India.Arie to TrevorNoah on Joe Rogan: “I think he was saying [the N-word] because it got a rise out of people... He knew that it was inappropriate. And I think the fact that he did it repeatedly and was conscious and knew, I think that is being racist.”
on his popular Spotify podcast was so disingenuous last week, Trevor Noah doubled down Monday night, turning over the entire“Tonight, we had an episode planned around the Super Bowl and Ukraine and just catching up on all the news, but I had truly one of my favorite conversations with a human being that I ever thought I could have,” Noah said at the top of the Valentine’s Day broadcast before introducing his guest, India.Arie.
Now, she explained, she’s “still in a fight” to get her music off of Spotify, with Universal Music Group refusing to follow her wishes. “But that’s a whole other conversation,” India.Arie added. “I think he was saying it because it got a rise out of people,” she said. “That’s why he would say it. He knew that it was inappropriate. And I think the fact that he did it repeatedly and was conscious and knew, I think that is being racist.”
“I don’t think being a racist makes you a bad person, necessarily,” India.Arie responded. “It makes you a person who was raised in our society.” But when you put the “power” of someone like Rogan, who has such a massive audience, behind those racist ideas, then “that’s racism” and he’s “emboldening” his listeners to do the same.
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