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SEE IT: Jon Stewart delivers somber monologue on Charleston shooting: 'I've got nothing for you in terms of jokes'.
Stewart also criticized South Carolina for continuing to celebrate their Civil War history – “the roads that black people drive on are named..
Watch Jon Stewart’s Heartbreaking Charleston Shooting Monologue
Jon Stewart opened up The Daily Show Thursday with a powerful, scathing and heartbreaking monologue about the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina that left nine people dead.
After warning the audience that he had nothing for them “in terms of jokes and sounds,” Stewart launched into a probing examination about how the incident in South Carolina happened and why these shooting will continue to happen.
“Maybe if I wasn’t nearing the end of the run or this wasn’t such a common occurrence, maybe I could have pulled out of the spiral, but I didn’t,” Stewart said.
“So I honestly have nothing 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 it doesn’t exist… I’m confident, though, th