{"id":65636,"date":"2017-02-09T08:39:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T12:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=65636"},"modified":"2017-02-09T08:39:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T12:39:51","slug":"coretta-scott-kings-niece-accuses-sen-elizabeth-warren-of-playing-race-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=65636","title":{"rendered":"Coretta Scott King&#8217;s niece accuses Sen. Elizabeth Warren of playing &#8216;race card&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coretta Scott King&#039;s niece accuses Sen. Elizabeth Warren of playing &#039;race card&#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nSwNeLomPSk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>AOL.com<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said during an appearance on FOX Business that Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren was playing the &#8220;race card&#8221; on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>During a debate over Jeff Sessions&#8217; nomination for attorney general, Warren was prevented from speaking further after she started reading a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King who wanted to block Sessions from a federal judgeship. Warren was accused of &#8220;impugning Sessions&#8221; which is against Senate rules, notes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/08\/politics\/jeff-sessions-vote-senate-slog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/08\/politics\/jeff-sessions-vote-senate-slog\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1486693958586000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEHO57Mpc2weOisAXt8h0CJ7CPnOA\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>King told Fox Business that Coretta would have a different view of Sessions now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/2017\/02\/08\/dr-alveda-king-sen-warren-used-king-name-to-stir-up-emotions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/2017\/02\/08\/dr-alveda-king-sen-warren-used-king-name-to-stir-up-emotions.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1486693958586000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFPZ8X1vj_SE7E4B4iTZ9rs88J9cg\">noting<\/a>, &#8220;&#8230;she would agree today that he of course ended some school segregation and he worked to prosecute members of the KKK&#8230;(she) would have noted that he had done some great work in fighting against discrimination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>King added, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aq4n-X5Kvsw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v%3Daq4n-X5Kvsw&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1486693958587000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGIFM_GV6k2XQbz31FvXEp_RBM0cA\">referring<\/a> to Warren, &#8220;It&#8217;s almost like a bait and switch, stir up the emotions, in the name of King\u2014and my name is Alveda King&#8230; [and] play the race card, which she was attempting to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-article__see-also\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;see_also&quot;}}\" data-beacon-invalid=\"true\">\n<div id=\"m-inline-newsletter\" class=\"inline-breaking-news-newsletter inline-newsletter-module\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;: {&quot;mnid&quot;: &quot;breaking-news&quot;, &quot;plid&quot;: 0}}\" data-beacon-performed-vanity=\"true\">\n<div class=\"right\">\n<p class=\"terms\">Emails\u00a0may offer personalized content or\u00a0ads. <a href=\"http:\/\/privacy.aol.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more<\/a>. You may unsubscribe\u00a0any time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Warren&#8217;s message received widespread coverage as the Tuesday&#8217;s turn of events became a major news story.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/08\/us\/politics\/elizabeth-warren-coretta-scott-king.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/08\/us\/politics\/elizabeth-warren-coretta-scott-king.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1486693958587000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHui2SstyRrw7AU0GVs8Fl_4GGloA\">New York Times<\/a> noted, &#8220;Republicans seized her microphone. And gave her a megaphone. Silenced on the Senate floor for condemning a peer, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, emerged on Wednesday in a coveted role: the avatar of liberal resistance in the age of Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the debate, Warren <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWarren\/status\/829140184692305923\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWarren\/status\/829140184692305923&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1486693958587000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHJ7YCSzN8eY7fhIecQwMMH4LaNgw\">tweeted<\/a>, &#8220;I will not be silent about a nominee for AG who has made derogatory and racist comments that have no place in our justice system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aol.com\/article\/news\/2017\/02\/08\/coretta-king-niece-accuses-senator-warren-playing-race-card\/21710170\/\">http:\/\/www.aol.com\/article\/news\/2017\/02\/08\/coretta-king-niece-accuses-senator-warren-playing-race-card\/21710170\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}