Vann R. Newkirk II

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24 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 19 Jan

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

I think from reading him, his thing was never being satisfied with where we are, because there's always space. in that speech wasn't the place where we need to be in terms of race. The mountaintop was having the vision to see where we needed to go, and I think that vision was that the road is everlasting. The moral arc of the universe is always bending towards justice, and we bend it.

So I think King would be protesting Regardless of whatever situation is on the ground right now in America, he will be protesting because that's what he does. That's what an activist does. They were always agitating. And so that's what I want people to take away from the magazine is that his activism was always agitating. It was always moving forward and progressing.

And you see in the last year of his life, before he was assassinated, he sat down and thought, how do I move this forward? And he came forward with the most ambitious proposal. program to fight poverty, to fight militarism, and to fight racism across the globe. And that was King.

King.

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