According to Daily Show host Trevor Noah, the very way America trains its police creates a kind of "state racism" because of racial profiling.
Noah's prognosis came Tuesday night when discussing the tragic death of Philando Castile at the hands of Minnesota police officer last summer.
“The conversation gets caught up in racism as it pertains to black and white but I don’t believe that that is the conversation,” Noah told the studio audience. “I believe that the police force as a whole is trained in such a way that it creates state racism that is different.”
Noah, a native of South Africa, lamented being pulled over by police “at least eight to 10 times.”
“I’ve been stopped in a Tesla. Like, a Tesla, people. Like I don’t know what silent crime you think I’m on my way to commit, but I’ve been stopped in a Tesla,” he joked.
“Whenever I get pulled over, the first thing I do is throw my arms out the window,” Noah explained, saying “It looks so stupid when you see me but I’d rather have the cop go, ‘You are weird.'”
“I’m like, ‘OK, cool, but you saw where my hands are.'” he said.
Noah concludes that this "state racism" and random police stops are “just part of a black person’s life in America.”
“It’s the truth. I’ve been stopped a sh*t ton of times.”
Sorry Noah, but you lost us as soon as you seriously declared that there is such a thing as "state racism" in America.


