Related link: President Obama Talks with Tom Joyner & Sybil Wilkes About Dr. MLK’s Legacy, ‘The Butler’ & MoreWNEW: Appearing on the Tom Joyner Morning Show Tuesday, President Barack Obama says the iconic civil rights leader would have backed the Affordable Care Act.
“Oh, he would like that … because I think he understood that health care, health security is not a privilege; it’s something that in a country as wealthy as ours, everybody should have access to,” Obama explained…
However, Alveda King, niece of MLK, begs to differ...
Alveda is absolutely correct, as any biography of Margaret Sanger will reveal. S&L links to some interesting research into Sanger's involvement with setting up one of the first Planned Parenthood prototypes in Harlem during 1929 to prove Dr. King's point.SILive: A niece of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is suing to block implementation of the signature policy initiative of the nation's first black chief executive.
Dr. Alveda King, the director of African-American outreach for the New Dorp-based Priests for Life, objects to President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act on the grounds that its provision for free contraception compromises civil rights.
"There are racist and eugenic roots to this thinking," Dr. Alveda King, a self-described social activist, said in a Priests for Life news release. "Efforts to control the population always target minority and lower-income groups. We will not sit still and allow this to happen."
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The Street Sweeper
Why Martin Luther King was Republican
