MLK’s niece: Elizabeth Warren played race card against Sessions

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Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., is not happy with Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Warren took the Senate floor to speak out against Jeff Sessions, who was Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general. During her speech, Warren read a letter from Coretta Scott King denouncing Sessions in the 1980s, a move that Alveda King says went too far.

“So it’s almost like a bait and switch, stir up their emotions, use the name King — and my name is Alveda King — stir up people’s emotions [and] play the race card, which she was attempting to do,” King said, speaking on Fox News’ “Your World With Neil Cavuto.”

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She went on to say that her aunt, whom she knew better that Warren did, would have been reasonable and acknowledged the work that Sessions did to improve race relations, including securing the death penalty for an Alabama KKK leader.

“Aunt Coretta was a very reasonable women and she, with integrity, would have noted that he had done some great work in fighting against discrimination,” she said.

Warren’s decision to read Coretta Scott King’s letter drew national attention when Senator Mitch McConnell barred her from speaking any further, citing an old rule on the Senate books that prevents senators from impugning the names of other senators.