Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” replacement Trevor Noah says he now understands what it means to be black in America.
“I may not be American, but I am black. It’s not like I had to learn how to be black,” the comic from South Africa says in a new GQ interview.
This was not always the case, as Noah’s early standup material sometimes focused on the differences between Africans and African-Americans. For example, one of Noah’s early jokes was, “You’re not African, but we play along.”
He now says he regrets that choice of words. “I had given some people ammunition to oppress those who had already been oppressed,” he said.