How Racist Is Boston - Beyond the Scenes | The Daily Show

hey what's up everybody i'm roy wood jr welcome to beyond the scenes the podcast where we address issues that were originally talked about on the daily show with trevor noah i sit down with correspondents producers writers anybody i can get my hands on to break down a lot of these issues today we asked the question how racist is boston in 2018 i sat down with some people from the boston globe some people from the naacp i even put on a wookiee walrus costume to really get to the bottom of the issue because i don't know if you've heard or not but boston's got a little bit of a problem with race here's a clip so one study we found showed that the median net worth of white families in boston was five 247 dollars compare that to the median net worth of black families in boston which was eight dollars eight like counting in thousands like eight thousand dollars no just eight eight dollars eight dollars that's that's not even a grande soy latte spotlight wants to know why black enrollment at many of boston's universities hasn't really gone up in 30 years or why there's so little diversity in boardrooms and hospitals or how among eight major cities black people voted boston the least welcoming to people of color all right so today we're going beyond the scenes with daily show field producer cj hunt and later we're going to be joined by boston naacp president tanisha sullivan but first cj how are you doing brother uh boston original were you born and raised in boston uh how long were you there i was born in worcester uh and then i was raised for for a while in boston i still can't pronounce that word worcester worship worcestershire worcestershire worcestershire yeah that's exactly that sauce tastes like me trying to pronounce it so we haven't had many field producers on the show yet because y'all are always out doing stuff in the field and it's it's an interesting job because you know as a field producer you all are kind of helping to put all the pieces together the visuals the writers kind of hand you an idea you all help to kind of craft what the concept will be as well and then you're out the door but the cameras trying to figure this out i guess first thing i'll ask you out the gate um i know this piece wasn't my idea because i know as a black person i would have never pitched hey let me go to boston as a black man and ask everybody if it's racist or not so how does this piece all come about also not my idea uh as a black man who looks like a mexican man um i who was grew up in boston i know how racist it is this isn't this isn't a question a lot of black folks are asking you know numerically how racist is it it's just it is more an intuitive piece of knowledge but i think that question came to the piece because um this is actually my first piece on the show it was the spring of 2018. um you know i just met you you were the first person i met on the show and they were like okay how would you like to go out with roy here's a piece we have cooking the piece originally was about michael che you know he had been he had said on snl you know i'm ex like the patriots were versus the falcons for the super bowl and michael che was like hey i'm excited to see the blackest city beat the most racist city i've ever been to so the piece originally was supposed to be about how bostonians felt about michael chase [ __ ] on their city oh he's always taking shots at them and they're always mad at jay yeah they're always mad at chad and yeah it's it's his staten island i guess so it was uh it was about that and um also they were changing the name of yaki way which was you know named after a red sox uh manager who you know kept them from integrating so originally the piece was supposed to be about that and then very quickly in pitching to trevor he was like now y'all gotta y'all gotta change the question it's one of those pieces that i enjoy because we go out the door with a single question we're attempting to ascertain we're simply trying to find out how racist is it and so we oh here's a little uh beyond the scene you want to go beyond the scenes [ __ ] bring them on um we shot all of this in one day which isn't the norm but when we started putting the day together it kind of made sense and so i i remember you know we went over we went over to roxbury um in boston the black side of town if you don't know and we spoke with black people over there then we went over to the boston globe and we spoke with some of the naacp people and then we went over to fenway to start doing man on the street and just kind of talking to laymen um you know they were out and about the thing that was so visible to me right away by the end of the day was just how oblivious some people were to what's going on i i distinctly remember us asking one person you know is there racism she goes well i've never seen it i don't see that racism myself honestly no i don't think boston's a racist city i don't think boston is a racist city at all so how do you know i don't feel it as if that's the only way it can be confirmed is you must see it and expect you must witness a black person getting kicked out of a store the cops beating his ass to believe that it's real and i i thought that that was kind of disheartening in a way um why why do you think boston has this reputation as a reason it's also the best part of the piece to me you know you you ask that old couple you know this old white couple outside of fenway do you think boston is a racist city and what i love about watching you work is the questions are so basic you know you're just asking person after person you know like do you think it deserves this rep and they say you know i don't think boston is a racist city i i don't see i don't see it i've never felt it and the idea is like when