Trevor Noah has defended his feedback about Rishi Sunak, insisting he did not say “the entire UK is racist” in a monologue discussing the appointment of the United Kingdom’s first British Asian prime minister.
Speaking in a video posted on social media from his US satirical information programme The Daily Show, presenter and comic Trevor Noah had alleged there had been a “backlash” in opposition to Mr Sunak, with folks saying, “now the Indians are going to take over Great Britain”.
UK politicians, together with former cupboard minister Sajid Javid, have been fast to counter his claims.
Piers Morgan additionally chipped in, saying there had been “no such backlash against Sunak,” labelling The Daily Show “race-baiting twerps” and accusing the US media of “falsely portraying Britain as a racist country”.
Responding to Morgan on Twitter, Noah stated: “C’mon Piers you are smarter than that.
“I wasn’t saying ‘The entire UK is racist’, I was responding to the racists who don’t want Rishi as PM because of his race.
“That’s why I stated. ‘Some folks’.”
His monologue, titled Unpacking the backlash in opposition to new UK PM Rishi Sunak on Twitter, and British Racists Reject Rishi Sunak on Instagram, was delivered in entrance of a stay studio viewers.
In it Noah stated: “Watching the story of Rishi Sunak turning into England’s first prime minister of color, of Indian descent, of all these items after which seeing the backlash is among the extra telling issues about how folks view the position that they or their folks have performed in historical past.
“And what I mean by that is this, you hear a lot of the people saying ‘Oh, they’re taking over, now the Indians are going to take over Great Britain and what’s next?’
“And I all the time discover myself going ‘So what? What are you afraid of?'”
He continued: “Why are you so afraid? And I feel it is as a result of the quiet half lots of people do not realise they’re saying is ‘We don’t desire these individuals who have been beforehand oppressed to get into energy as a result of then they might do to us what we did to them.'”
Former chancellor Mr Javid shared the clip online, writing: “Simply improper. A story catered to his viewers, at a price of being fully indifferent from actuality.
“Britain is the most successful multiracial democracy on earth and proud of this historic achievement.”
Asked whether or not Mr Sunak believes Britain is a racist nation, a Downing Street spokeswoman stated: “No, he doesn’t.”
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Social media customers have been additionally fast to hit again on the remarks.
Hampshire-born Mr Sunak turned the UK’s first Hindu PM, the primary of Asian heritage and, at 42, the youngest for greater than 200 years when he was appointed prime minister final week.
He is married to Akshata Murty, the daughter of billionaire Indian IT large Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy, with whom he has two daughters.
Last month, South African TV presenter Noah introduced he might be stepping down as host of The Daily Show after seven years fronting the present.
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