Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central, how do I do to
Speaker 1: the accents? I'll be honest with you, like I never
Speaker 1: thought I was good at it or anything, but I
Speaker 1: think it's because I grew up like that. I have
Speaker 1: a mixed family. Like everyone in my family has a
Speaker 1: different accent, you know, so my dad, my dad's family,
Speaker 1: my mom, my mom's family, everyone has like like a
Speaker 1: hybrid because everyone moved around a lot, so whenever you
Speaker 1: go to a different house, it's just easier to speak
Speaker 1: to them in their accent then to try, you know.
Speaker 1: Because it was weird as well because I went to
Speaker 1: a private school, like myself and my my cousins were
Speaker 1: all lucky to go to like at the time, they
Speaker 1: called them Model C schools in South Africa, so it
Speaker 1: was like the first generation of black and white kids
Speaker 1: at the same schools. So we have different accents to
Speaker 1: our parents. And then like your parents were happy to
Speaker 1: send you there. That was the funny thing. It's like
Speaker 1: your parents would be like, you must go to that
Speaker 1: school and you must learn to speak good English, and
Speaker 1: then you go to the school and you learn the English,
Speaker 1: and then you come home and then like your parents
Speaker 1: would be sitting with them watching TV or something, and
Speaker 1: then like your your your dad would be like put volume,
Speaker 1: put volume, and you'd be like, do you mean increase
Speaker 1: the volume? Be like, hey, increuse or decrease your life.
Speaker 1: Don't act much here? Put volume. You don't come here
Speaker 1: with that English. And it's like, yeah, but that's what
Speaker 1: you told her. So then it became easier to just
Speaker 1: like speak the you know what I mean, speak in
Speaker 1: the accent of the people. It changes, like you might
Speaker 1: find you do the same thing. Do you live in
Speaker 1: New York or do you live in Haiti or you
Speaker 1: live in Haiti? Okay, if you live in New York.
Speaker 1: I know, I've got friends from Haiti who do like
Speaker 1: in New York they sound like half Haiti half New York.
Speaker 1: And then when they go to Haiti, I can't understand
Speaker 1: a word that they're saying. Like like if if I
Speaker 1: FaceTime a friend of mine who's in Haiti when he's
Speaker 1: in New York and be like, yeah, man, you know,
Speaker 1: you know when I hear a little bit of Haiti
Speaker 1: and then when he's in Haiti and I'll face time
Speaker 1: with him and I'll be like, Yo, what's up, Vince?
Speaker 1: How you doing? And be like why you? Whyre you?
Speaker 1: Why are you? Why are you? I said, I want you?
Speaker 1: Why are you? Said that? You know, and I'm like
Speaker 1: what everyone everyone? So I think that's where I got
Speaker 1: it from. I just you know, yeah, just having mixed people,
Speaker 1: you just speak to them in the acts. It becomes
Speaker 1: easier otherwise, you know, like my grandmother, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: repeat the same thing six times. I'm just gonna speak
Speaker 1: to my grant in her accents and then she's just
Speaker 1: like yeah, and then my grant. I think that's why
Speaker 1: I'm actually my grandmother's favorite grandchild, because all the other
Speaker 1: grandkids speak to her in like the accents they learned
Speaker 1: at school, and then with me, she's just like goods,
Speaker 1: he's never forgotten his roots. What is my favorite accent
Speaker 1: to do? It depends on the day. I'm not gonna lie,
Speaker 1: it depends on the day. Sometimes I'll choose an accent
Speaker 1: for the day if I'm on vacation, genuinely, I'll just
Speaker 1: walk around and I'll like just be on vacation some days,
Speaker 1: like like I'll just be like, oh, I'm Austrailian for
Speaker 1: the day, and I'll just walk around and it'll just
Speaker 1: be Australia. You know, the great thing about in Australian
Speaker 1: accent is that you always sound happy because always what
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what it is, but always gots up
Speaker 1: and it's like really exciting. You know. This is not
Speaker 1: that thing like even even Australian gave you bad news,
Speaker 1: it always sounds good. It's like Hi, Mike, your mom's dead.
