Through Daniel Johnson
September 13, 2025
King believes that political leaders should do more than selectively her father, Dr. Martin Luther King, quote if they want to bring about change.
Dr. Bernice King, the youngest daughter of civil and human rightsicons Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And Coretta Scott King, had a busy week that responded to the deliberate wrong interpretations of both the killed Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk and her father, and understandably, she recently expressed her frustrations on social media.
A day after Kirk was murdered, reportedly by Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old white man from Utah whose family Mormons and Donald Trump are supportersIn response to criticism of political violence in America, King placed the concept of political violence in America in the right context.
“We have to stop the lie of” There is no room for ____________ violence in this country. ” Because there is clearly a place.
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Unfortunately, there would be more wrong representation of her father’s work that King should tackle.
When The Grio Reported, after a photo posted by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-fl) who brought Kirk into conversation with her father, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Jesus of Nazareth spread on social media, Bernice King Again, her frustration expressed With flagrant wrong representation of her father in relation to Kirk.
“There are so many things wrong with it. So much. I get tired, you all,” wrote King in response to the post post. Luna.
The right was busy trying to make Kirk a martyr for the cause of free speech, in which he ignores the mountain of racist, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic statements that he made during his career as an extreme right -wing fire brigade coach.
Despite their attempts to keep him up as a descendant of free speech, the organization he has founded is Turning Point USA, Maintains a “Professor Watchlist”, ” That itself is in contrast to the idea of freedom of expression. Moreover, some of his acolites are now Keeping a watch list with student or employee So that they can direct pronounced critics from Kirk.
While it relates to the recording of Jesus of Nazareth in the photo spread by Rep. Luna, many white evangelicals (and some black) are actively working on the sanitary facility of Kirk’s legacy, in which they have tried to paint him as a man of God, who ignore his history of unavoidable explanations.
However, as John Fugelsang, the author of “Separation of Church and Hate: A Some Person’s Guide to Back the Bible of fundamentalists, fascists and herd-Fleecing fraud” Fervent reader pressBringing Kirk in conversation with the Son of God Himself is a continuation of the way in which the law has invested in incorrectly showing what Jesus had to say about Christianity.
“The parable of the good Samaritan is that Jesus specifically rejects the idea of limiting compassion to his own group. A despised foreigner is the character who fulfills God’s order to” keep your neighbor as yourself “. Jesus rules this with the order:” Go and do the same. ” This immediately refutes every charming argument that Christians have to give the care for ‘their own’.
The argument of Fugelsang in his OP-ED is also related to the position King has mentioned in the preamble, namely that although she has sympathy for the children of Kirk, political leaders have to do more than selectively her father if they actually want to bring about change in the United States of America.
“It makes me sad that one day the children of Charlie Kirk will probably watch the video of their father who is shot. No child can lose a parent in such a hateful, callous way,” wrote King.
She continued: “It will require much more than quoting my father for the United States to evolve from our current riddle of versatile violence, tragic apathy and humiliating policy.”
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