Not many people know this but my cousin was Jam Master Jay. Yes, THE Jam Master Jay, turntable man of Run DMC. I had been wondering how I was going to make money in this economy and I’ve decided I’m going to quit my job and form a rap group, with me on the turntable. It should be pretty easy for me to get a contract because my cousin was Jam Master Jay. I just have to say his name and doors should open up. Now, I never met the guy but I did meet a relative who knew him so I’m as good as gold.

OK, let me clarify, yes my cousin REALLY was Jam Master Jay but I’m not going to quit my job to become a rapper. I might have met him at a reunion before Run DMC was famous, so we would have been kids, but that is the only time I saw the guy. I would be a fool thinking just because I’m a cousin I could capitalize on his name.

Unless, of course, I was related to Martin Luther King Jr.

You did it again, Mr. Tim Conway Jr. For the past hour I’ve heard you say how Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, talked at the Glenn Beck rally. You talked about the warm welcome she received. I’m not naïve enough not to know what you are implying, so instead of dancing around it I’m going to hit it head on, just for clarity.

Just because Alveda King speaks at a Glenn Beck rally doesn’t mean all is well in America with black people. Trotting out Alveda King, who, I was reminded time and again in the story you did, was the niece of Martin Luther King Jr., doesn’t take away the taint of the Tea Party movement as being racist. I love it when people try to make the point by bringing out someone who agrees with their position, or at least will agree to appear with them, who may have some remote association with a figure who is greatly opposed to them. To be fair the left has done this a lot. They hate Dick Cheney’s views but will hold up his lesbian daughter and use her to talk seemingly against her father. I say seemingly because the assumption is with him being a Republican he must hate homosexuals yet his own daughter is homosexual. Surely he doesn’t hate his own daughter so why is he against homosexuals?

That’s how the argument is supposed to go.

The same happened with Megan McCain, the daughter of John McCain. She has views that are opposite of the Republican Party, so she is trotted out on talk shows giving hope to folks that Republicans can change, or at least there is a chance of getting young people to move away from the rigid doctrine of the party.

That’s what happened with Alveda King. There had been lots of criticism of the rally, the date and the location. Alveda King, to say the least, is an outspoken critic the King family. Now, you have to think about this for a moment just to look at how silly this all gets. It’s like my early analogy about becoming a rap star. She isn’t the daughter of King, she is a niece. She didn’t see him every day. The other important point is when King was killed she was 18 years old. When he did the march on Washington she was 13. If she was his daughter I could accept her being exposed to his views and observations, possibly giving insight to things even though she was young. As a niece, I just don’t see it, especially in some of the claims she had made, such as when Mr. Conway was in utter glee when he played a message from her saying Martin Luther King was a Republican. I can’t see Martin Luther King having a discussion like that with her at her age, especially when his children have another perspective.

Google is really turning out to be the bane of talk show radio hosts because people who want to confirm information can do a simple search to verify information. For ratings, things like facts are ignored. When I got my lazy ass out of bed to get ready for work, I was able to hit the internet and look up information on Alveda King. She has been at war with the King family for years and has an agenda against Planned Parenthood and homosexuality.

She actually denounced and ridiculed Coretta Scott King as she was dying of cancer. This is the woman Glenn Beck, Tim Conway Jr. and others were so quick to put on stage to prove how it was wrong that people had an impression of them as being racist. It just proves they don’t get it. People don’t stick their ponytails into a plant and are connected to a Worldmind. We don’t link up with a Hive Mother. What always happens when people use someone like Alveda King to make a point is they think one person will absolve them of true and perceived sins, when in fact what tends to happen is they are exposed as being the very thing they are trying to disprove.