Dulcé Sloan

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?

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.

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.

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.

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. ?

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.

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.

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?

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

How does that happen? People would say, but Van, look at how much progress black people have made since Martin Luther King. Surely things have gotten better. Black people on the up in America.

How does that happen? People would say, but Van, look at how much progress black people have made since Martin Luther King. Surely things have gotten better. Black people on the up in America.

That's an interesting point of view, and I guess I know a lot of people argue back on that, and they'll say, well, I mean, Obama became president, fam, so, I mean, that's progress, isn't it?

That's an interesting point of view, and I guess I know a lot of people argue back on that, and they'll say, well, I mean, Obama became president, fam, so, I mean, that's progress, isn't it?