This clip from John Oliver’s show was from back in 2017 but is still timely in the current context of removing statues and other monuments honoring confederate leaders and renaming military bases named after confederate generals.
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That John Oliver clip is evergreen.
Robert Smalls also ended up commanding a Union gunboat. A really amazing man.
I think I have just died of the cutes.
Oliver is brilliant, as I have said before. And the end of the clip with Colbert is great.
As I have pointed out before, the Daily Show under Stewart produced some of our best political satirists.