today is Martin Luther King Day a day
when America celebrates the legacy of
one of its greatest civil rights leaders
and a day where black people get to cut
in line at Chipotle at least that's my
excuse but what is Martin Luther King
Day and how should people celebrate it
well for more unless we turn to a man
who has had many dreams that no one
wants to hear about Roy Wood jr.
everybody MLK Day is a special day for
America and it's a special day for me as
someone who has been mistaken for Martin
Luther King jr. many times but but as we
get further and further away from his
life it's easy to forget what he was
really about which means sometimes
people celebrate them in a really good
way so today I'd like to show you some
of my favorite MLK puffs like this one
the holiday didn't go as planned for
some today a business in Duluth
Minnesota created controversy when
promoting a sale in honor of the civil
rights leader the sign posted at the
shop red MLK Day sale 25% off everything
black but the owner says it was just
misinterpreted 25% off everything black
he was black he was proud he looked good
we were celebrating that are you serious
for MLK Day 25% off for black clothes
what it should be is a hundred percent
off for black people free at last free
at last pants tops and coats are free it
legs yeah right you know what makes it
worse is that if you read dr. King's
speeches you'll see that like he was
opposed to consumerism and wasteful
capitalism that's right
celebrating MLK Day with a sale it's
like commemorating samuel l.jackson day
by whispering
let's stop with the man stands for it's
not like in the middle of his
mountaintop speech dr. King just broke
off remember me what savings - insane to
be believed I might not get to that
store but you've seen the power lets you
know it actually it actually is
unfortunate because it seems like some
white people are out of touch with dr.
King's legacy oh it's not just a white
thing in fact dr. King might actually be
proud that on his special day people of
all colors and backgrounds have been as
we pause to honor dr. King this year a
flyer for a local event that bears his
image who's causing quite a stir but as
NBC 25s Walter Smith tells us right now
the party is now cancelled the party
promoters nowhere to be found this
poster has a lot of people shaking their
heads and discuss it shows dr. Martin
Luther King jr. wearing a gold chain
promoting a party called freedom to
twerk it was supposed to take place at
this club but it's been cancelled the
owner says he's disgusted and there'll
be no twerking here there will be no
twerking here sound like Gandalf in a
Tyler Perry movie there will be no
strippers flower also how are you gonna
Photoshop dr. King with gold chains to
try and make him look cool he was
already cool look at me look at these
real pictures of dr. King from back in
the day look at him playing pool in a
suit that shot so cool it doesn't matter
if he misses and here he is making the
library look cool stand it in front of
books like they stacks of money because
this is my favorite Martin Luther King
wearing sunglasses inside
trevor he could have taken that call in
private but he left the door open for
the haters but maybe maybe the most
popular activity on MLK Day is using his
legacy to push your own agenda and no
one has done it in a more interesting
fashion than this guy
I believe that gun Appreciation Day
honors the legacy of dr. King and the
truth is I think Martin Luther King
would agree with me if we were alive
today that if African Americans had been
given the right to keep and bear arms
from day one of the country's founding
perhaps slavery might not have been a
chapter in our history
okay okay hold up I'm pretty sure on dr.
Kings list of priorities giving slaves
guns comes way below not having slaves
in the first place do you think the
slave owners would have just had a
little chitchat well [ __ ] we set him
free oh no don't set him free
let's make it interesting give them
shotguns now I will say this if slaves
did have guns the movie roots would have
only been 15 minutes long
your name is so right we've seen people
mess it up you know with sales or you
know with their own agendas but what is
the proper way to celebrate dr. King's
legacy listen man is simple MLK was for
racial equality economic justice and
stood against the exploitation of the
poor and he did so because he knew that
one day our great nation would rise
above bigotry injustice and poverty and
on that day my friends there will be
twerking for everyone everywhere
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