Voices We Love: Jon Stewart

We love satire! We have acknowledged this before. The Daily Show and Jon Stewart are great examples of how satire can capture large amounts of people and get a message across. Sometimes though, Jon Stewart excuses himself from his comedy and acknowledges when something just needs to be dealt with seriously, without humor. The recent terrorist attack in Charleston, South Carolina by an American was one of those moments.

We have a lot of obstacles in our country where positive social change is needed.  Thank you Jon Stewart for acknowledging this.  We will miss you when you depart.

 

We also love Elite Daily! John Haltiwanger published a fantastic article on white privilege in the shadows of the Charleston tragedy.  The article does an excellent job of using one of the victims to illustrate how he is reminded of white privilege. He also references Jon Stewart.

**Photo credit goes to Weaselzippers and a good call out!

Tools We Love: Satire

It is difficult to dispute that majority of our media is not objective and does not report the news.  It is skewed, often has an agenda or is just commentary about what other commentators are saying about the “news”. Someone who we enjoy though is Chris Hayes. Some time ago, he shared a satirical story about white mob crime in efforts to demonstrate how different black and white people are portrayed in the media.  Then, one of Project Kinect’s favorite voices, Franchesca Ramsey, wrote an article about it on UpWorthy. Please check out her article.  This link will provide a bit more about her if you would like to check it out.

Andy Rooney

As many people already know, Andy Rooney, writer and 60 Minutes commentator, passed away on November 4th.  I’ve been fascinated by him from a young age because of his straight forward, yet satirical point of the truth.  I always felt like he was speaking to me directly, as many of us probably did, and I respected his ability to throw out what he was thinking and not remorse over any consequences.  In life, we have to hear the truth in order to identify what we can work on and Andy Rooney told the truth so we could face it.  Those people are so important to us as a community even if we love them or hate them. They work as our calibrators and help keep us on track, looking at what we’re doing and evaluating it.   I just wanted to post a couple of my favorite 60 minutes moments of Mr. Rooney.

If you would like to read more about his like, here is the New York Times article on him as well as his Wikipedia link.

Andy Rooney on Sleeping

Andy Rooney on Finances

And Rooney’s final send off