Late night comedian Trevor Noah told his audience Tuesday night that the Second Amendment is not for black people.
“The Daily Show” host put aside comedy to speak seriously about Emantic Bradford Jr., a black man shot and killed by police when he was mistakenly identified as a mass shooter in an Alabama mall over Thanksgiving weekend.
“How does this shit keep happening?” Noah said Tuesday night. “The cops are called into a situation. They see a black person. And then immediately they shoot.”
Noah then cited the times when a white shooter was not shot down, but instead taken into police custody, as in the cases of the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting in 2012 and the Charleston, S.C., church shooting in 2015.
“By the looks of it, it looks like this guy was a ‘good guy with a gun.’ That’s what they always say, that the ‘good guy with a gun’ stops the crime,” Noah continued, adding that if the “good guy with a gun” is a black man, then “they don’t get any of the benefits.”
“If you’re a black person in America, gun rights are not for you. It’s as simple as that. It’s some bullshit, but it’s true,” Noah concluded. “The Second Amendment was not made for black folks.”
