Dozens of monuments have come down being pinned down already faced how much should we handle contentious mockers past that is our discussion today im femi oke a youre watching the street if youre flying on the cheap right now jump into the chat and you can be part of the conversation. Im going to say hello to the guests the guess what shes themselves to you hello that helium welcome to the street are you doing julie may actually enter a new story in professional leadership that is the United States the university of richmond virginia. Good to have you i know that stephanie tell us. Im stephanie calling williams im the spokesperson for both and that were providing wives and im also a social worker and apologists and im calling in from brussels. Welcome to the stranger and i should say theres more than one family has come the same since and when i say hi femi ally in tell us who you are im not talking to myself. Hi im other than me i mean although i am calling from Birmingham Sally all i
Be titled how to topple a statue using science it goes on to list how the article goes on to live how one could bring down a statue if one wanted to but you totally should not read it and should not carry it down a racist at you in what some consider vandalism the article says you will likely need 70 people pulling on very strong ropes or straps to bring down a statue so do not find 70 of your closest friends and have a top of the races slave owning wild party do not. Do not suggest there will be a free pizza there which will help make sure people show up do not do not make sure to get the ropes or chains around the head of the statue because put them around the feet will not give you nearly enough leverage to accomplish the goal if you had such a goal which you do gotcha. Because you are not going to do this if you dont have 70 friends a valuable Popular Mechanics says you can probably bring down a statue with half that number if you were able to heat up the bottom of the statue they
Into the 21st century we were going to do without a fight that would have been unamerican of us some argue removing statues means we will never again know our history yes yes exactly one can only learn history from metallic facsimiles which consist of 30 percent copper 20 percent tin and 50 percent pigeon seeing these monuments is the only way to learn about things i myself had never heard of the existence of long pointy sticks in till i saw the Washington Monument i didnt know of americas love affair with beings until i saw the big shiny one in chicago and i thought giant vagina star gates were only a thing of Science Fiction until live is it in st louis others have argued there are National Statues teach children what is valued in our society and not going to agree more i couldnt agree more judging by the numbers women and people of color are about 95 percent less important than horses and any of our president s were horses oh horse invented the light bulb Thomas Edison was a horse t
And then, like clockwork, even though i dont know how clocks work, the same terrifying sky fire. Is there no way to distract myself from this endless loop of sky fire and sweat pants . I got it oh, yeah, theyre definitely not allowed to be up on that bed. Announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, curve your enthusiasm. Plus stephen welcomes ibram x. Kendi and Patton Oswalt, featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a colbert stephen are you going to be glad when we dont do this anymore or are you going to miss it . Ill miss it did. Stephen im going to miss it, too. Its been lovely. Welcome to a late show. Im Stephen Colbert. Hey, remember when the coronavirus was magically going to disappear in april . Well, its june 25, and yesterday new coronavirus cases in the u. S. Soared to their highest singleday total. No no we cant go backwards. Its been such a long journey. This is like if frodo went all the way to mount doom, was about to throw the ring in
In the city of chicago. In chicago this weekend 104 people were shot 104 people were shot 13 were killed 5 of them were children one was only 3 years old just one week. Is the United States a dangerous country when it comes to gun violence but once again lets just just look at the numbers according to a study in the american journal of medicine this one was published in 2016 if you take the total of the top 22. 00 developed countries in the entire world the United States we account for 82 percent of all the gun deaths 82 percent. We also account for 90 percent of all the women that are killed with guns. All the women killed with guns 90 percent. And we account for 91 percent of all children under the age of 14 killed with guns now a lot of you are watching this newscast you happen to live here in the United States and youre probably asking yourself come on how can that be that sounds like a war zone what youre describing there rick and certainly i watching this newscast watching you pr