TDS Time Machine | How Not to Celebrate MLK Day
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What questions do New Yorkers have about MLK Day?
We're lost.
We're lost day? Do you know what day it is today?
This is Monday.
What did you do today? Well, today we just woke up. We just checked out of our hotel.
Checked out of our hotel.
We haven't done much. We're going to go get coffee, and we're going to walk around. So which one of those celebrates Martin Luther King Day? Well, none of what we've talked about so far. 232 push-ups for Martin. So this ain't reparations, but this is enough. That's right. Give me one hand once!
How do people typically celebrate Martin Luther King Day?
Yeah! That's right!
What y'all doing to celebrate MLK? Came to New York. Came to New York? That's it? That's all y'all gonna do?
Saw some shows, ate some food, did some shopping.
All right, I'm gonna come back to y'all on Juneteenth. And y'all better have done better. Don't you like when he, like, you know, refused to move to the back of the bus?
Mm-hmm. I can remember snippets through the world news.
He didn't refuse. That was Rosa Parks. Was it? Name a famous MLK quote. I have a dream.
I have a dream.
I have a dream. And what does he say after that? I'm not sure. Name a famous MLK quote. Besides, I have a dream. Besides, I have a dream. I will pay you $1 million if you can tell me something else that Martin Luther King said.
Yes!
Millionaire! Lady, you do not know what he said to his children. Can we Google it? No! What the ? I have a dream that one day, that's all I got.
I have a dream that one day white people will actually know what's in that damn speech. Okay, just name five black people. Eddie Murphy. That's the only black person you know? Eddie Murphy?
Byron Leftwich.
Who the is Byron Leftwich? Byron Leftwich is in the NFL as an offensive line coach. Don't nobody know him. You're just making up names now. So how you celebrate Martin Luther King? Um, not too sure. So that's what he died for, man? For you just to be out here just not doing nothing on his day? No, I'm just kidding. You can do whatever you want, man. You black. We're going to go see the Lion King. OK. It's got King in the tie. I mean, that's as close as you can get. I'll take it. The freedom and liberty to go about and do what we want to do, that's our celebration. See, that's a quote from a black woman right there.
That's right. She earned that. Freedom and the liberty. She earned that. To do what we want to do. That's right. It's the lady's birthday. It's your birthday. How old are you? I'm 50. What? That's what I'm talking about. Black don't crack. It's OK.
We still need lotion though.
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?
I think he would stand inside, because it's too damn cold. Why is Martin Luther King Day the coldest day of the year? I mean, why can't we celebrate him in July? Then we can, you know, march outside and have a cookout.
Yeah, but then it wouldn't be on his birthday.
Oh, so a black man can't have two birthdays? It's 2019, Trevor. I thought we'd move past this.
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?
You know what I want to remember? The real Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, not the whitewashed Hallmark version. Because every year people talk about the same stuff. The I Have a Dream speech, the March on Washington, how he had the voice of a Scooby Doo ghost. I have a dream. And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids. But the real Dr. King did not fit in any box. White moderates think he would have been on their side, but he thought they were worse for the civil rights movement than the Klan. And mattress stores are out here having MLK Day sales, but Dr. King was anti-capitalist. And even though he was a reverend and a man of God, he allegedly had a whole bunch of affairs.
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