The youngest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is speaking out after a now-viral social media post from a Republican member of Congress attempted to draw comparisons between late conservative activist Charlie Kirk and her father. Bernice King posted her reaction to a Sept. 11 post made from the personal X account of Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) – a photo, which includes Kirk along with Dr. King, former presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy and Jesus Christ, with the caption “All Because of Wonds.”
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Rep. Luna’s post has since received nearly 11 million views and more than 80,000 likes. But King, who serves as the CEO of The King Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to continuing Dr. King’s legacy of non-violence and racial equality, was not impressed.
“There are so many things wrong with this. So many. I get tired, y’all,” King wrote in a September 12 post on X.
King, who was just five years old when her father — one of the key leaders of the Civil Rights Movement — was assassinated in 1968, posted her condolences to Kirk’s children after their father was killed on Sept. 11 during a speaking engagement on a Utah college campus.
“It saddens me that Charlie Kirk’s children will likely one day view the video of their father being shot. No child anywhere should lose a parent in such a hateful, callous way,” King captioned the post in part. “It will require much more than quoting my father for the United States to evolve from our current conundrum of multi-faceted violence, tragic apathy, and degrading policies,” she wrote in part.
King’s post on X has gone viral, with over two million views and comments from people who share her exhaustion.
“We are equally as tired,” wrote someone.
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