>>> REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN DOING
A THING WHERE THEY PIOUSLY
DEFEND THEIR PARTISAN CALCULATED
WAR ON HISTORY BY INVOKING THE
REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING
JR.
THEY REPURPOSE HIS WORDS TO USE
HIM AS A SHIELD WHEN DEFENDING
THEIR JIM CROW ERA ON FACTS.
TAKE A LOOK.
>> YOURE HEARING A LOT ABOUT
CRITICAL RACE THEORY.
WHAT IS IT?
THIS IS A FORM OF TEACHING THAT
TEACHES OUR KIDS THAT AMERICA IS
SYSTEMICALLY RACIST AND THAT
YOURE EITHER AN OPPRESSOR OR A
VICTIM AND JUDGE A PERSON BY THE
COLOR OF THEIR SKIN NOT THE
CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER.
>> IF THE REVEREND DR. KING
FAMOUSLY SAID, AND HE WAS RIGHT,
WE SHOULD JUDGE OUR FELLOW
CITIZENS BY THE CONTENT OF THEIR
CHARACTER NOT BY THE COLOR OF
THEIR SKIN.
MR. PRESIDENT, WE NEED A STRONG
NATION WITH STRONG CITIZENS WHO
SEE EACH OTHER AS AMERICANS, NOT
AS OPPRESSORS OR OPPRESSED.
>> CRITICAL RACE THEORY GOES
AGAINST EVERYTHING MARTIN LUTHER
KING HAS SAID.
DONT JUDGE US BY THE COLOR OF
OUR SKIN AND NOW THEYRE
EMBRACING IT.
THEYRE GOING BACKWARDS.
>> IN DOING SO THEY MANAGED TO
MISS THE BREADTH OF HIS TEACHES.
WHAT THEY FAILED TO NOTE IS HE
SPOKE REGULARLY ABOUT
ERADICATING RACISM, MILITARISM
AND POVERTY.
HE CALLED FOR JUST AND EKE
WITTABLE HOUSING.
HE DEMANDED PEOPLE BE PROVIDED A
LIVABLE WAGE AND HE WORKED TO
PREVENT VOTER SUPPRESSION, A
MISSION THAT REMAINS JUST AS
URGENT TODAY AS IT WAS IN 1963
BECAUSE OF THE MODERN REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
ITS EASY TO INVOKE A FEW LINES
THAT YOU MEMORIZED IN HIGH
SCHOOL FROM A SPEECH, BUT ITS A
LOT HARDER TO HEAR THE TOTALITY
OF THEIR MESSAGE.
IF THEY DUG DEEPER OR READ A
LITTLE MORE THAN THE CLIFF NOTES
OF HIS WORK, THEY WOULD KNOW
THAT DR. KING ALSO SAID, AND
ILL QUOTE, IT IS OBVIOUS IF A
MAN IS ENTERED AT THE STARTING
LINE IN A RACE 300 YEARS AFTER
ANOTHER MAN, THE FIRST WOULD
HAVE TO PERFORM SOME IMPOSSIBLE
FEAT TO CATCH UP WITH HIS FELLOW
RUNNER, UNQUOTE.
WHAT MODERN DAY REPUBLICANS
WILLFULLY IGNORE IN THEIR
REVISIONIST HISTORY OF KING IS
THAT WHEN HE WAS ALIVE HE WAS
DEMONIZED, SURVEILLED, ACCUSED
OF BEING, WAIT FOR IT, A
COMMUNIST.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
WHAT KEVIN AND HIS FELLOW
REPUBLICANS MIGHT WANT TO
CONSIDER ARE A FEW OTHER WORDS
FROM THE REVERENDS SERMONS,
QUOTE, NOTHING IN ALL THE WORLD
IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN SINCERE
IGNORANCE AND CONSCIENTIOUS
STUPIDITY.
>> YES.
>> IM JOINED BY DR. BERNICE A.
KING, CEO OF THE KING CENTER AND
THE DAUGHTER OF DR. MARTIN
LUTHER KING JR.
IM SO EXCITED TO HAVE YOU ON,
DR. KING.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
>> WELL, I FOLLOW YOU ON TWITTER
AND I LOVE EVERY TIME YOU JUST
LOVINGLY REBUKE THESE PEOPLE WHO
REALLY IN MY MIND PERVERT THE
MEANING OF YOUR FATHERS WORDS
FOR THEIR PURPOSES.
HOW DOES IT FEEL AS HIS DAUGHTER
HEAR HIM REVOKED IN DEFENSE OF
TEACHING HISTORY?
>> WELL, I MEAN, COME ON, IT
IS -- IT IS -- IT IS INSULTING.
AT ONE POINT IN MY LIFE I GOT
REALLY UPSET UNTIL I UNDERSTOOD
THE ESSENCE OF WHAT MY FATHER
SAID IN THE QUOTE YOU JUST
MENTIONED ABOUT NOTHING MORE
DANGEROUS THAN SINCERE IGNORANCE
I FEEL THAT I ALONG WITH MY
BROTHER AND THOSE WHO REPRESENT
THIS LEGACY HAVE A
RESPONSIBILITY TO CONTINUE TO
EDUCATE PEOPLE ON THE TRUTH OF
MY FATHER.
YOUVE DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB AT
EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID ABOUT
THE FACT THAT HE WAS DEVOTED TO
ERADICATING THE TRIPLE EVILS OF
POVERTY, MILL TEAR RIMP AND
RACISM AND WHILE HE EVOKED THOSE
WORDS AT THE END OF HIS SPEECH,
I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO READ THE
WHOLE SPEECH.