Speaker 1: It's just so yeah. One of my favorite things to
Speaker 1: do though, is sometimes because I don't really impersonate general accents,
Speaker 1: impersonate people. So the Australian that I do is a
Speaker 1: friend of mine from Australia. And then like the like
Speaker 1: if I do like a Nigerian accent is a friend
Speaker 1: of mine from Nigeria. And because I can't because people
Speaker 1: all have different accents, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So I don't know what an Indian accent is. I
Speaker 1: know what my Indian friends sounds like, so I just
Speaker 1: impersonated his accents. And then like Trinidad, I just know
Speaker 1: my friend from Trinidad, this is his accent, so just
Speaker 1: I just do his accent. And then I remember, like
Speaker 1: one day did the Trini accent and then people from
Speaker 1: Trinidad they were like they're like that's not how people
Speaker 1: in Trinity talk about And then I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: you talk to him, that's how he sounds. And then
Speaker 1: they shout on him because he's on like Instagram and stuff,
Speaker 1: and they're like, dude, what happens to your accent while
Speaker 1: you're talking? Like there's like, guys, I haven't lived in America.
Speaker 1: I've lived in America for a long time, and like,
Speaker 1: it's not my fault. I didn't try to change my accent.
Speaker 1: They're like, you're leading Trevor Noor wrong. You're not speaking
Speaker 1: awhere with the most So I'm just like I just
Speaker 1: do people. That's all I'm doing. Well else to who
Speaker 1: else we have from? Where? Yes, Egypt o nice? That's cool,
Speaker 1: cool and exotic? Yes, how things going over there? Just
Speaker 1: blink if it's good, and blink twice if it's bad.
Speaker 1: I won't say your name, I won't put you on camera.
Speaker 1: You can go back. Your president doesn't have to know
Speaker 1: you were here. Things are good in Egypt. When you
Speaker 1: when you watch Donald Trump, does he remind you a
Speaker 1: little bit of Egyptian leaders? Yeah, a lot. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just like just without the Arabic just like second, they're
Speaker 1: also what all they are friends. Yeah, yeah he is.
Speaker 1: You can see that cool if because like I feel
Speaker 1: like Trump would be exactly the same, even if he
Speaker 1: spoke Arabic. It would be like the same thing. We're
Speaker 1: like helloo, yellow clock, but the calallalla. So I tried
Speaker 1: to start learning German because my dad is swissed German, right,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, I want to learn his
Speaker 1: language because I never learned it growing up. And then
Speaker 1: someone was like, why don't you learn Swiss? And then
Speaker 1: I heard Swiss and I was like no, um, I
Speaker 1: want rather learned German. And so I learned German because
Speaker 1: I thought it would bring us closer together, right, because
Speaker 1: I lost contact with my dad for like ten years.
Speaker 1: And so then when I met him again, I was
Speaker 1: like I want to learn German and impress him or whatever.
Speaker 1: And I met him and then like I started speaking
Speaker 1: to him in German and he was like, well, what
Speaker 1: are you doing. I was like, I'm speaking German. He's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's better if you speak English. No, no, this is no,
Speaker 1: this is this is He's like, it's better if you
Speaker 1: don't speak German at all. It's fine. Um. But then
Speaker 1: now I could speak a bit of German. So I
Speaker 1: was excited to go to Germany and stuff and practices.
Speaker 1: Then you know, I had a lot of fun until
Speaker 1: I found out that my the way I spoke German
Speaker 1: sounded a little bit like Hitler, Yeah, which no one
Speaker 1: told me on this side of the world because we
Speaker 1: don't know how he really spoke or anything. But I
Speaker 1: would be in Germany and apparently the way I would
Speaker 1: hit certain inflections would freak people out. And it's like,
Speaker 1: think of it like Barack Obama's voice. Like if someone
Speaker 1: learned English in America and they got here and they
Speaker 1: were like, I just wanna have You'd be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're doing the Barack Obama thing and they'll be like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So I would do that, like I'll go in places
Speaker 1: and then I was like order food and like someone
Speaker 1: would be there to be like, couldn't talk virtuality having
Speaker 1: and then I'll be like if she in climbing happing,
Speaker 1: be your side with the shinkin and the people like
Speaker 1: people would look at me. And then when we left,
Speaker 1: my friend was like, I was like, why would they look?
Speaker 1: Did I say it? We're like wrong the wrong words.
