Now You Know: Being Black in America | The Daily Show

[Music] there are two universal truths to living in america one every holiday is a mattress sale in disguise and two the wealthier you are the easier it is to access life's necessities and unfortunately that's one big reason why black people are having a hard time getting the vaccine race and income really determine your access to resources um and that's no different with covid studies show more than 30 percent of black adults don't have broadband internet leaving many without information online about where and how to get vaccinated if you don't have great high speed internet you don't have a computer how can you jump in line to make an appointment black residents are significantly more likely than white residents to live more than a mile from the closest vaccination facility researchers also found black people are less likely than whites to live near a pharmacy clinic hospital or health center that can administer covet 19 vaccines over 50 percent of the chicago and black communities were so-called pharmacy deserts low-income neighborhoods where pharmacies are far from the population and people don't have regular access to vehicles compared with just five percent in white communities san francisco's pharmacy desert to zip code 94124 92 percent of the population is black and hispanic and there's only one retail pharmacy for the more than 35 000 people who live there where do they go if they don't have a personal or primary care physician and the answer in many cases is there's nowhere to go that's right many black neighborhoods don't even have a pharmacy there are so few pharmacies that i'm surprised republicans haven't made them voting locations and this is especially messed up because in most white neighborhoods there are pharmacies everywhere i mean everywhere one time i went into a walgreens that had a cvs inside of it and it's also crazy how many people still don't even have broadband before america makes vaccination appointments dependent on high-speed internet uh maybe they should sign everyone up for high-speed internet and then a month later once those people are done going through all the internet porn then they can get around to making an appointment so if you don't have the internet to schedule an appointment and you don't have a local pharmacy to administer the shot and you don't have transportation to a vaccine distribution center what do you do i mean at that point you might as well just make the vaccine yourself which i tried by the way but i didn't have any mrna in my house so i just used barbecue sauce i mean it didn't work but my blood tastes delicious but for the black community the barriers to getting vaccinated go way beyond the lack of resources there's also a psychological barrier many black people are just reluctant to get the shot because the truth is they trust the medical community less than they trust the golden globes and that suspicion may seem irrational to outsiders but trust me it is grounded in some very real history there is especially among the black community a horrible history of mistreatment that has created distrust in doctors in medicine african americans were experimented on used essentially to justify the cruelty of slavery creating science this book from 1851 titled the natural history of human species echoed one of the most prevalent and dangerous beliefs in medicine at the time that black people did not feel pain or anxiety the federally sanctioned tuskegee experiment sought to examine the long-term effects of civilis by letting infected black men go untreated with no regard to the suffering it caused there was also henrietta lacks a mother of five who in 1951 sought treatment for a tumor she passed away later that year scientists without her consent or her family's knowledge harvested her cells for medical research the ties between race and medical treatment have lasted hundreds of years and they're still alive in medicine today the university of virginia conducted a study of 200 white medical students in 2016. forty percent thought black skin was thicker than white skin the study also revealed that some doctors think black patients feel less pain uh excuse me black people don't feel pain well i guess you've never met a man named michael jordan he's been crying about everything for 10 years i mean black people invented the blues nobody feels pain like black people except for adele that woman has been through some [ __ ] but this is why so many black people are suspicious of the medical community because that community has betrayed them again and again and again and you're not going to trust people who have betrayed you that many times oh unless you're my parents but unfortunately this mistrust actually hurts black people because these vaccines are safe believe me on this white people would never let martha stewart get one if it was dangerous i mean if something ever happened to her they would have no idea how to match their centerpieces to their napkin holders it would be chaos and because this anti-vaccine sentiment is hurting the black community black leaders are now stepping in to try and get the message out through an institution that the community does trust the church black churches have long been a source of guidance and strength for the community it serves it's the reason why black clergy across the country are teaming up with medical professionals and local officials to educate and encourage people to get the covid19 vaccine dr anthony fauci in a virtual face-to-face with baltimore's faith and community leaders we need your help part of a strategy aimed at getting a message in to the black community on friday black pastors from several boston churches received their first round