The niece of Coretta Scott King believes King would have thought GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions did some “good work” in his time as a U.S. attorney and a senator in order to help further the cause of civil rights.
Alveda King said on Fox Business Network on Wednesday that a letter sent by Scott King in the 1980s criticizing the Alabama senator might not reflect how she would feel about Sessions today if she was still alive.
“Aunt Coretta was a very reasonable woman and she, with integrity, would have noted that he had done some great work in fighting against discrimination … she had very strong opinions and concern for all Americans and perhaps people all of the world,” King said, “and I believe certainly that if she could look at the record of Sen. Sessions today, with integrity, she would say ‘well he has worked to prosecute the Ku Klux Klan, he has worked to desegregate public schools.'”
King, a conservative supporter of President Trump, called her aunt a “reasonable woman” who wanted to make peace with people she disagreed with.
She said Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren reading Scott King’s letter on the Senate floor slamming Sessions for using his power as a U.S. attorney to hinder civil rights progress was a “bait and switch.”
“It’s almost like a bait and switch, stir up their emotions, use the name King, and my name is Alveda King, play the race card … it is not dividing my family at all,” she said. “We are taking a look at many things Ms. Coretta Scott King said, Martin Luther King Jr said, my dad Reverend A.D. King, but my family, we are peace makers, we bring people together … we do not divide people.”
