The Coronavirus Spreads Through the White House | Bakari Sellers

May 11, 2020

White House staffers tests positive for COVID-19, Dulce Sloan gets advice on the importance of the U.S. Census, and Bakari Sellers discusses his memoir "My Vanishing Country." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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hey everybody what's going on and welcome to another episode of The Daily social distancing show I'm Trevor Noah and it is now week eight of us stay inside to try and stop the spread of coronavirus here's your quarantine tip of the day are you feeling bad about not getting enough exercise I know I am well here's a tip baking cookies Burns about 1/8 of the calories of eating one so you just have to bake eight times more cookies than you usually would and then you won't gain any weight

anyway on tonight's episode what Disneyland will look like after Corona Ted Cruz Gets a Haircut and covid-19 visits the white house so let's get into it welcome to the Daily social distance and show from Trevor's couch in New York City to your couch somewhere in the world this is the daily social distancing show with Trevor Noah here's a dish

lately the news has been darker than the inside of Rudy Giuliani sarcophagus but every now and then it's nice to let some brightness in with an ongoing segment we call ray of sunshine let's kick things off in Germany one of the first countries to reopen and the place that ruined tiny mustaches for the rest of us one non-human victim of the coronavirus pandemic has been Germany's famous

being seen but now there's a new club for Germans who can't wait to get back to the dance floor but still want to be responsible well the clubs are closed but the beat goes on for party goers at this Drive-In Rave in Germany DJ's pumped out the music to the car bound crowd socially just in dancing was allowed with no more than two people per vehicle

Yvonne because of Corona Germans have started attending raves in there cause which I guess explains the new options at their gas stations and I can't wait to see all the new Club dances that are going to be inspired by this 10 of 1 to 10 and to do the ten own to come on y'all but once again Corona is making people appreciate the things that we used to hate because you realize right now this is a drive-in Rave but before Corona which is called that traffic yeah look at that

you can't tell if it's a rave or just rush hour on the full five so that's the party scene for adults in Germany and the good news is in China kids can also get back to having fun too these deal and and Shanghai just reopened today and this could pave the way for Disney World in Orlando to reopen give you an idea of what it took spect the park in China is going to be kept at less than 30% capacity lines and rides are going to be spaced out to meet social distancing guidelines and visitors will be screened for fevers

these characters also are no longer giving hugs or high fives but visitors can still take selfies yes this is great news Disneyland Shanghai is back in business just with a few added safety measures such as no hugging the characters you know like Cinderella Ariel and Snow White and I know that's really going to suck for all the kids and they're creepy dads and I think staying away from Disney characters is a great idea especially Donald Duck I mean that dude doesn't wear pants and he spits when he talks like a one-man

run a factory now if there's Neil and wants me to come back they go to add even more precautions I'm not playing with my life first of all Disneyland you got to get rid of the Seven Dwarves yeah I'm sorry but Sneezy and sleepy those guys are not cute anymore those are just coronavirus symptoms oh and also from now on I say that nobody should be allowed to open their mouth when they screaming on a ride you just got to hold it in and finally in Canada people still aren't able to go out and

have fun but one province is offering at least some help to families on lockdown you see the old rule was that you were only allowed to have contact with people in your household bubble as it was called but now they're saying that families can choose to double bubble by pairing up with another family yeah so each household will be allowed to hang out with members from another household and you can only choose one family and that decision is final it's the perfect solution for all those people who are tired of screaming at their own family now you have a whole new family

to scream at let's be honest there's probably going to never be a better time to bring your first family and your secret family together honey

