ANOTHER KING SPEAKS – AT 10:57 A.M. ET:   It is Martin Luther King Day, and the usual suspects will be out denouncing President Trump.  But Dr. King's niece, Alveda King, has a different opinion.  From Breitbart: 

Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., joined Breitbart News Sunday on the eve of her uncle’s namesake holiday, hitting back at racism accusations against President Donald Trump and levying her own complaints against ultra-liberal Facebook.

“I agree that President Trump is not a racist. He has done so much,” King told host and Breitbart News Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle.

“Just now … [Trump signed] the bill that was sponsored by Congressman John Lewis making the Martin Luther King Jr. historic site in Atlanta a national park — the first park to be named after an African-American man,” King continued. She defended the president against a rash of new “racism” accusations supposedly stemming from vulgar remarks Democratic staffers are claiming Trump made about third-world countries that send the United States massive numbers of immigrants.

She went on:

"And there’s all other kind of legislation and things that President Trump is passing, including getting a lot of black folks out of jail — he’s working on doing that believe it or not and putting them back to work. And putting America back to work — African-Americans especially because our job rate or our hiring rate was so low and it’s going up along with everybody else’s rate. So President Trump is not a racist. He cares about America period. And he said, 'No matter what color our skin is, we all bleed red.' So he sees black people, all people as people. He sees Americans as the people he is supposed to serve and he’s doing that. And he is not a racist. I just really want to say that."

COMMENT:   Read the whole thing.  President Trump, whether you like him or not, has been a public figure in New York for decades.  If he were a racist, we would have known it long before now. 

The cry of "racism" is itself the new McCarthyism.  It is used to destroy the reputations of political opponents, whether they are racists or not.

January 15,  2018