RIP… D.E.I. with Ruha Benjamin [VIDEO]

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Trevor and Christiana speak with professor, sociologist, and MacArthur Fellowship winner Ruha Benjamin about some of the pressing political and social issues of the day. The three discuss whether DEI initiatives are in fact valuable and how the world will look without them, why universities honor people whose voices they’ve previously tried to silence, and how best to navigate a world that was not built for us. Can the three collectively imagine a better world order? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I was expelled from my primary school.
0:02.6	And now if you drive past it, no joke.
0:06.7	They'll hit like a banner flying sometimes.
0:09.1	I love it.
0:09.9	We're proud that Trevor Noah went to.
0:11.8	And I look at it and I'm like, you guys kick me out.
0:14.7	You guys kick me out of the school.
0:16.4	And now you're putting up a banner like,
0:17.6	we are proud to be the school that Trevor Noah went to.
0:20.5	Then I'm like, but you kicked me out.
0:27.2	This is What Now with Trevor Noah.
0:51.5	You know, it's funny, in preparing for this conversation, I was thinking, there's very few people we sit down with where you can talk about as many topics as we can with you. Like when I think of a, when I think of a Venn diagram of conversation,
0:56.2	Ruha fits perfectly in the middle of most of these vent.
0:59.6	Like everything, I mean like everything.
1:01.4	Master of none though.
1:02.7	Master of none.
1:03.3	Don't say that.
1:04.0	No, no, no, no.
1:04.8	Actually, you should say that.
1:07.0	You think she's a master of none?
1:08.1	You actually, you should say that.
1:09.3	I'm going to read you. I'm going to read you the full quote.
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