October 25, 2023 • 30 mins
Today Michael talks to Martin Lither King Jr. and Martin talks back. Stephon Ferguson breathes life into a Legend. Let’s talk about
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
You all ready, let's go. Well, so missus, Michael called
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
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Speaker 4 (00:42):
Michael took said everybody, everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
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Speaker 5 (00:50):
I love.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I don't know why I love my theme music. Anyway, Hey,
it's your boy, Michael Ky. Hello, everybody, Welcome to Michael
talks to air body today. I'm talking to a special somebody.
He keeps this energy about one of our great civil leaders,
so the right leaders. He holds him up high and
keeps it going year round, year in and year out.
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He brings the voice of Martin Luther King to schools
and corporations and organizations around the world. And it keeps
his message going, and keeps the story going, and keeps
his voice going.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
This guy's fantastic. His name is step Fan Ferguson. Stepan.
First in the house, where you at?
Speaker 6 (01:30):
You here with us, I'm with you, I'm with you.
Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I appreciate you, man, and I appreciate what you do.
First of all, it's not easy to get the tone right.
I know a lot of people be trying to do
Martin Luther King. They sounds so like Bernie Mack, you know.
But then you got some folks who hit that thing
right on the nail, right, hit the nail.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Only hit that's you. That's you. And so first of all,
welcome to the show. Where are you from? Originally?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Well, I was born in Albany, New York, but only
stayed there for nine months. My family moved to Fayetteville,
North Carolina, when I was nine months old, So I'm
really from North Carolina.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Fayetteville.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I love North Carolina. Have you been to Winston Salem,
North Carolina, brother, I certainly have. Well, that's where my
wife has the number one soul food restaurant in Winston
Salem called simply sonyas you know, so if you go
through the man, you want to get some of the
best salmon croquette ever made.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Swing on through the man.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So so okay, so tell me who you are before
you start doing some personations.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
What do you do? Who are you?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Stephan Ferguson.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Back in two thousand and three, I received a calling
to recreate the word to doctor King.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
It was it's a ministry.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I'm an ordained minister at Simon Temple am Mesion Church
here in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
And so I began really in two thousand and three
is when I really accepted my calling. I was playing around.
I do deferent voices. I can try and fum into
the French people, you know.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
So I was playing around one day and my friend
heard me and he was like, yo, man, you should
really consider taking that to the next level because you
sound just like and imagine the people who can be
blessed who weren't here when Doctor King was here and
they can hear that voice. And so, you know, I
began began there, and for the past twenty years, I've
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just been traveling across the nation and other parts of
the world. Recreating doctor King's words, but more importantly, you know,
educating people on his philosophy of love and peace and
nonviolence and trying to reinvigorate that dream and keep his
legacy alive.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Oh that's fantastic. That is fantastic. So do you know
the family all Martin Luther King's family.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I do.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Back in two thousand and four, I sent a letter
in a CD of me performing the speech to each
member of the family, even when Kreta Scott King was
living at the time, as well as Yolanda, and I've
never met I.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Never met Coretta.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Did you ever meet Martin? I never Martin the third
Martin Luther King, the junior. No, I was actually I
was born about thirty days before he. Oh, you was
born sixty day. I was born on March first. In fact,
I was thirty nine days old the day he was
laid to rest.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
He was thirty nine. I was born at three or nine.
It's crazy, but.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Yeah, So I never met him, but I do know
the family, and I got the official permission from the
King of State back in two thousand and five because
when they got the information, they were saying, this is great,
but you don't really have the permission to be doing
this because all of his work was copyrighted.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
So I went through the process.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Took about a year, and they they told me that
it took so long because I was the first one
that they've ever licensed to.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Actually, Wow, Wow, good for you, sir.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You're the first official Mountin Luther King impressionists who's got
sanctioned by the family.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So can we do your first one? Give him a
little tease to let him know what we're talking about.
We seen here talking about you, impersonating the Great Mountin
Luther King Jr. Who, sadly enough, there's so many of
our generations don't even know who he is. Young black
people they know something about him, but no depth. Awful
lot of them have never heard his voice. So now
let us hear his voice and just give us a
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little titbit of what we're talking about.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
We're talking about, okay, and let me preface it with this.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
This is a piece where people would always ask King
about the word love because he would.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Say love your enemies, and they didn't understand where he
was coming from. So he tried to break it down
to them, and this was his words.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
People used to ask me about it all the time.
They would say, doctor King, wasn't a word you mean
when you say love these people who are beating on
and bombing our houses and threatening our children. What in
the world you mean when you say love such people?
And I always have to stop and try to define
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the meaning of love in this area. Interestingly enough, Greek
philosophy comes to our aid at this point. There are
three words in the Greek language for love. One of
them is a word a ross. A ross is a
sort of aesthetic love. Philosopher Plato talks about it a
great deal and its dialogus the yearning of the soul
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for the realm of divine. It has come to us
to mean a sort of romantic love. And so we
all know about a ross. We've experienced it, We've read
about it in the Beauties of literature. Innocence ed galland
Poe was talking about a ross when he talked about
his beautiful Annabelle Lead with the love surrounded by.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
The halo of eternity. Innocence.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Shake Spear was talking about ros when he said love
is not love which alters when alteration.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Forms or bends with the removal to remove it is an.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Ever fixed mark, which lips on tempests and has never shaken.
