Last year Dr. Alveda King, the niece of famed civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., called President Trump a “knowledgable” and “compassionate” leader regarding pro-life and the civil rights movement.
“I think the person we have in Washington today is uncaring—knows very, very little about the struggle and the history of the Civil Rights Movement,” Lewis said about President Trump.
Today she was in the spotlight again when she defended Trump from people that labeled him as racist.
“I’ve read the statement by Washington, D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory suggesting that President Trump’s [tweets] about squalor in Baltimore are racist and I have to disagree,” said Dr. Alveda King, director of Civil Rights for the Unborn for Priests for Life.
“President Trump is not
Archbishop Gregory criticized the President’s remarks in an August 1 piece that appeared in the Catholic Standard.
“I fear that recent public comments by our President and others and the responses they have generated, have deepened divisions and diminished our national life. In particular, I join my brother Archbishop William Lori in sadness and deep regret for the ways our Maryland neighbors in Baltimore have been denigrated in recent public attacks,” Gregory wrote.
“We all need to reject racism, disrespect or brutality in speech and action,” he added later in his piece.
Do you agree with Alveda King?
