What Jonathan Majors misses when invoking Coretta Scott King as a mere “prop” for men

Bernice King has some pointed words for Jonathan Majors after a clip of the star’s GMA interview went viralin which he states his existing partner starlet Meagan Good supports him like “a Coretta.”

Bernice, the youngest child of Martin Luther King Jrand Coretta Scott Kingrequired to X to deal with the outrage surrounding Majors namechecking Coretta. Bernicestated“My mom wasn’t a prop. She was a peace supporter before she satisfied my daddy and contributed in him speaking up versus the Vietnam War. Please comprehend … my mom was a force.”

Her tweet remained in reaction to Majors’ first-ever tv interview after his guilty attack conviction. An ABC News reporter, Linsey Davis asked the star how to explain his relationship with Good, he stated, “Everything has actually kinda disappeared. And it’s simply me now, you understand, and my beautiful, you understand, partner, Meagan, and my pets. She’s an angel. She’s held me down like a Coretta.”

This isn’t the very first time that Majors has actually conjured up the name Coretta Scott King. In December, throughout the trial versus Majors for attacking his ex-partner Grace Jabbari, it was exposed in an audio recording that Majors informed Jabbari to act more like Coretta and previous First Lady Michelle Obama

Majors stated, “Grace needs to be of a specific frame of mind to support– Coretta Scott King, do you understand who that is? That’s Martin Luther King’s spouse. Michelle Obama, Barack Obama‘s better half,” Range reported.

In the ABC News interview, Majors stated that the Coretta Scott King and Michelle Obama contrasts were the star “attempting to offer an example of what it is I’m desiring be, you understand, these excellent guys– Martin, President Obama– and attempting to offer a recommendation indicate that.

“I was trying, and I did a dreadful task at it obviously, I was trying to inspire, to inform, to provide point of view as in to what it is I was wishing to leave the relationship,” he included.

The web appears ambivalent about Majors’ intent. The remarks he has actually made about Coretta have actually stimulated reaction online about “how guys like Majors see Coretta as simply additional to MLK Jr.’s tradition. She existed just to ‘hold him down,'” author Gloria Alamrewpublished on X. “Reduced to absolutely nothing more than a smiling, doting prop. She was an accomplished artist, author, and a civil rights leader.”

In Bernice King’s post, she likewise shared a piece she composed for the Huffington Postin 2017 about her mom’s tradition. Beginning each paragraph with “Before she was a King,” to stress the significance of Coretta’s individual experiences and advocacy before her marital relationship and relationship to MLK, Jr.

“Before she was a King, my mom was a civil liberties activist, a member of the NAACP and the Race Relations and Civil Liberties Committees at Antioch College,” she stated. “Coretta Scott was identified that her life would serve to raise others. She was currently a female of excellent character.”