If any of you have seen "You Laugh But It's True" or watched some of his stand up, you're probably as excited as I am.
To quote a very pithy playwright friend of mine:
It took South Africa a little under 15 years to go from ending the government policies of apartheid to legalizing same-sex marriage throughout the nation. It's taken the United States 50 years from the end of Jim Crow to now to at last be in a state of constant, angry legislative debate about how formal, institutionalized discrimination might maybe possibly be a toxic stain on an allegedly democratic society.
Which is to say: I fully expect Trevor Noah to have a few salient things to tell our nation about how one achieves social progress in the face of terrible, terrible history.
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