of the modern cover 19 vaccine they're also here to educate and reassure the minority community the vaccines are safe reverend liz walker says she preaches about three things truth love and lowering anxiety her focus now is spreading the truth about the vaccine half her congregation says they won't take it some believe god will save them i always respond that yes you should put your trust in god but remember god uses doctors that's right god uses doctors i mean not all doctors you know dr phil is the devil's work but doctors who are actually doctors well they're doing the lord's work and props to people like dr fauci for speaking to black churches and for not doing that thing that white people do when they visit a black church where they start talking like martin luther king jr and i can tell you that we as a people will get to hurt immunity hey man you can just use your normal voice oh thank god oh my voice was killing me and if you ask me black church is the number one place to reach black people i mean the only other place that would make sense is verses on instagram and a black barbershop but that one wouldn't work because then they just get sidetracked debating which vaccine is the greatest of all time nah man listen up polio is the greatest vaccine of all time the hell it is man what about mumps mumps man don't bring that mumps [ __ ] into my shop look the point is encouraging vaccinations through the church is a great idea it's actually something that the daily show wants to get behind which is why we asked pastor roy to help us out thank y'all for logging on to the lord this morning it has come to my attention that some of y'all are looking at the covet vaccine the way jesus looked at judas during the last supper suspicious and look i understand that the medical community has done unholy things to black people but i'm here to tell you to put your trust in the trinity of moderna faza and johnson and johnson because if you get the rona jesus can't put his hands on you he's socially distancing so i want you to let jesus and that vaccine into your soul well at least into your left shoulder look i don't think y'all hit me i said i want you to let jesus and that vaccine into your soul see i need some help in here somebody give me my soldiers of the lord i want you to baptize yourself in the healing waters of the vaccine get your heart seen get your watching push out the antichrist and let in the antibodies water in the wine i want you vaccine atheists to believe preach brother do not be led astray by false facebook prophets [Music] let the vaccination be your salvation from your isolation blessed are the immune for they shall inherit the earth from the movie theater to the gym all the way to the promised land of red lobster [Music] i ain't gonna hold y'all up i think we'd have made the point also i gotta wrap this up my little boy got a clarinet lesson over zoom i only paid for the free 40-minute version uh praise jesus and god bless dr fouchy and i'll see you next week for the booster shot [Music] [Applause] it's no secret that white people have had an easier time getting ahead in america but one of the most important reasons for this might surprise you for millions owning a home remains at the heart of the american dream but many black americans have been left out a new report says just 44 percent of black families own a home compared to 74 for whites owning a home is the way that most people develop wealth it is the way that uh for years and years and years people have been able to pass something on to their to their children or pay for their education it's part of the reason the average white family has about 10 times the median wealth of a black family the gap between white and black homeowners is greater now than it was since before the fair housing act of 1968 when segregation was legal that's right the home ownership gap is worse for black people now than it was in segregation which is insane i never thought a black guy could be able to say ah jim crow those were the good old days but it makes sense when you realize how owning real estate helps you build wealth and that wealth becomes generational because home ownership is one of the surest ways for families to pass down wealth not beanie babies grandma but they're still very cute save them for me but also like think about a portfolio so black americans have had less wealth than white americans for decades and large part of that was because they couldn't build wealth by owning a home but why why couldn't they own homes at the same rates as white americans well like most things dealing with racial inequality it starts with the governments during the new deal the homeowners loan corporation refinanced more than a million loans nearly one out of every five mortgages in urban america now the main problem with the homeowner's loan corporation was redlining all of that wonderful government finance was only available to white people the homeowner's loan corporation essentially deemed black people too risky to loan the holc created residential security maps where the term redlining comes from green meant best area best people aka businessmen blue meant good people like white collar families yellow meant a declining area with working-class families and red meant detrimental influences most significantly negroes saying that neighborhoods were hazardous to london because they were quote unquote infiltrated by negroes or threatened with negro encroachment man what a terrible era when the phrase infiltrated by negroes could be a term used by the federal government when it should only be used for a dope-ass migos album i mean seriously do you know how [ __ ] up it is to describe those neighborhoods as infiltrated by negroes that's where black