would you have felt it sir and ma'am you know you you like 70 year old white people when would someone have been racist to you so but but i do think that that's you know this was 2018 that's how people then and some people still now think about racism it's like you know if someone's not shouting the n-word at me or i don't see it happen on a train that's the only type of racism that can exist so i love that that's the part of the piece people comment most about it in the comments about damn when this this couple says this thing and i think you know most bostonian most white bostonians and most white people in america i think still think if i don't feel it personally then it doesn't exist you've been from that area right clearly you felt it growing up as a yeah black looking mexican man as a mexican looking black for as a as a phyllis negro yeah as a filipino latinx black man looking man how did it feel because you could feel that and you know that's real and then to be able to come back home with a camera and a correspondent and security lots of security security run up if you want shout out to julian um shout out to security yelling who wants this um i we had a real confrontational security card you're asking questions in the background you hear security try it try it come on i okay i don't want to say it felt like vengeance but it felt vindicating to come back to boston and in a place i grew up you know asking this question with a camera because you know i think white bostonians who i know some of their reaction was oh man are you really gonna do that come on like give us a break but black bostonians i know and who grew up with were like yeah okay finally you know like i i don't think i don't think there are a lot of black bostonians who react to the reputation like oh my god i don't know why the media's hung up on this are we asking this question again it's more just like yeah we we already know that you know like i grew up real bougie i grew up in boarding schools because my parents were like uh get out of the house um but you know that the type of racism there was not like walking through southie at night type of racism like the racism there was okay everyone it's friday we have to have another meeting about who wrote the n-word in the mirrors in the bathroom like that was a very common the the amount of meetings that we've had i had in middle school and high school for who wrote the n word somewhere is is so high and then also the middle school i went to in the dorms people would just regularly use the word tar baby like don't be a tar baby about this thing so it's kind of like you know bougie white people racism like my father's a massachusetts governor we are a lineage of captains type type uh like boat shoe racism yeah it's a separate piece racism a little about holden caufield style racism nantucket racism describe to me a little bit of that process of as a first first-time field producer at that time sitting down with trevor and just like what was that like like throwing your ideas at trevor and just going hey man this is what i think i want to do is it okay or was it look i'm from there the writing inward on the mirror i know how to handle this i i don't know you remember the way we used to pitch in that big room in the big conference room with trevor yeah like we have since figured out at the daily show like a much more efficient way about like bro here's a paragraph you know i'm gonna email it to you tell us what you like and then we can talk about it but there was a time when all of the field producers and the whole field team would go into a conference room you know so like we're talking like 20 20 plus people and sit in a conference room while trevor's eating lunch and we would just almost as if it was like a game show like try to stand up and pitch our entire pieces to him um and this was during that time so i i pulled up the original pitch uh and i want to read a little bit of it to you so it came to me and it was supposed to be okay this is going to be an antiques roadshow uh about uh all the racist sort of signage and things boston still had and that didn't make a whole lot of sense so this is what i wrote and imagine like sitting across from trevor as he eats pasta and reading this from a page okay this is called by the numbers how racist is boston here's the log line boston plans to change the name of yaki way a street next to the stadium where the red sox play the street is named after the racist team owner tom yaki aka the robert e lee of baseball the removal is a rare acknowledgement of boston's racist past but how racist is it these days roy wood jr sets out to answer this question not with anecdotes but with the numbers as loud and as clear as tom yaki's thoughts on miscegenation this is the first in by the numbers a special investigative wing of tds that sets out to answer questions we never thought to count on how [ __ ] does it va and how bad is flint's water trevor like it was me reading that whole thing and imagine that for every field producer it's like the most gut-wrenching i don't even want to hear me read that now and it's funny because it's not that trevor's not listening he's processing all of it and then he comes out on the other side and goes here's what you need just ask how racist is boston and you're sitting like whoa brilliant yes you fixed the pitch yeah and you're like so so none of the other stuff but i think you know he he that is one of his great gifts he would sit there and listen to all of that paragraph that i just read and go what is the story and i'd go well well i just read it you know the robert e lee of baseball and the thing about um yucky and you know and he would just go no what tell me in one sentence what is this story about and i think that that was a big education for being