Alveda King, a total embarrassment to MLK’s legacy

A lot has been said about Glenn Beck using Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have A Dream speech to further line his pockets and rile up the angry tea party goers. A lot has been said about his decision to have Sarah Palin speak at this rally. Palin, who recently backed up Dr. Laura’s infamous N-word rant, said the talk show host “should not back down but re-load.”

But hat is really sad is that King’s own niece is willingly providing these bigots with “black up ” to desecrate her uncle’s memory.

Dr. King’s niece, Alveda King, the same niece who compared gay marriage to genocide, plans on speaking at Beck’s rally this weekend. It is seemingly a part of her continued and simple-minded crusade against a woman’s rights to choose. This is the same Alveda King, who has been claiming for years now that Planned Parenthood has some secret Eugenics-based agenda. Yes, she believes, somehow in her twisted mind, that the mission of Planned Parenthood (as opposed to ensuring that women have a choice to have or not to have a baby) is a secret plot to prevent the birth of black children.

Her decision to speak at Beck’s rally might also be a little vindictive payback. A few months ago, she was booted from the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. for holding an impromptu pro-life rally without the proper permits. Maybe it is also in direct response to King’s own son, writing into The Washington Post, about how shameful Beck’s rally is to his father’s memory.

Or maybe she is just that much of an attention whore that she will do or say just about anything to gather a big enough crowd. After all, she has appeared on Beck’s show in the past and claimed that the Tea Party Movement and the Civil Rights Movement were very similar. Yes. Similar.

Let’s see how the two compare: a grass roots movement of oppressed ethnic minorities, primarily African Americans, formed after enduring generations of systematic oppression, violence, abuse, slavery, murder, poverty and segregation  finally reach critical mass and demand equal rights from the majority. Members of the group are killed for trying to vote, beaten and spit at for trying to attend public schools and they are arrested by the police for trying to eat or drink at illegally segregated restaurants.

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The Tea Party Movement: A group of angry, primarily wealthy white guys who are pissed off because they believe the Democrats might repeal Bush-era tax cuts for the rich. Some believe President Obama is a secret “socialist,” a secret Muslim and a Kenyan witch doctor. They are pissed because Obama and Congress passed health care reform providing health insurance for Americans who can’t afford it. And ultimately, they are just pissed off that a black man lives in the White House.

“Americans are hungry to reclaim the symbols of our liberty, hard won by an unlikely group of outnumbered, outgunned, underfunded patriots determined not to live in servitude to the British Empire. If we want to sing the National Anthem at a memorial to the man who led this fledgling nation out of slavery, and made my people free, we should be able to send our voices soaring to the heavens,” Alveda King said. She goes on to add: “Glenn Beck’s ‘Rally to Restore Honor’ this Saturday will give us that chance, and that’s why I feel it’s important for me to be there.”

Alveda’s Obvious Agenda

“Abortion is the greatest violation of civil rights in our day,” King said.

Alveda King is an avid anti-abortion crusader. It is her primary goal to convince black folks, by using her name for credibility, that abortion is evil, wrong and contrary to the teachings of her uncle. She believes that her own crusade is so important that she doesn’t mind allying herself with someone like Beck.

But she doesn’t want to answer the tough questions about abortion—none of the anti-abortion folks do. What happens when those unwanted pregnancies are not terminated and turn into unwanted children? What happens when a young, teenaged girl is straddled with a child she is not financially or emotionally prepared to care for? What happens to the children then? Are the anti-abortion folks rushing to take these children into their homes? Is the anti-abortion crowd rushing to provide funding to help care for, and feed these children? No.

Their “moral” imperatives are satisfied simply by trying to force a woman to give birth to a child. Their interest in the children are limited to their gestation and they could care less once they are born into a world by parents who either do not want them, or are not prepared/able to support them.

Abortion is a difficult decision for every woman who finds herself in that situation. But what right does Alveda King have to attempt to make that decision for all women?

“The rally will be a celebration of who we are as a nation and a chance to stop for a moment, reflect, reorganize, and re-energize. It’s a chance to think about character; both our character as a nation and our character as individuals,” King says.

“Delineating ourselves as red state or blue, liberal or conservative, minority or majority, we have not quite reached the day when men and women are ‘judged not by the color of their skin but on the content of their character.’  We are still marching toward that day…As Uncle Martin said, ‘we cannot turn back.’”

Umm, I disagree.

You really can turn back. You can turn back, sit down and get some counseling. But most importantly, just shut up. Discrimination is discrimination, it’s as simple as that. Crazy is crazy, it doesn’t matter what your last name is. And Glenn Beck is no more than a modern day David Duke.

If King were alive, he would undoubtedly disown you.

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