Iowa School Cancels Pro-Life Talk With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Niece

Life News ^ | 9/25/07 | Steven Ertelt

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Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) -- A public high school in Iowa is drawing criticism from the pro-life community after it canceled a scheduled talk with pro-life advocate Alveda King. The former Georgia legislator and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been invited by officials at Roosevelt High School to speak.

The former principal invited Dr. King to address students there but the new principal, Kathie Danielson, canceled the event.

LifeNews.com called the school and left a message as well as an email for Danielson but they were not returned by press time.

Kim Lehman, the director of Iowa Right to Life, called the cancellation a "civil rights shockwave" in comments she sent to LifeNews.com.

"Dr. King is an exceptional speaker with outstanding credentials, and yet they are not enough," Lehman said.

"Dr. King's speech is being censored and the students at Roosevelt High will not hear her speak on civil rights, abstinence and abortion because the new principal says that a few parents complained," Lehman added.

Lehman told LifeNews.com King is also scheduled to speak on Wednesday at Iowa State University and on Thursday at Drake University.

King has explained that the new civil rights struggle has to do with abortion and how black Americans are becoming victims of abortion at higher rates than their white counterparts.

"In the last forty-plus years, 15 million black people have been denied their most basic civil right, the right to life," King noticed.

"Roughly one quarter of the black population is now missing," she reflected. "This hasn't happened because of lynch mobs, but because of abortionists who plant their killing centers in minority neighborhoods and prey upon women who think they have no hope."

King said abortion is a "great irony" because it has decimated the African-American population in ways the Klu Klux Klan never could.

"It's time that we remember the sacrifices of men like my father and my uncle who worked and died so that our children could live," King concluded. "It's time to stop killing the future and keep their dream alive."

ACTION: Contact Roosevelt High School and Principal Kathie Danielson with your thoughts. Call 515.242.7272 or email Mrs. Danielson at kathie.danielson@dmps.k12.ia.us.

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King said abortion is a "great irony" because it has decimated the African-American population in ways the Klu Klux Klan never could.

And the left despises her for saying this.

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[HereInTheHeartland]

The Des Moines public school system is an extremely liberal organization in general.

[Jeffrey_D.]

Bet they’d allow Imanutjob to talk......

[doc1019]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, however, would be more than welcome.

[vpintheak]

Tyrrany of the minority shall not be infringed. The new leftist motto.

[Popocatapetl]

If I was the principal, I would have canceled her as well.

Inviting her is a no-win situation for a school. It would have disrupted the school for at least several days, probably more, inviting the wrath of both sides in the debate, who would be more than happy to interfere with school operations to advance their agendas.

Plenty of parents would be upset. The school board would be pressured. Even the State might get involved. The principal would be the one to take the hit.

Bottom line, the purpose of a school is to teach the students what their parents and community expect them to be taught. Inviting in any debate is asking for trouble, and despite what activists say, is *not* “teaching” the children well.

In fact, I would go so far as to call the “activists” who want to preach on school grounds “agitators”.

The cardinal rule for teachers is to not offend their students, the students parents, their fellow faculty and administration, or the community. Unfortunately, far too many teachers do not have good judgment, which is why it is standard that guests invited to the school must have administration approval. Because it is the principal who is on the hot seat, and who will get fired if an agitator gets on campus and does their level best to disrupt.

[359Henrie]

I guess “I have a dream” for the left is nothing more than a nap.

[8mmMauser]

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The Des Moines public school system is an extremely liberal organization in general.

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They are a Marxist dominated organization, and their foot soldiers are the many no-so-bright Useful Idiots that are mis-named “teachers”.

We are in a philosophical civil war and we will NOT win unless we call the enemy who they REALLY are: The enemy is Marxism.

We can survive a nuclear suit case bomb, another oil embargo, a Great Depression, or World War III, but freedom will NOT survive if the Marxists succeed in indoctrinating the next generation of voters.

It IS that serious!

Government schools are the Marxists MOST effective, powerful, and important weapon against the forces of freedom.

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Bottom line, the purpose of a school is to teach the students what their parents and community expect them to be taught.

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It is IMPOSSIBLE for any compulsory, tax funded government school to have consensus regarding community expectations. IMPOSSIBLE! This is true even if the school district were the size of suburban subdivision block!

Education is a highly moral, ethical, and philosophical exercise that impacts ( negatively and positively) the most sacred religious, political, and cultural traditions of the family. Is is NEVER neutral. NEVER!

For this reason, government MUST get out of the education business. No matter what any government school decides about this topic or thousands of others, the government WILL be establishing the religious, cultural, and political beliefs of some of its citizens and destroying those of others.

By the way,,,,,why on earth do we allow government to herd children into indoctrination centers and then have government FORBID children ( and their parents) from speaking or publishing about a topic that is VERY important to them religiously and politically? Yet, if a parent or child refuses to cooperate with the government school gestapo they will soon face armed police action.

Oh yeah! I forgot! ( silly me). Parents always have the right to pay a religious tax to ransom their kids from the government school tyrants. They can pay a ransom so their children can attend a private school ( or homeschool) where they can speak freely about their religious, political, and cultural beliefs.

Government schools are human rights violators. Why? Answer: Because they trash freedom of conscience every minute of every school day!