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Prince William Slammed by Martin Luther King's Daughter for 'Horrific' Ukraine Comment
Newsweek ^ | March 10, 2022 | Jack Royston

Posted on 03/10/2022 4:38:20 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

Prince William was accused of "horrific comments" by Martin Luther King's daughter in the aftermath of a Ukrainian community event where he was partially misquoted.

Bernice King linked the Duke of Cambridge's remarks to colonialism after William and Kate Middleton visited the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in London to support the relief effort on March 9.

Footage from the event showed Prince William said: "Everyone is horrified by what they are seeing. The news every day, it's almost unfathomable to actually witness it, to see it. For our generation, it's very alien to see this in Europe. We're all right behind you."

The Press Association originally reported William also suggested Britons were more used to seeing conflict in Africa and Asia—though footage released by ITV of the royal's full comments suggested he in fact made no explicit reference to the two continents.

However, some maintained their criticism of the duke based on the reference to war in Europe feeling "very alien."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; mlk; princewilliam; ukraine; windsor
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1 posted on 03/10/2022 4:38:20 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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2 posted on 03/10/2022 4:41:51 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political leeft is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Mlk’s daughter is likely a commie loving socalist like he was.


3 posted on 03/10/2022 4:42:04 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Left heard words he didn’t say. When his actual remarks were made public, they doubled down. The Prince said nothing wrong.


4 posted on 03/10/2022 4:44:28 PM PST by maro (MAGA!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, a prominent commentator on race in Britain, told Newsweek the remarks about war in Europe feeling alien were offensive on their own.

It's like reading the babylon bee.
5 posted on 03/10/2022 4:45:44 PM PST by Trillian
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Poor William. He’s the best one in the family, and now someone is going after him. Jeeze. Is anyone safe any more?


6 posted on 03/10/2022 5:02:44 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: Seruzawa

Martin Luther King’s daughter has no moral credibility. Milking the MLK myth for all it is worth for many years is an unethical activity. MLK and Malcolm X had a few good things to so but nothing worth reading 100 years from now.


7 posted on 03/10/2022 5:12:17 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

People are usually more interested in what is happening in their own neighborhood than in what is going on somewhere else. He is right about Europe being generally peaceful since 1945, with the exception of a certain country’s invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. As horrible as wars in other places may be, they have most often not been in places where major military powers are face to face. It’s like that saying about knowing you are going to be executed focuses your attention.

MLK’s daughter is free to raise the world’s consciousness about these other conflicts. She is also free to try to stop Africans from killing Africans, and Asaians from killing Asaians.


8 posted on 03/10/2022 5:19:05 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Well....other than Yugoslavia there haven’t been wars in Europe since WWII. Compared lots of other parts of the world it has been relatively peaceful over the last 75 years.


9 posted on 03/10/2022 5:21:21 PM PST by FLT-bird
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It is interesting how people forget how we bombed Yugoslavia....They had quite the war there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars


10 posted on 03/10/2022 5:22:19 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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Well, there was also a civil war in Greece in the years just after World War II.


11 posted on 03/10/2022 5:28:27 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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People today overreact to everything.

All he said was: "For our generation, it's very alien to see this in Europe."

He said "for our generation," referring to his lifetime.

He spoke of a continent (Europe). People of many different ethnic backgrounds live in Europe.

12 posted on 03/10/2022 5:38:01 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Falconspeed

Wow. MLK will be read, if people are still around, in 100 years. He was a giant.


13 posted on 03/10/2022 5:38:25 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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Oh, yes. I cringe at leaving that that one out since my wife is Serbian. Thanks for the reminder. My excuse will be that it’s late and I had a senior moment.


14 posted on 03/10/2022 5:39:00 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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They did not forget. T5hey just do not give a damn. We [the U.S.A.F. bombed the Serb houses. We bombed their hospitals. We bombed their radio stations. We bombed their buses loaded with people on their bridges. We bombed their bridges. We bombed to our heart’s content. We bombed until Bill Clinton, the People’s choice said stop.


15 posted on 03/10/2022 5:50:09 PM PST by sport
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To: maro

What I was going to post.


16 posted on 03/10/2022 5:50:59 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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However, some maintained their criticism of the duke based on the reference to war in Europe feeling "very alien."

Monumental levels of stupidity that continues to reach new frontiers.

Leftists are literally insane.

17 posted on 03/10/2022 5:57:16 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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The Left heard words he didn’t say. When his actual remarks were made public, they doubled down. The Prince said nothing wrong.

Absolutely.

The Left is messed up.

18 posted on 03/10/2022 6:02:02 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: sport

Clinton bombed until they took his penis off the front pages.


19 posted on 03/10/2022 6:02:18 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Hungering and thirsting for Righteousness...)
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To: Trillian

We are dealing with people who have pretty rigid and cognitively inflexible brains that have difficulty managing complexity when flooded with emotions like self righteous and indignation.

They need to be ignored.


20 posted on 03/10/2022 6:11:56 PM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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