You're listening to Comedy Central. 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 your cut in line at your potli At least that's my excuse. But what is Martin Luther King Day? And how should people celebrate it? Well, for more, unless we turned to a man who has had many dreams
that no one wants to hear about, where would you know? Everybody? Welcome, boy, Welcome, good to have you, good to see you, good to see you, Mandela. Look. 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 him in
a really cup weights. So today I'd like to show y'all some of my favorite MLK cups, 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 reat MLK Day sale off everything black, but the owner says it was just misinterpreted everything black. He was black, he was proud, he looked good. We were celebrating that. Are you serious for mL K date
off for black clothes? But it should be is a hundred percent off of black people, free at last, free at last, pantstops and colts of free at last. Yeah right. You know what what makes it worse is that if you read Dr king speeches, you'll see that he 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. That's not what the man stands for.
It's not like in the middle of his mountaintop speech, Dr King just broke off, remember me with savings too insane to be believed. I might not get to that store, which about my eyes are seeing the power of the discount. Come on, Corretta, let's roll. 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 taken up. As we pause to want our Dr King this year, a flyer for a local event that bears his image is causing court a stir. But as NBC Walter Smith tells us, right now, the party is now canceled. The party promoters nowhere to be found. This coaster has a lot of people shaking their heads in disgust. 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 canceled. The owner says he's disgusted, and there'll be no twerking here. There will be no twerking here. It sounded like Gandalf in a Tyler Perry movie. That will be no tworking. And then you know the strippers flower all over the place. And also, how are you going to photoshop Dr King with gold change to try and make him look cool? He was already cool. Look at the Look at these real pictures
of Dr King from back in the day. Look at him playing pool in a suit and a seven right fresh from a march. That shot so cool it doesn't matter if he misses. And here he is making the library look cool, standard in front of us, like a stack some money. But this, this is, this is my favorite. Martin Luther King wearing sunglasses inside Trevior. 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 you 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 King's list of priorities, giving slaves guns comes way below not having slaves in the first place. The logic, the logic makes no sense, This makes no sense. How would you do that? Like, dude, do you think the slave owners? But it just had a little chit chat. Will shoot set them free? Oh, no them, set them 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 fifteen minutes long. Your name is told or whatever you want us to call you know, let's cool? Would cool? Okay? So Roy, 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, It's 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. Why would you and everybody? The Daily Show with Trevor Ears Edition Some scribe to The Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive contents and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast.