The Southern Christian Leadership Conference elected its first female president on Friday. MLK’s daughter, Bernice King will be the third King to head the civil rights group. The board of directors voted 23-15 in favor of King over Wendell Griffen, an appeals court judge.
The SCLC was founded by Martin Luther King Jr. and was involved in getting the voting rights act and the Civil Rights act passed. MLK was president of the Conference until his death in 1968. The second King to hold the position was Martin Luther King III who was elected in 1998 and held the job until 2003.
MLK’s daughter Bernice King inherits an organization that has undergone internal strife in the past several years. A director of the SCLC in Florida accused national leaders of financial mismanagement, despite the SCLC paying off millions in debt. And the president of the L.A. chapter was at odds with the entire SCLC over his stance on gay marriage. Bernice King is already hearing calls to change her views on gay marriage.
Here’s hoping that Bernice King can and will change the face of the civil rights movement all over the country. The current face (Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson) is one of ridiculous rhetoric and race baiting tactics designed to keep race relations from actually progressing. People like Sharpton and Jackson are the very reason ironically, that race relations are strained in this country.
MLK’s daughter Bernice King is a Baptist minister serving in Lithonia, Georgia. She travels all over the world for speaking engagements, evidently that’s a talent that’s inherited. The vast majority of reaction to Bernice King being elected to head the civil rights group has been positive.
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:34 am
Yeah, I guess that Sharpton deserves to have a rac*st little song made up about him.
Yeah, let’s blame rac*sm in the USA on Sharpton and Jackson. That makes a whole lot of sense.
YOU ARE THE RAC*ST, SHANNON.
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:21 am
People like Sharpton and Jackson are the very reason ironically, that race relations are strained in this country.
I suppose Rush and the right wing has nothing to do with the strain on race relations in this country what a crock.of crap
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Al Sharpton and Jackson are hugh trouble makers.
They make millions beating on companies around the world.
Sharptons hair cut looks very white person type to me.
I can not wait for Ms. King to take over and get rid of the two sex pheens.
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:38 pm
I wish Ms King well and hope she does a good job.
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Jesse and AL ARE race baiters and race hustlers just shaking down corporations for profit.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:06 pm
MLK was a class act. The ” I have a dream ” speech is one of the best ever.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Jackson and Sharpton are there to fight for those who can’t fight for themselves……..REMEMBER THAT!
and no matter who becomes president of the SCLU, Sharpton and Jackson are the soldiers who have been fighting for OUR justice and I don’t care what you think…. you’ll never get rid of them……..THEY WILL…BE…….HANGING OVER YOUR BEDS AT NIGHT KEEPING YOU UP…..HA!….try to get rid of them….hahahahahaha
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:36 pm
I pray that Bernice King will be a great choice for President of the SCLC. She will have the blessings of Black Christians if she realizes that We are not “Hollywood” and that We don’t swing and sway with every doctrin in the wind. Although I campaigned and voted for President Obama, I have been often brought back to the reality that he is a politican first and formost. President Obama is not a traditional Christian, if he is a Christian at all. Know that there are lots of people who mean well but that doesn’t mean that they serve the Jesus Christ of the Bible. As for Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, they are the mouthpiece of the common Black man and woman as well as the rich Black man “Micheal Jackson” and woman. If it were not for the attention that they get when they SPEAK UP, where would we as black people be? They don’t always get it right, but 99% of the time they speak the truth. Bernice will do well if she goes as my pastor says, “Go across the grain.” In other words, do what Jesus did, speak what thus says the Lord in and out of season. Then you will know who your friends are. If it is just a position for position sake, Dr. King would be embarrassed and so would I. This can work with the Great God of the Universe who will try every man and woman’s soul. I suggest, membership drives first, because a people who work and move together are a powerful people.
Again Blessings
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:22 pm
There will never be another the likes of MLK, Al Sharpton would sure like to be but is not one tenth the man nor could ever be, he tries to put his size 2 foot in MLK’s size 10 shoe and it ain’t gonna fit, plus he is so busy sticking his nose in where it doesn’t belong that he is lucky he can still breathe.
>>THEY WILL…BE…….HANGING OVER YOUR BEDS AT NIGHT KEEPING YOU UP<<
Ya but this isn’t a Christmas Carol and they aren’t the ghosts of Christmas past, more like the ghosts of indigestion from a bad pizza.
Berince, you go girl, fill your fathers shoes, and never forget, his dream was for everybody, not just for the benefit of himself like Sharpton.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:43 pm
You have no idea what the Rev. Sharpton and Jackson do. You are saying the same thing about them that The Rac*st said about MLK when he was fighting for your right to be an idiot. When all of the current leaders are living in mansions and paying lip service to our current state. Jackson and Sharpton are still front and center in the fight for civil rights.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:39 am
Here is a little history for the Rev. Al apologists
http://www.larryelder.com/ascrimes.html
don’t let facts get in the way of your opinions