After a two-week vacation during which time he won two Emmys, Stephen Colbert returned to join Jon Stewart in making light of the violence and tragedy in Ferguson. Colbert mocked those who caution against condemning Officer Darren Wilson before all the facts are in, saying sarcastically, “I urge everyone to wait to pass judgment on Officer Darren Wilson,” followed of course by a monolog in which he clearly passed judgment on Wilson.

In his usual derisive sarcasm, Colbert mocked the straw man argument that racism doesn't exist in America and made clear that he's determined that Officer Wilson’s shooting of Michael Brown was racially motivated:

“Folks, this is a genuine tragedy that many are saying is the foul harvest of our racist past. But I urge everyone to wait to pass judgment on Officer Darren Wilson. Some are rushing to judge this man as a violent, racist cop who gunned down an unarmed black teenager, but others argue that he's a heroic police officer doing his job by gunning down an unarmed black teenager. We don't know if this was racist, or even if racism still exists.”

Colbert then went on to argue that racially motivated crimes shouldn’t even be reported by the media. Following his and Stewart’s predictable pattern, Colbert then played some select clips from Fox News in order to portray the outlet as dismissive of the reality of racism in America and the role racism might have played in the tragedy in Ferguson. 

Colbert's take on Ferguson fell right in line with Stewart's, whose Ferguson segment Monday did not trouble itself with the details of the case or the order of the events that followed, sticking instead to the narrative that the police force moved in on peaceful protestors totally unprovoked and ignoring the evidence that suggests that Wilson might have been acting in self-defense. 

Video via TheWrap.