{"id":2394,"date":"2007-06-06T12:53:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T17:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/06\/dr-alveda-king-says-sen-obamas-quiet-riot-comment-misses-the-point\/"},"modified":"2007-06-06T12:53:05","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T17:53:05","slug":"dr-alveda-king-says-sen-obamas-quiet-riot-comment-misses-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/dr-alveda-king-says-sen-obamas-quiet-riot-comment-misses-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Alveda King Says Sen. Obama&#8217;s &#8216;Quiet Riot&#8217; Comment Misses the Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> WASHINGTON, June 6 \/Christian Newswire\/ &#8212; Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.priestsforlife.org\/\">Priests for Life<\/a> and niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., today responded to the remarks of Senator Barack Obama, who said that &#8220;quiet riots&#8221; take place in black neighborhoods every day because of hopelessness. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Senator Obama may know of the &#8216;quiet riots&#8217; coming from the black community,&#8221; said Dr. King, &#8220;but he doesn&#8217;t understand their source. Seventeen million black babies have been killed by abortion and the cries of those children, their mothers, and their families are what Senator Obama is hearing. I invite him to listen to those cries more clearly and compassionately. I pray he will realize that hopelessness and despair are only deepened by aborting those who are the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Priests for Life is the nation&#8217;s largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, June 6 \/Christian Newswire\/ &#8212; Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., today responded to the remarks of Senator Barack Obama, who said that &#8220;quiet riots&#8221; take place in black neighborhoods every day because of hopelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sanctity-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}