Rubin Report - Dave Rubin - What MLK Jr. Understood That Some Seem to Have Forgotten | Direct Message | Rubin Report
Aired: 2022-01-17
Duration: 03:31


=== Quick Update & MLK (03:30) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, good morning from the free state of Florida, everybody.
[00:00:03]  I wanted to give a quick update and then I wanted to talk about Martin Luther King Jr.
[00:00:08]  for just a moment.
[00:00:10]  Our plan was to be back in studio today.
[00:00:13]  There was one more slight delay with the house.
[00:00:16]  We are officially in tomorrow.
[00:00:19]  And we'll have internet Wednesday morning.
[00:00:21]  So what we're going to do is tomorrow night, Tuesday, we will do a test show.
[00:00:25]  We're going to try to rig together some crazy internet just to do a test show.
[00:00:29]  And we're going to set up the studio.
[00:00:31]  And then Wednesday at 11 a.m.
[00:00:34]  Eastern, The Rubin Report returns officially.
[00:00:37]  I really thank you guys for your patience.
[00:00:39]  It's been a crazy time over here, but all good, all good.
[00:00:42]  On this day, though, I really want to talk about Martin Luther King Jr.
[00:00:45]  for just a moment.
[00:00:47]  sort of uses him for their own political purposes on a day like today.
[00:00:51]  It's one of the sort of most miserable days that you can be online in a certain respect because it's
[00:00:56]  like Is that really what he would have believed and would he
[00:01:00]  have wanted someone like you to say that and everything else?
[00:01:02]  So I was trying to find a clip that I thought would just illustrate something in a broad sense
[00:01:07]  So first I want to throw to this clip. It's about 50 seconds
[00:01:10]  [Applause]
[00:01:13]  If I lived in China or even Russia or any totalitarian country
[00:01:19]  (coughing)
[00:01:21]  Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions.
[00:01:28]  Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges because they haven't committed themselves to that over there.
[00:01:38]  But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly.
[00:01:43]  Somewhere I read Of the freedom of speech, somewhere I read.
[00:01:49]  Of the freedom of press, somewhere I read.
[00:01:52]  That the greatness of America is the right to protest for rights.
[00:02:02]  Man, isn't that beautiful?
[00:02:03]  I don't even have to add much commentary to that.
[00:02:06]  It's like, even back then, we had the tools, we had the documents to free ourselves.
[00:02:13]  And that's what we've done consistently in America.
[00:02:16]  Expanded more freedom to more people.
[00:02:19]  And that's not how it is in totalitarian regimes.
[00:02:20]  And it's like, does it feel like maybe we're giving that stuff away right now?
[00:02:22]  Are we possibly giving it away?
[00:02:23]  How does our freedom of assembly feel right now?
[00:02:25]  that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was always talking about so that his children wouldn't be judged
[00:02:30]  by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. And that's not how it is
[00:02:35]  in totalitarian regimes. And it's like, does it feel like maybe we're giving that stuff away right
[00:02:40]  now? Are we possibly giving it away? How does our freedom of assembly feel right now? How does our
[00:02:45]  freedom of speech feel right now? That's for you to decide.
[00:02:50]  So on this day, I would say, maybe we've got all the tools we need.
[00:02:55]  Maybe we've got the documents we need.
[00:02:57]  Maybe we live in the country we're supposed to live in, but it's up to us to strengthen those things.
[00:03:02]  It's up to us to live up to those ideals.
[00:03:05]  And it's up to us to fight for the things, most importantly, equality.
[00:03:09]  The equality that Martin Luther King wanted more than anything else.
[00:03:14]  Okay, guys, I thank you for your time.
[00:03:16]  Oh, the sun is coming!
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