Trevor Noah addressed recent controversial comments Joe Rogan made about Black identity.
On a recent episode of the “Daily Show,” Noah mockingly addressed Rogan’s hot take on skin color and society’s use of the term “Black.”
Rogan recently explained that he finds the term “Black” as a descriptor to be “weird,” as there’s a broad “spectrum of shades” within races.
“Unless you’re talking to someone who is, like, 100 percent African, from the darkest place, where they are not wearing any clothes all day, and they’ve developed all that melanin to protect themselves from the sun, you know, even the term “Black” is weird,” Rogan said on a recent episode of his podcast. “When you use it for people who are literally my color, it becomes very strange.”
Noah addressed Rogan’s comments after playing a clip of his remarks.
“Oh my God! I’m not Black! I’m not Black! Joe Rogan’s right! I’m like a Caramel Mocha Frappuccino,” the South African-born comedian said while pretending to be shocked. “This changes everything. This changes everything!”
Noah then proceeded to get up from his desk and rushed off the set before sirens rang out, forcing him to return to the stage.
“The police said I’m Black,” Noah quipped. “But yeah, apparently Joe Rogan really wants to know why they say ‘Black people’ if they’re not the color of a Sharpie,” he added.
Noah then went on to school Rogan, saying, “Black people didn’t call themselves Black. You understand that, right?”
“It’s not like Black people were like, ‘We’re Black.’ No. In Africa, we have tribes. We have cultures. Zulu. Xhosa. Baganda. Igbo. Wakandans! But then white people got there, and they were like, ‘Wow, there’s a lot of Black people here.’ … Then, in America, they invented a rule that if you had one drop of Black blood in you, that makes you Black, which defined how you were treated by the government and by society. Even vampires wouldn’t bite you,” Noah explained in a thorough takedown.
