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In his video, Noah called out those denouncing looting, insisting that "we need people at the top to be the most accountable, because they are the ones who are basically setting the tone and the tenor for everything that we do in society."

"I saw so many people online saying, 'These riots are disgusting. This is not how a society should be run. You do not loot and you do not burn. This is not how our society is built,'" he said. "But what is society? Fundamentally, when you boil it down, society is a contract. It's a contract that we sign as human beings amongst each other. We sign a contract with each other as people, whether it's spoken or unspoken, and we say, 'Amongst this group of us, we agree in common rules, common ideal and common practices that are going to define us as a group.'"

"If you think of being a black person in America, who is living in Minneapolis or any place where you're not having a good time, ask yourself this question when you watch those people: What vested interest do they have in maintaining the contract?" he continued. "Black American people watch time and time again how the contract that they have signed with society is not being honored by the society that has forced them to sign it with them. When you see George Floyd on the ground, and you see a man losing his life in a way that no person should ever have to lose their life, at the hands of someone who is supposed to enforce the law, what part of the contract is that?"

Noah concluded by asking his white viewers to try to put themselves in the positions of black Americans.

"If you think about that unease that you felt watching that Target being looted, try to imagine how it must feel for black Americans when they watch themselves being looted every single day," he said. "Because that is fundamentally what is happening in America. Police in America are looting black bodies. And I know someone might think that's an extreme phrase, but it's not."

"George Floyd died. That is part of the reason this story became so big, because he died. But how many George Floyds are there that don't die? How many men are having knees put on their necks?" he continued. "It's only the deaths, the gruesome deaths, that stick out."

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