Three years after being rescued by a bailout, General Motors last week announced some rather ambitious profit targets for 2012.Every famous family has a member, or three, who do things that leave you in “oh, no, (s)he didn’t” disbelief. Today’s offender is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece, Alveda King, who showed up at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring America” rally to frequently invoke the “I Have a Dream” speech that her “Uncle Martin” immortalized.
I wasn’t alive on Aug. 29, 1963. But everything I’ve learned about the man who led the movement that made an appointment with destiny that day in Washington leads me to think that he wouldn’t appreciate a little-known relative claiming to speak for him while lending the (extended) family name and the credibility it endows to a person who has so poisoned American political discourse of late.
Dr. King’s legacy is precious.
Alveda King besmirched it.