I THINK THERES A DANGER TO
READING THE LAST PART.
HE WAS A PREACHER.
PREACHERS WILL LAY OUT
CONDITIONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES AND
CHALLENGES AND AT THE END THEY
WANT TO LEAVE YOU WITH A SENSE
OF HOPE.
THAT WAS THE HOPE PART OF HIS
SPEECH.
WE HOPE THAT MY CHILDREN WILL
LIVE IN THIS NATION WHERE THEY
WILL BE JUDGED BY THE COLOR --
THE CONTENT OF CHARACTER AND NOT
THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN BUT
WERE NOT DISMISSING THE FACT
THAT THERE ARE THESE CONDITIONS
THAT HE TALKED ABOUT DURING THE
I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH CONCERNING
THE BLACK COMMUNITY THAT HAVE TO
BE ADDRESSED.
HE WOULD NEVER ENCOURAGE US TO
IGNORE THE CONDITIONS AND NOT TO
PUT FORTH THE EFFORT TO ADDRESS
THEM BUT HE WOULD ALSO ENCOURAGE
US TO STUDY THE WHOLE CONTEXT OF
HISTORY.
>> YES.
>> HE DID THAT IN WHERE DO WE GO
FROM HERE?
HE LAID OUT HOW WE GOT TO WHERE
WE ARE.
AND SO DADDY WOULD NEVER SAY,
EXCUSE THE HISTORY AND LETS
JUST START HERE.
YOU SAID IT SO EXCELLENT WHEN HE
SAID WHEN YOU START BEHIND THE
RACE.
HE ALSO SAID, IF A NATION HAS
DONE SOMETHING AGAINST A PEOPLE
FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, THEN IT
MUST ALSO TURN AROUND AND DO
SOMETHING FOR THOSE PEOPLE.
I WOULD SUGGEST ALTHOUGH HE DID
NOT USE THE WORDS REPARATIONS,
HE WAS SUGGESTING REPARATIONS.
NOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE
PRACTICALLY IS A WHOLE NOTHER
DISCUSSION AND SO, YOU KNOW,
THATS WHY I ALWAYS SAY, DO NOT
TAKE EXCERPTS FROM MY FATHER.
STUDY HIM HOLISTICALLY.
THERE IS A LOT -- HE WROTE
EXTENSIVELY.
THATS -- THATS THE BEAUTY OF
ALL OF THIS.
NO MATTER WHAT PEOPLE TRY TO
SAY, THERE ARE BOOKS OUT AND I
THANK GOD WE JUST DID A NEW
PUBLISHING DEAL SO THERE ARE
GOING TO BE MORE BOOKS OUT AND
MORE WRITINGS SO THAT THE RECORD
WILL CONTINUE TO BE STRAIGHT AND
I THANK GOD HE WAS ABLE TO WRITE
LIKE THIS BECAUSE FOR PEOPLE TO
BE ABLE TO MISS APPROPRIATE HIM
THIS WAY IS ACTUALLY BEYOND
INSULTING.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT HELPS ME AND
GIVES ME RELIEF IS THE SCRIPTURE
YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE
TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.
>> AMEN.
AMEN.
>> SO IM FREE FROM THE ANGER
AND I SEE MY RESPONSIBILITY TO
SAY, NO, YOU WILL NOT
MISAPPROPRIATE MY FATHER THIS
WAY BECAUSE THAT IS NOT -- IM
ONE OF THOSE FOUR CHILDREN AND,
FRANKLY, I DONT LIKE THE STATE
AND CONDITION OF BLACK AMERICA
RIGHT NOW, NOT BECAUSE OF
ANYTHING WE DID BUT BECAUSE OF
WHAT HAS BEEN NOT JUST BEEN DONE
TO US BUT THINGS THAT ARE
CONTINUING TO BE DONE.
I CAN TALK ABOUT SOME THINGS
PERSONALLY JUST LIVING IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD THAT I LIVE IN, THE
RED LINING THAT GOES ON.
SO --
>> YES.
>> YES, EXACTLY.
SO, NO, THEY DONT HAVE A RIGHT
TO DO IT AND THEY WILL CONTINUE
TO DO IT AND THANK GOD FOR YOU
AND SO MANY OTHER VOICES AND WE
CONTINUE TO SPEAK TRUTH OUT.
>> YOU KNOW, AND PEOPLE -- IT
FEELS LIKE PEOPLE HAVE SORT OF
MUPPETIZED YOUR FATHER.
THEY ONLY KNOW THAT ONE LINE,
THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN, CONTENT
OF OUR CHARACTER.
HE WROTE A SERMON SAYING AMERICA
MIGHT GO TO HELL.
>> HE NEVER GOT TO -- HE NEVER
GOT TO DELIVER THAT SERMON.
>> AMEN.
>> THAT WAS THE SERMON HE WAS
GOING TO DELIVER THE SUNDAY
AFTER HE WAS ASSASSINATED.
>> THATS RIGHT.
HE SAID ALL OF THE SIGNS FOR THE
RISE OF FASCISM ARE HERE IN OUR
NATION.
>> OKAY.
PROPHET.
>> SHE TOLD ME THAT OVER AND
OVER AGAIN.
I DONT KNOW WHY, BUT SHE TOLD