Rev. Bernice King of the King Center in Atlanta said leaders too often cheapen her father’s legacy into a “comfortable and convenient King” offering easy platitudes.
ATLANTA — America has honored Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday for nearly four decades yet still hasn't fully embraced and acted on the lessons from the slain civil rights leader, his youngest daughter said Monday.
Her voice rising and falling in cadences similar to her father's, Bernice King bemoaned institutional and individual racism, economic and health care inequities, police violence, a militarized international order, hardline immigration structures and the climate crisis.
"Will we choose democracy over autocracy, or community over chaos? Love over hate?" Biden asked Monday."These are the questions of our time that I ran for president to try to help answer. ... Dr. King's life and legacy — in my view — shows the way forward." Wu, the first woman and person of color elected mayor of Boston, said education restores trust. Quoting King, she called for overcoming the"fatigue of despair" to enact change."It is sometimes in those moments when we feel most tired, most despairing, that we are just about to break through," Wu told attendees at a memorial breakfast.
In Selma, Alabama, a seminal site in the civil rights movement, residents were commemorating King as they recover from a deadly storm system that moved across the South last week.
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On King’s holiday, daughter calls for bold action over wordsBernice King said she’s “exhausted, exasperated and, frankly, disappointed” to hear her father’s words about justice quoted so extensively alongside “so little progress” addressing society’s gravest problems.
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On King’s holiday, daughter calls for bold action over wordsThe Rev. Bernice King, who leads The King Center in Atlanta, said leaders — especially politicians — too often cheapen her father’s legacy into a “comfortable and convenient King” offering easy platitudes.
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