Thursday, September 27, 2007

MLK's Niece Speech Cancelled as Controversial


Defenders of Free Speech where art thou now?

This one makes my head want to explode...

All week I've heard people defending Ahmadinejad's right to speak at our schools in the name of freedom of speech and I've heard people defending the poster for the Gay and Lesbian deal depicting the last supper in S&M gear as freedom of speech...
...but where are these people (and others) when the niece of Martin Luther King Jr's speech is canceled by a High School Principal for being "too controversial"? (cricket noise)

Alveda King, who has blood ties to the founder of the civil rights movement, is the Director for the African American Outreach for Gospel Life, a minister, an author, a former professor and a former Georgia legislator was surprised and disappointed at the sudden cancellation by the Roosevelt High School in Des Moines Iowa for what they described as "too controversial".

Now why in the wide world of sports would anyone NOT want this obviously intelligent, educated, high quality person tied to our nations recent history, to speak to students?

What on earth could she possible have done or said that could cause such total rejection of her even appearing on campus and speaking to students as planned for months?

Was it racism or left over racist hatred for her Uncle?
Some big scandal involving drugs, dog fighting, corruption or ...worse?
It's worse than all the above?
What could it be...

She was canceled for being....drum roll,
...pro life.

Let me get this straight... So it's perfectly fine to have someone speak at our schools who believes in killing all the Jews, but NOT okay to have someone (even the niece of MLKjr) speak on behalf of "life" in our schools. BTW- She says her Uncle was pro-life too.
"My uncle said that "the Negro cannot win if he is willing to sacrifice the lives of his children for personal comfort and safety.” Now if you look at the issue of abortion, that's immediately sacrificing the life of a child for personal comfort and safely."
Yet every school talks about MLK as a hero of all Americans without mentioning that if he were alive today they probably wouldn't let him speak at those same schools (if his niece is any example).

High Shools across the country welcome Planned (un)Parenthood in-school programs and guests to speak, so perhaps Roosevelt High should contact them for a less controversial speaker assuming they haven't already spoken there...
"At Planned Parenthood you can also get birth control without the consent or knowledge of your parents. So, if you are 14, 15 or 16 and you come to Planned Parenthood, we won't tell your parents you've been there. We swear we won't tell your parents."
Planned Parenthood employee lecturing students of Ramona High School, Riverside, Calif.

And the left wonders WHERE in the world we get the idea that there is an attack against Christian beliefs.

Get me the duct tape...

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