44,444
- Thank you very much for coming here.
- 1090
- 01:02:45,245 --> 01:02:47,697
- I appreciate you all so much.
- 1091
- 01:02:48,039 --> 01:02:49,991
- Have a good evening, everyone.
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