Speaker 1: She's like no, you sound a little bit like like Hitler. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And she was like and the people are really frightening
Speaker 1: about that, and you know, and I was like, so
Speaker 1: I spoiled their day and she was like, yeah, you did,
Speaker 1: you know? And I was like, well, that brings me
Speaker 1: lots of shading FOI there. Spain was fun as well
Speaker 1: as well as I was trying to learn Spanish. And
Speaker 1: the weird thing about learning Spanish is I found out
Speaker 1: in Spain that my Spanish is flawless. The problem is
Speaker 1: I only speak like seven words of Spanish, but those
Speaker 1: seven words are flawless, which doesn't help me in Like,
Speaker 1: so I'll start conversations with people, like in the morning,
Speaker 1: someone will see me and they'll be like, oh lah,
Speaker 1: and then I'll be like, oh that's and they'll be
Speaker 1: like oh too, and I'll be like, oh god, I
Speaker 1: got way the end and they'll be like, oh this
Speaker 1: is cool, you know. And I'll meet people and they'll
Speaker 1: be like I'll be like oh go go oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm getting sur vibe. And I'll be
Speaker 1: with the people. I'll be asking people's stuff, I'll be
Speaker 1: giving directions and then I just run out because I
Speaker 1: only learn as much as I can learn, but you
Speaker 1: don't know when you're gonna run out. Do you get
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? So so I would be like, I'll
Speaker 1: be like, don't always start and then the people are
Speaker 1: like oh like and then I would be I'll be like, okay,
Speaker 1: I know that, and I'll give direction. Then someone would
Speaker 1: ask me where's the cathedral. Then I know how to
Speaker 1: start the direction, so I'll be like, oh, in doc
Speaker 1: and then people are like cool. And then the person
Speaker 1: goes the CD and then I'm like, oh sorry, no
Speaker 1: no ab laugh me no no ab laugh. And then
Speaker 1: the worst thing is like even the way I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because I'd be like no, no, no, no, i've lexp
Speaker 1: no I've lest band, which is weird because you should
Speaker 1: say me no abla in the worst way you can,
Speaker 1: which I didn't realize because I should have been like,
Speaker 1: oh me no abla Espana, but instead I was like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: I les no, I've less, which is basically like the
Speaker 1: equivalent of meeting like someone and they came up to
Speaker 1: you and they're like, I'm sorry, I don't speak any English.
Speaker 1: I apologize no, I speak no English whatsoever. I must apologize,
Speaker 1: not a word of English. I'm so sorry. Did I
Speaker 1: hear somebody? Was there a French person who has had
Speaker 1: a fiancee? Is that very cool? Man? Congratulations? It was nice.
Speaker 1: It was weird because I was listening to you when
Speaker 1: when you're speaking, and I was like, it's weird because
Speaker 1: fiance is French, isn't it? Because I know this sounds weird,
Speaker 1: But in my head you said, oh yeah, no, and
Speaker 1: this is my fiance And then I was like, what's
Speaker 1: the French for fiance? Is that a little bit weird
Speaker 1: to you that in English you have to say some
Speaker 1: French words every now and again, right, because like that
Speaker 1: that's the thing, like we do that. We'll be like
Speaker 1: we'll be like fiance, you know, like like think about
Speaker 1: we do that like touche. We just say that to
Speaker 1: each other in conversation as people. Someone would say something,
Speaker 1: you say something that you're like touche. But like, I
Speaker 1: don't think French people do you guys do that with
Speaker 1: English or like French people just hanging out with each
Speaker 1: other and it's like literally lit and you touch me,
Speaker 1: you do that? You don't, right, this is weird. It's
Speaker 1: totally weird to me. We just use other languages in
Speaker 1: our language. That's really strange. That's exciting. Man. So second,
Speaker 1: French friends are not French, and like you said that
Speaker 1: woul past and French friend, they're not French, Trevor, I
Speaker 1: have to tell you all of these secrets. The French
Speaker 1: friends are not fresh, but do you eat them in France?
Speaker 1: So why are you complaining? That's why you guys? Also
Speaker 1: like where are these French friends from? They say they're
Speaker 1: from front de Jaan, Pierrero these years. No they're not
Speaker 1: Michel your friends. No, they're not your friends. Who are
Speaker 1: their fresh from? They said they are French friends, but
Speaker 1: no fresh person knows where they're from. Oh, man, what
Speaker 1: made you move from France? Where you said? Seventeen years
Speaker 1: you've lived in Detroit. What made you move? Second? Atlanta?
Speaker 1: Sorry Atlanta? What you just walked? Oh ship? Did you
Speaker 1: say work? Oh? Sorry your accent because you said no,
Speaker 1: I did walk? And then I was like god damn.
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, that's one hell of a journey,
Speaker 1: my friend. Just like one day I was working, I
Speaker 1: was working by the ft tower and I said that
Speaker 1: I've seen this before, I've seen all of this before.
