which helps to empower conservative groups like moms for liberty, who are harassing educators and librarians to ban books about dr. king. rosa parks, and ruby bridges. and claiming without a hint of irony that dr. king would have wanted it that way. joining me now is the reverend al sharpton, host of msnbc s politics nation, who joined president biden today at the national action network s annual mlk day breakfast, and christina greer, associate professor of political science at fordham university. i appreciate you both for being here. happy mlk day to both of you. rev, my wonderful big brother, i have to show you this. you were busy today doing events with the president, so you might have missed what the bangor daily news did today on mlk day. we ll put a screen shot up. they posted parts of their favorite speech, the 1963 march on washington speech and the headline is we should take a
getting positive change rather than just expressing your anger. he was the exact person whose example should be followed in that area. yes, he was active in the civil rights movement, obviously, attending the 1963 march on washington led by dr. king. he spoke out against segregation and boston public schools. and you said, he inspired you as an activist, right? not just so that you felt that there was a place for you in the league and society. but, he spoke to you as an activist. tell me about that. well, being an activist means that you use your position of public prominence to try to effect change. to call attention to things that aren t right. and, to try to help make those things right again. so, you know, the whole idea of
that were better suited to getting positive change rather than just expressing your anger. he was the exact person whose example should be followed in that area. he was active in the civil rights movement obviously, attending the 1963 march on washington led by dr. king. he spoke out against segregation in boston public schools. you say he inspired you as an activist, right, not just so that you felt that there was a place for you in the league and in society, but he spoke to you as an activist. tell me about that. well, being an activist means that you use your position of public prominence to try to effect change, to call attention to things that aren t right and to try to help make those things right again. so, you know, the whole idea of
one that includes justice for one and justice for all. he pretty much tweets that every year. of course, rand paul is the same person that said he would have opposed the civil rights act of 1964 and then there is texas governor greg abbott writing dr. king inspired hope in our nation and that beacon of hope and liberty still burns bright in texas. how nice. except for the fact that he literally signed a bill that eliminated the requirement for schools to teach anything about dr. martin luther king junior. and then there is mr. cellophane himself that sent this uplifting quote at the 1963 march on washington, the i have a dream speech they pull from. quote, when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the constitution and declaration of independence they signed a promisorry note to which every american was to fall. clever note. you cut that section out of a
were the ones that got paul newman, james gardener, a whole bunch of hollywood the right checks and march dr. king. there was sydney and belafonte that got the white stars of hollywood to join the movement. charlton hesston. that s the funny one. he had a little change over the years. he was there, though. when i see that picture. paul newman was there. and marlon brando. bran dough was there, too. yeah, frank sinatra. listen. sinatra. you were no stranger to balancing activism and film and you know i spoke to to harry belafonte this summer, did an interview with him along with his buddy. they set the standard for using celebrity their celebrity to enact change and the celebrity of others. um, this is charlton hesston at the 1963 march on washington.