- If there was one aspect of South African culture
that I could --
[Female Guest] - transplant to America.
- Transplant to America what would it be?
What would it be?
I think it would be maybe our general ease at
talking about race and our racial past, you know.
Cause South Africa and America have very similar
histories you know in that there was many things that
were done to people of color that were extremely heinous.
But we, just maybe because of the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission in our country, we're forced to talk about it.
And we just talk about it.
It's painful but we laugh about it and it's out there.
Whereas in America I find that there's like a lot
of tension in and around that.
People are just like "Come on, do we have to bring that up?"
And it like, dude, I'm not saying you did slavery.
Calm down.
Do you know what I mean?
Cause that's how a lot of people treat it.
They're just like "I wasn't there".
I didn't say you were there.
I'm just like slavery happened.
"Yeah but I swear I wasn't--"
Dude, you're 37, calm down.
You know what I mean?
And I feel that there could be --
It helps to be able to have conversations
about those things because then it helps you
understand how you got to where you got to.
But if you can't have those conversations
then you just have to operate in a blind
space of like "How did this happen?"
"Why do so many black people live in
"this part of Harlem?"
"I don't know why do you think?"
"I don't know."
Do you get what I'm saying?
It actually opens it up, I think.
That would be like the one part.
And it doesn't fix everything.
Don't get me wrong.
But I do think it makes it easier
to address issues, to have conversations
when you can just be like "Yeah man, this shit happened".
You know what I mean?
You can just be like yeah, that was crazy.
That was wild that that happened, that this happened.
And that's the thing, a lot of the time
people think it's about assigning blame,
but it's not.
It's about addressing what happened so that
everyone can move forward and understand
why things need to be fixed or how they
got there in the first place.
Does that make sense?
Like imagine --
(applause)
Imagine if like you want to talk to your doctor
about something that happened inside your body.
And then your doctor scans and you're like
"Doc I think I might have a cancer".
And your doctor is like "I wasn't there.
"I wasn't eating with you".
You're like "No I just need your help fixing it".
"Yeah, I wasn't there though".
No man just like chill out.
That's the one thing.
I'll transplant that and chickens
that don't do weights and stuff.
(laughter)
That's the other part,
like chickens that just like are normal.
Cause American chickens is just like what is --
I'm sorry, what, is that the thing I'm eating?
Oh, like I remember when I first saw
a chicken wing in America.
This is the dumbest thing you've ever heard.
And you're going to judge me but I judge you back.
I remember the first time I had a chicken wing
in America, is like I ordered like buffalo wings.
Okay, I know this sounds crazy, but the reason
I was intrigued cause I saw it on someone else's plate.
And then I was like "What are those?"
And someone said those are buffalo wings.
And I was like "Oh, is this like part of the buffalo
"that I don't know".
And I was like I wanna taste buffalo wings.
And then I remember eating it and then I was like
"It's sort of like chicken."
And someone's like "It is chicken."
And then I was like "But it's buffalo."
And then they were like "No it's chicken."
Then I was like "What chicken is this?"
I was like "How big is the wing of this chicken?"
What dinosaur chickens do you guys have here?
Cause that's not the size of any normal chicken
anywhere in the world.
So, yeah, that's the one other thing I would bring
is just normal animals.
(laughter)
That's all.
Yeah, I would bring normal animals
and conversations about race.