TDS Time Machine | Black History Month
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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.
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. In fact, I heard Dr. King is coming back right here next month to Selma to march across that bridge, and at the rate of progress we're making, I bet you it's gonna be a fun day marching arm in arm with the police, and one day they'll make a movie about it, and it'll be called Selma, the day when nothing happened at all.
Obama's main purpose in South Africa was to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela.
Madiba's light shone so brightly, even from that narrow Robben Island cell, that in the late 70s, he could inspire a young college student on the other side of the world. Mandela said, young people are capable when aroused... of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom. Now's a good time to be aroused.
Yeah.
Wow. This is probably the only thing that Trump and Obama agree on. Trump's like, you're so right, Barack, there's never a bad time to be aroused. He's like, that's not what I meant. He's like, too late, Don Junior's out already, baby. We were catching up with President Obama, who's in South Africa to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What would TDS sound like in 1965?
1:22–1:58
2
What is the historical significance of Selma, Alabama?
1:58–5:53
3
How did Nelson Mandela become a global icon?
5:53–11:19
4
What role did women play in the South African struggle?
11:19–13:01
5
How have civil rights marches shaped history?
13:01–34:01
Speakers
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