"We have to allow for people to grow and learn, and it took courage for King to make her statement. With her declaration, we will now see if Bernice King follows the lead of her late mother, Coretta Scott King, and her late sister, Yolanda, in their advocacy of full equality for members of the LGBT community."—Pam Spaulding, on Bernice King's about-face on LGBTQI rights: After she spent years in the homobigotry camp, King said at the MLK Day rally in Atlanta this weekend that "she didn't care if people were Hindu, Buddhist, Islamist, were from the North side or the South side, were black or white, were 'heterosexual or homosexual, or gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender'—that all people were needed to create unity."
I like Pam's generosity, and I want to echo it: Growing and learning in public isn't easy, and it isn't for the weak and faint-hearted. Good on ya, Ms. King.
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