‘Daily Show’ Asks White People What ‘Justice Or Else’ Slogan Means (VIDEO)

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After “Daily Show” senior protest correspondent Roy Wood Jr. attended the Justice Or Else March marking the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., Wood asked white people what the march’s slogan “Justice Or Else” meant to them.

The answers were a mixed bag of violence and concern on Monday’s night “Daily Show.”

Wood’s man-on-the-street interviews told him the slogan’s “or else” could mean “violence,” “brutality, blood, gore, death,” or “America better get it together.”

“You get all that from ‘or else’? No wonder white people write all the horror movies,” Wood said.

But, Nuri Muhammad, one of the Nation of Islam organizers, told Wood it was a financial boycott — not a violent event.

“This is going to be a peaceful gathering, just as it was 20 years ago in 1995,” Muhammad said.

Watch the report, from Comedy Central, below:

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