California,
the only state where Botox is considered an essential service.
This year's wildfire season
has been one of the worst in history,
with dozens of fires burning a record 2 million acres.
And now we're finding out
that one of this weekend's biggest blazes
started in one of the dumbest ways possible.
NEWSWOMAN: Crews continue battling
dozens of raging wildfires in California.
Officials say one of the fires,
the El Dorado in San Bernardino County,
started after pyrotechnics were used
at a gender reveal party.
Flames have scorched nearly 10,000 acres since Saturday.
Fire officials say the blaze
was only seven percent contained
as of late last night.
No word if any charges will be filed related to this fire.
Okay, people, I've said it before and I'll say it again.
These gender reveals have gone too far!
10,000 acres have burned,
and it's not even the first time this kind of thing has happened.
I mean, at this point, Gender Reveal Party
is now one of the most dangerous terrorist organizations.
It's ISIS, al-Qaeda,
Taylor Swift fans, and gender reveal parties.
Not in that order. Calm down, Swifties.
But, guys, this has to stop. Right?
Or at least, if you insist on a gender reveal,
you should do something that helps the situation.
"The water's pink! It's a girl!"
And aside from all the damage it can cause,
celebrating a baby's genitalia
is starting to feel very outdated.
Like, given everything we're learning about gender,
gender reveal parties should only happen
when the child is old enough to know their actual gender
and to pitch in some cash for the fire damage.
And, honestly, I don't even know
why we need gender reveal parties.
You know what we do need though--
race reveal parties.
A bombshell confession
from an African-American history professor
at George Washington University who claims ties to the Bronx.
Jessica Krug revealed in a blog post
that she is a white Jewish woman
who has been pretending to be black for years.
NEWSMAN: She feigned being black and Latina.
Now a white woman is saying that she is canceling herself,
revealing decades of deception.
Krug has been teaching African culture and history
at the school since 2012,
often posting as Puerto Rican.
The 38-year-old, born to white parents
and raised in suburban Kansas,
is seen here addressing the New York City Council in June.
Thank you. Much power to all my siblings who are standing up,
my black and brown siblings.
Krug is apologizing and says
her whole life has been based on a lie.
Okay, first of all,
you can't say your life was based on a lie
when you're the one who made up the lie.
That's not how it works.
Your life is only based on a lie
when someone else told you the lie.
(filtered breath) "Luke, I am your father."
"No! My life was based on a lie!"
That's how you use it.
What's also crazy about this story is that,
unlike Rachel Dolezal, who fought like hell
to hang on to her black card,
Jessica Krug just came out
and canceled herself harder than anybody could cancel her.
She's like, "I'm scum of the earth. I'm a leech.
You need to cancel me."
I didn't even know that was a thing.
I did not know you could self-cancel.
I mean, in a way, she's making history,
which I can't wait to celebrate
during Not Actually Black History Month.
Now, if I'm completely honest,
I kind of feel sorry for this woman.
No, I-I mean it. I do.
Because, I mean, she spent most of her life being black.
And now she has to adapt to being white.
That's not easy, you know?
I mean, all of a sudden, she has to learn
all the lyrics to "Sweet Caroline."
She's gonna have to pretend to enjoy farmers markets.
And she has to drive an old car,
even though she can afford a brand-new one.
"It's just fiscally responsible."
Of course, black people have bigger concerns right now
than white ladies self-Karening themselves.
Because yet another video
of shocking police brutality has come out,
this time in Upstate New York.
Protests in Rochester were peaceful last night.
Protestors marched to the steps at City Hall,
where they announced their demands,
including the firing and prosecution
of the officers involved in the death of Daniel Prude,
plus the resignation of the mayor
and the police chief there.
The peaceful demonstration followed days
of highly charged clashes between protestors,
which began with the release on Wednesday
of body camera footage from Prude's arrest.
The footage from the March 23 encounter
showed him placed in a spit hood on the ground
because officers believed he had COVID.
He went into cardiac arrest and died a week later.
Several restaurants on the East End closed this weekend
after dealing with damage from protestors.
But the owners say they stand with those
who are standing against injustice.
MAN: If you don't give us our shit!
-CROWD: Shut shit down! -If you don't give us our shit!
-Shut shit down! -I'll shut shit down!
We shut shit down!
Okay, guys, no.
No, no, no. I'm sorry, but no.
I'm all for the Black Lives Matter movement
and fighting against systemic racism and police brutality,
but it's not acceptable to storm a restaurant
and just flip over tables.
First, you introduce yourself.
"Hi, my name is Sean,
and I'll be your protestor this evening."
Then you flip over the tables.
Manners, people.
Now, look, jokes aside,
we are living through one of the most stressful times
in modern history, right?
And in order to have any honest conversation,
we have to acknowledge everything that's happening.
You have a pandemic with people losing their jobs
and people losing their lives.
On top of all of that,
you have a nation that has been inundated with images
of police brutality day in and day out.
People are experiencing it all the time.
Here's what I think.
I think sometimes in society
people get more focused on the symptoms than the cause.
Because right now everyone's talking
about what's the right way to protest.
What is the right way to protest?
I think the real question people should be asking is,
why does there need to be a protest in the first place?
Because if I had a magic wand,
I wouldn't be trying to fix protests. Yeah.
I'd use it to get the police to stop brutalizing black people.
That's why the protests are happening.
How they're happening is another conversation.
That's what I would do if I had the magic.
Well, I mean, first, I'd make Apple stick
with one type of plug.
Then I'd make the police stop brutalizing black people.
'Cause sometimes I think I got the plug.
Then it's the small one. Then they went from the big one
to the small one. Then they changed the thing.
Then I'm like-- I-- Like--
You know what I mean.