It is a star to every wandering bark. That's a ross.
Then the Greek language talks about felia, which is another
level of love. It is an intimate affection between personal friends.
On this level, we love because we are love.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
We love people that we like. This is friendship.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Then the Green language talks about a gape. Gardey is
more than friendship. A garpey is not something affectionate. A
garpey is understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill to all men. It
is an overflowing love that seeks nothing in return. Theologians
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which say that it is a love of God operating in.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
The human heart.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
And so when one rises to love him this level,
he loves man not because he likes him, but he
loves every man because God loves him.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
And so he goes on with that.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
So he rises to the level of hating the system
rather than the individual who has caught up in that system.
He loves the person, even though he may hate the
evil deed. And I believe this is what Jesus meant
when he said love your enemies. And I'm so happy
that he didn't say like your enemies, because it's pretty
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difficult to like some people. It's difficult to like people
bombing your homes and threatening your children and kicking you about.
But Jesus says to love them, and love is greater
than life. Love is understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
To all men. And I believe with this method, in
this approach, we will be able to win.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Wow. Wow, So how many of his speeches have you learned? Uh?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Well, I memorized several of his speeches. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I would probably say I could repeat maybe four or
five hours of Doctor King's speech.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Is worried for wow?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
I know it's crazy because I wasn't really too great
in memory in school, but God has blessed me to
be able to really memorize the speeches of doctor King
and to recreate them. I listen to the speech probably
one hundred times before I even attempt to try to
memorize it, and then when I go forward with memorizing it,
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I have to do it in the way that he
did it, because it's already in my head.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Oh my God, So you took on a mission. So
first you was just doing impressions. You do sounds, you
do voices, and then someone challenged you and heard you
say it and say, man, you should take that serious. Yes,
so you took it so seriously that you went into
a full fledged study of Martin Luther King and what
the speeches are on what they're about.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Absolutely, I actually moved to Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
I lived on the King's Site across the street from
doctor King's birth home for the last four years I
was there, so I could see from my porch to
the left where doctor King was born and to my
right where he's laying the rest with his beautiful wife Coretta.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
So I really dug deep into his work.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
And that's where a lot of his friends, Joseph Lowry
and the late John Lewis and C. T. Viv and
I got an opportunity to meet all of them and
really establish a really good relationship, to really get the
feel of who doctor King was, Who.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Was the gentleman who understands a gay gentleman who helped
write the auldream speech.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Well, you'll probably hear a lot of people saying they did.
But the only one that.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Huh, isn't it Barnard or Something's the name?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Oh you're thinking about? They are rusting, They are rusting. Yeah,
they are rusting. In fact, they are doing a movie
called Rusting.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
It's really yes, former President Barack Obama and I have
to deal with Netflix and one of the movies is
called Rusting.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
And yeah, so you I need you to help me
to get get on their as king.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I know you have, man, I want to get on
that myself.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
That is amazing that, first of all, they're even dealing
with Ruskin because you know, of course, at the time,
it's the quietest thing in the world that a gay
man and he was openly gay. Yes, was so close
to the right hand of Martin Luther King.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
I mean really was he was.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I'm sorry, but he didn't help write the speech, but
he he was the one behind the whole entire march.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
He was the man, and he was the one who
put it together, who organized it who. Yeah, he was
probably the most integral part of the March on Washington. Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
So okay, So you make a living doing this all
over the world, right I do? Okay? Okay?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
And is it schools mostly schools or is it private
functions corporate?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
It's mainly organizations. I don't do a lot of schools.
They don't pay.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
I do a lot. I do a lot of government agencies.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
I'll be doing at and T in Atlanta next in January,
the four hundred Years of African American Commission in DC.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
I do consulting for them.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
The eighty King Foundation in Atlanta, I do a lot
of work with them, So a lot of my work
is kind of behind the scene, consulting and helping people
to grasp who doctor King was and relate it to
where we are today.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
That's so beautiful, brother. We're gonna take a break when
we come back, though. At the end of the second segment,
I would really love to hear that I have a
dream speech. I'm gonna listen.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Real quiet to every word and every syllable how.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
He said it, because every part of it was especially
important for what they were trying.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
To get done that day. And so I really want
to hear that, and I want to hear you.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Do it like nobody else can. Ladies, gentlemen, we here
today with step Fan Ferguson the expert. When it comes
down to Martin Luther King's voice and delivery, We'll be
right black.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
It's Michael talk to error everybody. We'll be right back
see a minute, and we're black a and we're back. Y'all.
It's Michael kall Ya. Michael talks to everybody today.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I'm talking to this fascinating gentleman named step Fan Ferguson
who has really made shoot a life and a career
of being able to say correctly with the right intonations.
