Monday, January 9, 2012
Randomly Noted All the King kids now involved with King Center
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:27 PM
Bernice is the only King kid to had followed in her father's footsteps by becoming a minister. Unfortunately, she is best known for participating in a 2004 march against same-sex marriage and for her avid support of disgraced New Birth charlatan "Bishop" Eddie Long. (She only quit the church this May when Long settled his collection of pederasty lawsuits.)
Like her two older brothers, Marty and Dexter, Bernice appears to support herself from speaking honoraria and licensing fees from her father's writings and image. You may recall a couple years back, Bernice was named president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the outfit her father co-founded in 1957. But she never ended up serving, in part because the board wouldn't give her as much control as she wanted.
So now she's landed at the King Center, where she'll presumably be working with brothers Marty and Dexter, who serve there as, respectively, president and board chairman. This could be dicey, as she and Marty sued Dexter, who sued them right back, over alleged misuse of center funds in 2008. The suits were settled in 2009.
Anyway, it's a good chance to see if the King kids can finally play nice together.
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The King Center is pretty much irrelevant these days so it really doesn't matter who runs it or what they do with it.
Cent: With an audacious mission (to render poverty, injustice and war obsolete) and boatloads of money, why is the King Center irrelevant?
@ Question Man
I think that your question is a bit misleading.
The stated mission is impossible (Lo, the poor you will always have with you. Matthew 26:11).
The amount of money is very limited, otherwise the National Park Service wouldn't have taken over most of the site.
The King children are all about living off their father's legacy, and they don't trust each other.
The NPS MLK site was founded independently of the King Center, and i don't know that much of the landscape/buildings in the historic district have ever really changed management hands (from the latter to the former) save the birth home proper at the outset.
Back in the day, the King Center got a fat check from the Feds directly, no strings attached.
So in that regard, if they're still operating with a (fat) subsidy from the Federal govm't (tax dollars) than what they do is of direct concern to all folks who pay taxes...
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