Ever since Europeans first settled at the southern tip of Africa, we appear to have generated more troublesome history than we can consume or digest. As a result, our past has not been laid to rest, which explains the sound and fury when disputes erupt in the present.
Trevor Noah has The Talk with viewers about police violence against Black people
“It has been another week in America,” began
Daily Show host Trevor Noah on Thursday, with the sort of deeply resigned wry gravitas signaling a piece on just how lousy a week it’s truly been. Continuing, Noah confirmed that fact, adding, “Which means it’s been another week of Black people being harassed or killed by the police.” Naming just two high-profile, caught-on-camera incidents of such police misconduct (Daunte Wright is dead, U.S. Army Lieutenant Caron Nazario was beaten and pepper-sprayed), Noah dutifully waded into well-explored waters as he attempted to unpack yet another week’s worth of documented proof that the experiences of policing are deeply, too-often fatefully, irrevocably different for not-white versus white households.