in those rooms of oh damn yeah like why are we trying to impress you with all these jokes and all of these bits like you just want to know the thing and the thing that he boiled it down to for us was okay so spotlight the ones who expose the catholic church sex scandal they're asking how racist is boston how do they measure that and then that became the piece of yo how do you measure that before we go to break uh real quick because you you talked about having so much stuff and having all these different concepts i distinctly remember saying that we need a raise like progressive like desegregation needs a mascot i did not know you all would put me in a hot ass wookie the walrus costume for three [ __ ] if you don't want us to make brilliant things why did you say it i didn't think you all would actually put me in the costume i thought we would just hire somebody locally to walk around on a wall this outfit and i go i'm here with woki like mcgruff the crime dog or smokey the bear but y'all put me in the damn thing i felt like most people took will to the walrus i think it it made it more inviting it disarmed the moment because you're trying to talk about race at a ballpark people here be happy have a good time and hey pardon me would you like to talk about your views on racism here in the greater boston metro air but i'm in a walrus outfit so you feel safe and i feel like that helped get us a lot more interviews who's got the best baseball ball who's got the best football who's number one in creating a system where structurally black people don't always get the same opportunities [Music] it's working already before we go to break what were some of the things that did not make it in the piece that you wish did make it into piece i have one one thing that one thing that i can see in the piece i have written in the piece act two roy sets out to do his own test by setting up a can i date your daughter booth in south boston what like this is what i am a new as a new employee i'm telling like trevor as he eats his pasta as we pitch so then we're gonna have roy go to south boston and have a booth it's like it's like the beginning of like die hard with the vengeance it's like if we want roy to stay alive we have to do half of these bits so that was one and then my favorite one was you were walking around with like a geiger counter uh that we call it a negrometer uh that was supposed to measure how racist and aerial was or how racist a person was we have emails of we have this props genius named shabbat and he the emails i sent to him are pictures of that ghostbuster machine being like we need this but for racism all right let's take a quick break when we're back we will be joined by boston naacp president tanisha sullivan this is beyond the scenes it's gonna be a good time worcester worcestershire we're sure sister worsh that's it that's what they said okay how racist is boston was the question that we posed to a lot of black folks over in roxbury who posed it to some white folks over there by fenway park and we posed it to this woman who is joining us now she is the president of the boston naacp chapter tanisha sullivan welcome to beyond the scenes first and foremost thank you for having me i'm excited to be here with y'all today we just just a couple black folks talking racism you know that's all no no big thing just a just regular day of the week for us pretty much i'm also happy because we've been trying to get you back but it's a hard thing to be like okay this person's gonna come back to the daily show but you were so good when we first interviewed you i'm excited you're back no i appreciate being back and especially to talk about this and especially you talking about this topic now i'm excited to be back so so before we get to your opinions about the piece that we did three years ago oh my god it's been three years um i know good and old um i first want to ask you a little bit just about your work what were some of the things and circumstances in your life that got you to where you are to make that decision to not only it's one thing to join naacp but you was like hey let me run it give me the keys and let's start figuring this out so just walk me through your relationship with the city of boston and why this is a cause that matters to you you know beyond 40 hours a week it seems well it's 40 plus i you know so i'll start there you know but a lot of people don't no but seriously because what a lot of people don't know is that um at the local level at the branch level we are all volunteer operated right so we have like another job right so it's this this is the second full-time job um which you know really i think does speak to um the need for some there has to be something that drives you i think you're right like there has to be something within you that drives you to someone to want to do this work because it is hard it's emotionally draining it is deeply personal and for me it is it's really the influence of my parents you know i was born in boston i was raised outside of boston my parents are from boston my grandparents are from boston um but my dad um you know he spent his entire career working in the boston public schools he started working in the boston public schools in 1974 september of 1974 when uh desegregation in in boston was being implemented forced uh bussing many people remember those images that really rocked the nation and certainly rocked our city to the core and my dad his job was to ride the buses with the black kids from roxbury into south boston and to make sure that they were cared for and protected um at a very tumultuous time in our city and um he chose for almost 40 years to stay in the district he moved from being a bus monitor and i should say my dad he he got that job after graduating from boston college and so