Speaker 1: I'm going to walk a little further, and then I
Speaker 1: walked and I walked, and I walked some more. And
Speaker 1: then a few years later I was like Atlanta and
Speaker 1: then I was tired, so I stayed there's no reason
Speaker 1: to go back. Oh wow, that's fine. And then you
Speaker 1: fell in love with Atlanta and you stayed. No what happened?
Speaker 1: Oh oh, man, so you go to Atlanta, the recession happens.
Speaker 1: So now you're stuck in Atlanta. That is so dope.
Speaker 1: I feel like I should make a TV show about you. Man.
Speaker 1: It's like a fun story. It's like I ended up
Speaker 1: in Atlanta and now this is my lefe. How did
Speaker 1: you make money? I became rapper in the ETL. I
Speaker 1: became the only French trap rapper. So the middle wokey
Speaker 1: where you guys from over there? From where? Or Trinidad
Speaker 1: and Tobago. All you guys said that Trinidad and Tobago,
Speaker 1: you know, But like I love about people in Trinity,
Speaker 1: Like is the like the sing song vibe when you
Speaker 1: guys speak. You got that thing I told you the
Speaker 1: other day, Like I can't picture anyone from Trinidad being
Speaker 1: a mean person, just like you can't picture like you
Speaker 1: can't go to war people from Trinidad, you can't. No
Speaker 1: one would be afraid of you. You know, we're going
Speaker 1: to invade your country. All of you are about to
Speaker 1: feel the pain. Like it just doesn't work as an accent.
Speaker 1: It's like it's you can only be an island country
Speaker 1: because of that, Like if Liam Neeson was from Trinidad,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have gotten like your kids. Like Liam Neson,
Speaker 1: we were on the phone and be like, I have
Speaker 1: a particular set of skills. I don't think you understand
Speaker 1: right now if you don't bring back my daughter. Why
Speaker 1: you're laughing Stop laughing while I'm talking to you. Stop laughing.
Speaker 1: I was thinking, like I think part of the problem
Speaker 1: in America is that on one people think of nine
Speaker 1: one one is being instant response. And because like when
Speaker 1: I was growing up in South Africa, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite TV shows I used to watch with my mom
Speaker 1: was a show called Rescue nine one one right with
Speaker 1: William Shatner, And it was like a show where they
Speaker 1: go like nine one one do you have an emergency
Speaker 1: and be like, Hi, I'm in my house, and so
Speaker 1: they will and then like nine one one would get there.
Speaker 1: And I remember even when we were watching and stide.
Speaker 1: We'll be like wow, nine one one, nine one one,
Speaker 1: and this is in Africa, I mean like nine one one,
Speaker 1: and we never thought of our numbers because they started
Speaker 1: they tried to think. In South Africa called ten triple
Speaker 1: one because they try to be like, yeah, we've also
Speaker 1: got a think people like ten triple one and it
Speaker 1: was like no, and because they try to go with
Speaker 1: that feeling. But we never thought of it as instant
Speaker 1: response because if you would call our like call senses,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be as efficient. And so like in America,
Speaker 1: I think people are used to the fact that something
Speaker 1: will get done now. So I was thinking what you
Speaker 1: should do is just to like dull it for a bit.
Speaker 1: You should bring the South African operators here just so
Speaker 1: that people stop thinking nine on one is like an
Speaker 1: instant solution because like South African, like they'll ask you questions,
Speaker 1: like in America, just go someone's getting rubbed, like we're
Speaker 1: on our way, like I heard with nine on one.
Speaker 1: Even if you call them and then hang up, they'll
Speaker 1: come to check what happened, which is I mean, I
Speaker 1: get it, but I also like that's crazy. Whereas in
Speaker 1: South Africa, like if you like if they called. If
Speaker 1: you have an African operators doing nine one, like you'd
Speaker 1: call he'd be like, hello, there's a man at the
Speaker 1: park and they'd be like hello, can I help you.
Speaker 1: They'd be like, yeah, there's a man at the park
Speaker 1: and I'd be like and like, yeah, he looks really suspicious,
Speaker 1: but like okay, God, talk to him, ask him what
Speaker 1: he's doing, ask him his name, what he's doing there,
Speaker 1: Like I'm scared of talking to him, but like okay,
Speaker 1: walk go away. Then go away. Like they would just
Speaker 1: be like you go like it's just people here, just
Speaker 1: like the cops are go No, the cops are not
Speaker 1: coming for everything. Like hey, you can call nine No
Speaker 1: one because your cat is in a tree. That is
Speaker 1: some craziest ship in Africa that you'd just be like yeah.
Speaker 1: You'd be like, you know my cats in the tree.
Speaker 1: They'd be like okay, yeah, I'd be like I need
Speaker 1: what would let my cats stuck in the tree. They'll
Speaker 1: be like yeah, so what must we do? And you
Speaker 1: help it? They'd be like, then how will your cat
Speaker 1: len let the cats suffer? It will never do that.
Speaker 1: Gain Thank you for calling, Please stay on so you
Speaker 1: can read this car. Thank you very much. I want
Speaker 1: to share this little story with you. I um, I
Speaker 1: got into a little bit of trouble with the French government.
Speaker 1: I know the French government. UM So what happened was,
Speaker 1: let's start at the beginning. France won the World Cup
Speaker 1: and so and so on the show. I we we
Speaker 1: celebrated that, and I have this joke where I said, um,
Speaker 1: I said Africa won the World Cup. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: was shocked at how angry a lot of French people got,
Speaker 1: like genuine a lot of French people who were angry,
Speaker 1: and they were like, Trevor, how can you say this
Speaker 1: where we say these things and you know this is horrible?
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, I get it, Like not
Speaker 1: everyone likes every joke that you tell, and I get that,
Speaker 1: but this was interesting. I got a letter from the ambassador,
Speaker 1: the ambassador of France and and I'll read it. It
Speaker 1: was it was about that joke, and he says, I'll
Speaker 1: try to read it. How I hope he wrote it,
Speaker 1: which was he says, Sir, I watched with great attention
Speaker 1: your July seventeenth show when you spoke of the victory
Speaker 1: of the French team at the eighteen FIFA World Cup
Speaker 1: Russia Final, which took place less Sunday. I heard your
Speaker 1: words about an African victory. Nothing could be less true. Now,
Speaker 1: first of all, I think it could have been less
Speaker 1: I could have said they're Scandinavian. That's that would have
Speaker 1: been less true. That would have been less true, says
Speaker 1: as many of the players have already stated themselves. Their
Speaker 1: parents may have come from another country, but the great
Speaker 1: majority of them, all but two out of twenty three,
Speaker 1: were born in France. They were educated in France, they
Speaker 1: learned to play soccer in France. Their French citizens, they're
Speaker 1: proud of their country France. The rich and various backgrounds
Speaker 1: of these players is a reflection of Francis diversity France
Speaker 1: is indeed, now that line that was interesting, The rich
Speaker 1: and various backgrounds of these players is a reflection of
Speaker 1: Francis diversity. Now, I'm not trying to be an asshole,
Speaker 1: but I think it's more reflection of France's colonialism. Uh,
Speaker 1: because it's not like it's just like random play, Like
Speaker 1: they all have something in common. Like all of those players,
Speaker 1: if you trace their lineage, you're like, how did you
Speaker 1: guys become French? Like how did you have how did
Speaker 1: your family start speaking French? Oh? Okay, all right, I'm
Speaker 1: letna say here. Um, he says, France is indeed a
Speaker 1: cosmopolitan country, but every citizen is part of the French
Speaker 1: identity and together they belong to the nation of France.
Speaker 1: Unlike in the United States of America, France does not
Speaker 1: refer to its citizens based on their race, religion, or origin.
Speaker 1: To us, there is no heafinated identity. Roots are an identity.
Speaker 1: Roots are an individual reality. By calling them an African team,
Speaker 1: it seems you are denying their frenchness. This even ingest
Speaker 1: legitimizes the ideology which claims whiteness is the only definition
Speaker 1: of being French. So now here's the thing. A right,
Speaker 1: first things First, I understand what he's saying because I
Speaker 1: read up on this. Afterwards, Right, I take criticism. I'll
Speaker 1: listen to what somebody says to me. You know, I
Speaker 1: genuinely believe you should. And what what it turns out is,
Speaker 1: in France, a lot of like Nazis in in that
Speaker 1: country use the fact that these players of African descent
Speaker 1: to ship on their frenchness, you know, So they go,
Speaker 1: You're not French, You're from Africa. Go back to where
Speaker 1: you came from. You're not French. They use that as
Speaker 1: as you know, as a line of attack. Now, my
Speaker 1: thing is, my opinion is coming from South Africa, coming
Speaker 1: from Africa, and even watching the World Cup in the
Speaker 1: United States of America, black people all over the world
Speaker 1: were celebrating the African nous of the French players, right,
Speaker 1: not in a negative way, but rather in a positive way,
Speaker 1: going look at these Africans who can become French. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean, it's it's a celebration of that achievement.
