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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s
niece expressed her dissatisfaction on Monday with the NAACP, saying
it’s “race baiting” by calling for a federal civil rights investigation
into George Zimmerman.
“It is not helpful to race-bait,” Dr. Alveda King said on “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV.
Zimmerman was found not guilty late Saturday night in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The acquittal gained worldwide attention and sparked nationwide protests for those who support the slain teen. The NAACP argues that Zimmerman violated Martin’s civil rights, by targeting him because he was black.
“There’s no black race, white race, yellow race and red race,” Ms. King continued. “The other thing is, Mr. Zimmerman is not a Caucasian. He’s a Hispanic. The media is somehow forgetting that, so [there are] all of these nuances, all of the race-baiting, all of the pain.”
“Stop thinking that this is a race thing between separate races,” she added. “This is all human beings here. If we’re still feeling that one part of our community is better than the other because of skin color, that’s got to change right now.”
“It is not helpful to race-bait,” Dr. Alveda King said on “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV.
“[The]
NAACP and all of the organizations … We need to wonder why they’re
doing that, what kind of checks and money they’re getting behind the
scenes to stir us up into racial anarchy.
“We should be speaking nonviolence, justice, peace and love as Trayvon’s parents are doing, by the way. So we need to ask why they’re race baiting, because they are.”Zimmerman was found not guilty late Saturday night in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The acquittal gained worldwide attention and sparked nationwide protests for those who support the slain teen. The NAACP argues that Zimmerman violated Martin’s civil rights, by targeting him because he was black.
“There’s no black race, white race, yellow race and red race,” Ms. King continued. “The other thing is, Mr. Zimmerman is not a Caucasian. He’s a Hispanic. The media is somehow forgetting that, so [there are] all of these nuances, all of the race-baiting, all of the pain.”
“Stop thinking that this is a race thing between separate races,” she added. “This is all human beings here. If we’re still feeling that one part of our community is better than the other because of skin color, that’s got to change right now.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveda_King
Alveda Celeste King (born January 22, 1951)[4] is an American Christian minister,[5] conservative, pro-life activist, and author. She is a niece of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and daughter of the late civil rights activist Rev. A. D. William King, Sr. and his wife Naomi Barber King. She is the full-time Pastoral Associate of African-American Outreach for the Roman Catholic pro-life group, Priests for Life.[6] She once served as a Senior Fellow at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a conservative Washington, D.C. think-tank. She is a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives and the founder of King for America.
