D.L. Hughley isn’t holding back on Trevor Noah’s recent podcast question about whether integration was the right move for America -- calling it "maybe the stupidest thing I've ever heard."
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00:00That may be the stupidest thing I've ever, and first off, I've heard enough from South
00:07Africans this year.
00:08That's enough.
00:09Between Elon Musk and Trump, I don't need to know about race from two dudes from South
00:14Africa.
00:15I've heard enough.
00:16Black schools and HBCUs in our system exist, and she could have said that virtually about
00:19every system that exists in America, from policing to banking to housing.
00:24Every single one is inundated with white supremacy, all of it.
00:29And the thing that I find that I resent the most is that our story always starts in the
00:34middle.
00:35HBCUs came as a result of what we couldn't have.
00:38Everywhere we live, every black neighborhood is where we were told to live, everywhere.
00:43Even school, like they want integration some places, I bet you want it in the Super Bowl
00:46because without black people, that shit would be rugby.
00:49So it's an interesting conversation to have, except that I think the outcome, I mean, where
00:57she lands is a bit disingenuous.
01:00You can't just talk about education because the only reason you get educated is to indoctrinate
01:05yourself, is to be involved in those other systems.
01:08My understanding was one of the underlying reasons why it was so important to integrate
01:14schools is because black schools were grossly underfunded.
01:19And still are.
01:20And still are.
01:21And still are.
01:22And by integrating, you're creating more of a level playing field where everybody's
01:27in the same school.
01:28You're saying it should be the same.
01:29What happened was, whatever schools white kids could go to, when black kids start going
01:34there, they left and they took their resources with them.
01:36So they in fact became, look at every school, look at all the schools we go to that at one
01:42time integration meant that we could come and they left.
01:46Not only did they leave, they took their resources.
01:48So this notion that integration ever existed was wrong.
01:51White flight happened as soon as integration started.
01:54And with them, they took their resources.
01:55So we still, in effect, have virtually the same thing.
01:57I remember vividly the early 60s and seeing, you know, people getting beaten over the heads
02:03with batons.
02:04I remember, I remember Mississippi and Alabama where they wouldn't let black kids into schools.
02:11It's better today.
02:13There's still racism, but it's, I mean, it has gotten better over the years.
02:19That is undeniable.
02:21Ruby Bridges, who integrated schools in Alabama, Louisiana, is still alive.
02:26She's 71.
02:27She's still alive.
02:28So what America tends to do is act like it's so long ago.
02:31Yes, they don't wear hoods and maybe they don't do the things that they did before,
02:35but some of it is still so entrenched.
02:37So some is so insidious that it, I think that people, this is my honest assessment of it.
02:43I don't think most white people agree with the motives of white supremacists and white
02:47nationalists.
02:48I don't think they like their words.
02:49But I do think that they agree with their goals, which is to keep white people in charge.
02:52I think that they, they don't agree with their motives.
02:54They don't mind, I agree with their terminology or their verbiage, but they most certainly
02:57agree that white people should be in charge.