I have I have one job and it's a pretty
simple job uh I come in in the morning
and we look at the news and I write
jokes about it and then I make a couple
of faces and uh like a like a noise like
a and uh and then it's just ch- ching
and I'm out the
door
um but I I didn't do my job today I
didn't so I apologize I got nothing for
you in terms of like jokes and sounds
uh because of of what happened in South
Carolina and maybe if I wasn't nearing
the end of the run or this wasn't such a
common occurrence maybe uh I could have
pulled out of the Spiral but I didn't
and
so I honestly have have nothing uh other
than just sadness once again that we
have to peer into the abyss of the
depraved violence that we do to each
other and the Nexus of a just
gaping racial wound that will not heal
yet we pretend doesn't exist and
uh I'm confident though
that by acknowledging it by staring into
that and seeing it for what it is we
still won't do
Jack
yeah that's
us and that's the part that blows my
mind I don't want to get into the
political argument of the Guns and
Things but what what blows my mind is
the disparity of response between when
we think people that are foreign are
going to kill us and US killing
ourselves if this had
been what we thought was Islamic
terrorism it would fit into our we we
invaded two
countries and spent trillions of dollars
and thousands of American lives and now
fly uh uh unmanned
death machines over like five or six
different countries all to keep
Americans safe that's got it we got to
do whatever we can we'll torture people
we got to do whatever we can to keep
Americans safe nine people shot in a
church what about that hey what are you
gonna do crazy is is crazy is
right that's the part that I cannot for
the life of me wrap my head around and
you know it you know that it's going to
go down the same path this is a terrible
tragedy they're already using uh uh the
nuanced language of lack of effort for
this this is a terrorist attack this is
a a violent attack on the Emanuel Church
in South Carolina which is a symbol uh
for the black community it has stood uh
in that part of Charleston for aund and
some years and has been attacked
viciously many times as many black
churches have and to pretend that I I
heard someone on the news say well
tragedy has visited this church this
this wasn't a tornado this was a racist
this was a guy with a rodesia badge on
his sweater and you know so the idea
that we're you know I hate to even use
this pun but this one is black and white
it's there's no Nuance here this is
uh and and we're going to keep
pretending like I don't get it what
happened this one guy lost his mind but
this we are steeped in that culture in
this country and we refuse to recognize
it and I cannot believe how hard people
are working to discount it
uh in South
Carolina the roads that black people
drive on are named for confederate
generals who fought to keep black people
from being able to drive freely on that
road
that's that's insanity
that's racial wallpaper that's that's
you can't allow that you know nine
people were shot in a black church by a
white guy who hated them who wanted to
start some kind of Civil
War the Confederate flag flies over
South
Carolina and the roads are named for
confederate
generals and the white guy is the one
who feels like his country is being
taken away from
them we're bringing it on ourselves and
that's the thing al- Qaeda all those
guys
Isis they're
not compared to the damage that we can
apparently do to ourselves on a regular
basis so uh our guest tonight is an
incredible person who suffered uh
unspeakable violence uh by extremists
and her perseverance and uh
determination through that uh to
continue on is an incredible inspiration
and to be quite honest with you I don't
think there's anyone else in the world I
would rather talk to tonight than Malala
so that's what we're going to do and
sorry about no jokes
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