Trevor Noah: Afraid of the Dark Page #2

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I'll never forget how every time

I came to America...

one of the biggest things I noticed

was how black Americans

were having a tough time.

I remember the first time I came out.

I was staying on the West Coast, and I met

a young African American man in Compton.

And we were hanging out at a comedy club.

This guy, he looked over at me

and he's like,

"Hey, yo, Trevor.

You the dude from Africa, man?"

I said, "Yeah, yeah.

I'm one of them, yeah."

He's like, "Yo, man.

I can't front, B.

It's an honor to meet you, man.

Yo, I always wanted to meet a dude

from Africa.

You're an OG, man. You're an OG."

I was like, "Thank you."

He was like, "Yeah, man.

You know how hard it is out here

for a black man?

Dude, I can't front, man.

You can't get no jobs, man.

The cops be on your ass

all the time, man.

I'm fittin' to go to Africa myself, man.

Yo, I'm gonna go to Africa with you, man.

I'm going with you, B."

And I was like, "Yeah,

you should buy the ticket, we can roll.

Let's go."

I connected with him that day.

I felt something.

Fast-forward, a few years later.

I remember I met...

a beautiful black woman.

Down South, I was doing shows

in Birmingham, Alabama.

This woman came up to me after the show.

She connected with me instantly.

She was like, "Trevor, baby.

Can I just tell you right now?

I ain't never met a stranger

I felt so connected to.

When you talk about Africa,

when you say those things,

I'm like, 'Oh, man, oh, Lord,

I wish I could go with you.'

Tell me all about the motherland, baby.

I want to go to a place I can call my own.

I want to go to a place where people

don't look at me like I don't belong.

Tell me all about Africa, baby.

Tell me all about it."

And I could feel what she was saying.

And I knew that people

weren't having a good time.

And then you fast-forward...

to 2016.

I'll never forget that moment

when Donald Trump...

closed the lead,

had a one-in-two chance of being

President of the United States.

And for the first time in my life,

I had white Americans

coming up to me, going,

"So, Trevor, tell me about Africa.

What's going on out there?

It's, uh--

Sounds like a plan, am I right?

What is it, motherland? Motherland, yeah.

Yeah. I should come with you.

Ali boma ye. Count me in, buddy."

And it's not just America as well.

It's not just America.

You know, a lot of Americans were shocked

by that rhetoric,

but if you expanded your view,

you realized that the rise of nationalism

is taking place all over the world.

In Austria, in Australia.

In England. That was what Brexit

was all about. Right?

They made it seem like it was about

the economy, but it wasn't.

The truth was it was fundamentally people

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