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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 898611" data-attributes="member: 1246"><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2011/11/07/mlk-niece-rips-jesse-jackson-for-invoking-her-uncle-and-comparing-civil-rights-movement-to-occupy-wall-street/" target="_blank">MLK Niece Rips Jesse Jackson For Invoking Her Uncle And Comparing Civil Rights Movement To Occupy Wall Street…</a><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/67747.html" target="_blank">(Politico)</a> — Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece says the Rev. Jesse Jackson should stop comparing the Occupy Wall Street protests to the civil rights movement, arguing that her uncle would not have condoned the movement.

“I believe that Rev. Jackson is doing a disservice,” Alveda King said on Fox News Monday morning. “My uncle, the whole [civil rights] movement, was founded in prayer, in crying out to God in a peaceful movement. And this [Occupy] movement is not peaceful.”

Jackson visited Occupy protesters in Atlanta over the weekend to show his support and told protesters in Woodruff Park that the Occupy demonstrations were an extension of the King Jr.’s Poor People’s Movement, <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/occupy-atlanta-police-halt-1217965.html" target="_blank">the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporte</a>
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[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 898611, member: 1246"] [URL='http://weaselzippers.us/2011/11/07/mlk-niece-rips-jesse-jackson-for-invoking-her-uncle-and-comparing-civil-rights-movement-to-occupy-wall-street/']MLK Niece Rips Jesse Jackson For Invoking Her Uncle And Comparing Civil Rights Movement To Occupy Wall Street…[/URL] [INDENT][URL='http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/67747.html'][COLOR=#990000](Politico)[/COLOR][/URL] — Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece says the Rev. Jesse Jackson should stop comparing the Occupy Wall Street protests to the civil rights movement, arguing that her uncle would not have condoned the movement. “I believe that Rev. Jackson is doing a disservice,” Alveda King said on Fox News Monday morning. “My uncle, the whole [civil rights] movement, was founded in prayer, in crying out to God in a peaceful movement. And this [Occupy] movement is not peaceful.” Jackson visited Occupy protesters in Atlanta over the weekend to show his support and told protesters in Woodruff Park that the Occupy demonstrations were an extension of the King Jr.’s Poor People’s Movement, [URL='http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/occupy-atlanta-police-halt-1217965.html'][COLOR=#990000]the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporte[/COLOR][/URL] [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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