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How The Colbert Report helps
Jan. 23rd, 2008 12:02 amLast 10 minutes of Colbert Report = MADE OF WIN.
What happened:
Obama tells Clinton that she was prasing Regen in Tom Brokaw's book Boom!.
Colbert muses on the fact that next to Clinton's picture is a picture of Andrew Young, the last member of Dr. King's inner circle still alive.
Colbert says everything relates to him.
He then moves on to talk about the 1969 hospital worker's strike in Charleston, where about 400 black women walked off the job as their wages were not equal to the white workers.
Obviously, this ended in suck, as it was 1969. The women were jailed, BUT then the calvery showed up. Southern Christian Leadership Conference shows up, and the protest starts to grow and grow. Some old white jackass says that it's not a civil rights issue, the interviewer asks why, and the OWJ responses that it isn't a civil rights issue because he thinks it's not a civil rights issue. Ralph Abernathy is jailed, but his lieutenant Andrew Young keeps organizing protests and calls for a boycott of white owned businesses. But then he also opens up talks with the hospital. Only the white guy hired a few days before the strike was called is willing to deal. The two hammer out an agreement with the black workers getting re-hired and getting equal pay - though the union is not officially recognized.
New white hire that negotiated with Andrew Young? Stephen Colbert's father.
Ambassador Andrew Young comes on, and then they talk about the strike, and various things both sides need to do ( give a little to get a lot more - in this case the WGA has dropped the animation and reality tv demand ) and how the strike is about power and respect. And it's not going to end until both sides can come out saying that they won.
And anyone who bashes Andrew Young for appearing on the show needs a fucking reality check.
What happened:
Obama tells Clinton that she was prasing Regen in Tom Brokaw's book Boom!.
Colbert muses on the fact that next to Clinton's picture is a picture of Andrew Young, the last member of Dr. King's inner circle still alive.
Colbert says everything relates to him.
He then moves on to talk about the 1969 hospital worker's strike in Charleston, where about 400 black women walked off the job as their wages were not equal to the white workers.
Obviously, this ended in suck, as it was 1969. The women were jailed, BUT then the calvery showed up. Southern Christian Leadership Conference shows up, and the protest starts to grow and grow. Some old white jackass says that it's not a civil rights issue, the interviewer asks why, and the OWJ responses that it isn't a civil rights issue because he thinks it's not a civil rights issue. Ralph Abernathy is jailed, but his lieutenant Andrew Young keeps organizing protests and calls for a boycott of white owned businesses. But then he also opens up talks with the hospital. Only the white guy hired a few days before the strike was called is willing to deal. The two hammer out an agreement with the black workers getting re-hired and getting equal pay - though the union is not officially recognized.
New white hire that negotiated with Andrew Young? Stephen Colbert's father.
Ambassador Andrew Young comes on, and then they talk about the strike, and various things both sides need to do ( give a little to get a lot more - in this case the WGA has dropped the animation and reality tv demand ) and how the strike is about power and respect. And it's not going to end until both sides can come out saying that they won.
And anyone who bashes Andrew Young for appearing on the show needs a fucking reality check.
