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Bernice King by Harry S. Pariser (1997)

 

Bernice King: The Legacy Continues
"The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Our schools are failing us. Our economy is in shambles. Our government is corrupt. Drugs are rampant and kingpins rule the streets."


So sermonizes the Reverend Bernice King, the youngest daughter of Reverend Martin Luther King . The only one of his five children to follow in his footsteps and enter the ministry, King has been coming up for a long time: Ms. King gave her first speech at the tender age of 17. Admirers of her and her father will be pleased to hear that a collection of her dramatic and insightful orations have just been published as the book Hard Questions, Heart Answers (Broadway Books, $20).


Broadway Books publicist Justin Loeber gave his view to me on what the book means to us: "We must take the time to celebrate our own lives. We need to spend time with our children or our friends' children. We must nurture our children because they must inherit this world. " Bernice King herself says "To celebrate life is to protect our young people from heavy exposure to violence from the television screen to the silver screen, from toy companies to video arcade operators." She has all of her fathers' fire and combines it with an incandescent feminism firmly rooted in her Baptist faith.


King never knew her father. Frequently absent from home, she was just five when he was gunned down. These days, King maintains, her father is misunderstood. He is seen as someone who had a "dream" rather than as a social critic. Her view of her father is that he is "a prophet without honor." She sermonizes: "We commemorate a man who struggled for equality, and yet African Americans continue to be judged first by the color of their skin and not by the content of their character. We honor a man who championed nonviolence,and yet we glorify violence from the silver screen to the TV screen, from the state house to the school house."

 

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