people lived but they made it sound like black people were breaking and entering into their own houses oh [ __ ] i'm in oh it's my house what am i doing i live here although i won't lie a part of me actually misses how upfront racism was back in the days you didn't have to read between the lines you know because if you're black now and you're trying to get a loan they'll be like well we we take a variety of factors into account in the loan approval process back then if a black person walked into a bank the manager was just like look alive fellas we got a negro encroaching white woman in the vault come on yo now by the late 1960s courts ruled that redlining was illegal but there are more subtle ways that black people are still kept from purchasing houses for example real estate agents who are just really trying to keep neighborhoods just white newsday with an undercover project to see whether real estate agents treated prospective tenants who are black any differently than prospective tenants who were white and they did a lot the risks to african americans in particular of suffering potential discrimination was about 50 50. i've had agents invoke burning crosses to dissuade me from buying a home in certain areas this newsday footage shows an agent handling one tester who is black and wants to see a house without a pre-qualification letter i won't do it you can try another person but i don't have good time but for the white buyer also with no letter she shows that buyer too in other cases newsday records agents who appear to be steering minorities towards mixed communities every time i get a new listing in brentwood our new client i get so excited because there's nice people but with a white buyer the same agent texting him about recent gang killings there those real estate agents got caught i would love to hear their feeble excuses afterwards no no no when i told one buyer the neighbors were nice people and the other one were gang killers i meant they were nice gang killers just jobs and by the way invoking burning crosses to try and stop a black person from moving into a neighborhood is not only racist it's overkill if you want to stop a black person from moving into a home all you gotta do is tell them that their next door neighbor adds raisins to their potato salad they're out and the truth is that even though redlining was outlawed as a matter of official policy it sure looks like the banks are still doing it anyway lenders deny mortgages for black applications at a rate 80 percent higher than that of white applicants when we do get loans or at much higher interest rates or much worse conditions if you're african-american making more than a hundred thousand dollars you were more likely to be put into a subprime loan than issue a white person making less than 35 000 consequently black and brown families were disproportionately impacted by the 2007-2010 housing crisis being nearly twice as likely as white families to lose their homes after controlling for education crime walkability homes in black neighborhoods are devalued by 23 and accumulatively that's about 156 billion in lost equity one couple in florida actually saw their appraisal increase by 40 percent after they removed any evidence that a black woman lived there i took down um the family pictures that we had in the home and you know basically any markers that there were african-americans living in the house replacing them only with photos of her husband and his white family when the second appraisal comes back the value of their house shot up more than one hundred thousand dollars think about that her home appraisal went up a hundred thousand dollars a hundred thousand dollars getting rid of her family photos did more for her home value than putting in a swimming pool and again can we all agree that this is racist yeah because just having pictures of black family members shouldn't drive down the value of a house just because your pictures of black people i mean unless that black person is r kelly and then it's like i don't care that the basement is spacious i know what was happening in there so when it comes to racial discrimination and housing america has come a long way and there's still a long way to go but until the government gets serious about racial discrimination and mortgage lending and home selling well leo deblin has got you covered are you trying to sell your home but can't get a good price because you black you're trying to get a new house but these real estate agents are keeping you in the pool house well pack that moving van because leo's got a plan introducing leo dublin's home ratification i'll make your house look so white they'll think wes anderson live in this [ __ ] i'll throw out all your family photos and replace them with watercolors of boats i'll even throw in a diploma from dartmouth art history you know that's white your library is going to get whitified too with david sedaris the life of power and of course how to be anti-racist by ibram ex kindest oh that's white hot and nothing says white like adding exposed brick man that's rustic as hell i'll even whitify your garage swap out that 2005 honda civic for a kayak a pair of skis and a volleyball net that only got used once looking like a l.l bean catalog in this [ __ ] and if you order now i'll whitify your music collection goodbye megan the stallion hello barbara the streisand leo devlin home ratification it ain't with 85 [Music] 120 by the fairgrounds next to foot locker [Music] [Applause] black women we gave you oprah beyonce and all your favorite reaction memes i've heard people say they like their women like they like their coffee strong black and hot enough to give you second degree burns careful what you wish for darius but the thing is not