- Breaking news out of South Africa was
a woman made history for being the first person
to be sent to prison for being racist.
Right, yeah, spoiler alert, she's white.
(laughing)
So this woman, I'm thinking her name's Vicki Momberg,
and what happened was her car was broken into
and two policemen showed up and these policemen
were both black and then she just went
on a racist tirade against the policemen, a tirade,
she was like, "I don't want black policemen,"
but she didn't just go black policemen,
she called them kaffirs, which is basically
South Africa's version of the N word,
but it's almost worse than the N word
because like in America, black people own
the N word, they're like we're gonna take it,
we're gonna use it in hip hop,
we're gonna make it cool.
In South Africa, people are just like no.
There's like no, we're not gonna do that at all.
So, it's another word, it's kaffir
and we didn't use nigger because America
had a trademark, right.
And so then she like, she said this to the cops 48 times.
Like she was like, "Oh, I don't need you Ks
"coming here, I don't need you, I don't need this."
Like, "I want a white policeman and I want
"an Indian policeman.
"I don't want to be dealing with you monkeys.
"You guys if I see another one of you
"I'll shoot you and I'll run you over with my car."
And she said 48 times is how many times she said.
Imagine someone saying that to a cop here,
48 times saying the N word.
Which is insane, because I mean like
that's lenient cops in my opinion.
Because like the first 10, I think the cops
are like all right, you're angry, we get it.
And the second 10 they were like okay,
I think you're racist.
And then third 10 they're like yo,
you better slow down.
Fourth 10 they were like she's not getting
to 50 is she, she's not getting to 50.
And then 48, they were like shut it down.
Yeah, and then she was arrested and they sent,
they sent her to three years in prison
for saying that.
(applauding)
Which is, but it's like,
it's crazy because a lot of Americans
when they hear the story would be like
but that's free speech, you can't arrest somebody
for saying something.
But the thing, here's the thing, here's the thing.
I understand that completely and I mean
it's a larger discussion to wrap your head around,
but I will say this, you've got to understand
in South Africa, after apartheid ended,
like why people were never punished, right,
like it's not like the government was like
we're gonna send white people to jail
and we're gonna take white people's houses
and we're taking white people's money
and things white people stole.
No, government was like hey, let's move forward, okay.
Clean slates, let's move forward.
Let's get this country to where it needs to be.
The only thing we're gonna take away
is this racist word, that's all.
And then some white people would be like
okay, but I just want one thing,
can I have the racist word back?
And then they still want to use the word
and then they were like, no,
and so that's like, now this person
has gone to jail and what I find funny
is like people who are online,
they're like this is, this is a tyranny,
that's what this is, this is oppression.
Like, you know, like what am I supposed to do.
It's like just don't be racist.
(laughing)
I love how people make it like it's
the hardest thing ever.
It's not like you go to jail for like mistake racism.
This is like hard core racism and people
are like I don't know how I can live in this country.
South Africa has become a tyranny.
Like I can go to jail for just being racist.
Yeah, yeah, for saying a racist word 48 times
to the police, yeah, yeah.
No, this is horrible, what am I supposed to do?
Just don't be racist, that's all.
Just don't say the word.
They're like this is horrible.
I'm like it's not actually that horrible.
Like I'm willing to bet if like you had
that situation flipped, imagine if a black person
in America said like cracker to a white cop
48 times, I would have been shocked
if they got to 15 before they got shot.
That shit would have ended real quick.
You cracker, you cracker, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.
Be like oh, shit what happened?
I thought his words were a gun, I'm so sorry.
I, oh, my God, that got me.
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