Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia

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