Dulcé Sloan

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1,146 appearances 10 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 7 Jun

Dulcé Sloan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Daily Show: Ears Edition · TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women · 15 Mar 2025 podcast

Mother . But tonight we salute Sarah Howe, who shattered the glass ceiling of financial crime. Thanks to her, women everywhere can aspire to lie, cheat, and steal. Just like men.

The Daily Show: Ears Edition · TDS Time Machine | How Not to Celebrate MLK Day · 19 Jan 2025 podcast

For more on Dr. King's legacy, we turn now to Dulcé Sloan, everybody. Dulcé, if Martin Luther King were here, where do you think he would stand on the government shutdown?

Yeah, but then it wouldn't be on his birthday.

What? I didn't know there was a civil rights... Anyway, never mind. Okay, while you're indoors today, what do you think and what are you remembering about Dr. King's legacy?

Whoa, hold on, hold on. Even if that's true, I mean, that he had affairs, isn't it disrespectful to mention that on his birthday?

I've never thought of MLK on Bumble.

What is Martin Luther King Day, and how should people celebrate it? Well, for more on this, we turn to a man who has had many dreams that no one wants to hear about. Roy Wood Jr., everybody!

But...

Yeah, Roy, you know, what makes it worse is that if you read Dr. King's speeches, you'll see that, like, he was opposed to consumerism and wasteful capitalism.

You know, it actually is unfortunate, because it seems like some white people are out of touch with Dr. King's legacy.

So Roy, we've seen people mess it up, you know, with sales or, you know, with their own agendas. But what is the proper way to celebrate Dr. King's legacy?

My guest tonight is an amazing writer at The Atlantic who helped produce a special commemorative issue of the magazine called King, a look at the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Please welcome Van Newkirk. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Man, I've been a fan of your writing for so long.

You touch on so many different topics, you know, from Black Panther through to racism in America, the Second Amendment. One of the more interesting conversations that I got started because of your writing was specifically about teachers being armed. And you argued that in its very essence, it goes against the Second Amendment. Why would you make that argument?

For what? That's a tyrannical government. Yeah. I never thought of that as an idea. I go, like, but, you know, it's one of those ideas where people go, like, this seems like a good idea because everything leads to more guns. You go, like, just give the people more guns, and then it solves the guns. Because if everyone has a gun, then I guess it means no one has a gun. I don't know how it works.

Well, I give my gun a gun. Yeah, you give your gun a gun. That's the most important, because guns don't kill people. Right. People kill people. What about guns killing guns? I don't think a gun has ever, a gun has killed a gun. I saw that in a movie once. The gun shot the gun, and the gun... Yeah. No one talks about gun-on-gun violence.

You have an interesting way of looking at the world, and this issue of the Atlantic, I think, looks at Martin Luther King from so many different places and through so many different lenses, which I really found interesting. Martin Luther King is one of those figures in America that I've always felt is mythologized and oftentimes misunderstood, and it feels like you've captured that in this article.

Why did you think it was necessary to have an entire article about Martin Luther King Jr. ?

It's interesting that you say that because there was a specific... article or piece of it that connected with me, written by you. And it was specifically about the idea of Martin Luther King and his assassination. And you say here, in the official story told to children, King's assassination is the transformational tragedy in a victorious struggle to overcome.

But in the true accounting, his assassination was one of a host of reactionary assaults by a country against the revolution. And those assaults were astonishingly successful. Yeah. That's an interesting point of view, because many people feel like Martin Luther King being assassinated was the beginning of the great journey that got black people to where they needed to be.

And you're arguing that it ended a revolution that was starting. How how do you prove that or why do you believe that?

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