"Dr. Alveda King Says Sen. Obama's 'Quiet Riot' Comment Misses the Point"

[Bluebear]

The good doctor really has become a tool of the extremist right, if you ask me.

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Dr. Alveda King Says Sen. Obama's 'Quiet Riot' Comment Misses the Point

Contact: Jerry Horn, Priests for Life, 540-220-0095

WASHINGTON, June 6 /Christian Newswire/ -- Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., today responded to the remarks of Senator Barack Obama, who said that "quiet riots" take place in black neighborhoods every day because of hopelessness.

"Senator Obama may know of the 'quiet riots' coming from the black community," said Dr. King, "but he doesn't understand their source. Seventeen million black babies have been killed by abortion and the cries of those children, their mothers, and their families are what Senator Obama is hearing. I invite him to listen to those cries more clearly and compassionately. I pray he will realize that hopelessness and despair are only deepened by aborting those who are the future."

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/276943337.html

[blondeatlast]

1. Would anyone care if this woman were a Smith?

Sleep well, Dr. King, knowing that if you didn't have "King" after your name, you would be completely irrelevant.

[NorthernSpy]

2. Bang your head! Metal health will drive you mad!

"Senator Obama may know of the 'quiet riots' coming from the black community," said Dr. King, "but he doesn't understand their source. Seventeen million black babies have been killed by abortion and the cries of those children, their mothers, and their families are what Senator Obama is hearing. I invite him to listen to those cries more clearly and compassionately. I pray he will realize that hopelessness and despair are only deepened by aborting those who are the future."

The only thing I'm hearing some mediocre 80s metal. Why did Obama have to describe the mood of the people as a "quiet riot"? That just made it funny.

Also, I'd like to point out a little known fact: the majority of the LA rioters weren't black*. There's really no reason to believe that this "quiet riot" of despair -- or the strife that might actually arise from it -- is wholly or mostly a "black thing".

After all, a bunch of blond Germans seem to have done a pretty fair job of taking Rostock apart.





*Earl Ofari Hutchinson says:

That mismemory was evident during another big disaster a decade ago. This time it was the 1992 L.A. riots. TV reporters constantly tailored their reports to depict the violence as the handiwork of black rioters. But TV was an open mirror. Viewers could plainly see that many of those looting and burning were non-blacks. A Rand study of the racial breakdown of 5,000 riot related cases processed through Los Angeles municipal courts found that the majority of those arrested for riot related offenses were Latinos and whites. The arrest figures were reported in the back pages of one newspaper and ignored by the rest of the press.

http://www.blackmississippi.com/indexarticle.html?page=main&id=-1&grid=&fid=1297

[DURHAM D]

3. She forgot to hate monger on gays like she usually does.. n/t

[kevinbgoode]

4. How many has she adopted?

And how many babies have died by miscarriage? Is that, in the wingnut mind, manslaughter?

What has Dr. Alveda done about that?