At a news conference, several black ministers accused Alveda King, who campaigns against abortion and gay marriages in the black community, of “hijacking the dream” by being a headline speaker at the Tea Party rally on Saturday, Aug. 28 alongside race-baiters Beck and arch-Obama enemy Sarah Palin. Their rally, titled “Restoring America’s Honor,” will be held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the same place and same day where the March on Washington ended and Martin Luther King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
It would be bad enough if it stopped there, but the civil rights leader’s niece plans to also “sing in the choir” at Beck’s separate event for clergy, titled “America’s Divine Destiny,” Friday, Aug. 27, at the Kennedy Center.
Alveda King has made a career out of being a blood relative of Dr. King — even more than MLK’s own children. And that’s saying a lot because MLK’s children became millionaires after selling off their legendary father’s papers, speeches and other priceless artifacts.
Alveda King recklessly wields her family name much the way the infantile Montana Fishburne uses Laurence Fishburne’s legacy to promote her own sick, twisted agenda. Here, Alveda King mutilates the spirit and the meaning of being a King relative:
“It is absolutely ludicrous that abortion supporters would accuse a blood relative of Dr. King of hijacking the King legacy. Uncle Martin and my father, Rev. A. D. King were blood brothers. How can I hijack something that belongs to me? I am an heir to the King family legacy,” Alveda King said.
But then Alveda King denigrates her own aunt, the late Coretta Scott King, in order to bolster her own standing in arguments: “She (Coretta) was married to him (Martin Luther King, Jr.). I’ve got his DNA. She doesn’t.”
Why would you even fix your mouth to say something like that about the deceased torch bearer for her husband and the dream? And she’s absolutely wrong because the DNA of Martin Luther King did flow through Coretta. How do you think they got those three children?
Moreover, Alveda King may have her famous uncle’s DNA flowing through her, but what didn’t flow through to her was MLK’s brilliance, common sense, valiancy and integrity. No one would even entertain what Alveda has to say if she wasn’t Martin Luther King’s niece. No one would invite her to anything of significance except for the fact that she wears that surname like a superman cape, flossing and flashing it often to make sure everyone sees it. And being Dr. King’s niece does not preclude you from being an absolute fool. Alveda King appeared on Glenn Beck’s show on Fox to promote her appearance with the Tea Party, and symbolically shook hands with the man who wants to detonate the Obama presidency at all cost and return us to pre-1950s America.
Now that I think about it, Alveda King, you might as well have come out with a sex tape. Montana Fishburne has more integrity than you, if that’s remotely possible, because at least she told everyone she was offering up her goodies for fame. You try to force-feed your family name down America’s throat to get undeserved attention for yourself and you soil MLK’s legacy in the process.
–terry shropshire
