Bernice King, the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., recently shared why she is “thrilled” that President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration will take place on the same day of the federal holiday honoring her late father.
“I’m glad that if it was going to happen, it would happen during the King’s holiday because Dr. King is still talking to us,” she told The Independent.
In her interview with the newspaper, published Saturday, Bernice King also urged Americans not to “back off or recoil” after Trump’s election victory over Kamala Harris.
“We must commit to continuing the mission of protecting freedom, justice and democracy in the spirit of my father,” she said.
King has gone after Trump and his supporters a number of times in recent months.
In August, she tapped the president-elect for him statement ‘absolutely untrue’ that he drew a larger crowd at his Jan. 6, 2021, rally than her father did for his “I Have A Dream” speech on the National Mall in 1963.
‘I really wish people would stop using my father to support misconceptions’ she wrote on Xformerly called Twitter.
King later posted a pro-MAGA account on X that shared what she described a “mean, fake, irresponsible” deepfake video of the late civil rights icon designed to show that he appeared to support Trump.
King, who hoped Harris would make history and be sworn in on Jan. 20, said the president-elect has promoted “hateful rhetoric,” has not been “very kind-hearted” and has championed “less than humane” policies. Independent interview.
She too pointed to a line from the ‘I Have A Dream’ speech to which she has returned since Trump’s victory: “Let us not try to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
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“I know a lot of people are angry right now,” King told the publication. “But we cannot let that rot inside us.”