I have to confess something I have a secret family what so you telling me that somewhere we could have gotten extra Purell this whole time and you didn't say anything if I was in Canada I would choose to live with Drake yeah no one's thought of that have you seen the size of his house it's so big you could double bubble for months with that mother and the two of you would never meet last sides yours right sides mine okay that's your way of sunshine let's catch up on today's headlines

all over the world every country is grappling with the billion-dollar question when is the right time to reopen do we just let everyone out of the house now and say goodbye to Grandpa and that one friend with asthma or do we stay inside forever and become a race of mold people who only leave the house for more toilet paper these are the only choices well yesterday Boris Johnson British prime minister and man who looks like he's just been in a pillow fight announced that Britain's lockdowns will continue until at least June

umm and then he went on to lay out a possible plan for slowly reopening now that we went okay but then Boris also created a lot of confusion when he changed the country's coronavirus slogan from stay home to stay alert which nobody really understands like think about it stay at home makes sense we all know what stay at home is you stay at home stay alert what does that mean it's too General stay alert is something you say when you boarding an alien

ship all when you're searching for a parking spot that's too broad so I understand why British people are confused in fact they haven't been this confused since they tasted seasoned food for the first time good Lord what are these strange Sensations in my mouth it's like my tongue can see colors now while Britain is going with the slow and steady approach some parts of America are choosing a slightly different method known as yippee-ki-yay all of Colorado is currently under a safer at home order put in place

by the governor and that's not stopping some restaurants from defying that order and welcoming customers inside this restaurant was packed yesterday video from inside shows there was a line out the door booths were packed tables were filled very few of these customers were wearing masks obviously there was no social distancing and the owner of CNC here has made her feelings clear posting these signs all over the front saying Attention our freedom doesn't end where your fear begins if you are scared stay home

damn I've been to brunch as we have said this food is to die for but I've never meant it like when the going to a restaurant become an Act of Revolution I miss the days when the only political debate at brunch was who invited Melissa and I got us a revolting against the government because of brunch has got to be one of the whitest things I have ever seen this is like a khaki shorts ale at a hockey game and it's not just Colorado's business owners who are

the rules in Texas at Dallas beautician was jailed after opening her Salon during the lockdowns and after she was released Ted Cruz rocked up to show his support Texas Senator Ted Cruz traveled from his home here in Houston to Dallas to get a haircut at a salon who stylist was sent to jail for violating stay-at-home orders Cruz says he wanted to show support for Shelly Luther she was sentenced to seven days in jail a given a seven thousand dollar fine for keeping her salon open

against the governor's initial orders the Texas Supreme court ordered Luther's release on Thursday Governor Greg Abbott changed his executive order to remove jail time as a penalty for violators we do it when there's a police sting trying to go after beauticians for trying to earn a living I mean last I checked there's some real criminals in the world what a Twist this is a la Nonna broke the law by keeping her business open and because of public outcry she's now a hero being celebrated by Senator Ted Cruz

crews are you know it's funny how in America if you break the law and you look a certain way well then you're a criminal but if you break the law and you look a different way well then the law needs to be changed because you're just a freedom-loving American exercising your rights now I know some people think this woman deserves to be in jail but for me having to cut Ted Cruz has hair that's punishment enough like that should actually be everyone's punishment for breaking shut down laws you have to spend an hour with Ted Cruz

see back actually didn't even know that Ted Cruz got haircuts I just assumed he ate it when it got too long that's why I say hmm and you know I'm not going to lie I find it bizarre that haircuts had become one of the major flash points of the debate over lockdowns like this is the one time when people should look to Donald Trump for leadership he doesn't cut his hair he just fold it over like a crepe and finally for an example of how dangerous it can be to reopen too quickly he has a story out of South Korea this morning

morning four thousand clubs and bars and soul are closed at testing sites long lines as health workers try to track at least 50 500 people who went clubbing more than a week ago and might be infected they say a 29 year old man went to at least three nightclubs the night of May first wasn't wearing a mask and tested positive for covid-19 last Wednesday the city's mayor ordering all night clubs and bars to closed indefinitely saying carelessness can cause the virus to

explode daily cases are now spiking 35 this morning the biggest rise since early April wow one man in South Korea closed an entire City's nightlife scene because he went club-hopping without a mosque and I guess that gives a whole new meaning to the term shut it down he's also a Pioneer because usually you don't catch a disease until you go home from the club if you know what I mean I don't know what that means I just say it which by the way

is why bounces have to step it up in the age of Corona yeah they've got to be the one blocking people like this hey come on man come on no shorts no cap hey man what you doing here with the respiratory illness may you can't come in I don't care how many girls you got come on get out of here man shit gonna come in here with a respiratory illness trying to turn affect people with pulmonary embolisms and shit so you can only imagine that everyone in Korea is probably mad at this dude although the good news is I heard Ted Cruz is still down to go clubbing with him all right that's it for the headlines after the break

remember how Mike Pence and Donald Trump don't like wearing masks well that might be coming back to bite them in the ass we'll be right back

