"Flying Into America" - Trevor Noah - (Lost In Translation)

So weird how our prejudices have given everyone their lane. Middle easterner does something, their a terrorist. Black person does something their gang related, their a thug. but if a white guy walks into a church killing 9 people dead. what do they lead with on the news? "And today in an isolated incident. a lone gunman walked into a church opening fire and killing 9 people". its always a lone gunman, yeah. "A lone gunman with no ties to society what-so-ever". they always separate him as quick as possible, I love how they do that. "He kept to himself and was notoriously unfriendly,

he had no friends what-so-ever". No friends, really, no friends? not even one? not even one? No friends? like not even on Facebook? everyone has friends on Facebook. come on, you telling me the guy had no friends. its almost as the shooting happens everyone is like. What, Dylan? Unfriend, unfriend, unfriend. unfriend, unfriend, unfriend, unfriend, unfriend. its the weirdest thing ever.

and the first thing they always go to. is mental instability. that's what they go to, the first thing. they never go with terrorism. What happened, are we saying this was terrorism? Well we are not going to jump to that conclusion. this was a young man who was really mentally. he was unstable, he was a troubled young man. but he was a terrorist. he committed a terrorist act, walked into a building. shot a bunch of people to try and spread a message of hatred right? he was trying to pass something. he was trying to do something. that's an act of terror.

"Well not neseserally, he was a troubled young man". Yes, and a terrorist. "Yeah, but he was mentally unstable". Just like terrorists. He is exactly what a terrorist is. there's no normal reason to blow yourself up. that's ridiculous as shit. You're crazy. You're crazy. but you're still a terrorist. it's almost like without realizing it.

what they are saying on the news is. "You know this young white man is clearly. struggling with something, I mean because. why would you forgo all that privilege, why would you? I mean he was a young white man. why would you throw that all away. I mean if he was a minority I'd get it. because that shit sucks, but I mean. why would you throw it away, he must be crazy.". This is madness, I refuse to be part of this. I refuse to live in a world.

who will deny white people. the monocle of terrorist. that's racism people, that's what that is. if a white man through hard work and determination commits an act of terror. he deserves to be called a terrorist. he worked for it dammit, you don’t deprive him of that. because of the color of his skin. you give it to him and you put him up there. Bin Khalid and Charlie. it's terrorism. we all have our prejudices, don’t get me wrong. it's not like I. I try to be better, I really do. I realize every now and again I do things I'm not particularly proud of.

like for instance. whenever I fly into America. if I've been out of the country and I'm flying back into America. I always try to fly. on middle-eastern airlines. specifically. so I fly on Emirates or Qatar or ATE or one of those. and the reason I do this. is because I feel. there is less chance. that somebody.

Um. that somebody, and this may sound a little bit racist. you have every right to be offended, you really. but I feel like there's less chance that somebody will attack. one of those planes. for a few reasons. number one, because their not proving a point. Plane's already Muslim owned, Muslim run. their not converting anybody. and secondly and more importantly on my side.

I think there's a small chance somebody can defuse the situation. somebody could talk them down just because they speak the same language. that's half of terror for me. is the fact that you don’t understand what the person says. Guy's speaking Arabic, Arabic. that puts fear in the hearts of all men. (speaking Arabic). you never think good things when you hear Arabic. yeah, we've watched to many movies and T.V shows. like whenever you hear Arabic some bad shit happens. immediately, that's always what happens. (speaking Arabic). (Explosion). it's never something cool or sexy, its never like.

(Sexy Arabic) (Explosion). It's never that. and so it makes you think, it makes you think a certain way. I know, I know I am not any different. I was on a flight. my first middle-eastern flight. flying on a Emirates plane. and this man. emerged from the galley, had a long beard. and he was carrying a box and he just went off, he was just like. (Speaking Arabic). and I was like Agh!!

Agh!!! Chicken please. Chicken. Sorry, I. I get really excited for chicken. I'm sorry for that. Sorry. He's like,"My friend, excited? you looked petrified". I said I am, of the flavour.

Chicken! Whaa! I love chicken, I love chicken so much. He's like, "oh? is that a black thing?". I said to him, that's racist. it just. its the little thing that makes me think there's a chance. that if someone understands the language. they may be able to talk the guy down. there could be, there could be terrorist on the plane. a guy with a suicide vest. we'll be flying 40 000 feet in the sky. a man jumps up, losing his head.

there he is (Speaking Arabic). and just maybe, maybe some guy will be opposite him like. "Hey! what are you doing?!". "I am going to blow up this plane to show everybody that Allah is great!". "Yeah, but. we know this. everybody here knows this.

so what are you doing?". I want to show all of you the power of Allah. what are you sowing us if we already know huh? what are you showing us, you are saying we are not good Muslims? is that what you are saying? huh, are you saying we don’t know the power of Allah? is that what you re saying, you're saying we are bad Muslims. what are you saying? no my friend I was not trying to offend you. I was just trying to kill you. listen to me, I wanted to show you. what are you showing me, huh? are you saying I do not pray, is that what you are saying? you are better Muslim than me? you think I'm not a good Muslim. because I am watching "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs". is that what you think? huh, what are you saying?

No I am not saying, I wanted to. you show nothing, you make us look bad. why don’t you preach, why don’t you talk to people huh? this is not Islam, what are you doing with your stupid vest? blah, blah, blah you make us all look bad! No, I was not. no you are not trying nothing. you even got your vest on backwards, you don’t even know what you are doing. sorry, this is my first time I've never done this before. Yeah, yeah, stories, stories, sit down. shut up, eat something! don’t worry it's all Halaal, you can eat it. you can eat it, eat it.

Stupid! there's a chance that could happen. there's a small chance that could happen. and that's why I do it.