Jon Stewart, Larry Wilmore and Stephen Colbert Weigh In on the St. Louis Rams’ Ferguson Protest
"These [Ferguson] protests have spread to what Americans hold most sacred: football," the "Colbert Report" host said Monday.“These [Ferguson] protests have spread to what Americans hold most sacred: football,” the “Colbert Report” host said Monday, commenting on the five St. Louis Rams players who held their hands up in a “Don’t Shoot” pose at a recent game in solidarity with the protests occurring nationwide over the Ferguson decision.
But Stephen Colbert isn’t the only late night show host to comment on the event. Jon Stewart and Larry Wilmore, who will soon fill the hole Colbert’s leaving in the comedy show world with his own “The Nightly Show,” got together to discuss Ferguson, “black on black” crime and our inherent “raceaholism.”
“At least,” Stewart exclaims in his “Daily Show” segment, “finally, in this country we are having the very important national conversation about semantics we need.” Because, lest you forget (and Fox News won’t let you), what’s going on in Ferguson has nothing to do with race.
—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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