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welcome back to the Daily social distancing show our big story today is about the White House Donald Trump's home and milania's Escape the Room for months President Trump has been saying the coronavirus pandemic isn't as big a deal as everyone is suggesting but now the virus is responding by saying knock knock biatch how the truck Administration is fighting to contain an outbreak of coronavirus sweeping through the White House this morning in 48 hours to

of the White House staff tested positive for the virus first on Thursday it was the president's personal valet a military service member on the team that serves his lunch in the Oval Office then Friday the vice president's press secretary Katie Miller tested positive Katie Miller is married to Stephen Miller President Trump's senior policy advisor the president is now revealing that his military valet was right there with him the day before the valet tested positive on Tuesday

day he was in the room and very virtually I don't think any contact but he was in the room The Valleys duties included serving the president lunch and those Diet Cokes he drinks all day long oh snap the coronavirus is now officially in the White House and that's scary although if it's like everything else that lands in the White House it won't last more than a few weeks and I won't lie I'm not surprised that this cluster started and Steve

Miller's house that dude has always given off major bitten by a bat Vibes but it's not just those two members of The White House staff because it turns out coronavirus is also spreading to the secret service at least eleven Secret Service employees are reportedly sick with covid-19 the assignments of the second Ponies are not yet known this morning the White House is looking to ramp up Social distancing measures including having more Secret Service agents wear masks and space 6 feet apart during meetings okay I know this is

has bad but the fact that the secret service has coronavirus and the president doesn't just shows you how good they are doing their jobs bravo team we got a close talker on your six I'm going to intercept excuse me I got all the particles we're good and I'm not going to lie I feel bad for Secret Service agents because there's some of the only people at the White House who can't work from home it's not an option I mean how do you protect the president if you're not there what do you do send them a text look out sir

is begging you what who's begging me yo hello oh sorry autocorrect he's behind you behind now while the Secret Service may be stuck with Trump other officials have been able to get the hell out of there in fact dr. falchi the head of the CDC and the head of the FDA are all now under some form of self quarantine for the next two weeks and I'll be honest I don't know who's happier about this Trump or the experts yeah because I mean they can finally say

something scientific without hearing na in the background so dr. Fouch e will be working from home as opposed to Trump who will continue not working from home and because this coronavirus outbreak is a big deal the White House is taking a number of other safety precautions for example they've announced that they will now be starting what they call heightened levels of daily cleaning yeah which is something they haven't had to do since Bill Clinton live there now despite coronavirus spreading into Trump's in a circle Trump himself have not

his attitude when it comes towards the virus for example he still refusing to wear a mosque even when meeting a group of elderly World War Two veterans there were no masks to be seen as the president and first lady Melania attended a ceremony for the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe in World War Two they were careful though to keep their social distance from the veterans who are all in their 90's mr. president you were with seven American Heroes earlier today these World War Two veterans all in their in their

90s did you consider wearing a mask when you were with them given their in that because I was very far away I appreciate the question I was very far away from them as you know I would have loved to get up and hug them because they're great I had a conversation with everyone but we were very far away you saw plus the wind was blowing so hard in such a direction that have if the plague ever reach them might be very surprised if he could have reached me to you didn't worry about me you only worried about them and that's

okay because I think they're so pure will never happen alright they've lived a great life Wow is it just me or did Trump go through all the stages of stupidity in one answer I was very far from them and there was no danger even if I wasn't far enough the wind was blowing in such a direction that it was totally safe you didn't worry about me you only worried about them but that's okay look these guys have lived a great life

