FOX NEWS decides that a MLK relative no one has heard of is relevant just because she criticized Harry Reid

This is classic FOX NEWS. Before you read the FOX NEWS article can you tell me the name of Dr. Martin Luther King's niece? Also, before you read the article can you tell me what she does and why her comments on Senator Harry Reid are relevant other than the fact that she is Dr. King's niece?

I ask these questions because FOX NEWS found a Black person, who is related to a really famous historic and heroic Black person, Dr. Martin Luther King, who is calling Sen. Reid out and it has decided that her opinion of him was newsworthy.

Only the first three paragraphs, of a 16 paragraph piece, mention Dr. King's niece and we don't even learn her name until the third paragraph. You would think if her opinion was relevant, her name would be just as important as mentioning her famous uncle's name. Other than telling readers/viewers that she is Dr. King's niece, FOX NEWS does not inform us why her opinion is newsworthy and deserving to mentioned in the headline.

Did FOX NEWS reach out to Dr. King's surviving children, Dexter, Bernice and Martin Luther III? (Yolanda King passed away in 2007)

Well after reading this article I learned her name, Alveda King, however I still didn't learn anything about her and why her opinion was so relevant, so I had to go to Wikipedia to find more about her. After reading the entry on her I learned that she is a senior fellow at a conservative think tank and a former Georgia state legislator. She is also anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage.

Does she have a distinguished career? Not really, especially not compared to Bernice King or Martin Luther King III, but FOX NEWS didn't bother to ask them.

She is free to her opinions and to promote herself as Dr. King's niece, however when FOX NEWS pretends like she is a well known African American leader just because her uncle is MLK, while ignoring the opinions of many better known, self-made, more accomplished African American activists, it reinforces the notion that its not a legitimate news source.

From FOX NEWS:

MLK JR.'S Niece Doesn't See Compliment in Reid's "Negro Dialect" Comment

The Rev. Al Sharpton, the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP all jumped to the defense of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after his controversial remarks about President Obama, but the niece of Martin Luther King Jr. is calling Reid's comments "sadly outrageous."

The Rev. Al Sharpton, the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP all jumped to the defense of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after his controversial remarks about President Obama, but the niece of Martin Luther King Jr. is calling Reid's comments "sadly outrageous."

"If Michael Steele or any other conservative had said anything like it, the remarks would be labeled racist and plastered over every available news outlet," Alveda King said in a statement released Tuesday.

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Bill Clinton and Blago's racist comments were more racist, but the media/GOP will only focus on Reid

In the last 72 hours we have learned that three Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, former President Bill Clinton and Rod Blagojevich, disgraced former Governor of Illinois, have all made comments about President Barack Obama that involved race.

Reid's comments are the least offensive of the three, however because he is the Senate majority leader and therefore the only one who has something to lose he is the one that the media and the GOP will focus on and put in the hot seat.

Clinton and Blagojevich have no power, no official standing so their comments cannot be leveraged/manufactured for political theater, even though what they said was much worse.

Reid used racially insensitive language as he PRAISED Obama, while both Clinton and Blagojevich made racist comments while attacking Obama.

Lets look at the three comments and tell me why Reid is the one getting the heat.

Reid on Obama as paraphased in the book Game Changers: "He [Reid] was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama -- a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,' "

Clinton on Obama to the Sen. Ted Kennedy: "a few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee."

Blagojevich on Obama: It's such a cynical business, and most of the people in the business are full of sh** and phonies, but I was real, man — and am real. This guy, he was catapulted in on hope and change, what we *hope* the guy is. What the f***? Everything he's saying's on the teleprompter. I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

Looking at Reid's comments you might actually view them as more of an indictment of the electorate, the majority of which is white, rather than a criticism or insult of President Obama.

The media and the GOP are not interested in any kind of productive discussions on race and racism, they care more about instigating political theater. If the media showed any kind of understanding of race and racism Harry Reid wouldn't be the one on the hot seat today.

Reid's remarks were racially insensitive and Lott's were simply racist

This morning on Meet the Press, while interviewing GOP Chairman Michael Steele and DNC Chairman Tim Kaine, David Gregory, most likely reading straight from a script provided to him by The Weekly Standard, asked why President Barack Obama has forgiven Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) for racially insensitive remarks, but demanded that then Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) resign in 2002, for his praise of late Senator Strom Thurmond's (R-SC) campaign for president on a segregationist platform.

Steele, who recently used the phrase "honest Injun," didn't hesitate to call for Reid's resignation as majority leader.

There is a BIG difference between praising a segregationist in public like Lott did, and Reid's making, in private, a racially insensitive comment while praising and welcoming the candidacy of the man who would go on to become the first African American President of the United States.

Reid's choice of words shows that when it comes to race and discussing African Americans he is very unenlighted. THIS DOES NOT MEAN HE IS RACIST, it just means this guy, who it should be pointed out enthusiastically campaigned for Obama, has a long way to go when it comes to learning how to discuss race. His heart is most likely in the right place, his mouth and vocabulary? Not so much.

Lott on the other hand made a point say that if Thurmond had been elected president in 1948 "we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years."

As pointed out earlier Thurmond ran on a segrationist platform and on the campaign plan remarked "all the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches."

When Gregory, The Weekly Standard, Steele or anyone else advances the notion that there is any comparision between what Reid's and Lott's comments they show themselves either to be ignorant or worse, they show themselves as folks who will seek to exploit discussions of race as a launching pad to provoke racial division.

Drudge uses Harry Reid's foot in mouth as an excuse to call President Obama "the Negro"

Sure Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) messed up when he referred to President Obama as a "light-skinned" African American "with no Negro dialect," during the campaign, but it is doubtful that he called Obama 'the "Negro"' as Matt Drudge implied with the following headline:
Just remember it is Drudge who is calling President Obama "the Negro," not Senator Reid, whose reference to "Negro dialect" is bad, but no where as offensive as what Drudge did by implying that he called Obama "the Negro."

Make no mistake this nothing but blatant race baiting on Drudge's part by using Reid's words as an EXCUSE to call President Obama "the Negro." This is an attempt to make an embarrassing and unfortunate situation worse but exploiting the volatile issue of race and trying to drive a wedge between the Majority Leader, the President and the African American community.

Don't be surprised that if in the following days Drudge's racists co-horts Brietbart, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and others all use Reid's words as an excuse to refer to the President as "the Negro."

Senator Reid, understanding his mistake showed contrition by issuing a statement expressing his regret for his poor choice of words, however what the hell is Drudge's excuse?

He is a racist scumbug!

Unfortunately Drudge is not accountable to ANYONE. His advertisers? Many of them share his unabashed ignorance and most likely applaud his race baiting.

Folks, Matt Drudge is nothing but a GOD DAMNED RACIST flame thrower. He needs to be called out. Won't you join us.