Niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Says NAACP Shouldn't Condemn Entire Tea Party because of a Few Racists

Dr. Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., says NAACP should not condemn the entire Tea Party movement because of the actions of a small number of racists.

Dr. Alveda King, niece of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and director of African American outreach for Priests for Life has responded today to the NAACP's charge that the Tea Party movement tolerates racism by saying that you cannot condemn the entire movement for the actions of a few. She says everyone needs to repent for tolerating racism, including those who support Planned Parenthood. I think Dr. King just stood up in his grave. Where is her condemnation of Tea Party leader Mark Williams when he called President Obama "an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a Racist-in-Chief? I am pretty sure her uncle would have decried that racist rhetoric coming from Mark Williams. Don't get me wrong, not everyone in the Tea Party movement spews racist rhetoric, but when you have leaders like Mark Williams and wingnut Michele Bachmann (R-MN) making racist comments, then that casts a bad light on the movement and what it stands for.

"We all need to examine and repent of our own tolerance for discrimination," said Dr. King, "but to condemn an entire group because of a few people, yet support Planned Parenthood, an organization marinated in racism, is to strain out gnats and swallow a camel."

"The most obvious practitioner of racism in the United States today is Planned Parenthood, an organization founded by the eugenicist Margaret Sanger and recently documented as ready to accept money to eliminate black babies," added Dr. King. "The most positive step we can take to fight racism is to end the hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies given to an organization that fulfills the dreams of the Ku Klux Klan -- a group Planned Parenthood's founder once addressed." Source: Christian News Wire

I think abortion is a personal issue and the government should not mandate nor fund. The notion that abortion is used as a tool to reduce the number of black babies is unconscionable and one that should not be condoned by anyone. Still, I cannot say that abortion is meant to decimate the black community. There are also women of different ethnic backgrounds who get abortions. That is the story is very rarely told and that seems like a deliberate move to twist the facts.