life so look man whatever Trump's excuse was I just hope all those veterans are safe because can you imagine surviving Hitler only to be taken out by Trump that would be so anti-climactic would be like if Batman beat vein and then died slipping on a banana peel oh shit and it's bad enough that Trump doesn't want to wear masks but even worse is that he also seems to be learning all the wrong things from this White House outbreak mr. president can you bring us up to speed about

number of the vice president's staff who is now tested positive for Coronavirus this is now the second staffer In The West Wing Katie she tested very good for a long period of time and then all of a sudden today she tested positive so she tested positive out of the blue this is why the whole concept of tests aren't necessarily great okay I'm sorry about this this is just insane this dude literally just said that the reason why tests are useless is because they work

like does Trump also get mad at the White House metal detectors days metal detectors make no sense everyday we scan for your guns but there's no good then today we found a gun so this whole concept of metal detectors is not great to me folks and you know what's most concerning about this whole thing is that you would have hoped you would have hoped that Trump seeing the effectiveness of testing firsthand in his own house would have convinced

the testing is the best solution for the rest of America but somehow Trump came away with the exact opposite lesson and that's a pretty bad sign for America but I guess it's good news for Donald Trump's health because if he's this immune to Common Sense well then what chance does a virus have all right I got to go take my bread out of the oven but when we come back Dulce Sloan is going to school us on the senses so stick around

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welcome back to the Daily social distancing show we all know that 2020 is an election year but this year is also the year of the census something that only happens every 10 years but why should Americans spend time on the census while the country is dealing with the pandemic well Dulce Sloan sat down with a former census official to help us find out why Dan quarantine at me getting two things diems from dudes check

see if I'm all stocked up and reminders to take the census and I know just who to call to make it stop

I don't see why you sitting me honestly how to do something on the Internet well don't say this is the first time the census has been done online and it only takes 10 minutes listen during this quarantine I got so much on my plate trying to work on these dating profiles I'm in the middle of to BuzzFeed quizzes and they got all these new Instagram filters I mean like I wanted to make you look like Frederick Douglass well that's going to be a problem takes 10 minutes 10 minutes for school lunches for highways for schools for

scare while I hate to admit it Bob may have a point every 10 years the US Census tries to count how many people live in America it uses those numbers to decide how to split up federal funding for things like fire stations schools and hospitals these numbers even determine how many representatives each state has which is why the census has made so many ads to convince you to get off your ass and fill out they little survey the census really is about money and power come on dog you said ten minutes ago

net show me so the sense of spirit of scientists - 2028 since the Scott gov that's the official census website Gadget so if I get taken to my senses doc bigger titties tomorrow dot info that's not an official site that is not the Census Bureau let's see all right what am I split my time between two places like I have a man-friend I sometimes stay at his place which is technically

defunct food truck write the sentence attempts to account everybody in the country some of these people live in mobile home and told him there's no market for condiments only food truck but he makes his own decisions you know can't help you with that one Tulsa we want to count everyone just once and only once and then the place where they usually stay because that will be the basis of all the effects of the senses that's easy enough for me to answer I'm a citizen

for some how many people live here is a loaded question I hear that you know there's people that are concerned they're going to report to eyesore that they're going to report to the cops and it's going to affect people's status or citizenship well there's no citizenship question on the on the 2020 census and I think people distrust stems from we don't believe that a government agency cannot communicate information to another government agency and that's not allowed with this Steven

other than that it's against the law to reveal your answers identified with you to anybody once it's in the Census Bureau is protected so it's a no snitching lock it's a big-time no snitching law I get it count everyone in the government will do right by us there's just one problem not all of us are getting counted

so I've seen a lot of articles about how the census is bad at counting black people why is that the kinds of folks who end up traditionally being under contador those who are in Winters versus owners for example households with multiple families in them all of these conditions are more common to poorer populations and the unfortunate part is African-Americans tend to be poorer than others I Don't Wanna Lose the neck like black people are hard to count when the police are always fine

in this and they seem to always know where we're at that's the big issue don't say those communities who don't trust governments

confuse the census request as another way that they might be harmed by government and it's just not true so if the Simpsons traditionally and accounts us and the government has shown us multiple times that we can't trust it why should we take this I gotta don't say but you gotta understand that participating in the census allows your community its fair share of over 800 billion dollars

