Trevor Noah explains the lessons that the U.S can learn from SA’s TRC

Trevor Noah has suggested South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) could be an appropriate model for the U.S to apply in an effort to salve America's controversial race relations, and ultimately reach its "post-racial society" ideal.

During an interview with VOX, the seasoned comedian explained that South Africa has managed to move faster past race being at the centre of most of the country's issues, compared to America.

"It’s [South Africa] moving to a place where most of your issues are not pinned back to race. Right now in America, a lot of the issues really do centre around race," he told the international publication.

"Over time, I think, in South Africa that became less and less [the case]. They were still dealing with the effects of that government, but it’s becoming less and less so. Now it’s more about income and inequality."

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Given that Apartheid was more extreme and ended much later than America's racial caste system, Jim Crow, Trevor claimed that the TRC process was instrumental, "to a certain extent," in helping the country move forward.

"I think we [South Africa] are moving faster, yeah. One of the factors is that we had a Truth and Reconciliation Commission — we sat down, as a country, to come to grips with everything that had been done during the most oppressive time in our history," he said.

"It left us in a place where no one could deny what had happened. I see that in America where people ask questions like, 'Oh, was slavery that bad?' 'Does slavery really have effects?' and 'What is the worst thing that happened?' There’s some people who don’t even believe half the stories of lynchings or police brutality. It’s still an issue of, 'Well, I don’t know if that’s all true.'"

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Trevor further painted a picture of what the American TRC process would look like, making references to slavery in the United States as well as Jim Crow, which kept black people from fully participating in public and civic activities and relegated them to substandard conditions at work, school and even in the home.

"Imagine if Americans sat down and said, 'We are going to have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.' You would sit down with all of those who had instigated slavery or who had implemented Jim Crow — all of the people who ran police departments where they specifically set out to abuse minority groups.

"You sit down with those people — even white extremist organizations like the KKK — and you sat with them and you said, 'Listen, whatever you say now will be not held against you. If you tell the complete truth, it will in essence be forgiven, but the truth will be out there. Everyone out there will know what has happened, and you will talk through it. People will talk about how they set up housing so that black people couldn’t live in good areas. They set it up so that loans couldn’t be given to people of colour; they set it up so that police departments would specifically target people of colour for infractions that didn’t exist,"' he explained.