The Martin Luther King's speeches, you know, to study them
and know what's behind them and the reasoning and the
whole thing, and just to have them here with us
today is an honor. Thank you again, Stephan, I'm for
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joining us.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Thank you, Michael Cally for having me man, I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Well.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
So when you get this knack for making sounds and
voices and stuff, where'd that come from?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I do not know. When I was young, I used
to do it quite often. I just repeat what I
hear people saying, and I do it right in the face.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
You know.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
It was just crazy. I would do teachers in school
when I was in the military. After high school, I
went to the military and I would imitate the drill
sergeants and I would imitate my first sergeant, and oh
they would they couldn't stand that. They hated that, but
I don't really know where it came from. It just
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would I hear people and I can kind of imitate
what they say. When I was young, I always wanted
to be a news reporter and I would read the
paper in the elementary school and take the newspaper read
in front of my mother, and I eventually went on
to do news reporting for about ten years here in Fayetteville.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
And I don't know voice and that kind of work
was always something I enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's a lot of money in that, especially if you
get into the animated aspect of it, called them.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Animated is cartoons. Oh man, you could clean up on that.
What is the ultimate thing you want to do with
the Martin Luther King access that you have?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
What I want to do now?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
For twenty years, I've really been performing, educating myself on
who he is and really trying to get a grasp
of who he was outside of a civil rights leader,
who he was as a man, who he was as
a minister of the gospel, which he was first and foremost.
So what I want to do now is I'm already
working on an academy, an online academy to really take
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all of this education that I've gained and began to
really teach people on the philosophy of nonviolence, and I
think it's really needed right now. So that's really what
I'm working on, just educating people and putting this in
the form of classes in studying where people can really
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get to know who he is. Dick Gregory told me
the late Dick Gregory told me one time after I
had performed. He said, man, fifty percent of the people
living in America weren't even born when Doctor King gave
that speech. Seventy five percent of the people in the
world weren't even born when he gave that speech.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
So when they hear you.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Today, it's like they're hearing King for the first time.
And he said, that's very important. I want you to
remember that, and I always recall that. So it's just
a gift that God has given me that I want
to take and.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Share with the world.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Dick Gregory was amazing too. Absolutely, it's ark with to
say this, but I love Dick. Dick Gregory was. Let
me tell you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It was one day when my feet was swollen up,
my ankles, I mean they were swollen, and Dick Gregory
was with me.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
I was with him.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I came to see him speak at a library in Cleveland,
and I said, man, my feet, swoll up, Doc, what
would I need to do? He said, well, how much
water did you drink? I said, man, I had two
big cups. And he started laughing. He said, brother, you
need two gallons. Go drink you some water. And I
left and drank. I guzzled down in tire gallon of water,
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and almost like magic, my ankles went back down.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I mean he was. He was a sharp brother.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
He was a.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Are you do you?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Will you play with his voice at all? Or is
it so do you hold it in such high statue
that you don't play with it? Cause my idea is
I love you to tell a joke in the voice
of my Luther King, Like I would give you the
lines and you just say that joke.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Would you want to try?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I tell you I have.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I have reached out to you on many occasions to
trying to do that. And I'm glad that you brought
it up.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Oh, I would be.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
I would certainly. I have done that on many occasions.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
People are doing movies or films and uh, and they
want the voice of King and today, and so they
write it and I reproduce it, and so certainly I
would be very open.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I had thought about the King of Comedy.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I had really thought of the King of Comedy with
with Martin Luther King that let's do it. Okay, right,
I get one. Okay you ready?
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Well I'm not ready now, but no, right now, I'm.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Gonna say the line, and then you're gonna say it
as king. Okay, I challenge you. I know you could do.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
It's absolutely clean, It's absolutely clean.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Okay. A horse he was talking to a zebra.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
A horse.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
It was talking to a zebra. To the zebra, the
horse said, was rapping to a zebra, trying to pick
the zebra up, trying to pick the zebra up.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Finally the zebra turns to uh the wait, oh yeah,
well I can't do it if you can.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Finally the zebra turns to the horse and says, what
do you want?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Finally the zebra turns to the horse and say what
do you want?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And the horse says, you know what I want? Baby,
and I get over here and take off them pajamas.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
He said, you know what I want baby. Now'll get
over here and praise the Lord.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
That was That was magnificent. That was so wonderful.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Thank you, thank you for trying to exercis that exercise
was like if I had like, if I had that voice,
I'll be messing with people all the time. I'll be
calling the house and telling jokes as Martin Luther King.
I'd be like, I am back and I just had
one joke, and I would just hit them with my
money and then hang up. I wouldn't even tell them
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who I was.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
It would be so good, it would be so good.
So are you married, have family? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
I am not married, never have been married.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
My life has been my work. And I have one daughter.
Oh she she's twenty six.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Nice, that's a good age.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Yes, And that said, I have some really good family.
That's some good friends.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
And but no, as far as family, I never I
never did get married to raise a family.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
But I have a lot of family here.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
But you must work like crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
In February for Black History Month, I do January and February.
In February leading up to it too, they have a.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Lot of celebrations like anything Inuary is King Day, right,
I love that.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I love that because his birthday and then February Black
History Okay, So what I want to do now, because
we don't have a whole lot of time left. We
got about seven minutes or so, and I know what
this speech is about five minutes. And first I just
want to tell you I appreciate you just taking the
time and stopping and coming to talk with me and
let me hear these ideas and these thoughts and what
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you're doing with it. That's a great tool to carry around.
I got Martin Luther King's speech. By the way, give
me four hundred. Give me four hundred. I laid it
down before you walk out on the stage and kill
stay with me. It wouldn't even have to do nothing
with civil rights or black history, mon nothing all year round.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
I would be selling myself.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
If Martin Luther King's got a joke, that's what we
called Martin Luther King's got a joke, come and see it,
you know what I mean. Like they'd be like, if
you don't go sit down somewhere praise the Lord. Okay,
So what I would.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Like is to step back and have you do the
Martin Luther King the most famous speech that I think
people know.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Of, Although is it your favorite speech out of all
of them? Not to do, but to have heard and learned.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
It's hard to say favorite with that, but I would
say probably not. I kind of got because it's the
most requested. Yeah, and I worked at the King Center.
I did presentations five and six times a day.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Oh yeah, that enough is enough, you know, really? Okay,
I get it all right.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So I'm gonna step back, let us hear I have
a dream. Then we'll come back and wrap it up. Hey, y'all,
this is Michael talks to everybody and today and with
step Fan Ferguson, and he does the Martin like nobody else.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Not my end No, no, no, not my Lawrence Mantin,
Luther King Jr. I step back.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
So, even though we faced the difficulties off today and tomorrow,
I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply
rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that
one day this nation will rise up, live out the
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true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to
be self evident, that all men are created equals.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
I have a dream.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
One day, on the red heels of Georgia, signs of
former slaves and the sons of former slave owners, we'll
be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state
of Mississippi, state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering
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with the heat of oppression, be transformed into an oasis
of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four
little children one day in a nation, but they will
not be judged by the color of their skin, but
by the content of their character.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
I have a dream today.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama,
with its vishous racist, with its governor having his lips
dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day,
right then Alabama, little black boys and black girls will
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be able to join hands.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
With little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today. I have a dream that
one day of the vilest shall be exalted.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Every heel and mountain shall be made low, the rough
pieces will be made plain, and the crooked places will
be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall
be revealed in all flesh shall see it.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Together. This is our hope.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
This is the faith that I go back to the
South with. With this faith, we will be able to
hew out of the mountain of despair. A stone of hoop.
With this faith, we will be able to transform the
jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
With this faith, we will be.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together,
to go to jail, together, to stand up for freedom, together,
knowing that we will be free one day.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
This will be the day.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
This will be the day when all of God's children
will be able to same with new meaning. My country
tears thee swee land of liberty, of the icing, and
my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride. From every
mountains are let freedom ring and from Maracas. To be
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a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom
ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom
ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom
ring from the heightening allegainies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring
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from the snow capped rockies of Colorado. Lead freedom ring
from the curvaceous slopes of California. Not only that, let
freedom ring from stone Mountain of George. Let freedom ring
from the Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from
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every hill in more hill in Mississippi from every mountain.
Soll let freedom ring and win the This happens when
we allow freedom to ring. When we let it ring
from every village and ever, happening from every state and
every city, we really be able to speed up that
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day when all of Gaud's children, black men and white men,
Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, we'll be able to
join hands and sing in the words of the old
Negro spiritual, feed less, freed less, Thank God Almighty, We'll
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free it lass.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Whoa, yeah, boy, that's.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
What I'm talking about, Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
That was absolutely brilliant, And I actually was listening really
closely to hear all of it, its importance and who
all it reached. And it is still an important message
to get out to the people. So I'm hoping that
folks will peek in and see what Martin was talking
about and they'll get a chance to actually hear some
of it from you.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
You the King.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I appreciate you so much. Tell people how they can
find you, because they can hire you for this as
well as follow your work.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Absolutely, thank you. They can find me at the dream
lives dot com.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
The dream Lives I like it dot com or if
they google the dream Lives, I should pop up.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I love that, sir. I'm glad you popped up on
our show today. I thank you so very much. Steph
Fine Ferguson. You're a great man. I love you.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
You gotta come back to the Mike You Morning Show
and give us some of that magical speeches too.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Please absolutely, and thank you again, Michael call you for
having me on your show. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
I love you, my friend, be well. Thank you. Hey, y'all,
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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He keeps this energy about one of our great civil leaders,
so the right leaders. He holds him up high and
keeps it going year round, year in and year out.
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He brings the voice of Martin Luther King to schools
and corporations and organizations around the world. And it keeps
his message going, and keeps the story going, and keeps
his voice going.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
This guy's fantastic. His name is step Fan Ferguson. Stepan.
First in the house, where you at?
Speaker 6 (01:30):
You here with us, I'm with you, I'm with you.
Thank you, Michael.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I appreciate you, man, and I appreciate what you do.
First of all, it's not easy to get the tone right.
I know a lot of people be trying to do
Martin Luther King. They sounds so like Bernie Mack, you know.
But then you got some folks who hit that thing
right on the nail, right, hit the nail.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Only hit that's you. That's you. And so first of all,
welcome to the show. Where are you from? Originally?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Well, I was born in Albany, New York, but only
stayed there for nine months. My family moved to Fayetteville,
North Carolina, when I was nine months old, So I'm
really from North Carolina.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Fayetteville.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I love North Carolina. Have you been to Winston Salem,
North Carolina, brother, I certainly have. Well, that's where my
wife has the number one soul food restaurant in Winston
Salem called simply sonyas you know, so if you go
through the man, you want to get some of the
best salmon croquette ever made.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Swing on through the man.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So so okay, so tell me who you are before
you start doing some personations.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
What do you do? Who are you?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Stephan Ferguson.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Back in two thousand and three, I received a calling
to recreate the word to doctor King.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
It was it's a ministry.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I'm an ordained minister at Simon Temple am Mesion Church
here in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
And so I began really in two thousand and three
is when I really accepted my calling. I was playing around.
I do deferent voices. I can try and fum into
the French people, you know.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
So I was playing around one day and my friend
heard me and he was like, yo, man, you should
really consider taking that to the next level because you
sound just like and imagine the people who can be
blessed who weren't here when Doctor King was here and
they can hear that voice. And so, you know, I
began began there, and for the past twenty years, I've
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just been traveling across the nation and other parts of
the world. Recreating doctor King's words, but more importantly, you know,
educating people on his philosophy of love and peace and
nonviolence and trying to reinvigorate that dream and keep his
legacy alive.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Oh that's fantastic. That is fantastic. So do you know
the family all Martin Luther King's family.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I do.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Back in two thousand and four, I sent a letter
in a CD of me performing the speech to each
member of the family, even when Kreta Scott King was
living at the time, as well as Yolanda, and I've
never met I.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Never met Coretta.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Did you ever meet Martin? I never Martin the third
Martin Luther King, the junior. No, I was actually I
was born about thirty days before he. Oh, you was
born sixty day. I was born on March first. In fact,
I was thirty nine days old the day he was
laid to rest.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
He was thirty nine. I was born at three or nine.
It's crazy, but.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Yeah, So I never met him, but I do know
the family, and I got the official permission from the
King of State back in two thousand and five because
when they got the information, they were saying, this is great,
but you don't really have the permission to be doing
this because all of his work was copyrighted.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
So I went through the process.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Took about a year, and they they told me that
it took so long because I was the first one
that they've ever licensed to.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Actually, Wow, Wow, good for you, sir.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You're the first official Mountin Luther King impressionists who's got
sanctioned by the family.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So can we do your first one? Give him a
little tease to let him know what we're talking about.
We seen here talking about you, impersonating the Great Mountin
Luther King Jr. Who, sadly enough, there's so many of
our generations don't even know who he is. Young black
people they know something about him, but no depth. Awful
lot of them have never heard his voice. So now
let us hear his voice and just give us a
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little titbit of what we're talking about.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
We're talking about, okay, and let me preface it with this.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
This is a piece where people would always ask King
about the word love because he would.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Say love your enemies, and they didn't understand where he
was coming from. So he tried to break it down
to them, and this was his words.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
People used to ask me about it all the time.
They would say, doctor King, wasn't a word you mean
when you say love these people who are beating on
and bombing our houses and threatening our children. What in
the world you mean when you say love such people?
And I always have to stop and try to define
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the meaning of love in this area. Interestingly enough, Greek
philosophy comes to our aid at this point. There are
three words in the Greek language for love. One of
them is a word a ross. A ross is a
sort of aesthetic love. Philosopher Plato talks about it a
great deal and its dialogus the yearning of the soul
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for the realm of divine. It has come to us
to mean a sort of romantic love. And so we
all know about a ross. We've experienced it, We've read
about it in the Beauties of literature. Innocence ed galland
Poe was talking about a ross when he talked about
his beautiful Annabelle Lead with the love surrounded by.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
The halo of eternity. Innocence.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Shake Spear was talking about ros when he said love
is not love which alters when alteration.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Forms or bends with the removal to remove it is an.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Ever fixed mark, which lips on tempests and has never shaken.
It is a star to every wandering bark. That's a ross.
Then the Greek language talks about felia, which is another
level of love. It is an intimate affection between personal friends.
On this level, we love because we are love.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
We love people that we like. This is friendship.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Then the Green language talks about a gape. Gardey is
more than friendship. A garpey is not something affectionate. A
garpey is understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill to all men. It
is an overflowing love that seeks nothing in return. Theologians
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which say that it is a love of God operating in.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
The human heart.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
And so when one rises to love him this level,
he loves man not because he likes him, but he
loves every man because God loves him.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
And so he goes on with that.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
So he rises to the level of hating the system
rather than the individual who has caught up in that system.
He loves the person, even though he may hate the
evil deed. And I believe this is what Jesus meant
when he said love your enemies. And I'm so happy
that he didn't say like your enemies, because it's pretty
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difficult to like some people. It's difficult to like people
bombing your homes and threatening your children and kicking you about.
But Jesus says to love them, and love is greater
than life. Love is understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
To all men. And I believe with this method, in
this approach, we will be able to win.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Wow. Wow, So how many of his speeches have you learned? Uh?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Well, I memorized several of his speeches. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I would probably say I could repeat maybe four or
five hours of Doctor King's speech.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Is worried for wow?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
I know it's crazy because I wasn't really too great
in memory in school, but God has blessed me to
be able to really memorize the speeches of doctor King
and to recreate them. I listen to the speech probably
one hundred times before I even attempt to try to
memorize it, and then when I go forward with memorizing it,
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I have to do it in the way that he
did it, because it's already in my head.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Oh my God, So you took on a mission. So
first you was just doing impressions. You do sounds, you
do voices, and then someone challenged you and heard you
say it and say, man, you should take that serious. Yes,
so you took it so seriously that you went into
a full fledged study of Martin Luther King and what
the speeches are on what they're about.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Absolutely, I actually moved to Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
I lived on the King's Site across the street from
doctor King's birth home for the last four years I
was there, so I could see from my porch to
the left where doctor King was born and to my
right where he's laying the rest with his beautiful wife Coretta.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
So I really dug deep into his work.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
And that's where a lot of his friends, Joseph Lowry
and the late John Lewis and C. T. Viv and
I got an opportunity to meet all of them and
really establish a really good relationship, to really get the
feel of who doctor King was, Who.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Was the gentleman who understands a gay gentleman who helped
write the auldream speech.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Well, you'll probably hear a lot of people saying they did.
But the only one that.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Huh, isn't it Barnard or Something's the name?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Oh you're thinking about? They are rusting, They are rusting. Yeah,
they are rusting. In fact, they are doing a movie
called Rusting.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
It's really yes, former President Barack Obama and I have
to deal with Netflix and one of the movies is
called Rusting.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
And yeah, so you I need you to help me
to get get on their as king.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I know you have, man, I want to get on
that myself.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
That is amazing that, first of all, they're even dealing
with Ruskin because you know, of course, at the time,
it's the quietest thing in the world that a gay
man and he was openly gay. Yes, was so close
to the right hand of Martin Luther King.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
I mean really was he was.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I'm sorry, but he didn't help write the speech, but
he he was the one behind the whole entire march.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
He was the man, and he was the one who
put it together, who organized it who. Yeah, he was
probably the most integral part of the March on Washington. Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
So okay, So you make a living doing this all
over the world, right I do? Okay? Okay?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
And is it schools mostly schools or is it private
functions corporate?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
It's mainly organizations. I don't do a lot of schools.
They don't pay.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
I do a lot. I do a lot of government agencies.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
I'll be doing at and T in Atlanta next in January,
the four hundred Years of African American Commission in DC.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
I do consulting for them.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
The eighty King Foundation in Atlanta, I do a lot
of work with them, So a lot of my work
is kind of behind the scene, consulting and helping people
to grasp who doctor King was and relate it to
where we are today.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
That's so beautiful, brother. We're gonna take a break when
we come back, though. At the end of the second segment,
I would really love to hear that I have a
dream speech. I'm gonna listen.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Real quiet to every word and every syllable how.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
He said it, because every part of it was especially
important for what they were trying.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
To get done that day. And so I really want
to hear that, and I want to hear you.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Do it like nobody else can. Ladies, gentlemen, we here
today with step Fan Ferguson the expert. When it comes
down to Martin Luther King's voice and delivery, We'll be
right black.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
It's Michael talk to error everybody. We'll be right back
see a minute, and we're black a and we're back. Y'all.
It's Michael kall Ya. Michael talks to everybody today.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I'm talking to this fascinating gentleman named step Fan Ferguson
who has really made shoot a life and a career
of being able to say correctly with the right intonations.
The Martin Luther King's speeches, you know, to study them
and know what's behind them and the reasoning and the
whole thing, and just to have them here with us
today is an honor. Thank you again, Stephan, I'm for
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joining us.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Thank you, Michael Cally for having me man, I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Well.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
So when you get this knack for making sounds and
voices and stuff, where'd that come from?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I do not know. When I was young, I used
to do it quite often. I just repeat what I
hear people saying, and I do it right in the face.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
You know.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
It was just crazy. I would do teachers in school
when I was in the military. After high school, I
went to the military and I would imitate the drill
sergeants and I would imitate my first sergeant, and oh
they would they couldn't stand that. They hated that, but
I don't really know where it came from. It just
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would I hear people and I can kind of imitate
what they say. When I was young, I always wanted
to be a news reporter and I would read the
paper in the elementary school and take the newspaper read
in front of my mother, and I eventually went on
to do news reporting for about ten years here in Fayetteville.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
And I don't know voice and that kind of work
was always something I enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's a lot of money in that, especially if you
get into the animated aspect of it, called them.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Animated is cartoons. Oh man, you could clean up on that.
What is the ultimate thing you want to do with
the Martin Luther King access that you have?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
What I want to do now?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
For twenty years, I've really been performing, educating myself on
who he is and really trying to get a grasp
of who he was outside of a civil rights leader,
who he was as a man, who he was as
a minister of the gospel, which he was first and foremost.
So what I want to do now is I'm already
working on an academy, an online academy to really take
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all of this education that I've gained and began to
really teach people on the philosophy of nonviolence, and I
think it's really needed right now. So that's really what
I'm working on, just educating people and putting this in
the form of classes in studying where people can really
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get to know who he is. Dick Gregory told me
the late Dick Gregory told me one time after I
had performed. He said, man, fifty percent of the people
living in America weren't even born when Doctor King gave
that speech. Seventy five percent of the people in the
world weren't even born when he gave that speech.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
So when they hear you.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Today, it's like they're hearing King for the first time.
And he said, that's very important. I want you to
remember that, and I always recall that. So it's just
a gift that God has given me that I want
to take and.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Share with the world.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Dick Gregory was amazing too. Absolutely, it's ark with to
say this, but I love Dick. Dick Gregory was. Let
me tell you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It was one day when my feet was swollen up,
my ankles, I mean they were swollen, and Dick Gregory
was with me.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
I was with him.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I came to see him speak at a library in Cleveland,
and I said, man, my feet, swoll up, Doc, what
would I need to do? He said, well, how much
water did you drink? I said, man, I had two
big cups. And he started laughing. He said, brother, you
need two gallons. Go drink you some water. And I
left and drank. I guzzled down in tire gallon of water,
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and almost like magic, my ankles went back down.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I mean he was. He was a sharp brother.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
He was a.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Are you do you?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Will you play with his voice at all? Or is
it so do you hold it in such high statue
that you don't play with it? Cause my idea is
I love you to tell a joke in the voice
of my Luther King, Like I would give you the
lines and you just say that joke.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Would you want to try?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I tell you I have.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I have reached out to you on many occasions to
trying to do that. And I'm glad that you brought
it up.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Oh, I would be.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
I would certainly. I have done that on many occasions.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
People are doing movies or films and uh, and they
want the voice of King and today, and so they
write it and I reproduce it, and so certainly I
would be very open.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I had thought about the King of Comedy.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I had really thought of the King of Comedy with
with Martin Luther King that let's do it. Okay, right,
I get one. Okay you ready?
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Well I'm not ready now, but no, right now, I'm.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Gonna say the line, and then you're gonna say it
as king. Okay, I challenge you. I know you could do.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
It's absolutely clean, It's absolutely clean.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Okay. A horse he was talking to a zebra.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
A horse.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
It was talking to a zebra. To the zebra, the
horse said, was rapping to a zebra, trying to pick
the zebra up, trying to pick the zebra up.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Finally the zebra turns to uh the wait, oh yeah,
well I can't do it if you can.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Finally the zebra turns to the horse and says, what
do you want?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Finally the zebra turns to the horse and say what
do you want?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And the horse says, you know what I want? Baby,
and I get over here and take off them pajamas.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
He said, you know what I want baby. Now'll get
over here and praise the Lord.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
That was That was magnificent. That was so wonderful.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Thank you, thank you for trying to exercis that exercise
was like if I had like, if I had that voice,
I'll be messing with people all the time. I'll be
calling the house and telling jokes as Martin Luther King.
I'd be like, I am back and I just had
one joke, and I would just hit them with my
money and then hang up. I wouldn't even tell them
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who I was.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
It would be so good, it would be so good.
So are you married, have family? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
I am not married, never have been married.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
My life has been my work. And I have one daughter.
Oh she she's twenty six.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Nice, that's a good age.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Yes, And that said, I have some really good family.
That's some good friends.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
And but no, as far as family, I never I
never did get married to raise a family.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
But I have a lot of family here.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
But you must work like crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
In February for Black History Month, I do January and February.
In February leading up to it too, they have a.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Lot of celebrations like anything Inuary is King Day, right,
I love that.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I love that because his birthday and then February Black
History Okay, So what I want to do now, because
we don't have a whole lot of time left. We
got about seven minutes or so, and I know what
this speech is about five minutes. And first I just
want to tell you I appreciate you just taking the
time and stopping and coming to talk with me and
let me hear these ideas and these thoughts and what
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you're doing with it. That's a great tool to carry around.
I got Martin Luther King's speech. By the way, give
me four hundred. Give me four hundred. I laid it
down before you walk out on the stage and kill
stay with me. It wouldn't even have to do nothing
with civil rights or black history, mon nothing all year round.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
I would be selling myself.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
If Martin Luther King's got a joke, that's what we
called Martin Luther King's got a joke, come and see it,
you know what I mean. Like they'd be like, if
you don't go sit down somewhere praise the Lord. Okay,
So what I would.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Like is to step back and have you do the
Martin Luther King the most famous speech that I think
people know.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Of, Although is it your favorite speech out of all
of them? Not to do, but to have heard and learned.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
It's hard to say favorite with that, but I would
say probably not. I kind of got because it's the
most requested. Yeah, and I worked at the King Center.
I did presentations five and six times a day.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Oh yeah, that enough is enough, you know, really? Okay,
I get it all right.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So I'm gonna step back, let us hear I have
a dream. Then we'll come back and wrap it up. Hey, y'all,
this is Michael talks to everybody and today and with
step Fan Ferguson, and he does the Martin like nobody else.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Not my end No, no, no, not my Lawrence Mantin,
Luther King Jr. I step back.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
So, even though we faced the difficulties off today and tomorrow,
I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply
rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that
one day this nation will rise up, live out the
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true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to
be self evident, that all men are created equals.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
I have a dream.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
One day, on the red heels of Georgia, signs of
former slaves and the sons of former slave owners, we'll
be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state
of Mississippi, state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering
(23:45):
with the heat of oppression, be transformed into an oasis
of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four
little children one day in a nation, but they will
not be judged by the color of their skin, but
by the content of their character.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
I have a dream today.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama,
with its vishous racist, with its governor having his lips
dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day,
right then Alabama, little black boys and black girls will
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be able to join hands.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
With little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today. I have a dream that
one day of the vilest shall be exalted.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Every heel and mountain shall be made low, the rough
pieces will be made plain, and the crooked places will
be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall
be revealed in all flesh shall see it.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Together. This is our hope.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
This is the faith that I go back to the
South with. With this faith, we will be able to
hew out of the mountain of despair. A stone of hoop.
With this faith, we will be able to transform the
jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
With this faith, we will be.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together,
to go to jail, together, to stand up for freedom, together,
knowing that we will be free one day.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
This will be the day.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
This will be the day when all of God's children
will be able to same with new meaning. My country
tears thee swee land of liberty, of the icing, and
my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride. From every
mountains are let freedom ring and from Maracas. To be
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a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom
ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom
ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom
ring from the heightening allegainies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring
(26:31):
from the snow capped rockies of Colorado. Lead freedom ring
from the curvaceous slopes of California. Not only that, let
freedom ring from stone Mountain of George. Let freedom ring
from the Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from
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every hill in more hill in Mississippi from every mountain.
Soll let freedom ring and win the This happens when
we allow freedom to ring. When we let it ring
from every village and ever, happening from every state and
every city, we really be able to speed up that
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day when all of Gaud's children, black men and white men,
Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, we'll be able to
join hands and sing in the words of the old
Negro spiritual, feed less, freed less, Thank God Almighty, We'll
(27:34):
free it lass.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Whoa, yeah, boy, that's.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
What I'm talking about, Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
That was absolutely brilliant, And I actually was listening really
closely to hear all of it, its importance and who
all it reached. And it is still an important message
to get out to the people. So I'm hoping that
folks will peek in and see what Martin was talking
about and they'll get a chance to actually hear some
of it from you.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
You the King.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I appreciate you so much. Tell people how they can
find you, because they can hire you for this as
well as follow your work.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Absolutely, thank you. They can find me at the dream
lives dot com.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
The dream Lives I like it dot com or if
they google the dream Lives, I should pop up.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I love that, sir. I'm glad you popped up on
our show today. I thank you so very much. Steph
Fine Ferguson. You're a great man. I love you.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
You gotta come back to the Mike You Morning Show
and give us some of that magical speeches too.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Please absolutely, and thank you again, Michael call you for
having me on your show. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
I love you, my friend, be well. Thank you. Hey, y'all,
you know what it is.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Michael talks to everybody. I talked to Martin Luther King,
heck if we come back anyway.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I talked to step Fine Ferguson. It was great, great
and great. I'm here three times a week every week.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Michael talks to everybody right here on Beautiful iHeart Hey, y'all.
Also follow my morning show, The Michael Your Morning Show,
and if you really fly, you'll go to Indie. Go
go and put it in Michael Kaye King of in
this Beach and find out what I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Hey, you can be part of that.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Also.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
People feel free to write me anytime.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Just go to Comic King one two three at aol
dot com and I personally return all letters.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Have a good day. God is great and you ain't
too bad yourself. See ya woo. I had a good
time today.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
I hope y'all did too. Man.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Thank y'all for checking us out here at Michael talks
to everybody. Hey, you can follow me, man, I'm easy
to follow. I'm on Instagram just under at Michael Kaya.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
I'm on TikTok. That's Michael Kye one three five.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I have a very sexy web page called the Realmichael
Kaye dot com. You know, you go over there you
can find out bouy my merchandise and what I'm doing
and where all my shows. Our airthing is right there.
Or if you really love me, you can go to
my cash shaft. That's dollar sign Michael Kaya's money. I'm
playing with y'all, but I accept Green Stem foods, the
Canadian money. I'll tell your bus transfer IF's got some.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Time left on it.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
And my morning show, oh my, Michael kya morning show
that's seven a m.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Pacific time, yo, five days a week. This has been
a ray Lock Group production. I see y'all later.
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