MLK's Heirs Battling Discrimination?

Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King had a scheduled speech at an Iowa high school cancelled due to her anti-abortion stance. King insists that is not the primary focus of her message. Video here. At the same time, per link below, Martin Luther King's youngest daughter launched a program she plans to make her life's work in Montgomery, Alabama. Given her focus, she may also run into some trouble with Liberal groups.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- The speech for an anti-abortion activist at Roosevelt High School was canceled.

Alveda King, the niece of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., spoke Wednesday about the decision.

Roosevelt's principal canceled King's speech after some parents complained about the message. Principal Kathie Danielson said it was a tough decision.

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When the youngest daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. decided to launch a program that she says will become her life's work, it was logical to do so in Montgomery.

Montgomery was where her father started his ministry at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and where the bus boycott launched the civil rights movement. And the city provides what she called a fertile environment for "Be A King," a free program that Bernice King designed to spread a positive message to youth.

King has been upset by what she calls a lowering of standards and ethics in society, and believes she has been called by God to elevate the next generation.

"The lower (standards) become, it means the more you will be moving into a time when there will be a standard-less, or a 'whatever-goes,' society," she said. "I hope to teach (children) that they have a divine purpose on this earth, and they should set high goals, objectives, dreams and ambitions. Then they can help elevate society to a better place."

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[seekeronos]

My, how the the Educational Establishment's leftist, anti-life polemicism even shuts out a daughter of a King. And I wonder how the NAACP and their chained pit bulls "Rev." Sharpton and "Rev." Jackson will handle this.

And she seems to be spot on, especially about not letting ourselves lower our standards.

It's a shame that the foundering, rudderless and ever-standards-lowering "educational elites" are driving their daggers into the backs of our children by putting politics ahead of wisdom and common sense.

[templar knight]

On the Left it's all about the money, and the power, seek. The children, not so much, other than a political football to toss around.

[Lala]

Two articles side-by-side in Newsday 9/19/07

http://family-law.lawyers.com/news-headline/Remembered-by-name--Family-of-slain-woman-names-her-stillborn-baby-suspect-cant-be-charged-in-infants-death-l:671947771.html

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lilaw0919,0,168778.story

"Mary Alice Carr, spokeswoman for NARAL Pro-Choice New York, said abortion rights advocates are sympathetic toward mothers whose pregnancies are involuntarily terminated through violence, but they are reluctant to support a change in law that would give fetuses "personhood" and strengthen anti-abortion advocates' positions."

This is what we've come to; abortion trumps everything else.

[IslamoLlama]

"She is speaking at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Iowa State University's Memorial Union and Thursday night at Drake University."

Yup. Those big mean Universities, never letting people speak. Oh wait. Here are two Universities that are letting her speak. Damn you liberals and your flip-flopping! This just proves that all forms of higher education are bad.

"The clinic where King was marching Wednesday does not provide abortions. The clinic offers prenatal care, family planning and adoption services."

:-p I'll let that speak for itself.

[Fred Beloit]

Oh, so now Moe has a new debating tactic: if A is doing a bad thing, show how B is doing a thing that any decent person would expect B to do. Therefore,...therefore...what? Very impressive and persuasive.

[joated]

I'm sure the high school students will be hearing plenty of pro-choice rhetoric in their helath classes. It would have been commendable if the administrators had permitted Miss King to make her presentation. It is commendable of the two universities but, let's face it, the Roosevelt High administrators caved and probably to a tiny fraction of their parents.

Would they have done the same if the position of the speaker were reversed and a handful of parents complained about a pro-choice speaker?

[brian]

It's not the abortion thing that got her uninvited.

Its that little three-letter word you aren't allowed to use in a public school: "God".