support for Education Health school lunches highways if you don't respond your community is going to get to you so if I don't do this my community's going to get cheated that's right Tulsa and it may get treated otherwise but if they don't do this then they're definitely gonna get cheated you're right why don't we need you on a commercial Dolson yeah you did hey black people look I can't promise great things will happen if you take the census

but if you don't I can promise these white people are going to use those low numbers to cheat you out of the schools hospitals and representation that should be yours so take the damn senses and let them know hey I know you see me

thank you so much little say when we come back I'll be chatting to bakari sellers about his brand new book and we'll get into the killing of armada burry stay tuned we'll be right back

welcome back to the Daily social distancing show earlier today I spoke with former South Carolina law maker bakari sellers about his new book my Vanishing country bakari sellers welcome to the Daily social distancing show well thank you for having me it's an awesome opportunity I like how your beard has come in it's a very Majestic professorial you've got like a like the full Corona beard going on this is Denzel ish that's what I like to call

let's jump straight into talking about your book which unfortunately feels more timely than ever you've written a story that is a memoir of your life but in many ways it feels like it's also the story of America as well my Vanishing country tell me what the title of the book means and if you really feel that way about America well sure I mean my life has been booking by tragedy I say that with a heavy heart from the Orangeburg massacre in my father being shot in 1968 to the Charleston Massacre

sukkur and throughout the book we talk about different different traumas and different heartaches and different systems of Oppression that people of color have to live through that I have lived through and so now with coronavirus and it ripping the Band-Aid off the health care disparities we have I'm able to parallel that with growing up in a community where we don't have clean water where we don't have a hospital where we live in a food desert and then you layer that with the sad case of a met Aubrey and you just talked about the

sexual trauma that people of color particularly black men have to live through and stole my Vanishing country it means a few things that we give the word country some meaning being a boy from the dirt roads of the South but even more importantly those those truths that we that we hold to be something that all Americans can realize seem to be fleeting especially for poor people immigrants and people of color in this country yeah you would think that people would just go yes this is America's history and these are some of the effects this

systemic problems that still affect black people today and yet it seems like people disagree on it more than ever if somebody is saying to you in good faith really hate but Carrie I don't understand why black people seem to think things are bad in America when they've gotten so much better how do you respond to that person if indeed genuinely they don't see it and they're trying to see it well this is a first of all this is probably the most difficult conversation that this country has to have its a conversation of race and and take for example

the amount of a case this is not a trauma are a phenomenon this is not something that just started to happen with the racism that emanates from the white house instead I think about Medgar Evers I think about Emmett Till I think about Jimmie Lee Jackson I think about the four little girls in the in the burning in the Birmingham church and so when you think about the totality of the circumstances you realize that we've made a lot of progress but we still haven't we still haven't reached that quote on quote Mountaintop we

have not made it there one of the funny things that people like to bring up is oh my God we had Barack Obama like the president you guys have made it and that's not the case when you talk about these layers I'm not concerned about somebody calling me nigger I'm not I'm more concerned about the systemic levels of impression that people of color live in today a broken Health Care System a broken environmental justice system a broken Criminal Justice System a broken educational justice system because in this country you're in

because of the ZIP code you're born into and all of these pressures just just they just rest on you and they build your anxiety and now we have Corona and now we had these never-ending traumas it seems like you just trying to breathe sometimes what do you think it says about America that's so many people used the video of Ahmed Aubry in that empty house the house that was being constructed as a justification for his death always killing rather I should say I'm not Aubree did something that people do all the time huh

me and my wife do it he walked into a empty home he was looking around an empty home that's not a crime that that requires the death penalty but even more importantly those those two men who were on that good old-fashioned South Georgia father-son lynching they looked at him as less than human and that's that's the hard part for me and raising Twins and raising a 14 year old daughter and I have 16 month old twins teaching them that they can be a doctor that they can be a lawyer that they can be

