WASHINGTON — Martin Luther King Jr.’s eldest son is calling out US President Donald Trump, following accusations that the president used a vulgarity to describe African countries during a meeting last week, and expressed a preference for immigrants from countries “like Norway.”
Martin Luther King III is speaking in Washington on Monday, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Martin Luther King III, with his wife Arndrea Waters, and their daughter Yolanda, 9, during their visit to the Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, on January 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
King says: “When a president insists that our nation needs more citizens from white states like Norway, I don’t even think we need to spend any time even talking about what it says and what it is.”
He says: “We got to find a way to work on this man’s heart.”
Referring to former Alabama governor George Wallace, King adds: “George Wallace was a staunch racist and we worked on his heart and, ultimately, George Wallace transformed.”
— AFP
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