Jon Stewart on Fox Ferguson Coverage: ‘White Cop Shoots Unarmed Black Teen’ Does Sound Terrible
“Do you not understand that life in this country is inherently different for white people and black people?” the "Daily Show" host asks of Fox News' pundits on the show's first day back from a summer break.“Do you not understand that life in this country is inherently different for white people and black people?” the “Daily Show” host asks of Fox News’ pundits on his first day back from a summer break.
In a segment that showcases Jon Stewart’s social critique expertise at its best, the comedian explains, “I guarantee you that every person of color in this country has faced an indignity, from the ridiculous, to the grotesque, to the sometimes fatal, at some point in their … I’m gonna say last couple of hours, because of their skin color.”
“Race,” he goes on just in case Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Co. didn’t get the picture, “is there and it is a constant. You’re tired of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.”
—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Rock Solid JournalismIn 2026, amid chaos and the nonstop flurry of headlines, Truthdig remains independent, fact-based and focused on exposing what power tries to hide.
Support Independent Journalism.
The linguistic gymnastics required to report on police violence—without calling up images of police violence—is a thing of semantic wonder.
A Vice News report finds that from 2010 through 2016, cops in the 50 largest U.S. police departments shot more than 3,630 people, nearly double some prior estimates.
The attorney general's defense is now being used by lawyers for South Carolina Police Officer Michael Slager, who killed the unarmed Walter Scott.
Only a fraction of bias crimes by officers ever get reported or prosecuted. Widespread lack of training could have something to do with that, a review finds.
Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges sits down with sociologist Alex Vitale, author of "The End of Policing," to discuss the nature of law enforcement in the U.S.
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.