Race/Off

Oh, Jon Stewart.  How you make me laugh.  But you know, you’ve also absolutely  nailed it on the points that matter.

Yes, yes, he takes his usual jabs at Fox News, Sean Hannity and the like, but here are few of Stewart’s more serious lines from this Daily Show excerpt…

“Imagine…on a pretty consistent basis that you cannot get a $#@-ing cab, even though you’re a neurosurgeon, because you’re black.”

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“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”

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And his closing story about the white producer and the black correspondent walking into a building in NYC for an interview.  The white guy was dressed like a “homeless elf” with a scraggly 5 o’clock shadow while the black guy was dressed in a tailored suit.  Guess who was stopped?

“Race is there.  It’s a constant.  You’re tired of hearing about it?  Imagine how f#@-ing exhausting it is living it?

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Nicely done, Jon Stewart.  And thanks for the laugh, too.