Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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We're lost.
We're lost day? Do you know what day it is today?
This is Monday.
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Chapter 2: How do people misunderstand Martin Luther King Jr. Day?
Even if that's true, I mean, that he had affairs, isn't it disrespectful to mention that on his birthday? I don't think so. It's part of his legacy. A reminder that our heroes aren't perfect, they're people. And I'm not being disrespectful. Just the opposite. MLK was out there getting it. And probably still could.
I mean, if he showed up on my Bumble, I'd take him to the mountain top and the valley low. I've never thought of MLK on Bumble. Well, he wouldn't be on Tinder. That man had class. If everyone knew that fighting for civil rights could get you some, a lot more people would fight for equality, equal pay, voting rights, and whoever can stop black people from getting shot by the police will tonight!
Okay? I'll show up, I'll show up, all right?
Now, first you get a million in the streets, then you get a million in the sheets. Dulcé Sloan, everybody!
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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! Welcome, boy. Welcome. Good to have you. Good to see you. Good to see you, Mandela. Look.
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Chapter 3: What unique perspectives does Dulcé Sloan bring about MLK?
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 fan. So I mean, that's progress, isn't it? Yeah, Obama was president eight years and now will we ever have another black president? Will you ever have another president is the question I ask.
Here's something that I really connected with, and I guess because of South Africa's history and also because it is International Women's Day, is this beautiful quote in the article. Women have been the backbone of the whole civil rights movement. This popular narrative of the civil rights movement too often relies on great men, the great men version of history.
King, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Stokely Carmichael, other names. And it ignores the importance of women who also organized and led the movement and shows how their contributions have been sidelined, hidden in plain sight. That is a powerful narrative that many people forget. And that is Coretta Scott King wasn't just a sidekick. She wasn't just the woman at home.
Why do you think it's so important to acknowledge these women and what were they instrumental in doing in many movements? Yeah, I learned a lot. reading that essay from Jean Dio Harris. She was talking about Coretta, Coretta Scott King, and how Martin's development politically came from conversation with Coretta. So a lot of what he was doing was sort of mansplaining Coretta, right?
He was going out and saying, okay, she was against the Vietnam War years before he was. Wow. She, when they were courting each other and when they were still dating, She was the one who was sort of giving him these economic ideas, passing him along texts about what to read and how to learn and grow.
So if you look at Coretta, Coretta Scott King, not just as King's help me, as someone who was an activist in her own right, you start looking at just all these other women in the movement who did so much. Rosa Parks, who was an operative, we're taught in school that she was a tired old lady who sat down. She was out there.
She built the same organizing structures that actually King relied on when he was doing the boycotts. Wow. Those were built by black women against sexual assault.
That's powerful.
The same things, yeah. And so when you look at these stories, how do you think it plays out? Because Martin Luther King exists in a place where some people use him to stage a protest, and others go, we should use him to sell trucks in America. Everyone sees him in a different light.
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Chapter 4: What are the misconceptions surrounding MLK's legacy?
to fight poverty, to fight militarism, and to fight racism across the globe. And that was King. That was King. It's an amazing article. Thank you so much for being here. It's an amazing issue of The Atlantic. King. Hello, hello, hello. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is right around the corner, which means two things. One, if Al Sharpton sees his shadow six more weeks of winter... That's right.
And two, we're about to get the worst party flyers you've ever seen. That's real, by the way, okay? And the party wasn't nearly as fun as they made it look. Personally, I'm gonna be celebrating it like it's the last MLK Day because the way things are going, it might be.
NBC News has learned that the Defense Intelligence Agency has ordered a pause on all events related to MLK Day or Black History Month. National Park Service will no longer offer free admission on Martin Luther King Jr.
Day, nor on Juneteenth. That's right, the national parks are going from free at last, free at last, the bitch better have my money. And I know some white people out there are like, why do you care? Black people don't go camping. First of all, that's racist, okay? And second, you're correct.
But when white people go get a free day in the parks, we finally get to experience what it's like to be in an empty Whole Foods, okay? What I'm worried about is that this backsliding on MLK Day is just the first step toward getting rid of it altogether. Because if you don't know, it was a hard fight to get the national holiday in the first place.
It took 15 years after Dr. King's death to become a law. And some of you may be thinking, 15 years? But that I'm Just a Bill song only took three minutes. Yeah, because he was a white bill, all right? They never told you that he was a bill to resegregate golf courses. And you should see that Bill's friend. Dude's been waiting on the Capitol steps for 20 years.
And when Ronald Reagan was finally pressured into signing the bill in 1983, you could tell he was a little salty about it.
Just two weeks ago, Mr. Reagan said he would have liked an unofficial holiday. I would have preferred that, but since they seem bent on making it a national holiday, I believe the symbolism of that day is important enough that I would, I'll sign that legislation when it reaches my desk.
Yeah, that's the tone of voice that means, fine, have your little holiday, okay? I'll tell the CIA to gift wrap some crackers as a present. No wonder Reagan got Alzheimer's. He was like, I'll make it a holiday, but I want to forget that shit immediately. But even if Reagan caved, a lot of Republicans had a dream that one day they could turn people against Dr. King. And that dream still lives on.
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Chapter 5: Why is it important to recognize the flaws of our heroes?
Like, a Diddy party? Like, whatever his faults, Dr. King wasn't Diddy by any stretch. But also, if Diddy manages to pass the Civil Rights Act, I'd let a few things slide. Not the domestic violence, but a thousand bottles of baby oil? Sure! That bill would have slid right through Congress, all right? The surprising thing about the rights defamation at MLK is just how unsurprising it is.
MAGA conservatives have traded in their dog whistle for a racism bullhorn. Elon Musk endorses a post on X calling for, quote, white solidarity.
White men are better at all of these tasks than the allegedly underprivileged communities that are replacing them. Blacks need to be imprisoned for the most part. and we would live in paradise. It's that simple. It's literally that simple.
Yeah, I'm sorry, but when I hear pure, unadulterated racism like that, you know, as a man from South Carolina, it just makes me a little homesick, all right? I mean, they cooked up that hate speech just like my Scrum Thurman used to make it. And even if you call them out on it, these racists have friends in high places.
In the United States of America, you don't have to apologize for being white anymore. When the have white people ever apologized for being white, okay? What are we talking about? Come on, man. White people barely apologize for being black on Halloween. The only sorry I've ever gotten from a white person was, oh, sorry, I thought you worked here, all right?
But there's still one reason to have hope that we can preserve MLK Day, because all of us, regardless of race, color, or creed, enjoy that sweet three-day weekend, all right? And if MLK Day goes away, what are they gonna replace it with?
Congresswoman Claudia Tenney of New York introduced legislation to make Trump's birthday a federal holiday. You gotta be kidding me.
Yeah. Yeah, replace an MLK day with a holiday honoring Trump would be insulting, racist, and unnecessary. But you know what? A day off is a day off, okay? I mean, it. We've all seen Trump's face. We'll call it prune teeth, all right? But hey, that's just my opinion. Explore more shows from the Daily Show podcast universe by searching The Daily Show, wherever you get your podcasts.
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