the host of The Daily Show but also telling them one day that you know they have to be cautious about the way they interact because there's a segment of this this public that doesn't believe that their human and doesn't want to give them dignity and that's something that I was intrigued to read and and understand from your point of view because I wondered how do you talk to your kids and say to them you can be anything you want to be you do have these opportunities but at the same time there are certain things that are going to hold you back in there going to be certain things to be afraid of like which which which path do

take as a parent do you you know do you say to your kids hey if you see the police just try and be as calm as possible try not to engage trying to like which talk do you have with them because some people go like you know your rights you fight for your rights other say like hey man now is not the time now is not the time to fight about your rights which which attitude have you taken as a parent I mean I come from and one of the one of the things that I talk about in the book is I'm a Child of the Civil Rights Movement my father was a member of snake he was shot February 8th 1968 by law enforcement

Horsemen protesting in the yard work Massacre and so my father always taught us growing up I think having to do with his interactions with law enforcement that you should always you know you never you never stopped in a dark area you always drive to the next exit you always go to a well-lit area will will fight those those battles in court for me with these with these twins now my job is to hopefully make sure they had a better America than the one that I am here it is the same dream my father had

trouble that I have in the reason that I wrote my Vanishing country I talked about it in one of the Lad last ladder chapters is you know five years ago almost five years ago I was standing in front of a church mother Emanuel clementa Pinckney was a friend of mine he actually let Dylan roof into his church they had a fool our Bible study and in dylann roof killed nine people because of the color of their skin I was standing in front of that church about a week later with my father and tears were rolling down my face as I was explaining to the country that we were having me

any of the same shared experiences he was 30 he excuse me I was 30 and he was 70 and so for my twins what I have to do what we have to do what everybody watching has to do is continue to work to make sure that they inherit a better country than the one that I did and right now that's tough those conversations are tough because as their eyes sparkle you do know that racism is real systems of Injustice or real not getting the benefit of their humanity is real and I just don't want them to be on the front of a t-shirt or us to

the way or another hoodie to march to them or us to have to you know get Arizona Iced Tea and Skittles or us to have to draw two miles for them you know I'm living for all of those people whose lives were cut short so one day my children can be free how do you feel about the discussion in and around sharing these videos online because there's clearly a rift some people think these videos should never be shared because all they do is further the the you know the the almost Joy of lynching that white supremacist met in

engage in and seeing the videos it furthers that narrative others would say no without the videos then oftentimes there is no justice and it feels like an argument where nobody's wrong but but an argument that people are having nonetheless do you have any thoughts yeah I know I think we have to show those videos I mean they're a couple of things first let's just deal with the Arboretum case because if we did not see that video see they saw the video it took 73 days for the arrest and not because of the video is but because we saw the

the other the American public saw the video and so I think that that's necessary I remember the Walter Scott case the young man in Charleston South Carolina who was shot in the back but for that young man who was at the barber shop filming that incident there would have been no arrests and so we have to make sure we do that but it again of that parallel with the Civil Rights Movement there's one glaring image that people remember it's the picture of Emmett Till who allegedly whistled at a white woman and I challenge for those individuals who haven't who haven't

in that picture to go Google it his his face is beaten and he literally has no bones left in his body and that picture that image before images could go viral it stimulated a whole generation and so I think those images are necessary not necessarily for justice but just so that we can have transparency and to be completely honest to make white folk on comfortable because we have to be uncomfortable to have this discussion and unless white people literally see these in justices sometimes there is a connection that they don't really happen

and they do because we thank you so much for your time congratulations on an amazing book and hopefully we'll have you back on the show again soon thank you so much my dude have a good one thank you thank you so much bakari sellers my Vanishing country the book is available for pre-order now I suggest you go out and get it well that's our show for tonight but before we go the covid pandemic has also taken a serious toll on many people's mental health and here in the United States the disaster distress helpline is trying to address this crisis

they've got counselors who are trained to address the mental health needs of this unique situation and if you are able to help them then all you need to do is donate whatever you can and if you'd like to support New Yorkers in this crisis please donate to NYC well which is also providing free confidential mental health support until tomorrow stay safe out there wash your hands and remember stay emotionally positive and coronavirus negative boom

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