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The Best Joke at This Year’s Oscars Was a Hidden One
Vulture.com ^ | 25 February 2019 | Megh Wright

Posted on 02/25/2019 2:57:29 PM PST by zeestephen

[South African] Trevor Noah [current "Daily Show" host] said a phrase in Xhosa he said translates to "In times like this we are stronger when we fight together than when we try to fight apart."....Except that’s not what the phrase translates to - not even close. As BBC and multiple South African news outlets were quick to point out, what Noah actually said was: "White people don’t know I’m lying."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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From the link:

While presenting Best Picture nominee Black Panther, Daily Show host and South Africa native Trevor Noah got a lot of laughs for his Mel Gibson joke: "Mel Gibson came up to me like 'Wakanda forever.' He said another word after that, but the Wakanda part was nice."

1 posted on 02/25/2019 2:57:29 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

All blacks speak Xhosa? I had no idea !


2 posted on 02/25/2019 2:59:03 PM PST by Celerity
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To: Celerity
All blacks speak Xhosa? I had no idea !

Is that the one with the clicks?

3 posted on 02/25/2019 2:59:57 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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"Excuse me, Stewardess, I speak Xhosa."
4 posted on 02/25/2019 3:01:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Celerity

Lieutenant Uhura spoke Swahili.


5 posted on 02/25/2019 3:02:46 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Celerity
All blacks speak Xhosa? I had no idea !

Trevor's from South Africa. His mother is Xhosa. His father is white German, making him yet another angry bitter half-breed.

6 posted on 02/25/2019 3:07:04 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: zeestephen

Can’t stand this African POS.


7 posted on 02/25/2019 3:07:42 PM PST by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Steely Tom

Former, and long deceased Academy Awards host Johnny Carson spoke Swahili.


8 posted on 02/25/2019 3:09:47 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Celerity
No... Xhosa is a language spoken only by the Bantu people who invaded South Africa and stole the land from the Khoisan people. Why aren't people talking about reparation from Bantu South Africans to Khoisan South Africans?


9 posted on 02/25/2019 3:10:03 PM PST by drpix
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To: zeestephen

When your cultural history sucks so much, you have to make up a completely fake one.


10 posted on 02/25/2019 3:10:56 PM PST by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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To: zeestephen

Why is this talentless hack allowed to work in the US?


11 posted on 02/25/2019 3:14:19 PM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: zeestephen

The oscars were a joke.
Period.
Which is why most of us didn’t watch.


12 posted on 02/25/2019 3:15:22 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: zeestephen

Snide Little Foreigner should go back to South Africa.


13 posted on 02/25/2019 3:15:32 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Celerity

No they don’t, but some whites in RSA can speak it, or at least understand Xhosa, as well as other “TRIBAL” languages; though the “clicks” are difficult to reproduce for those whodidn’t learn to speak with them as children.


14 posted on 02/25/2019 3:22:12 PM PST by nopardons
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To: dfwgator

Yes, it has some clicks.


15 posted on 02/25/2019 3:23:05 PM PST by nopardons
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To: zeestephen

I wonder how many Black people watching knew what he said? I suspect not many. When an ‘inside joke’ is soooo inside, the target audience doesn’t understand it.......it falls flat. Go home, Noah. We don’t need your race-baiting in this country. We have enough race baiting Blacks as it is.


16 posted on 02/25/2019 3:23:46 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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Megh Wright and I have completely takes on "jokes".

How can an "inside" joke be "The Best" if the joke is told by a sphincter intending to insult with malice, an ever increasingly shrinking audience?

17 posted on 02/25/2019 3:24:24 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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I doubt that ANY American blacks know/understand ANY of the “TRIBAL” languages spoken in RSA; not to mention the fact that
no Americans, who isn’t a child or grandchild of an Afrikaner, knows/understand Afrikaans!


18 posted on 02/25/2019 3:26:58 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Da Coyote

I didn’t watch the oscars but this morning I read Bradley Cooper and that gaga person did an “amazing” duet. I found it on youtube and thought it was boring. I couldn’t even watch the whole thing and I like Cooper.


19 posted on 02/25/2019 3:45:00 PM PST by tuffydoodle (God's character and moral nature are absolute, eternal, and unchanging.)
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To: zeestephen

“White people don’t know I’m lying.”

No, Trevor, we take it for granted that you lie.


20 posted on 02/25/2019 4:05:51 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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