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Posted on 09/26/2007 2:57:14 PM PDT by wagglebee
The former principal invited Dr. King to address students there but the new principal, Kathie Danielson, canceled the event.
On Wednesday, Danielson said she scrapped the talk because the parents of some of the students complained about her pro-life views.
Danielson said she thought the talk would be a good one for students to focus on diversity and race issues, but couldn't let it go forward after pro-abortion parents complained.
She told the Des Moines Register newspaper that she examined King's presentation beforehand and "quite a bit of it does talk about civil rights, but there is a connection to morals."
"It was scheduled to take place during the school day, cutting into class time, and we just thought it was best to cancel it," she said.
Surprisingly, the pro-abortion Iowa ACLU said the school was wrong to make the decision and representative Ben Stone told the Register that Danielson is doing a "disservice" because it makes the school appear to be shielding its students from various viewpoints on abortion.
Danielson "does the students of Roosevelt High School a disservice when she decides she must protect them from viewpoints that are controversial," Stone said.
"Alveda King was invited to speak, and telling her to stay away now is wrong, for it implies that the school is taking sides on the abortion issue, while at the same time depriving students of an opportunity to engage in this important moral topic," Stone said.
The brouhaha in what is the first presidential battleground already has one Republican presidential candidate crying foul.
Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback told LifeNews.com he thought Danielson was wrong to disinvite King.
"Defending the life of innocents is the most basic civil right, and I am proud to support Dr. Alveda King and her efforts on the pro-life issue, civil rights and helping people in need," Brownback said.
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."
King regularly speaks at public schools and charges no speaking fee for her presentations.
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.
Civil rights and morality are intertwined, you idiot.
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LOL at that quote!!! She says “morals” like Alveda was coming over to propagandize for Al-Qaeda or something.
Topsy turvy...I mean really.
Thank you Ms. Kathie Danielson Principle at large. I don't believe in pounding someone once they've been defeated, so that's all I have to say on this topic.
Come on now. You can’t have any mention of morals in a publik skool. What are you crazy?
Thanks for the article. I am forwarding it on to a priest I know who has a radio show on the catholic channel.
“Alveda King was invited to speak, and telling her to stay away now...implies that the school is taking sides on the abortion issue...” Stone said.
*Implies* the school is taking sides?
Liberal Censors at it again...free speech as long as it aligns with liberal approval. Tread on their “precious abortion” or “morality” topics of discussion and off-stage you go. Even the daughter of the late Rev. MLK.
Now if she was advocating KILLING unborn children, or having sex with members of her own gender, or celebrating the inferiority of white culture, she would be welcomed with a bouquet of roses.
Danielson “does the students of Roosevelt High School a disservice when she decides she must protect them from viewpoints that are controversial,”
We’ve come a long way, baby, when a pro-life stance is “controversial.”
And coming on the heels of the Columbia scandal, what supreme irony. Liberals need to get on the same page so that the hypocrisy is not so blatantly apparent.
And what hypocrisy for those whose job it is to teach children to reject a speaker who is pro-life.
“Danielson said she scrapped the talk because the parents of some of the students complained about her pro-life views.”
Does she cancel events when the parents complain to her about the content of talks illustrating how normal homosexuality is? Or about how wrong the war is? Would she cancel talks from pro-abortion advocates?
“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.”
Someone who actually gets what the whole thing is about. The abortion promoters are eliminating a whole generation that they need illegal immigrants to replace,
This is a truth that nobody want to talk about.
When FDR pushed his Social Security Ponzi scheme on the country, he created a situation that would become critical once average life expectancy surpassed the benefits age by more than a few years. However, with STEADY population growth and economic expansion, it was still viable.
Then the Baby Boom erupted and created another looming crisis, but the economy would still be able to shoulder the burden that would start in full force in 2011.
Then in 1973 the decision was made to slaughter 50 MILLION future taxpayers. This is compounded by the fact that statistically half of those killed were females who would now be having children of their own.
We are now faced with the reality that the ONLY way to salvage Social Security is to add tens of millions of TAXPAYERS in the next decade. NOBODY in Washington will admit this, but the evidence is there for everyone to see.
MORALS??? (cue loud shriek and glass breaking) The public schools must shield the children from morals.
Once again the "tolerant" liberals prove to be intolerant as they won't even allow the kids to HEAR opposing viewpoints. You can bet they would object if they school cancelled PP visiting due to complaints from pro-life parents. The school wouldn't cancel PP, though.
Can’t have morals in a public school, now can we?
This is just horrible. I wonder how many people are aware that the publik schools have ‘health’ centers which dispense birth control and counsel students on how they can get an abortion.
I suppose Miss King’s pro life views might threaten their business.
They complained because someone was going to come on campus to say "Don't murder babies!" Argh!!!!!!!!!!
If we had the 50 million they would be doing the jobs that “Americans won’t do” plus providing a healthy surplus of workers so that employers would not have to pay incompetents a premium above minimum wage just to have a warm body where needed. At least they would be speaking English and have some loyalty to this nation. Consider all the business’s that group would have started and the potential for innovation lost.
Seems about right, four decades ago their parents would have probably reacted the same way to someone who dared suggest that Blacks were equal to Whites.
If you study history, you will see that a massive change in population growth ALWAYS has economic consequences. In our case we had the double whammy of the enormous Baby Boom and its future costs followed by the slaughter of a generation.
” she examined King’s presentation beforehand and “quite a bit of it does talk about civil rights, but there is a connection to morals.”
I hate it when really stupid people are shown to be from my state.
The Des Public school system is very liberal. They are trying to implement a UN themed curriculum in the district.
It would teach that everyone is a citizen of the world first. And other globalist, liberal things...
FYI: This is the same school that is known for the SCOTUS case Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969)...
I wonder how many complaints she actually received? Now is the time for all the other parents, who DID want their kids hear Dr. King, swamp this idiot Principal, and the School Board, with complaints.
Evidently not.
If only Alveda King were a Middle Eastern despot, or some other dipwad claiming that the Holocaust was faked and/or the Zionist Occupation Government (ZOG!) had framed some poor innocent Moslems for 9/11, she’d have not only spoken there, but the event would have been televised. Thanks wagglebee.
Now lookee hear der wadst awll dis i’d be hearing bout morals!
Great diversity of thought on this campus, I see. /sarc
That's not something a lot of people are prepared to hear.
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