J'accuse (used ironically)

Trevor Noah was talking about how Truth and Reconciliation worked in South Africa, while bringing up the need to acknowledge systematic racism in America so they can work on it and move on.  In South Africa, people did some horrible things to other people because of the color of their skin.

And some people react, "Hey, I wasn't there!  I didn't do it!  I didn't take anything, I didn't do anything, it had nothing to do with me!"  And you say, "Hey, I didn't sya you did anything.  I just said it happened.  There is a problem.  Let's do something about it and move on."

And having watched this bit, the thought occurred, when he was being defensive, denying his guilt, he reminded me of a Black man protesting his innocence after being accused of taking something that he didn't take.

You could say that this is an example of multi-layered irony.

Since this is a monologue, you have Trevor (a Black man)
1.   Playing a man (played by Trevor) who is talking to
2.   another man (played by Trevor) about how people have done horrible things to other people because of the color of their skin.
3.  The white man (played by Trevor) strenuously denies any personal responsibility for those acts.
4.  The other man (played by Trevor) urges the White man (played by Trevor) to calm down.  That no personal blame was ascribed to him.  He just wanted to talk about the crime how to fix it and to move on. 

Would this, as a White man, put you in the shoes of a Black man?  You point, and you find that your finger points back at you?  Do you have the empathic power to recognize this?

That is, you sound exactly like a Black man who has been wrongly accused, arrested, prosecuted, convicted, imprisoned, paroled, stigmatized.  And you hope you he won't get mad about it?