BREAKING: MLK’s daughter Bernice King calls out Trump’s lies in powerful MLK Day speech!
Speaking at a commemorative church service in Georgia, Bernice directly brought up Donald Trump’s despicable lies about the Civil Rights Act and the absurd accusations that somehow equality between Blacks and Whites was harmful to White people.
“The recent claim by President Trump that the 1964 Civil Rights Act harmed white Americans is just wrong and it’s dangerous. It rewrites history in a way that fuels fear and resentment. My fathers
and so many leaders of the movement, Fred Shuttlesworth, Diane Nass, John Lewis — I can call the role but I won’t do it today — did not risk their lives to divide this nation.”
“They did so because America was denying millions basic rights, the right to work, the right to vote, to live where they please, to move through society with dignity. The Civil Rights Act did not give black people special treatment. It made discrimination illegal. The same discrimination you’re trying to turn around.”
“It required the law to protect everyone equally. That is democracy.”
Sadly, under Donald Trump’s America, the law only protects rich white men. We’ve been forced to watch in horror as he rolls back all the progress we’ve made as a nation, stoking the flames of racial hatred and dragging us to the dark ages again.
We must look to the lessons of Dr. King as a reminder of the greatness our nation can achieve, and how hard we have to fight to get there.