he moved on from being a bus monitor to when he um retired from bps he was the school leader at the john d o'brien school of math and sciences which is one of the most prestigious schools in the commonwealth and so education was always spoken highly of in our home and more importantly it was education plus really a a commitment a responsibility um to ensure that we were doing all we could to ensure equal access um for everyone to a quality education that's incredible for me to hear because my dad was you know in undergrad in you know during the busing crisis and he i i grew up with him talking about stories of watching folks throw bricks at black school children through the windows of these buses and the idea that your dad his legacy is being on the inside of that bus not just oh i was black in boston and saw this happening but i was the one trying to keep these kids safe i mean that's an incredible legacy yeah selfless it's selfless in the sense of at a time where it really wasn't safe for any black folks he was volunteering to protect some of the most vulnerable black folks like that's which which rolls me into the second question that we traveled to your city to attempt to answer which is how racist is boston which which which i also love cj is that we didn't the question was never is boston races like we already know that right okay but we're talking about degrees here how how racist so tanisha has boston earned that reputation in the sense like because you think about the south why why is it such a surprise to people about northeast racism yeah i mean because we project uh in the northeast in new england we project you know uh really a liberal and a progressive banner right like we we really pride ourselves on um on being progressive and having progressive values and being inclusive um and so when people are confronted with the contradiction of you know kind of the the values that we espouse and quite frankly some of the issues that we've led on i mean you think about like marriage equality you know massachusetts led on that you know health care um for all right um massachusetts led on that right but when you um kind of look at the contradiction of these progressive and liberal values on some social issues and then you look at really how what the data says about you know racial equity in boston people are just they scratch their heads and they're like how could that be because you've gotten so many other things right how come you're not getting this one right right right this piece right and i'll say i think a lot of it really does go back to um the racial strife that that we experienced here in the city certainly um what the nation saw was you know through force busting here in boston that history that trauma we've never really dealt with here in the city like we've never really we've never really had like truth and reconciliation on that issue and you can still feel um the trauma and the the division in the city it's palpable george floyd even post george floyd you still boston still has this reputation for being a racist place it does but you know i have to say you don't have to defend my city you know because i you know boston i do believe is one of the greatest cities in our country and you know there's so much opportunity here and there's so many good things about boston um but yet we still struggle with racism like many other cities but i would you know i think admittedly we are uniquely positioned as a city um with all of the resources that we have here to tackle the issue and yet we have not you know i think roy's kind of is pushing in this territory but it's you know what i find funny about the question in boston is how allergic folks are even to the question of is this a racist place how racist is it you know you talk about new york you're like those people in new york are [ __ ] and people like yeah that's fair but if you even suggest that you're wondering how racist boston is people are like how dare you you know even kyrie recently is you know all he said was the subtle racism he he just said subtle racism and people are like oh my god it's like hit him with a water bottle i mean it's not my first time being an opponent in boston uh so you know i'm just looking forward to competing with my teammates and um you know hopefully we can just keep it strictly basketball you know there's no belligerence or any racism going on subtle racism and people yelling [ __ ] from the crowd he didn't say these people are bigots he was just like the subtle racism and people are like how dare you suggest that there's subtle racism do you feel like that allergy to talking about boston's history do you feel like folks are less allergic now than they were because you look at this piece when we look back at this piece it feels so 2018 it feels so pretty it is a conversation with folks who you know it is so clearly even talking about how detailed the piece has to be about talking about structural racism and educating the audience on what structural racism is do you feel like folks have more tools now or do you feel like that allergies yeah like how's the conversation now i know that there's been some improvements cj i don't know if you knew this or not but bobby brown got his own street in boston finally in on talking to speaking of progress find racism solved you know we got the massachusetts 54th monument and we got that bobby brown other than bobby brown way in what ways has the conversation evolved yeah no i think i think you know y'all listen um everybody loves new addition and everybody loves bobby brown so you know so that is progress um you know but i love your framing of this cj right like it's an allergy i i think of it similarly it like this is this this is there's something like really deep and um systemic about it right and in so many