Kamala Harris slammed by Martin Luther King Jr’s niece for plagiarizing MLK story: 'Don't play on emotions'
The Internet broke after it was found that Vice-president elect Kamala Harris apparently plagiarized Martin Luther King Jr and claimed his civil rights story as her own. Twitter users, including Donald Trump Jr and GOP's rapid response director Steve Guest, took no time in condemning her. Now, Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King Jr, has also joined the critics' line as she called Harris “nothing like” MLK.
While speaking with Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, the evangelist said, “Kamala knows that her worldview is totally different than the worldview of Martin Luther King Jr. So it’s a big stretch for her to compare herself or to sound like him or to use some of his analogies. For instance, Kamala believes that it’s okay to abort babies up to nine months. And if you meant to abort the baby and the baby lives, then let the baby die. Martin Luther King Jr served the public. He did not kill the public, and that would include babies in the womb.”
Alveda continued, “He said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' So she’s nothing like Martin Luther King Jr but she still — there she is, playing on those emotions again.” As per reports, in an interview with Elle magazine in October 2020, Harris had recalled one of her childhood memories when she was wheeled through an Oakland, California, civil rights march in a stroller. Her parents and uncle took part in it. However, since the stroller had no straps, the senator as a child fell down, which upset her. “My mother tells the story about how I’m fussing. and she’s like, ‘Baby, what do you want? What do you need?’ And I just looked at her and I said, ‘Fweedom,’” Harris was quoted as saying at the time.
People found her story very similar to Martin Luther King Jr’s. A Playboy magazine interview of January 1965, quoted him sharing an incident that happened in Birmingham, England. Sharing it, MLK had said, “I never will forget a moment in Birmingham when a White policeman accosted a little (N-word) girl, seven or eight years old, who was walking in a demonstration with her mother. 'What do you want?' the policeman asked her gruffly, and the little girl looked him straight in the eye and answered, 'Fee-dom'. She couldn’t even pronounce it, but she knew. It was beautiful! Many times when I have been in sorely trying situations, the memory of that little one has come into my mind, and has buoyed me."
Meanwhile, after slamming Harris, Alveda also attacked Democratic Georgia Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. The 69-year-old Trump supporter said, “They are so radical with their injustices toward Israel, for example. They’re lacking compassion for the babies in the womb, for example. Offering surgeries and things like that to children over human sexuality. They’re just very, very radical.” She also alleged that Ossoff and Warnock use and misuse “the Bible [and] emotions” as she added, “They do not support life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”