all black women are strong and even the ones that are strong aren't just that we like doors open for us too especially with someone with biceps like michael b jordan abs like michael b jordan hair like michael b jordan but unfortunately the strong black woman stereotype is ingrained in american culture it has a long history about as old as morgan freeman and betty white combined now you may be wondering what is a strong black woman it's the idea that black women are emotionally resilient naturally selfless too proud to ask for help and can succeed with no resources so basically every character played by viola davis the irony is the strong black woman stereotype was started by black women to combat all the negative ones see in the aftermath of slavery there were really only two stereotypes of black women you were either some sex temptress jezebel or a mammy who was just there to smother people in her booze in response black suffragette mary turch tyrell coined the strong black woman motto listing as we climb and i get what she was going for but lift as we climb even bodybuilders don't do both at the same time you can't expect a black woman to do more than schwarzenegger in his prime but over time society shrank a black woman down to just her strength and the popular conception now is that black women can bear and overcome any birth we see it all over our culture in movies like the color purple oh my life i had to fight and how can we forget ghost where whoopi goldberg literally has to let a white man use her body to rub foreheads with his fiancee even when black women only have one line it's strong as hell move or you will be moved damn at least let her say hello but tulsa what's wrong with being perceived as strong isn't it a good thing no not if black women destroy their mental and physical health trying to live up to it and not if people think black women are so strong they make them do all the work on their own look at stacey abrams she helped democrats win georgia and before you knew it she was being asked to fix vaccine distribution the new york subway and kim and kanye's marriage the stereotype even reaches the doctor's office black women are less likely to be properly diagnosed they have a much higher maternal mortality rate and they're less likely to be believed about their symptoms and pain so a black woman basically has to be a doctor to know everything that's going on with her body and then convince another doctor that that's what's happening i was in a car accident i have contusions lacerations and internal bleeding uh get me a morphine drip and prep surgery step we'll get you a couple of band-aids and you'll be fine what so the next time you see a black woman struggling at work or trying to lift a box help her don't just stand there like you're about to see wonder woman in action in fact if you're in the new york area [Music] i'm moving this week and i could use some help moving my couch because i'll be damned if i'm gonna pull my back lifting my own couch [Applause] [Music] although black women have been the pioneers of so many movements that have changed the world the erasure of black women from the story of these movements is something we've seen many times throughout american history starting all the way back with the women's suffrage movements african-american women in particular played a significant and sometimes overlooked role in the suffrage movement there were african-american women fighting for suffrage from the beginning you know sojourner truth in the time of the civil war ida b wells barnett and mary church terrell they built a movement that would grow to half a million but they would never find acceptance among mainstream suffragists at that time suffrage leaders were actively wooing southern white members to appease the southerners white suffragists found it expedient to abandon their black sisters they minimized the presence of black women in that struggle elizabeth katie stanton seized control of suffrage history and this multi-volume book that still dominates the histories and essentially wrote black women out of that that's right black suffragettes were literally written out of the history books by white women in the movement and just look at their faces it's like they had already seen the future and they were like i'm not going to get credit for any of this am i because the truth is certain white feminist heroes were super problematic i mean people remember them like they were early versions of wonder woman when in reality they were more like the mom from get out now you may not be surprised that these 1920s karens were eager to accept black women's work but give them none of the credits but what may surprise you is that black men in the civil rights movement were also happy to do a similar thing most women who worked in the movement who were the actual backbone of the civil rights movement were not really known media attention would always be drawn to the men of the movement as they're doing work the martin luther kings and others but would not necessarily go to women like ella baker who was a long time activist who helped to nurture and birth the student movement diane nash was the lead strategist behind the citizens in nashville and the freedom riders she played a critical role in organizing the selma marches dorothy height was the godmother of the civil rights movement but because she was a woman she was often off to the side behind the podium behind the scenes she was a guiding force at the table when the big six planned the historic march on washington in 1963 the lone woman at a table full of men yet despite all her efforts height could not convince them that a woman should be allowed to speak at the podium the day of the march come on man this is