Trevor Noah is a black man who grew up in apartheid South Africa, he has undoubtedly been face-to-face with overt racism. He has proved himself as an intelligent and witty man, a man of measured words and mostly measured actions. He caught a little flak for having dinner with and being light on Tomi Lauren but even in the face of that he reacted with class and good explanations.

So, when he talks about racism my ears are listening!

He went onto the view on Feb 17 and said some interesting things about racism. About how the USA has dumbed it down to a lesser issue of the years. He said that:

“If you look at an alcoholic, you have a problem. We can help treat you … I think it is the same for racism. Racism is hereditary. It’s passed down. You teach it to your children,”

“It grows generation to generation. If we treat it like a disease, we wouldn’t shun people … Do you want them to change, or do you want to maintain the higher ground?”

He also said that experiencing overt racism actually made him lucky! He said that racism has been rebranded with words like “low-income” and “welfare queens”

“America has a branding problem,”

“Republicans are really good at branding things a certain way. ‘It’s not the Affordable Care Act, it’s Obama Care… If you call it Obama Care, then there are some people who are gonna be like ‘I don’t want that.’”

What do you think of his words?