Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

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.