Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

The cause of death was listed as an accidental drowning. In contradiction to King's statement however University of Cambridge historian David Garrow stated in a Salon profile of Alveda King regarding Martin Luther King: "King was not only not a Republican he was well to the left of the Democratic Party of the 1960s [.

and his wife Naomi Barber King. D. William King Sr.