A Daily Show salute to Black History Month. Take a peek back at what TDS might have sounded like in 1965. Trevor Noah unpacks the lives and legacy of Nelson and Winnie Mandela. Roy Wood Jr. recalls the history of civil rights marches in CP Time. D.Ll Hughley challenges Los Angelenos to a Black History quiz. Trevor and Roy dig into the surprising origins of Peanuts character Franklin. Finally, After the Cut, Trevor remembers legendary singer Aretha Franklin.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What would TDS sound like in 1965?
February 1st, 1965. It's the Black History Month Daily Show.
Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah. My guest tonight, up-and-coming comedian Bill Cosby. This guy's jokes are gonna knock you out. But we begin in Selma, Alabama. If you aren't familiar with Selma, it's a small southern city located 10 miles east of No Negroes Please and five miles north of Say Boy. And it's also where today, recent Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Chapter 2: What is the historical significance of Selma, Alabama?
got into some legal trouble.
Dateline Selma. Civil rights leader the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested today while attempting to lead a mass march of 300 Negroes on the Dallas County Courthouse to protest voter registration procedures. The Negroes were taken into custody on charges of parading without a permit.
For more, we go to our junior civil rights correspondent, Roy Woods Sr. Now, Roy, what did you see out there? I saw a bunch of bulls**t, Trevor.
Proud Negro men and women being arrested for no reason.
Well, now, Roy, the police said there was a reason. They were parading without a permit.
Oh, I'm sorry. Did the Klan fill out their paperwork before marching in my neighborhood?
When have you ever seen white people arrested for parading without a permit? Well, boy, that's just the world we live in. Black people aren't ever gonna get the same treatment as white people, and that's never gonna change.
Actually, Trevor, I don't agree. You have to look at the bright side of things. Yeah, maybe the cops arrested Dr. King and a bunch of our brothers and sisters, but they did it this time without violence. That's progress. I mean, 40 years ago, a white man wouldn't even give a black man a glass of water. Now, not only can we have water, we can get it whether we want it or not.
Well, I mean, I guess you could call that progress. Oh, I do call that progress. We've gone from lynchings to beatings, now to peaceful arrests.
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Chapter 3: How did Nelson Mandela become a global icon?
Ignorance brings chaos, not knowledge. Now, I know a lot of people complain that she takes roles she shouldn't, but I think she nailed it there. She killed it. She was pretty good. Scarlet can act, yo. So there's movie Mandela, and there's real Mandela.
And because today marks 100 years since his birth, I just wanted to spend a few minutes talking about the man, because he spoke about me on my birthday. Now, that's not true at all. Now, the first thing you need to know about Nelson Mandela is that his name was not Nelson.
When I went to school, the lady teacher, Ms. Mdingane, asked, what is your name? I told him my African name. He says, no, I don't want that one. You must have a Christian name. So I say, no, I don't have one. She says, you are from today, you are going to be Nelson. That's how I earned the name Nelson. Not given by my parents. Wow.
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Now... Now, the reason Nelson Mandela had to have a Christian name is basically because back in the early 20th century, white people ran South Africa. So you couldn't have a name that they couldn't pronounce, right? Even though they were only 20% of the population, they controlled the government, the land, the economy, everything.
Yeah, it's kind of like how today all those no-gluten people have control of all of our menus. Yes, except in South Africa, the intolerance was real. So it was this oppression, it was this oppression that pushed Nelson Mandela to join a revolutionary movement called the African National Congress.
He joined politics when he was just 26 years old, partly to fight racial inequality and also because he had just been kicked off his parents' Obamacare. Now, at first, at first, the ANC fought for racial equality peacefully, but the racist government only got more oppressive. In fact, in 1948, South Africa's government set up apartheid, which made legal racism the foundation of the entire country.
Black people couldn't vote, they had to live in certain areas, and they were banned from playing sports with white people. And I'm not gonna lie, that last part I completely understand. I mean, if your system is based on white supremacy, you can't have black people dunking all over your shit. It just doesn't go with the narrative. Be like, white people are superior. Oh, wait, I wasn't ready.
I wasn't ready. In fact, the government became so oppressive that Mandela and the ANC decided to resort to violence. They bombed power stations, post offices. And I mean, they did it when people weren't in there, but still, they blew shit up. And there were many people, not just in South Africa, but around the world, who wanted him to respond to the brutality of the government with civility.
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Chapter 4: What role did women play in the South African struggle?
He could have easily just said, I'll give you white people a 10 minute head start. You guys put me in prison for 30 years. I don't even know what a workman is. I just hope I get to meet Elvis. What? Five-minute head start. So... So you see, this is just part of why people like Barack Obama look up to Nelson Mandela.
This was a man who grew up in a country steeped in racism, spent decades in prison fighting it, and then dedicated his life to a world of racial progress. And most impressively, when he was asked why he's not bitter, he had this to say.
You end up coming out of prison and there is no bitterness. How is there no bitterness?
Well, I hated oppression. And when I think about the past, the type of things they did, I feel angry. You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try and use that period for the purpose of transforming your country.
That's why he's a legend. Happy 100th birthday, my diva. You must remember, because of so many of the struggle leaders in South Africa were either imprisoned or exiled, the movement in South Africa was held together in large part by women in the country.
And so it's weird for me, because I understand you travel the world, you understand that everywhere feminism is different and the idea of women is different. But I grew up in a world that was very matriarchal and where women were the most dangerous freedom fighters that existed. That is true. You read up on Winnie Mandela,
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Chapter 5: How have civil rights marches shaped history?
Like, Nelson Mandela was an icon, but the police in the country were afraid of Winnie Mandela. You know, they were... And we had a phrase in South Africa that was, we still use it today, which was, which means, you strike a woman, you strike a rock. And that's what I grew up learning. That's a... It was kudos, man. It was fire. It was fire.
And a lot of the time, my mom would strike me with a rock.
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Welcome to CP Time, the only show that's for the culture. Today, we will be discussing the history of civil rights marches. They were how black people fought the system, made change. It's also how your granddaddy got his steps in. Now, there are the famous marches that we all know about.
The March on Washington, Birmingham, and the March in Selma, which I was getting ready to attend until I found out that march was on a bridge. I don't do bridges well. I told Dr. King if God wanted the black man to cross rivers, we would have been born with those little floaty things on our arm, like white people.
But there are many other marches in black history worth noting, such as the 1995 Million Man March in Washington, D.C. Now, some people say the crowd size didn't actually reach a million men. But if that's true, it's only because it was the 90s and all those parachute pants took up too much space. But at least hundreds of thousands of men attended this march.
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