In a statement Thursday, Martin Luther King III, son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., responded to North Carolina Lieutenant Governor and gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson’s reported disparagement of the elder King. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.
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00:00One of Martin Luther King Jr.'s sons has weighed in on the scandal surrounding North Carolina
00:04Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson. On Thursday, CNN reported that Robinson had made racist
00:09statements on an online message board from 2008 to 2012. Those statements included calling himself
00:15a black Nazi and referring to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as a commie bastard and
00:20worse than a maggot. King's son Martin Luther King III said in a statement Thursday,
00:25I am not surprised by Mark Robinson's alleged inflammatory and offensive comments about my
00:30father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His praise for slavery, disparaging rhetoric, and grotesque
00:35characterization of my dad and his legacy are deeply worrisome for North Carolinians and all
00:40Americans who oppose racism and bigotry. King said he would be supporting Robinson's opponent
00:44in the current North Carolina gubernatorial race, Josh Stein. In a video posted to X Thursday,
00:50Robinson called the CNN report lies. Let me reassure you, the things that you will see
00:55in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson.