Thursday, February 7, 2019

DID WE ELECT THE RIGHT MAN ..? MLKs... daughter and niece seem to think so, or at least OK with him....


Below is a transcript of Alveda King’s remarks from Fox & Friends on Saturday:
Fox & Friends Host: “Your uncle fought real racism at home certainly, and
throughout much of this country and made real change. What is it, when everything is racist, when that is the word now that everybody paints everything with that they don’t like, does nothing become racist? Does it in some way sort of cheapen what your uncle fought so much to defend against and to stop?”

King: “Well, I believe Rachel just put it st, and by the way, good morning everyone. Fox & Friends, thank you for being on it with real news and not fake news.

“So, to answer your question: Absolutely. Racism is just a word that’s being bandied and thrown about and thrown at the president, in my opinion, unjustly. President Trump is not a racist.

“I’ve been with the president recently quite a bit, and when he signed the legislation [proclamation] making the historic site, Martin Luther King site, in Atlanta, Georgia a national park. It was introduced by Congressman John Lewis, and that, believe it or not is one thing the two of them did together. It took two to do it, and I’m so glad the president has done it.

“But what is so outrageous, to call a man a racist, who continues to acknowledge the significant work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Reverend, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., my uncle, in a positive way. And he puts his money where his mouth is. He puts his energy behind it.”

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter, Bernice King has written a letter in support of legislation proposed by President Donald Trump.

It read as follows.

In 1963, while incarcerated in Birmingham, my father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., challenged the conscience of America when he penned these words “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” My father wanted us to understand our interrelatedness in addressing social inequalities that infringe on human being’s ability to live a life of dignity.

We are closing 2018 with an opportunity to take a monumental “FIRST STEP” towards assisting and empowering the least of these in America. In the hands of our chosen servant leaders of Congress is the FIRST STEP for Criminal Justice Reform Act that begins to address some serious flaws in America’s criminal justice system.

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