so messed up black women were the lifeblood of the civil rights movement and still they got [ __ ] blocked by the dudes i mean the reverend's got half a dozen microphones right there you can't break one of those off of my girl dorothy she was a critical part of the group it's like if the avengers were fighting thanos but they made iron man cheer from the stands and this just shows you that black women don't just have to deal with racism from the world but oftentimes they have to deal with the sexism within their own communities and the world at large there's actually a term for it noir which means misogyny against black women and it also sounds like the title of a really fancy french movie i would love to promote you but unfortunately i cannot because you are a black woman oh with the wrong one today bar song raven and vasolation so throughout history black women have had their contributions to ground-breaking movements minimized or raised whether it's women's suffrage or civil rights and the list goes on and on and on the role of black women in starting and founding the women's movement and feminism altogether is still not in the history books many don't know this but the me too movement was started by a black woman tarana burke 12 years ago to support victims and survivors of sexual violence in the modern day calls for justice and equality there's an echo of another social movement for lgbtq plus rights a movement sparked and sustained by black trans women we never would have had a stone wall if it wasn't for a black trans woman saying enough due to police brutality and police misconduct they fought back against the police that night in particular marsha p johnson silvia rivera as well as miss major in 2015 when they did the stonewall movie although we all knew that these black transgender women started that uh that that riot that evening they whitewashed it and they started it and replaced them with white queer characters as the leaders of that damn they pulled the reverse hamilton on the stone wall movie you know what we need to do we need to add those women into the movie with cgi yeah george lucas has the technology and he owes us reparations for jar jar binks you know when you think about it the gay rights movement was basically like all cool slang on twitter you thought it came from white gay men but they actually got it from a black woman so the next time you march with black lives matter or you exercise your right to vote or your dance moves go viral on tick tock don't forget that black women were a major part of making that happen and if you don't know now you know there are a few groups who could stand to benefit from therapy more than black people i mean think about all the things black people have been through slavery segregation winter all equally traumatic experiences but unfortunately even as therapy has become more mainstream the black community has had a tough time getting the help that they need it's hard enough to get mental health treatment in the u.s but studies show that racial and ethnic minorities are significantly less likely to receive mental health treatment than whites black and hispanic children are less likely to get mental health care than white kids and studies show that irritability in the average white teenager is often labeled as depression that same behavior is more likely to be seen as disruptive in black or latino children and doctors say that can lead to feelings of hopelessness at a very young age yes one of the reasons many black people don't get the proper treatment is misdiagnosis what is seen as depression in white people can be seen as disruptive behavior in black people and this shouldn't be surprising right this kind of thing happens in medicine all the time mixed diagnosis it's like when a black person has a seizure it's a medical emergency but when a white person does it it's called dancing but it turns out it turns out even when black people are properly diagnosed with mental health issues it can still be a challenge to find a therapist who's equipped to handle their needs making the crisis worse not enough african-american therapists today only four percent of psychologists are black kevin durden says admitting he needed help was actually easier than finding it he saw three different therapists but felt that none of them understood the stress and emotions unique to black men when taraji p henson's own son marcel was struggling she found it nearly impossible to find him one trying to find a culturally competent therapist was like looking for a purple unicorn with a gold horn do they understand the cultural context from which i'm coming from do they understand the culture that i live in that's right it's extremely difficult for black people to find a black therapist and it's been like this for a very very long time i mean that's why martin luther king jr was always describing his dreams to huge crowds you know just like i had another dream that i'm being chased by bears in my underwear does anyone here know what that means now now you may think you may think that a therapist race shouldn't match at all and that's true but if you think about it it does make sense for many white therapists no matter how good they are it can be hard to understand the particular experiences of a black person you know just sitting there in a session even if they're trying it could be like so you say people are following you around the store and you're invisible but only the taxi drivers hmm paranoid delusions so when it comes to mental health there's a very real struggle for black people to access healthcare get diagnosed correctly and find a therapist who can relate to them but if that wasn't bad enough there's another major hurdle stopping black people from