ByColin TaylorPosted on August 11, 2016
The members of America’s most famous political family, the Kennedys, roundly condemned Republican nominee Donald Trump for his casual incitement of political violence at a recent rally. The Kennedy family is no stranger to political violence – their most famous son, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963. His brother, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, announced the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to a crowd in Indianapolis in 1968 before he too was assassinated months later.
William Kennedy Smith and Jean Kennedy Smith, nephew and sister of Pres. Kennedy, slammed Trump for encouraging the “greatest of all civic sins.” They recalled Robert Kennedy’s speech to the people of Indianapolis in 1968 after Robert Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated; how his compassion and his wisdom, his understanding of their pain and sharing his own pain at the loss helped heal the crowd:
“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black…Those words mattered. While there were riots in cities across the nation that night, Indianapolis did not burn.”
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http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/08/11/kennedy-family-slams-trump-inciting-political-killings-scathing-op-ed-2/
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