“It has been reported that Nelson Mandela’s home in Johannesburg would become a luxury hotel known as ‘Sanctuary Mandela’, with rooms ranging from $250 to as much as $1,000 a night. I guess this is just the fate of every historic building now, right? Because if you think about it, half of the old buildings around the world are now either a bank, an Apple store, or a CVS. That’s it. I wouldn’t be shocked if in a hundred years the White House is going to be turned into Jeff Bezos’s dog’s weekend place.” —Trevor Noah
“Some people think that it doesn’t make sense for the home of the man who fought inequality to be turned into a luxury hotel. But it does, it actually does. And it really does if you remember one of Mandela’s most famous quotes, when he said: ‘Do not judge me by the color of my skin, but rather judge me by the thread count of these Egyptian cotton sheets.’” —Trevor Noah
“The controversial hotel is going to come with its pros and its cons, and I guess it will be good for the people who work there and maybe some of the community, but you’ve gotta admit, man, at the same time, it does feel a little disrespectful for everything that Nelson Mandela went through, you know? You’re just going to pay some money, and you can sleep in his house? You know what he had to do to get to that house? I propose a compromise. They should say that for every night that you stay in the hotel, you should also have to spend a night in an apartheid prison. Now you’re getting the full experience.” —Trevor Noah
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