ways like i feel like we have to or we should be you know tackling the issue like we would you know a disease right like the disease that it is right that said i i will you know i do want to acknowledge that last year in particular we did have more people um in the city who were like oh is that what y'all experience like is is that is is that what you've been talking about you know and and and so right so there were you know i think um you know not an insignificant representation of the community that that did have some light bulbs go off um and for a period of time we're deeply committed to wanting to talk about racism but even then real talk like they wanted to talk about racism as a related to policing right you know once we said look we're going to do policing reform here in the city of boston yeah and we're going to do policing reform in massachusetts but understand that this is just the beginning of the conversation if we're really if you're really serious about um helping us now to dismantle this racism that you've just now come to understand exists then we need to have a conversation about economic inequality we need to have a conversation about inequities in education that are significantly impacting black and brown kids year after year after year we have to have a conversation about why it is that the covid19 pandemic disproportionately impacted black and brown people and low-income people and it's not because we're more susceptible to the virus it's because of the conditions that we are that we've been forced to live in it's because of the the the neglect of our health care system as it relates to our as it relates to our physical and mental well-being right and people are like oh this isn't just about policing no yeah you go okay we're going to talk about racism let's break it down you know let's let's let's talk about boston's role in the slave trade and put that in the textbook no no yeah you talking about putting it in the history book like it's like it's almost like fixing racism is when you take your car in and you only want to get a tire that's all you want to fix is the tire the police tire and then they run the diamonds hey man we ran the diagnostic man you got some homeowners and equity you got bail reform you got a little bail reform acting up underneath your catalytic converter we got some you got some structural racism and unemployment they didn't know that's right the tire just the tires please that's all we want to fix so after the break i want to talk a little bit more about some of those tires and diagnostics that have been going on in your city that you all have been starting to check and have been starting to change because in defense of your city we're going to talk about some of the good stuff that's going on over there we're going to talk about some of the good things that's been making moves over there so uh it's my pleasure to be joined by the president the most esteemed madam president of the boston naacp tanisha sullivan more with her when we go beyond the scenes one more time and you too cj ui madam sullivan we were talking in the previous break about some of the strides that boston has made you know since 2018 since the racial awakening that we had as a country in 2012 i'm so tired of people used the dialogue that we had and we've had a dialogue and and so since that time we're going to give credit where credit is due with the city of boston and some of the things that they've done to try and turn the page bobby brown got a streak the celtics hired a blackhead coach this year so you got a brother back at the helm with the celtics cj am i is that everything i think that's it am i missing any of them oh you guys had you y'all have a black mayor now oh yes yes yes okay there it is you know no wait not just a black man we got a sister we got we got a sister we got a sister okay um so with the election of uh of joe biden he actually um he nominated our uh a former mayor marty walsh to be secretary of labor and under our charter here in boston the city council president becomes acting mayor um if the mayor vacates his or her office um and our city council president is a black woman and um so she is now our acting mayor and yes kim janey that's exciting too because in the spotlight piece that we had you know as part of this field piece one of the spotlight things that they were saying is boston has never had a black mayor unlike all of these other places so that must feel great so racism solved right not yet um but you know but it's good right it's great to um to have her in the seat we actually have a mayoral election this year and the six leading candidates at this time are all people of color um four of them are women um and so it is highly probable that boston will elect um a it will we will elect a person of color and that we may also elect a woman uh to be mayor we've never had an elected woman mayor either so so you've had a black mayor sneak in and now you'll get one the legitimate way as well to really cement it listen you know but but but it's reflective of you know again on the progress side since we were last together um we have the most diverse city council that we've ever had um in the history of the city of boston and so some of the issues that the city council has tackled um over the past couple of years have really spoken to the ideological evolution of our city specifically on issues of racial justice and racial equity um this year two of our counselors council mejia and councillor bach um have introduced um the conversation on reparations uh to talk about the role of boston and the slave trade we know that you know people often talk about the enslavement of black folks primarily in the south although we know here in boston um that black folks were enslaved as well but we also understand