getting therapy and it comes from the black community itself we have a stigma in the black community when it comes to dealing with mental health black students say where they come from it's shameful to talk about anxiety depression and trauma it's not okay to have mental health issues or like that's a white people thing i've heard all the time black men don't go to therapy they go to the barber shop i told my own mother that i was seeing a therapist and she said you don't need to see a therapist what you need to do is see a preacher you got jesus you don't need anything else you know just buck it up ah yeah that's a lion every black person knows all too well you don't need therapy you need jesus and my response is always why can't we use both because church is a great place for community but therapy is great for one-on-one mental health needs i mean i bet jesus himself wished he could have gone to therapy at times you know just be like so my best friend betrayed me and i was born in a freaking barn plus my birthday always falls on christmas i only get one set of presents is so shitty so yes part of the problem part of the problem is that there's a major stigma in the black community around therapy and honestly i can understand why many black people would rather deal with problems at church it's a familiar place for us right you trust the people there and it's also a fun atmosphere like therapy doesn't seem fun churches is cool i get it in fact that's what i was thinking maybe maybe that's one way we could try and help solve this therapy crisis we need to make therapy a little bit more like black church and i think it would be pretty dope i don't know it's just really hard for me to let people in and i feel like it's probably because every time i show affection it just feels like weakness did y'all hear that that y'all hear what brother jabuki just said right here brother jabuki said that he can't show affection because it feels like weakness but before we can understand what hurt us you gotta understand who hurt us who hurt your brother jabuki oh wow wow i i would probably say my my father because he was really emotionally distant but then so was his father which is probably where he got it from the sins of the father [Music] passed down from generation to generation and what will break this cycle other than a reflective analysis of the ego's hold on your psyche i need to self-actualize you need what self-actualized [Music] deal with his forgotten memories repression confront his dysfunctional avoidance of intimacy out of time we cannot pick this up next week right thank you so much i just been going through a lot and it was really helpful to talk sorry uh it should actually be covered i have blue cross son the only cross in my network is jesus [Music] [Applause] but while these companies are posting messages of support for the black community many black people who work in these companies are asking them to put their money where their mouth is big name corporations sharing messages of solidarity but many are calling on them to practice what they preach employees at places like estee lauder and adidas speaking out against a lack of diversity and equality in their workplaces despite public messages of support from the company's ceos in a video nike said don't pretend there's not a problem in america critics point out that all of nike's executives are white you cannot say black lives matter publicly when you don't show us black lives matter within your own homes and within your organizations yeah that's right if you are just some random person who has 10 followers on twitter and you tweet black lives matter maybe that's the best you can do but if you're a major corporation that hires thousands of people you can actually show that black lives matter in a material way that goes beyond your social media feed on their own corporate tweets are useless no one's gonna stop being racist because spaghettios told them to like it's not enough to just be black lives matter in the tweets you gotta be black lives matter in the streets hell you gotta be black lives matter in the sheets okay maybe i didn't think that last one through but you know what i mean but the question is why are african americans so underrepresented in the american workforce well let's find out in our brand new segment this black american life [Music] why aren't more african americans hired in american companies is it because they're lazy is it because they're uneducated or is it because offices are just way too cold well despite what your racist uncle might post on facebook the truth is for many black americans getting a job is almost impossible and it's because their blackness stops them from even getting in the door blacks are the last hired and the first fired white males are hired based on potential blacks are hired based on demonstrated accomplishments going back a quarter century statistically speaking very little has changed for black applicants whites receive on average 36 more callbacks than african americans and 24 more callbacks than latinos thousands of made-up resumes were mailed to employers identical except for the names half black sounding half white the results black sounding names were 50 percent less likely to get follow-up calls wow racism never takes a day off if you have a black sounding name on your resume you're 50 less likely to get called in for the interview imagine if america had the same policy when picking a president that would have screwed things up it says barack hussein okay next next next what we got here john edwards now this guy sounds like he's got it and that's the thing i wish more people understood black people are asking for equality not charity they're not asking people to hire black people