Dr. King in Monroe Last Friday
Last Friday, Dr. Alveda C. King, niece of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr., spoke at the annual Monroe County Right to Life fundraising dinner. According to an article published in the Monroe Evening News, King spoke passionately about her feelings on the issue of abortion. She told the audience about the two abortions she had earlier in her life which left her emotionally scarred.
Dr. King called for an end to the “lies of planned parenthood,” an organization founded by Margaret Sanger, a eugenicist and white supremacist, determined to reduce, if not eliminate the black population:
“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,” she said, “if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
It should come as no surprise that a black civil rights activist would call into question an organization founded by someone like Sanger, especially since they still give out awards bearing her name.