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D.L. Hughley Slams Trevor Noah's Integration Query as Stupidest Thing Ever
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2/18/2025
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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That may be the stupidest thing I've ever, and first off, I've heard enough from South
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Africans this year.
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That's enough.
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Between Elon Musk and Trump, I don't need to know about race from two dudes from South
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Africa.
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I've heard enough.
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Black schools and HBCUs in our system exist, and she could have said that virtually about
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every system that exists in America, from policing to banking to housing.
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Every single one is inundated with white supremacy, all of it.
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And the thing that I find that I resent the most is that our story always starts in the
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middle.
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HBCUs came as a result of what we couldn't have.
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Everywhere we live, every black neighborhood is where we were told to live, everywhere.
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Even school, like they want integration some places, I bet you want it in the Super Bowl
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because without black people, that shit would be rugby.
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So it's an interesting conversation to have, except that I think the outcome, I mean, where
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she lands is a bit disingenuous.
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You can't just talk about education because the only reason you get educated is to indoctrinate
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yourself, is to be involved in those other systems.
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My understanding was one of the underlying reasons why it was so important to integrate
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schools is because black schools were grossly underfunded.
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And still are.
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And still are.
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And still are.
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And by integrating, you're creating more of a level playing field where everybody's
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in the same school.
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You're saying it should be the same.
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What happened was, whatever schools white kids could go to, when black kids start going
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there, they left and they took their resources with them.
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So they in fact became, look at every school, look at all the schools we go to that at one
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time integration meant that we could come and they left.
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Not only did they leave, they took their resources.
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So this notion that integration ever existed was wrong.
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White flight happened as soon as integration started.
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And with them, they took their resources.
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So we still, in effect, have virtually the same thing.
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I remember vividly the early 60s and seeing, you know, people getting beaten over the heads
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with batons.
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I remember, I remember Mississippi and Alabama where they wouldn't let black kids into schools.
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It's better today.
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There's still racism, but it's, I mean, it has gotten better over the years.
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That is undeniable.
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Ruby Bridges, who integrated schools in Alabama, Louisiana, is still alive.
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She's 71.
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She's still alive.
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So what America tends to do is act like it's so long ago.
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Yes, they don't wear hoods and maybe they don't do the things that they did before,
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but some of it is still so entrenched.
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So some is so insidious that it, I think that people, this is my honest assessment of it.
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I don't think most white people agree with the motives of white supremacists and white
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nationalists.
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I don't think they like their words.
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But I do think that they agree with their goals, which is to keep white people in charge.
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I think that they, they don't agree with their motives.
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They don't mind, I agree with their terminology or their verbiage, but they most certainly
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agree that white people should be in charge.
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