Larry Wilmore departed from his New York studio to Baltimore on Thursday’s edition of “The Nightly Show,” speaking with gang members who had formed a truce with other gangs to oppose the ongoing police crackdown.
Wilmore asked them to explain the anger in the city.
“You see the corner on this menu right here?” one member said. “Here’s a person, this is you — there’s only so far back into this corner you can push me until I push back. That’s what happened, they pushed back.”
Wilmore noted that many people across America criticizing the unrest can’t relate to this idea.
“Of course not, if you’re living in a million-dollar house how can you relate to living in the hood, getting pushed?” he said.
The member compared it to a well-off person getting angry about property taxes, something he and his friends can’t relate to. Wilmore then jokingly explained his own anger about property taxes.
“And you call a lawyer and you push back!” the member said.
All of the men said that they had spent recent nights linking arms protecting stores from looting, even as the police, deployed in humvees, shot off concussion grenades.
“I saw Jon Stewart out there!” one said.
“Jon Stewart is not here, trust me,” Wilmore said, to laughter.
Watch the interview:
Baltimore might be a safer place if it was ruled by gangs as opposed to it’s current government and law enforcement.
Thanks, Larry Wilmore. Oh, would that I lived in a country where the corporate media had a fraction of the intelligence, integrity, and commitment to facts of a nightly comedy show.
No, it wouldn’t be.
Cause as a general rule, gangs are big followers of Due Process?
That was dope!