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In regards to Glenn Beck's rally today, one twitter post stands out in my mind (and I am printing it exactly as it is spelled):
To everyone calling the #glennbeck #828 event a gathering of KKK raciest: are you calling Alveda King, niece of MLK, a raciest as well?
The twitter post proves the point of a post I wrote yesterday. Alveda King is at Beck's rally as a token, a bastardization of King's legacy manipulated to blunt appropriate questions of the racial motives of Beck and many of the people attending today's rally.
And a recent expose by Daniel Denvir of Salon magazine exposes Alveda King's history of not only desecrating the King name for her own purposes but also a few more revelations:
She is the head of an organization, King for Life, which has a defunct website and allegedly one staff member.
Her press literature calls her a “doctor,” but her degree is merely honorary from St. Anselm College, a Catholic school in Manchester, N.H. What's worse, Alveda can't remember can't recall why she was awarded this degree:
She sued Paramount Pictures, charging that Eddie Murphy stole her idea to make his movie Coming To America. Needless to say, she lost the case.She was vocal against an AIDS Hospice in her neighborhood.
And needless to say, her relationship with MLK's widow, Coretta Scott King hasn't been all that cordial:
In 1994, she released a letter condemning Coretta Scott King’s support for abortion and gay rights, saying it would bring “curses on your house and your people … cursing, vexation, rebuke in all that you put your hand to, sickness will come to you and your house, your bloodline will be cut off.”
To call Alveda King a sellout would be totally missing the point. I think she is worse than a sellout. She is a woman with a product (i.e. the King name) who is willing to trade it for prominence and spotlight even if it's with those who stand against what MLK stood for.
But what she is offering is something that should never be sold because you can't put a price tag on the struggle for equality against the forces of oppression.
And MLK's legacy will never be soiled by anything, especially a greedy relative who has done nothing to earn that legacy than to walk around talking about how “she has his blood in her veins.”
So I say let Alveda reap the benefits of getting her name out there on the backs of those who really did suffer and die for equality.
It's her soul she is going to have to give an account for. That is if she has one after all of that spotlight.
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Actually…
Actually, I’d call her an Aunt Tom.
I’d call the twitterer a racist – specifically, the type of racist who thinks a token cures everything.
She’s so crassSomehow she things being a ‘blood relative’ means she can rewrite the legacy of Dr. King, (Did she even ever meet him?) to mean the opposite of what the woman who knew him best said it means.
Then have the gall to claim it’s about ‘sanctity of marriage.’
While claiming even Dr. King’s straight marriage doesn’t count for anything.
These people just turn everything backwards, don’t they?
As I’ve said, Alveda King isa “one woman coon show.”
And Dexter, Martin, and Bernice needs to whoop Alveda’s natural black ass…
ouch – shades of the color purple.but kevin, to be honest, you are not the only person in our community I’ve heard this from.
It’s interesting that no one is asking the black community how we feel about these things. LOL
RelativesI have more nieces and nephews than I can keep track of. If her name were Alveda Ring the Beck people wouldn’t bother with her.
There are people of all colors, all over the world who carry the legacy of Martin Luther King. Family is an accident of birth, our deeds are what we answer for.
Not only colors!It’s faiths and economic stats, AND sexual orientations, too!
We forget that the March on Washington was just as much against poverty as much as it was against racism!!
Very Sad WomanIt is so heartbreaking to see a woman of prominence and color sell her soul to the very people who do not like or want her.
But, she is supposedly an intelligent woman and if she wants to be seen in the company she keeps that is her choice.
Her attendance at the beck racism and bible show will about double the black attendees number.
I just betIt will double the number probably from “one” to “two”
She has as much in common with MLK as…She has as much in common with MLK as William Patrick Hitler, US Navy, (Retd) has with Adolph Hitler,they are both neice/nephew of famous people, and neither’s genes have anything to do with their place in history.
hands down, kevinchiThat sums her bigoted tap-dancing ass for Beck. Yolanda, Coretta and Dr. King have to be rolling in their graves.
A propos of nothing
Is it just me, or is the typo “raciest” making anyone else picture a protest march led by burlesque queens in corsets and feather boas?
“Man, that Pussycat Dolls protest march was the RACIEST political event of the year!”
RE how black community feels….
GRRRR! Can’t get the embed code Nightline provides, but here’s a link to Alsleaza’s appearance on the show last night about Beck’s mass circle jerk, interviewed by African-American reporter Vicki Mabrey who I kept foolishly hoping would interrupt all of Alsleaza’s unctuous dishonesty about we must love EVERYBODY, I love EVERYBODY and I have Martin’s DNA [translation: so buzz off those who quote Coretta's support for gays] and just knock the Bible-thumping bitch on her ass.
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Perhaps they were born on “Backwards Day”Or maybe they just have NO understanding of logic.
Or more likely, their moral compass points to …
Oh, wait, they don’t have one.
Well, I am now… Shara Plain, yeah ok, that would be ok.
But Glen Beck in drag? Even I have my limits! Now I can see him in a full leather outfit with assless chaps being led around by his big bear daddy Rupert Murdoc.
But drag, no. God NO! My worse nightmare is if he ever comes out as Trans.
You have a typoin the title of this post.
Fixed it.
Beck has the same totalitarian, messianic message that Hitler did. with an American twist. “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” attributed to Sinclair Lewis
Becks theocratic messianism is way over the top. Unionists and the mass action movements know how to deal with scum like him and eventually they’ll send him over the cliff.
When that happens Alveda King is more than welcome to join him.
The Beck myth propagatedI’m watching the local news on the NBC affiliate in the Quad Cities – and the anchorette led into an item on Beck’s
Goldline CommercialJoke by saying “hundreds of thousands” attended.CBS, however, differs:
“Civil Rights Leader In Name Only”.Alveda is to the King family…just like Paris is to the Hilton family.
What a pathetic human being. Money trumps humanity.
Reminds me of the anti-equality rally Ken Hutcherson spoke atlast year. Her was the only Black speaker, and there was 1 (one) other black person in the crowd of about 1,000 attendees.
The word I’d have chosen…is “patsy”, with an option on “nincompoop”. How can she not see she’s being used?
Bernice?I don’t think so. She is just as hateful as Alveda is when it comes to LGBT people.
Interesting that it’s the onesthat are too young to remember him.
MonicaHelms, it’s not all about LGBT peopleAlveda King insulted and disgraced Bernice’s mother.
This…woman chose to speak at a Ku Klux Klan rally (more or less, sans the white sheets) on the anniversary of Bernice’s Father’s speech in the same location 47 years ago.
In this case, my commentary has very little to do with LGBT people.
DragLeather is just another form of drag… different fabrics, that’s all. Sarah was wearing sneakers, wonder if she’ll retain her popularity without the CFM’s?
Rip or Reap…Alvin was calling her a whore. She does this to make money, therefore reap a profit.