that boston um played a significant role in helping to finance uh slavery in this country right and so um so really pushing the conversation on issues of racial justice and racial equity here in boston um has been a positive outgrowth of a more diverse city council how much in reparation we'll be talking here is this for boston current boston residents of how long like when i went to college like when i was at famu you had to be living in state for a year to be eligible for in-state tuition so to be eligible for the boston reparation initiative as i'm going to call it what's the baseline well we're gonna we'll we'll see we'll see we're gonna we're gonna dive into the conversation we're gonna dive into the history um you know and understand the impact of of of slavery uh in boston today and then we'll see what reparations might what the repair might look like but you know so so often when we talk about reparations people go right to well what's the dollar number what's that number before we get to the number i'm just saying before we get to the number we really like we've got to unpack this thing so that we can understand where the roots are of of of this very um significant problem stain um on our society so that we can then see how it's manifesting itself today you know and then we can talk about what it will take to repair because that's what reparations is it's repair it's helping to repair it's kind of like when you fight with you know someone you're in a relationship with and they're like okay what do i have what do i have to do what do i have to do to get you to stop talking about you're like no we still need to talk about what you did in order to talk about what is owed if you're gonna have a meaningful conversation about reparations you gotta be willing to get to the root and those are difficult conversations and when you talk about a place like boston you know it's gonna require us to do a lot of self-reflection um that can be might be painful but if we want to move forward um beyond celebrating having a black mayor um we have to be willing to lean into those conversations so off of the black mayor thing you know this is what i've noticed and i call it the empire striking back for lack of a better phrase for all the good stuff that happened politically yeah on the behalf of candidates is benefiting black folks it's been a lot of laws that they trying to start passing and sneaking under the table to make sure that these good times don't keep rolling at midterms talk to me a little bit about what's happening in boston now on the heels of kim janey being i guess appointed mayor where now if you're in city council you can't even be made i don't even think about it yeah so you know we do see backlash and this is you know i think um you know it's it's like the civil is there such a thing as civil racism i don't know we're gonna make that up right i like that you know it's like crazy it's polite racism you know really racist but you know we're civil about it we're civil about that's boston racism it's just like you have this diverse city council doing all of these great things that you claim are helping all of the people and now you're telling me none of these people can ever aspire to do something more for the city well you know this what what's what's interesting is so a few weeks ago the city council decided that since since the uh the city council president is elected by the members of the city council and the acting mayor is only acting mayor because she is uh you know the president of the council they uh voted for the first time in our history right they voted now all of a sudden to give themselves the right to remove her from her city council presidency which would thereby remove her as acting mayor you know i i find it you know it's so interesting that after you know how many hundreds of years right now um now they need to make it clear to everybody that they have the power to take her out of the office and you know even if it were a legitimate position to have you know those types of actions you know as a black woman right those types of actions in a moment like this absolutely give me pause and and i think they should give all of us pause because that's the stuff that those are the micro aggressions i mean that's a nice way to put it right not even micro right right right i was like you know like like that's the stuff like why would you do that you know except to send a message you know send a message if it's a law it is not a microaggression that's right that's a law i mean did they did they even try to hide it were they like oh this was on the to-do list for a hundred years it's not just in 2020 when we have a black man no they just no they did not and in fact you know what they have been saying over the past few weeks is that they are just not pleased with you know um how she's interacting with them they feel like she should be having more conversation with them she should you know they should know more about what she's doing and you know all of these good things and now i i have to say you know these are issues and concerns that they've had with mayors in the past right but um but to take this step i i just you know that one i i just said you know what this is it's shameful especially given um the demographic makeup of of the council at this time there is so much joy in my heart for being able to talk to you today because the depths to which we've been able to go and explore this subject this is why we go beyond the scene i joke about the title but like this is why we go beyond because sitting with you for the actual field piece which i hoped you watch i hoped you liked it i hope that you did yes it was great it was great okay all right what if we got to this point and tanisha was like you know i never seen it listen let me