King's daughter Bernice Kingon Wednesday, saying,"I find President Trump’s use of my father’s image in his political ad beyond insulting and not reflective of #MLK’s commitment to creating the #BelovedCommunity. My father should not be used in ways strongly misaligned with his vision and value."
She said the slain civil rights leader"was working for an America with leaders who have answered the call to conscience and compassionate action," and quoted him calling for leaders"not in love with publicity but in love with justice." "America needs this type of leader NOW," added King, who heads the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change.
The Trump ad, entitled,"Say What You Will About America," uses the pictures of Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers great who broke baseball's color barrier in 1947, and King early on in the ad, while touting American exceptionalism. "Impossible? We treat that word as motivation," the ad says. The ad takes a darker turn near the end of its 80-second running time, showing images of damages from looting and burning flags while warning than an unidientified"they" want"to destroy our traditions."The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the daughters' requests.
SweetpeasCloset I figured it would be a honor to be in a Trump ad !!!realDonaldTrump PressSec
SUE HIM!!!
Each time reaches a new low! 😕
They don't have their own heros?
The Democrat's main platform (aside from just saying Orange man bad) is about raising one's race above all else. Treating people positively/negatively based solely on the color of their skin. Its evidently clear that trump and conservatives are more in line with mlk than the left
Trump is out of control, totally drug affected, has no judgment, not that he ever had. He’s going down In a ball of flames which he knows and will take everyone with him, including the Country. 25thAmendment needs to be activated, he destroying the American people and their soul
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The 'families' sound like uninformed racists.
If you're Anti-Reparations (MLK's CUT THE CHECK!). You're a vile vulture that seeks to prey upon Black Society during its oppression from White Supremacy.
As they should!
Reasonable
45’s crew needs to keep these giant’s name out of their mouths let alone have the nerve to use their images. Makes me sick on my stomach.
Martin Luther King and Jackie Robinson are AMERICAN heros. The President of The United States has the RECORD and the right to evoke their AMERICAN legacies to support the continuation of their AMERICAN dreams of a colorblind, character-centered AMERICAN society. tatum_report247
Any actual news this morning?
Some of MLK's family is fine with it. Your reporting is terrible again.
Maybe the families should listen to their relatives a bit closer. Trump's message is their message. Democrats advocate violence to get their way, as we have repeatedly seen in Democratic funded riots.
'The time is always right to do what is right.' —Martin Luther King Jr.
More proof that there is no bottom.
I hope they sue.
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