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King Children Criticize Trump, Decry Racism on MLK Holiday

Kayden Gray, 6, holds up a sign before a march to mark the birthday of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in San Francisco, Monday, Jan. 15, 2018.
(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. tian immigrants and Trump 89th birthday and ahead countries and questioned that our nation needs more
Associated Press supporters broke out near of the 50th anniversary of the need to allow more citizens from white states
ATLANTA (AP) — Martin Lu- the president’s Florida re- his assassination in Mem- Haitians into the U.S. He like Norway, I don’t even
ther King Jr.’s children and sort Monday, the official phis, Tennessee. also is said to have asked think we need to spend any
the pastor of an Atlanta federal holiday honoring Trump marked his first Martin why the country couldn’t time even talking about
church where he preached King. Luther King Jr. Day as presi- have more immigrants from what it says and what it is.”
decried disparaging re- At gatherings across the dent buffeted by claims nations like Norway. He added, “We got to find
marks President Donald nation, activists, residents that during a meeting with In Washington, King’s el- a way to work on this man’s
Trump is said to have made and teachers honored the senators on immigration dest son, Martin Luther King heart.”
about African countries, late civil rights leader on last week, he used a vul- III, criticized Trump, saying,
while protests between Hai- what would have been his garity to describe African “When a president insists Continued on Page 4