As usual, Stephen Colbert has the right words for the stickiest and ugliest situations. Last night he addressed sexual misconduct accusations against his boss, Les Moonves - head of CBS.
He acknowledged with grace that, as a powerful white male in the entertainment industry, he might not be the best one to offer analysis of the #MeToo movement - which was started by Tarana Burke (a Black woman) in 2007. He went on to state unequivocally, though, that powerful men taking sexual advantage of powerless women was wrong. He claimed men know it now, and we know they knew it then - because of the cloak of secrecy they went to such lengths to keep around the behavior.
Colbert went on to address the inevitable question of whether or not this "disappearing" of assaulters from the public eye was necessary. By way of answer, he quoted John F. Kennedy: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." For so long, complaints of harassment went ignored or mocked. For generations, women were told to shut up and take it. Worst of all, they were blamed for their own abuse. According to Colbert, "this roar is just a natural backlash to all that silence."
He finished with a mic drop about accountability.
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