just because they're black they're asking companies to stop not hiring black people just because they're black because even with the exact same qualifications and a resume that's exactly the same the only thing that blocks people is having a black sounding name i mean why would anyone even want a workplace with no black people in it you need at least one person who knows how to dance at the office party and also what if zombies show up you want them to kill you first so it's enough of a challenge getting your black foot in the door of corporate america and if you're lucky enough to find your way into the office good luck finding the ladder only 3.2 percent of executives and senior leaders in the u.s are african-american there are only four black ceos in the fortune 500 only four and no black women there are many too few opportunities for african americans to rise to the top uh to have the opportunity to serve in leadership positions there's a promotion gap at every level going up it becomes less and less diverse more white when i don't see those that have been in the company for x amount of years not hold certain titles there places a doubt in my mind representative al green asking a pointed question to major bank ceos if you believe that your likely successor will be a woman or a person of color would you kindly extend a hand into the air okay that was just awkward i mean from the way those bank ceos reacted that congressman might as well have asked them to raise their hands if they'd ever seen mike pence eating a flaming hot cheeto not a single one of those banks thinks it's even possible that a person of color will run the company that says a lot i mean if you ask me every bank should be run by a black woman yeah because banks are out here losing trillions of dollars credit default swaps mortgage scams and then after they screw up average people lose their homes meanwhile black women are out in these streets every day figuring out how to make a dollar stretch into 10. i'll tell you right now if my grandmother ran a major bank she would have been the one bailing america out oh no the economy crashed oh baby let me see i've got 2 trillion here hold on there you go you bring back my change now if you're one of the few black people who have made it into corporate america congratulations your reward is working every day with some people who have no idea how to act around you microaggression describes indirect or subtle discrimination and if you're on the receiving end it can be as hurtful as anything overt white people come to me and say you speak so well and then right you speak so well or you're very articulate in my own personal experience like you don't sound black like what does sound black and sound white really mean you're not like the others and stuff like that if you think about it because it's like you're not like the other so what are the others the assumption is always going to lead in that i'm i know less my manager turns to me and says well isn't your hair so big because your all of your intelligence is in there and physically grabbed my hair yeah every day black people have to navigate a workplace filled with people who don't even realize that they're doing something offensive you're so intelligent it must be in your hair this is what you get from living in a segregated society instead of knowing black people and black culture you've got white folks interacting with black people like they're making contact with e.t hello my friend do your people shake hands nah the coronavirus and it's because millions of white americans don't have the first clue of how to interact with their black co-workers or just even be normal around them that black people in corporate america have to spend an inordinate amount of time making white people feel comfortable for those of us who have been in corporate america we have to be able to exist and not only exist but to really thrive in two totally different cultures this idea of double consciousness our blackness isn't accepted in a lot of spaces that are critical for our success intelligence is often linked to whiteness so black people are often encouraged in professional settings to use a quote-unquote white voice aka code switch i turn it on i have to be my best unauthentic self in order for me to relate to my white peers and i have to make sure that i can talk about subjects that relate to your lifestyle that have absolutely nothing to do with mine i speak two languages i speak english and i speak white because a lot of what we do are the things to make white people feel more comfortable around us yeah so many people take for granted that black people in the office are not just focusing on their job they're focusing on not being perceived as threatening or disruptive or too black and so you try your best to blend in with the whiteness that's around you like that's not something that white people ever have to worry about i mean white kids don't even code switch when they talk to their parents what up dude yeah i'm crushing it on call of duty yeah okay hold on my mom's calling me yo dude what up yeah bro i told you i'll crush my homework when i'm done all right i'll talk to you later mom bye so to corporate america if you really believe in rooting out systemic racism and supporting black lives then i say to you examine your own actions within your companies before history leaves you behind or as i would put it if i wasn't in the office you better check yourself before you wreck yourself

Channel: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Views: 888,271

Rating: 4.828424 out of 5

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Id: WakISh4zNuc

Length: 43min 39sec (2619 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 21 2021