Civil Rights Icon Dies
Coretta Scott-King passed away early this morning at the age of 78. Mrs. King suffered a serious stroke and heart attack last summer from which she never totally recovered. At the time of her death she was living in a holistic treatment facility in Mexico. Today after 4 decades, Coretta Scott-King was reunited with her husband.
At the close of 2005 several members of the King Family entered into negotiations with the Federal government to hand over control of the King Center in Atlanta. This has caused a rift within the King family. On one hand the family finds it difficult to keep up on the required maintenance of the deteriorating King Center while other family members feel that if the government takes over the center, changes will be made that the family does not approve.
Should the King Family relinquish control of the King Center to the Federal Government?
posted by Media.Truth at 2:32 PM
1 Comments:
This is a day of great mourning for our African American culture to lose such a great influence like Corretta Scott King. She was a women that is to be respected far beyond her days she spent on this earth. If you have been living under a rock, the conflict her children face in regards to the King center has been a great concern. I dont believe they should give up the center that their mother established in honor of her husband. I look at this two folds. Its a wonderful center, but if the children rightfully know they cant afford to maintain and keep it up, sometimes its better to have a 3rd party to intervene. I think if they decide to go that route, they should be protecting the interest of the family and make sure they have creative rights and control over what is projected to the public as to not dishonor their parents lives. On the other hand, the center is their heritage that I feel they should try to protect at all costs. I think sometimes AA's give up too easy and therefore let things the King center be slowly pulled away and regulated. They tend to lose control and displace the very soul of what this center symbolizes. I believe although their mothers death was an unfortunate one, they should rethink is money worth my parent legacy being revamped and destroyed by a government that does nothing significant for AA's today??? What makes them think this will be different?
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