Former “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah asked Princeton University professor if integration into the United States was a “real move”.
“Do you think integration was the right move?” – asked Noah “What now?” Podcast on Thursday.
“No, no. And I don’t think that’s really controversial,” said Princeton Ruha Benjamin’s professor of African American studies.
“Segregation and integration are not the only options. Like they are within these two options. It may seem as if integration is more progressive. Like, of course, we do not want segregation. But again when you are integrated into institutions, in a culture that is a superior culture, It is a culture that feeds on the hierarchy, which feeds on insecurity, anxiety.
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Trevor Noah seemed to come out on Thursday against integration in his subcastation. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for the Academy of Record)
Noah expanded the topic of integration during a broader discussion on education and gifted and talented programs. The comedian said that asking the question separates segregation from other forms of oppression and social illness, black Americans victims in Jim Crowe’s era, including that he was not allowed to open a bank account.
Segregation is officially banned in the United States with the adoption of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Before passing the works, Black Americans were not able to eat at the same restaurants or send their children to the same schools as white Americans in many parts of the country.
Noah elaborated that the part of why he felt the integration of the United States the wrong course of action because of the implicit trust he felt when he was in all black environments.
“When I am in a room with anyone where we start connecting more things. So if I’m already in a black -black room, there is an implicit confidence because we know what they mean certain actions, words and vibrations,” Noah said.
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Trevor Noah is the former “Daily Show” host. (Comedy Central)
Noah quoted Finland, a country whose education system Benjamin published a superior rest of the world in terms of testing, as a success story because his society is “homogeneous”. He later cited some cultural understanding found between people of the same ethnicity, understanding that Noah obviously believes are unbridled between different ethnic groups.
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“Have you been in Finland? It’s very homogeneous. I was in Finland, you know, who’s in Finland? Finnish people. That’s it. That’s it. And because everyone is Finnish, there is an idea like: ‘No, we’re all Going in the same direction … Now even if you yell at me, I know what your Vik means in the same way as Italian knows what Italian Vik means. “
Noah said that Finnish schools are successful because of cultural homogeneity. (Roni Rekomaa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Benjamin, who argued that he was currently on the usual trial camps because he joined Anti-Israeli Campus of Clio Hall as a faculty observer, continued to claim that the nation-states were “imagined” and that the national identity was not “God”. The professor urged people to “denaturalize” their self -esteem so that national identity could be included.
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“Stretching our imagination, is to recognize all the things that have been composed, but made to look immutable, fixed inherent … and ask yourself how otherwise we can be associated with a sense of solidarity where, what I want for my children, I also want for my neighbor’s children” , she said.
