Disgraceful Daily Show Host Used African Language To Hide Sick, Racist Joke at Oscars
Trevor Noah, host of “The Daily Show,” used a South African language to make a disgraceful racist joke at the Oscars Sunday night.
When Noah introduced best picture nominee “Black Panther,” he pretended that he was giving a wholesome message about unity in Xhosa, a language from his home country.
“Growing up as a young boy in Wakanda, I would see T’Challa flying over our village, and he would remind me of a great Xhosa phrase,” Noah said. “He says ‘abelungu abazi uba ndiyaxoka’ — which means, ‘In times like these, we are stronger when we fight together than when we try to fight apart.'”
Most people listening probably assumed Noah was speaking metaphorically about the fictional country of Wakanda — a harmless little story to carry a note of “unity.” The message got a warm round of applause from members of the Academy.
However, it wasn’t a statement of unity at all. Instead, Noah was putting on a display of utter contempt, both for his audience inside Hollywood’s Dolby Theater and to the millions and millions of Americans watching at home.
Noah’s Xhosa phrase translates into, “white people don’t know I’m lying,” according to CNN.
Trevor Noah speaks Xhosa at the Oscars. listen and enjoy pic.twitter.com/37UUMzjDiH
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I’m not sure why Noah thought it would be funny to make a joke about lying to “white people” unless being blatantly racist was his intention.
The joke is made worse by the fact that he masked his racism with a message about fighting together.
And the left won’t even care because it’s racism directed at white people.
CNN described the joke as one of the night’s “best punchlines” and Vulture described the racist joke as “the funniest.”
But if a white person pretended to give an inspiring message about unity and said “black people don’t know I’m lying” in Polish or Hungarian, for instance, there would be outrage, and rightfully so.
Furthermore, Noah may have forgotten, or been utterly disdainful of, the whites who do understand Xhosa. In fact, it was an Englishman in the mid-1800s who first translated the Bible into Xhosa, according to the Bible Society of South Africa.
There’s no question that Noah’s joke was racist, and there’s no question it was sickening. But, unfortunately, it isn’t as shocking as it should be. Racist attacks directed at white people are common from the left.
Late-night show hosts used to be funny and entertaining, but the media ditched real comedians in favor of far-left ideologues like Noah.
That was already bad enough. On Sunday night, it was disgraceful.
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