W. Kamau Bell

That was a millennia ago.

You cannot do that in this country.

It's all it's very young.

As I always say, Martin Luther King Jr.

would be 96.

Yeah, no people you think he's like, Oh, you'd be 20 years old.

No, he could still easily 96 doesn't get you a happy birthday on the TV.

It doesn't get you a you're not there yet.

You know, so you're still four years away from anybody caring about how old you are.

And he can still be alive today.

And you know, so it's not like we're this stuff is not a million years ago.

horrendous felony for crossing over an imaginary line in the sand when they had zero choice in it you just won the fucking lottery that's the only thing that happened to you dude and you wanted at this point in history because at another point in history if you'd been born in that same place you wouldn't you wouldn't have won the lottery you know what i mean so we're like again we're talking about that line shifts and moves and the and that country's reputation means something different a hundred years on either direction of whatever of whatever date you were born

I mean, people ask me that question, and I think the thought is that somehow I was like a political science professor at a liberal arts college going, how do I get the message across?

And then I go, jokes.

You know what I mean?

And I think the person I've been talking about a lot recently that I'm sort of walking the giant footsteps of is Dick Gregory.

Dick Gregory –

First of all, before he was a comedian, he was like a great he was like a track athlete.

So I think the idea is that you can and then he became a comedian and he just wanted to be a comedian and really was like on the path to like he was like the first black comedian to sit on the panel on like the I think it was the Jack Parr show, the Tonight Show.

And they booked him on the show and said, he's like, can I sit on the panel?