by Mary Spiller
August 10, 2024
Bernice King known as out the previous President for claiming he drew larger crowds than Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have A Dream” speech.
The daughter of the late civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Bernice King, dragged former President Donald Trump for evaluating his rallies to her father’s historic “I Have A Dream” speech.
Throughout an Aug. 8 press convention at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump in contrast the scale of his Jan. 6, 2021, rally crowds to the group that got here out to Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” speech.
Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” Speech was delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963, throughout the civil rights motion’s March on Washington. In a name for equality following the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, King gave voice to the defining beliefs of the civil rights motion and was later a galvanizing agent for monumental laws just like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act the next yr.
For Trump, his Jan. 6 speech was simply as necessary and had simply as many–if no more–attendees. Trump mentioned, “No person’s spoken to crowds larger than me. Should you take a look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his nice speech. And also you take a look at ours, identical actual property, identical the whole lot, identical variety of folks. If not, we had extra.”
He continued, “Take a look at it, and also you take a look at the image of his crowd, my crowd, we really had extra folks.”
Nonetheless, this isn’t the case. The Root studies that Dr. King’s speech introduced out almost 250,000 folks however Trump’s widespread “Cease the Steal” speech after dropping the 2020 presidential election solely had 53,000 folks in attendance.
Trump’s inaccurate feedback stirred up social media, however significantly, it prompted King’s daughter, 61-year-old lawyer Bernice King to handle Trump’s claims.
She wrote on X, “Completely not true. I actually want that individuals would cease utilizing my father to assist fallacy.”
The Nationwide Affiliation for the Development of Coloured Folks additionally spoke up to reply to Trump’s claims about his supporters. On social media, the NAACP posted a photograph of the 1963 crowd on the “I Have A Dream” speech side-by-side to the group at Trump’s speech. The put up was captioned, “Donald Trump simply mentioned that he had an even bigger crowd on January 6 than Dr. Martin Luther King did when he delivered ‘I Have A Dream.’ …Not solely is that fully false, however right here’s what’s extra necessary: MLK’s speech was about democracy. Trump’s was about tearing it down.”
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