‘Daily Show’ Host Trevor Noah Explains Blackness To Joe Rogan: Black People Didn’t Call Themselves ‘Black.’ You Understand That, Right?”
deadline.comComedian and podcaster Joe Rogan who, in the past two weeks has become a lightning rod for criticism due to comments made on his show about Covid and was the focus of a Spotify protest by Neil Young, has now come under criticism from Trevor Noah on The Daily Show for a conversation on Rogan’s podcast about skin color and what it means to be Black.
In a January 25 conversation, Rogan asked former psychology professor Jordan Peterson, “What did Michael Eric Dyson call you?
A mean, angry white man?”“Yeah, a mean, angry white man,” answered Peterson about Vanderbilt professor Dyson, whom he has debated.“Hilarious,” Rogan shot back, “you’re not mean at all.”“I am white,” responded Peterson. “Actually, that’s a lie, too.
I’m kind of tan. And he was actually not Black, he was sort of tan.”That prompted Rogan to deliver his thoughts on the subject.“The Black and white thing is so strange because the shades are so…There’s such a spectrum of shades of people,” he said. “Unless you’re talking to someone who is, like, 100 percent African, from the darkest place, where they are not wearing any clothes all day and they’ve developed all that melanin to protect themselves from the sun, you know, even the term ‘Black’ is weird.
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