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MLK Widow - Coretta Scott King Dies

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    • <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=440 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=headlineblack style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 5px">Coretta Scott King, 78, Dies</TD></TR><TR><TD class=storytext style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px">Tuesday, January 31, 2006
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    </TD><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>ATLANTA — Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died after suffering a stroke and a heart attack in the summer. She was 78.
    King had been recovering at Piedmont Hospital in mid-August after a stroke that initially left her unable to speak or move her right side.
    "She did very well in rehab," Dr. Maggie Mermin, King's doctor, said at the time.
    During her hospitalization, King participated in three hours of daily therapy and twice made an 80-foot "victory walk" with the use of a walker, Mermin said.
    Coretta Scott King and her husband married in 1953. After his assassination in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968, she kept his dream alive through the Atlanta-based King Center while also raising their four children.
    The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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    Coretta Scott King was a class act in every possible way. She suffered the loss of her husband with incredible dignity and continued to champion the values of respect for diversity, harmony between the races, and tolerance for other points of view for her entire life. Capable of having profited immensely from her late husband's memory, she shunned many attempts by others to use her (and thus her husband's legacy). She championed the poor and stood for those values without seeking any level of distinction for herself.

    Given that, what ignorance would cause someone, who supposedly champions racial tolerance and demands it from others, to make such a callous reference to Martin Luther King's alleged, and greatly over-exaggerated, marital indiscretions? How could a person of color, who made it through medical school precisely because Martin Luther King put his life on the picket line to open up universities to non-whites, say such an ugly thing?

    It's a new low Tibor and it should cause you to reflect deeply on the factors that motivated you to share such an ugly thought.
     
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    Steve19 said:
    Given that, what ignorance would cause someone, who supposedly champions racial tolerance and demands it from others, to make such a callous reference to Martin Luther King's alleged, and greatly over-exaggerated, marital indiscretions? How could a person of color, who made it through medical school precisely because Martin Luther King put his life on the picket line to open up universities to non-whites, say such an ugly thing?

    It's a new low Tibor and it should cause you to reflect deeply on the factors that motivated you to share such an ugly thought.
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    YOU have sunk to a new low wtih this ridiculous post.

    I'm sure you would have responded with this if another poster had made the same comment as I did. :roll1:

    I have reflected deeply...and I have to say, "Great post Tibor!"
     
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