Trevor Noah has suggested South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) could be an appropriate model for the U.S to apply in an effort to salve America’s controversial race relations, and ultimately reach its “post-racial society” ideal.
During an interview with VOX, the seasoned comedian explained that South Africa has managed to move faster past race being at the centre of most of the country’s issues, compared to America.
“It’s [South Africa] moving to a place where most of your issues are not pinned back to race. Right now in America, a lot of the issues really do centre around race,” he told the international publication.
“Over time, I think, in South Africa that became less and less [the case]. They were still dealing with the effects of that government, but it’s becoming less and less so. Now it’s more about income and inequality.”
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“I think we [South Africa] are moving faster, yeah. One of the factors is that we had a Truth and Reconciliation Commission — we sat down, as a country, to come to grips with everything that had been done during the most oppressive time in our history,” he said. “It left us in a place where no one could deny what had happened. I see that in America where people ask questions like, ‘Oh, was slavery that bad?’ ‘Does slavery really have effects?’ and ‘What is the worst thing that happened?’ There’s some people who don’t even believe half the stories of lynchings or police brutality. It’s still an issue of, ‘Well, I don’t know if that’s all true.'” Source: TMG
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