On August 19, 1997, in Sacramento, California, Alveda Celeste King, the niece of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., denounced civil rights for homosexuals. While she was gaybashing, just miles away in San Francisco, homosexuals were organizing to protect affirmative action by protesting Proposition 209. Millions of white homosexuals support civil rights for Blacks daily. But racist Black gaybashers like Alveda will never return such political favors.
Clearly, Alveda is ignorant. Her ignorance extends beyond politics to any real knowledge of her uncle Martin’s political and sexual beliefs. Her divisive statements would have certainly UPSET King, just as they disgraced his inclusive humanitarian legacy.
I paraphrase a comedian who once said “Relatives are people you are forced to associate with even though you would never choose them as friends.” I am certain that King would be furious with his gaybashing niece and her neocon antics. Relatives like Alveda are enemies to King and all of his diverse friends.
One of King’s best friends was a HOMOSEXUAL named Bayard Rustin. They shared mutual respect and platonic love as fellow civil rights warriors. King endured abuse from fellow comrades and the FBI as he defended his homosexual friend. He defiantly ignored a gaybashing, closeted, homosexual named J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover regularly threatened to blackmail Martin, with lies about he and Bayard being lovers. For more information on their friendship, see Martin Luther King Jr.: To The Mountaintop by William Witherspoon. The following quote is taken from that classic book:
“Roy Wilkins did not want Bayard Rustin to have any part in organizing the [1963 March on Washington] because of his past associations with leftist causes and his reputed homosexuality. King insisted, ‘We are not concerned with Bayard or the past associations or affiliations of any participants. We are not going to conduct a witchhunt.’ They compromised by letting A.Phillip Randolph chair the march, knowing his administrative assistant, Rustin, was going to be the defacto director of the entire undertaking. Bayard had the time, the ability, the organization, and the skills to run it.”
Bayard Rustin was the central force behind that legendary 1963 march. Even as he sought civil rights for Blacks, Black gaybashers abused him because of his homosexuality. To this day, many homo-hating hypocrites like Alveda seek freedom from oppression, as they simultaneously oppress homosexuals.
Alveda is no activist! She is a Black neocon fool! She is a disgraceful pretender to her uncle Martin’s revolutionary throne!
EVERY REAL revolutionary has ALWAYS supported homosexual struggles for justice!!! They are all aware that oppression is universal. NONE OF US ARE FREE UNTIL ALL OF US ARE FREE!!!
Black Panther Huey Newton said (9-15-70, “The Women’s Liberation & Gay Liberation Movements” Speech, Reprinted in Workers World News 6-30-94): “We should try to unite with homosexuals in a revolutionary fashion. Homosexuals are our friends. When we have revolutionary conferences, rallies, and demonstrations, there should be full participation of the gay liberation movement. We must relate to the homosexual movement, because it is a very real thing.”
Dr. Cornel West said (from the classic film on homosexuals and the Black Church, “All God’s Children”): “If I have one word for fellow Christians, I would ask them to keep their eyes on the love of Jesus, and not to confuse the blood at Calvary with the KoolAid of homophobia in America...We have to call into question our own particular prejudices that we inherit, that have nothing to do with the loving gospel of Jesus...that challenge is to the Black Church...precisely because we have too many Black folk who are suffering because of the inability to talk about sexuality.”
Lastly, I quote moronic Alveda’s wise uncle Martin, from The Wisdom of Martin Luther King Jr. by Alex Ayres:
Dr. King said: “God is not just interested in the freedom of Black men, God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race. All life is interrelated. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. The Negro’s primary aim is to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law. God is love. Death is not the ultimate evil, the ultimate evil is to be outside God’s love. The trailblazers in human, academic, and religious freedom have always been in the minority. Evil never voluntarily relinquishes its head, short of a persistent, almost fanatical resistance.”
I am proud to fanatically rebel against neocon demons like Alveda. They are the house niggers on the plantations of the New World Order. They are the puppets of those who seek to divide and conquer us ALL!!! As long as we are distracted by sexuality, we will never focus upon our real enemies. Our REAL ENEMIES are NOT consenting adults who love each other. They are racist elitists who hate everyone who is not rich, neocon, and white.