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Many black leaders oppose the comparisons between the African-American civil rights movement and the gay rights movement. But few are as vehemently opposed to the comparison as Martin Luther King Jr's niece, Alveda King.
However, as her recent behavior demonstrates, it could be that Alveda King doesn't like the so-called appropriation of the black civil rights movement because it hones in on her action.
Witness her comments in defense of her joining Glenn Beck's 8-28 rally which will be held 47 years to the date of the 1963 March on Washington which featured Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have A Dream” speech:
“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's statements in this press release (which is titled Pro-Abortion Blacks Attack Heir to King Legacy) isn't the first time she claimed that “blood” entitles her to be an “heir to the King legacy.”
Last month, during an anti-gay marriage rally, she said pretty much the same thing during a verbal attack on her late aunt, Coretta Scott King. Her exact words then were:
She (Coretta) was married to him (Martin Luther King, Jr.). I've got his DNA. She doesn't.
Alveda King's constant yammering that the “King blood flows through her veins” reminds me of Saturday Night Live comedian Tracy Morgan's hilarious send-up of Star Jones on The View in which he would constantly pepper the conversations in various skits with assurances that his character was a lawyer in an effort to lampoon questions of Jones's relevancy.King would be equally funny except for the fact she has made a career out of being MLK's niece. What she has to say is not important. No one cares. It's the symbol of MLK that's more important. This is something she knows and is not ashamed of.
Why care when there is so much spotlight to be grabbed?
And in this particular case, i.e. Beck's rally, Alveda King is soiling the King name and legacy by aligning it with someone who, if he had been around during King's time, would be one of the first to denigrate him with as much ease as he is now denigrating what King stood for.
I don't think the King legacy has anything to do with blackboards, conspiracy theories, and charlatans who can cry crocodile tears at the drop of a hat.
And Alveda's chirpings about her sharing the “King blood” is like me using an alleged familial relationship to a rock star to demand a recording contract even though I can't carry a tune.
MLK's legacy should never be used like a commodity nor should it be determined by blood relationships. MLK's legacy is about truth, integrity, and most of all, love.
So while the King blood does flow through Alveda's veins, she seems to be sorely lacking on the other points. Especially integrity.
Hat tip to People for the American Way.
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Blood is just blood, nothing special about itHonestly, my biological sister and I share the same gene’s. So much so we look like sisters and some even say twins.
And like classic cartoon twins, one of us is evil.
She has done so much to hurt people and herself… Even when our family has tried to help her with all the love and kindness a family can give, she’s really turned it into a twisted thing that scares you and you never want to help another soul ever again.
I am no saint, but I help far more than I harm (I hope I do at least) and it sickens me to hear my sister say “we’re the same”. Because we’re not.
We may have the same genes, raised by the same mother and father and even be the closest blood relative to each other but…
Just because she’s evil, doesn’t mean I am.
Just becuase I’m ‘good’, doesn’t mean she is.
Just because she’s a taker, doesn’t mean I am.
Just becuase I’m a giver, doesn’t mean she is.
Sure, my sister and I look alike, so much so that we’re mistaken for twins. But we have totally different views on everything.
Genetics do not infer anything to you. For Civil Rights, there is NO crown to wear except that crown of rights we all wear as American Citizens.
I share DNA with the Queen of England.That doesn’t make me the heir to the throne.
So much for..the sanctity of marriage cleaving two people (Dr. King and his wife) into one.
Now Now, KathleenThat was unworthy of you. And me too, as that was my first thought too.
We should both go stand in the corner.
Her position on gay marriageis irrelevant. We have no idea what MLK would have thought about gay marriage (though its even money that he would not have supported it even if his wife did). What we DO know with absolute certainty is that he would NEVER have stood with the likes of Glenn Beck. Her standing in support of Glenn Beck, a man who has taken race baiting to new lows is downright unforgiveable. I hope that her family scolds her for that alone.
You really don’t thinkthat the opinion of the person who knew him best holds no meaning?
DNA doesn’t matter, Alveda.
Angelina Jolie has Jon Voight’s DNA, but that doesn’t mean they have the same views.
Also, do you know that every family has a “black sheep”? Alveda is soon to become one for the King family.
Let me see if I have this rightAlveda is speaking at NOM and how important it is to save marriage and then turns around and says that her uncle’s marriage essentially means nothing?
Am I understanding this correctly?So, Dr. King’s big legacy is that people not be judged on the color of their skin but the content of their character. Yet, she is trying to sell herself as some kind of authority, not based on her actions or character, but based on her blood relationship to a great man?
Huh?
I would much rather trust the woman Dr. King CHOSE to spend his whole life with than the family he is stuck with regardless. I’m just sayin’..
HmmmmmmMs. King reminds me of the people who star in those ads for a major hotel chain: “I’m not a ____ but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express once.”
I’m sure the combined intelligencia here on PHB could come up with something similar… have at it, gang!!
The niece dissing the wife is an ugly sight….I would imagine that MLK’s brother is no longer alive and able to shame his daughter Alveda.