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He speaks for me in one simple, clear sentence.
Jon Stewart and Larry Wilmore : ‘Sh*tty white people’ demonizing protesters ‘should go f*ck themselves’
Wilmore played a clip of Fox News host Bill O’Reilly accusing protesters of “aiding and abetting” looters by not leaving demonstration sites, and saying that violence during the protests had increased bias against African-Americans.
“I have a dream, Jon,” Wilmore said. “That one day, the actions of a few sh*tty white people will be seen as discrediting their entire race.”
Stewart also mocked the St. Louis County Police Association for misstating on Monday that the NFL’s St. Louis Rams had apologized after five of its players took the field this week making the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” gesture that has characterized protests in Ferguson and around the U.S.
“I see the confusion,” Stewart said. “The Rams made the ‘Sorry if you were offended’ non-apology that no one ever believes is an actual apology. And instead of rejecting the non-apology outright like a normal group, the cops confused things even more by accepting it, forcing the Rams to clarify the passive-aggressive nature of their non-apology. Which means at least, finally, in this country, we’re having the important national conversation about semantics we need.
And they should do it today.