DCentric

Tomorrow, Glenn Beck will hold a rally on the Mall. Called “Restoring Honor”, it will “coincidentally” occur on the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s March on Washington, an event which included King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. One of the scheduled speakers is Alveda King– a niece of the late Civil Rights leader.

Salon’s War Room has more:

“I didn’t get to go 47 years ago when my uncle gave the I Have a Dream speech,” King told Salon this week. “But I believe his dream of faith, hope and love is still alive. I’m going to talk about faith, hope and love — no politics.”

…Beck is at the forefront of a movement to appropriate Martin Luther King’s legacy, just decades after many conservatives opposed a national holiday honoring the social justice advocate. That he can claim Alveda King, a woman who has found a home on the right after years of personal wandering and political about-faces, as an ally can’t hurt.

Alveda King is estranged from her family and in 1994, she wrote a letter to Coretta Scott King filled with execration over her Aunt’s support for gay rights and abortion.

Alveda is dismissive of her aunt, who died in 2006, saying, “I’ve got his DNA. She doesn’t, she didn’t…Therefore I know something about him. I’m made out of the same stuff.”