tell you something there are a lot of fans out there for the daily show i mean i consistently get hit up people are like oh my goodness i saw you on the daily show i saw you on the day i'm like oh yeah cause people keep reposting the piece every time boston trip up i have a question for you roy of you know that is still one of my favorite pieces not just because you know a white man outside fenway is going it's not racist because i don't feel it talk to me about what it fee what is happening in your head when you move from talking to folks who are saying racist things to you and you are being incredibly polite but managing to find the humor of of catching them showing themselves in that moment talk to me about what is happening for you when then you shift that lens and then approach talking to um black folks for me the thing i learned on the very first field piece i shot with jordan klepper when we spoke with a cop who didn't believe that there was any real police harassment problems in this country we spoke with an ex-club and i remember getting angry like i was legit angry are police racist no it's good enough for me i'm satisfied we're good here unbelievable are you serious yeah nypd was whooping ass look bo i'm sorry about it i'm sorry the producer stu mills we stopped and took 10 he pretended that we needed to oh camera battery whatever he put me out into the hole he said i'm just giving you this time to calm down i know it's heavy whatever whatever and what i learned in that moment is that if you get angry it's not funny anymore we're on comedy central i am a comedian my job is to find the joke the viewer can handle all of the other emotions that will come with this they don't need me to be the conduit for that also if i'm getting angry now you're not talking as much you're gonna close in or it's gonna become a confrontation jordan klepper is by far the master like to this day i understand now why they paired me with him to go out and do that piece because if you just sit me there alone it's just been a fist fight and a lawsuit and i'm fired but when talking to people who don't understand the issue if you just let them talk they're going the the funny is in how incredulously oblivious they are did i form a sentence like that thank you alabama public schools there's there's something though in talking with black people that there's no joke how outrageous the truth is is enough for most of us i mean when we sat and talked with the brother in the diner i don't even think we used it he was like yeah man i'm moving to atlanta this week i can't take it here no more i got to be around black folks and this is a black person who was boston through and through and was just like nah i'm checking out there's opportunities down there so he said i'm going to start my business in atlanta so that was you know it to me cj to answer the question it's just more about just having honest conversations about something that's so ridiculous and you talk to black people to get the truth and then you go across the fenway to talk to people who have no clue what you're talking about and it's just wow like it's just one of those moments you know but i i think that's what i this isn't even a question but just a comment of that's what i love about watching you work you know like field producers we just get to watch the correspondence running full speed and what i what i love about watching you work is you fight for these human centers and human moments to the peace it's not just like wow they said some wild [ __ ] it's like now let's go over to the silver slipper restaurant in roxbury and and actually hear a moment of a man saying you know even if it can't make the final piece of like i am this day figuring out how to move to atlanta because i cannot take it here and i think you fight for this human center for all of those pieces well i try my best and speaking of fighting for humans madame sullivan we thank you immensely for all the work that you're doing in boston i wish that we you know we need we need another podcast that goes beyond beyond the scenes we need to go double beyond and break down even everything else that we didn't even get to talk about today uh thank you so much for your work uh where can people support uh the boston naacp chapter well we're online naacpboston.com uh you can also find us on uh social media naacp boston1911 uh on twitter that's our twitter handle so check us out all right well thank you so much and cj you did something big this year brother you made a whole ass documentary about confederate monuments and people who don't want them to be taken down just to be clear it's not an ass documentary it is a whole ass documentary about okay so if you are coming for an ass documentary that's another project i'm working on this is about confederate monuments and the question boston was asking how how races boston it is asking that of you know the white south and of the whole country you can find it uh right now on pbs for free it's called the neutral ground um and my executive producer uh you know he's he's okay he's fine you have heard rumors about that guy i heard he's kind of a jerk it's roy yeah it's me i'm not a jerk well look that's all the time we have for behind the scenes today hope that you had a good time going beyond the scenes with us we appreciate you so much for listening on the behalf of everybody at the daily show thank you and listen to the daily show beyond the scenes on apple podcast the i heart radio app or wherever you get your podcast worcester yeah yeah it's just a like the ocean worcestershire that's it [Music] you

Channel: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

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Length: 45min 47sec (2747 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 03 2021