Alveda King

[[File:Alveda King by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|right|165px|King in 2016]]
'''Alveda Celeste King''' {{lived|1951}} is an [[United States|American]] [[conservatism|conservative]] activist and [[author]]. She is the niece of [[Martin Luther King|Martin Luther King, Jr.]], a fact which she and her supporters [[Association fallacy|treat like a credential]], and might be described as a female [[Alan Keyes]], in that she has a habit of sticking her foot in her mouth and then trying to justify it by citing the circumstances of her birth.

==Political views==
==="Abortion is genocide"===
King seems to like labeling anything she morally opposes as "[[genocide]]". She is active in the [[anti-abortion]] movement<ref name="pfl">http://www.priestsforlife.org/staff/alvedaking.htm</ref> and has referred to [[abortion]] as "genocide"<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b8ps-KTCQM</ref> because African-American women have a higher per-capita abortion rate than white women (which is more likely the outcome of economic disparity, not some kind of [[racist]] [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy]]). King views the anti-abortion movement as a "continuation of the [[civil rights]] struggle."<ref name="pfl" /> This is [[ironic]] because African Americans will be hurt more than whites if access to abortion is limited, given their higher per-capita abortion rate.

In 2010, she was involved in Pro-life Freedom Rides, an event which began with a protest at a Birmingham, [[Alabama]] abortion clinic and ended with a "pro-life service" at MLK's grave and drew its name from the {{wpl|Freedom Rides|1961 protests}} against [[segregation]] in the American South.<ref>http://www.priestsforlife.org/africanamerican/blog/index.php/pro-life-freedom-rides-inspired-by-historic-us-civil-rights-events</ref>

===Homophobia===
{{main|Homophobia}}
In outlining her opposition to [[same-sex marriage]] at a [[National Organization for Marriage]] rally on August 7, 2010, King stated the following:<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6iXtiQcPr4</ref> 

{{cquote|It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to be extinct. And none of us wants to be. So we don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.}}

King did not clarify her apparent assertion that legalizing same-sex marriage in the US would cause a ''{{wpl|Children of Men|Children of Men}}''-style infertility pandemic and eventual human extinction.

During a 1998 speech at the University of North Carolina, King offered the [[Westboro Baptist Church]] argument against granting [[equal rights]] to gays and lesbians:<ref>http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/09/the_colossal_fraud_of_alveda_k.php</ref>

{{cquote|Homosexuality cannot be elevated to the civil rights issue. The civil rights movement was born from the [[Bible]]. God hates homosexuality.}}

This is not true. The Bible condoned the status quo and was even used as a means to excuse or even support slavery many times throughout history. While Martin Luther King, Jr. was a religious leader, implying that the Bible was a cause for good and ignoring its use as justification for the bad is disingenuous at best.

===Civil rights===
[[File:Alveda King (4944352036).jpg|thumb|right|165px|King at the Restoring Honor Rally]]
King has [[bullshit|claimed]] that her uncle was a [[Republican]].<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZWXmoC5CYw</ref> However, according to {{wpl|David Garrow|David Garrow|,}} a civil rights historian and the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning MLK biography, "King was not only not a Republican, he was well to the left of the Democratic Party of the 1960s."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100830200941/http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/08/27/alveda_king_glenn_beck/index.html Meet MLK's Glenn Beck-loving niece] by Daniel Denvir (Aug 27, 2010 11:15 ET) ''Salon'' (archived from August 30, 2010).</ref>

King once expressed the hope "that white [[privilege]] will become human privilege and that America will soon repent of the [[sin]] of racism," which would have been entirely reasonable if it hadn't been done during the speech she gave to an audience of [[Tea Party movement|Tea Party]] race-baiters at [[Glenn Beck|Glenn Beck's]] Restoring Honor Rally on August 28, 2010.<ref>http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=11504453</ref>

==See also==
*[[Black genocide]]

==External links==
*[http://www.kingforamerica.com/ Alveda King's web site]

==References==
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