MLK’s Niece Helps Fox News Bash Black Lives Matter

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Fox and Friends decided to celebrate Martin Luther King Day by bringing on MLK’s niece, Alveda King. They brought up Black Lives Matter so she could explain how MLK wouldn’t be involved with that group if he were still alive. Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola (ThinkTank), and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show Podcast), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

“The hosts of Fox & Friends marked the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday on Monday by focusing on how the civil rights icon would feel about a so-called “war on police.”

Both of two segments on Monday’s edition of Fox & Friends that mentioned MLK Day asserted that three recent shootings of police officers were part of a “war on police.”

Alveda King, who is often featured on Fox News for her conservative views, suggested that some people were “stirring up that fear and that anger.”

“Put some solutions on the table, teaching people to use their words, rather than bombs or guns or fists,” she said. “And use their words to heal rather than destroy.””*

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