Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Today is Martin Luther King Day,
Speaker 1: a day when America celebrates the legacy of one of
Speaker 1: its greatest civil rights leaders, and a day where black
Speaker 1: people get your cut in line at your potli At
Speaker 1: least that's my excuse. But what is Martin Luther King Day?
Speaker 1: And how should people celebrate it? Well, for more, unless
Speaker 1: we turned to a man who has had many dreams
Speaker 1: that no one wants to hear about, where would you know? Everybody? Welcome, boy, Welcome,
Speaker 1: good to have you, good to see you, good to
Speaker 1: see you, Mandela. Look. MLK Day is a special day
Speaker 1: for America, and it's a special day for me as
Speaker 1: someone who has been mistaken for Martin Luther King Jr.
Speaker 1: Many times. But but as we get further and further
Speaker 1: away from his life, it's easy to forget what he
Speaker 1: was really about, which means sometimes people celebrate him in
Speaker 1: a really cup weights. So today I'd like to show
Speaker 1: y'all some of my favorite MLK cups, like this one.
Speaker 1: The holiday didn't go as planned for some Today, a
Speaker 1: business in Duluth, Minnesota created controversy when promoting a sale
Speaker 1: in honor of the civil rights leader The sign posted
Speaker 1: at the shop reat MLK Day sale off everything black,
Speaker 1: but the owner says it was just misinterpreted everything black.
Speaker 1: He was black, he was proud, he looked good. We
Speaker 1: were celebrating that. Are you serious for mL K date
Speaker 1: off for black clothes? But it should be is a
Speaker 1: hundred percent off of black people, free at last, free
Speaker 1: at last, pantstops and colts of free at last. Yeah right.
Speaker 1: You know what what makes it worse is that if
Speaker 1: you read Dr king speeches, you'll see that he like
Speaker 1: he was opposed to consumerism and wasteful capitalism. That's right.
Speaker 1: Celebrating MLK Day with a sale, it's like commemorating Samuel L.
Speaker 1: Jackson Day by whispering. That's not what the man stands for.
Speaker 1: It's not like in the middle of his mountaintop speech,
Speaker 1: Dr King just broke off, remember me with savings too
Speaker 1: insane to be believed. I might not get to that store,
Speaker 1: which about my eyes are seeing the power of the discount.
Speaker 1: Come on, Corretta, let's roll. You know it. Actually, it
Speaker 1: actually is unfortunate because it seems like some white people
Speaker 1: are out of touch with Dr King's legacy. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: not just a white thing. In fact, Dr King might
Speaker 1: actually be proud that on his special day, people of
Speaker 1: all colors and backgrounds have been taken up. As we
Speaker 1: pause to want our Dr King this year, a flyer
Speaker 1: for a local event that bears his image is causing
Speaker 1: court a stir. But as NBC Walter Smith tells us,
Speaker 1: right now, the party is now canceled. The party promoters
Speaker 1: nowhere to be found. This coaster has a lot of
Speaker 1: people shaking their heads in disgust. It shows Dr Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King Jr. Wearing a gold chain promoting a party
Speaker 1: called Freedom to Twerk. It was supposed to take place
Speaker 1: at this club, but it's been canceled. The owner says
Speaker 1: he's disgusted, and there'll be no twerking here. There will
Speaker 1: be no twerking here. It sounded like Gandalf in a
Speaker 1: Tyler Perry movie. That will be no tworking. And then
Speaker 1: you know the strippers flower all over the place. And also,
Speaker 1: how are you going to photoshop Dr King with gold
Speaker 1: change to try and make him look cool? He was
Speaker 1: already cool. Look at the Look at these real pictures
Speaker 1: of Dr King from back in the day. Look at
Speaker 1: him playing pool in a suit and a seven right
Speaker 1: fresh from a march. That shot so cool it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if he misses. And here he is making the
Speaker 1: library look cool, standard in front of us, like a
Speaker 1: stack some money. But this, this is, this is my favorite.
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King wearing sunglasses inside Trevior. He could have
Speaker 1: taken that call in private, but he left the door
Speaker 1: open for the haters. But maybe maybe the most popular
Speaker 1: activity on MLK Day is using his legacy to push
Speaker 1: your own agenda, and no one has done it in
Speaker 1: a more interesting fashion than this guy. I believe that
Speaker 1: Gun Appreciation Day honors the legacy of Dr King. And
Speaker 1: the truth is, I think Martin Luther King would agree
Speaker 1: with me if you were alive today, that if African
Speaker 1: Americans had been given the right to keep and bear
Speaker 1: arms from day one of the country's founding, perhaps slavery
Speaker 1: might not have been a chapter in our history. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: hold up, I'm pretty sure on Dr King's list of priorities,
Speaker 1: giving slaves guns comes way below not having slaves in
Speaker 1: the first place. The logic, the logic makes no sense,
Speaker 1: This makes no sense. How would you do that? Like, dude,
Speaker 1: do you think the slave owners? But it just had
Speaker 1: a little chit chat. Will shoot set them free? Oh,
Speaker 1: no them, set them free. Let's make it interesting. Give
Speaker 1: them shotguns. Now. I will say this, if slaves did
Speaker 1: have guns, the movie Roots would have only been fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes long. Your name is told or whatever you want
Speaker 1: us to call you know, let's cool? Would cool? Okay?
Speaker 1: So Roy, We've seen people mess it up, you know,
Speaker 1: with sales or you know, with their own agendas. But
Speaker 1: what is the proper way to celebrate Dr King's legacy? Listen, man,
Speaker 1: It's simple. MLK was for racial equality, economic justice, and
Speaker 1: stood against the exploitation of the poor. And he did
Speaker 1: so because he knew that one day our great nation
Speaker 1: would rise above bigotry, injustice and poverty. And on that day,
Speaker 1: my friends, there will be twerking for everyone everywhere. Why
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