Speaker 1: And so this is what I find I find weird
Speaker 1: in these arguments is that people go, they're not African,
Speaker 1: they're French. Then I'm like, why can't they be both?
Speaker 1: All right? Why? Why is that duality only afforded to
Speaker 1: a se like a group of people. Why can they
Speaker 1: not be African? So? What what what they're arguing here
Speaker 1: is in order to be French you have to erase
Speaker 1: everything that is African, because what do they what do
Speaker 1: they mean when they say that our culture with this?
Speaker 1: It's like, so, so you cannot be French and African
Speaker 1: at the same time, which which I've vehemently disagree with.
Speaker 1: I go if you've seen those players, I love them,
Speaker 1: Paul Pogba, Anglo Conte, I've watched all of them. Like,
Speaker 1: I love those players, and I love how African they
Speaker 1: are and how French they are. Don't take their frenchness away,
Speaker 1: but I also don't think you need to take their
Speaker 1: Africanness away, you know. And that's that is what I
Speaker 1: love about America. American is not a perfect country, but
Speaker 1: what I love about this place is that people can
Speaker 1: still celebrate their identity in their American nous. You can
Speaker 1: go to a St. Patrick's Day parade in America celebrating
Speaker 1: that you are Irish. You can go to Puerto Rican
Speaker 1: Day parade in America, still celebrating the fact that Puerto
Speaker 1: Rican and American. At the same time. You can celebrate
Speaker 1: June Teams as a black person and be like, yo,
Speaker 1: I'm African American, which is the duality of the two worlds.
Speaker 1: But here they're going, no, you are only French. And
Speaker 1: here's here's why it vexes me to be honest. This
Speaker 1: is what I find interesting, is like when I read
Speaker 1: stories from Africa and when I watch what politicians say,
Speaker 1: especially in France, about African migrants when they are unemployed,
Speaker 1: when they may commit a crime, or when they are
Speaker 1: considered unsavory. It's the African immigrants when their children go
Speaker 1: on to provide a World Cup victory for France, we
Speaker 1: should only refer to them as France. And we even
Speaker 1: saw it with that African man who climbed the building
Speaker 1: to rescue the baby. Do you remember that we watched
Speaker 1: him climbed the building, he rescued the child, and then
Speaker 1: they gave him French citizenship. They said, you are now French.
Speaker 1: So now I'm going so is he now no longer African?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying? So when he was on
Speaker 1: the ground, he was African, and then he climbed up,
Speaker 1: and as soon as he rescued the baby, now he's French.
Speaker 1: So if he dropped the baby, the African dropped the baby.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't believe that you need And here's
Speaker 1: like I say, again with respect, I understand what the
Speaker 1: ambassadors saying. I'm not joining the attack. And I know,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, I know there's the there's like
Speaker 1: you know, we live in a world where like nuance
Speaker 1: is something that is in short supply, and so you
Speaker 1: will find you know, in America, for instance, the ult
Speaker 1: rights saying that's what we've been saying. They're not French,
Speaker 1: and we're saying it's like, but if Trevor says it,
Speaker 1: it's not racist. But if we say this, racis like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll say yeah, you know why, because I believe context
Speaker 1: is everything. There are certain things you can say to
Speaker 1: somebody that like when I say to my friends, what's
Speaker 1: going on my nigga, and if a white person came
Speaker 1: and said the same thing, Yeah, there's a big difference.
Speaker 1: When I'm saying the African I'm not saying it as
Speaker 1: a way to exclude them from their friendness, but I'm
Speaker 1: rather using it to include them in my African nous.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I see you my French brother of African descent.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying, That's what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to say. When somebody else says that the other way,
Speaker 1: you can use the same line in different ways. People
Speaker 1: like so it's different. Yeah, it's different. It can be different.
Speaker 1: It's like somebody's saying, oh, so if you play with
Speaker 1: your naked child, that's a problem, but it for that
Speaker 1: I do it. I'm a pedophile. Yeah, yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: big difference. There's a huge difference. So I will continue
Speaker 1: to praise them for being African because I believe that
Speaker 1: they are of Africa, their parents are from Africa, and
Speaker 1: they can be French at the same time. And if
Speaker 1: French people are saying they cannot be both, and I
Speaker 1: think they have a problem and not me. The Daily
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