BF2S Forums Martin Luther King's family charging the government for a monument.

Macbeth wrote:

Excellent I say, fuck the principles of your father and the things that got you to where you are; You can make money...off a memorial to him.

Two of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's children said Thursday they were tired of seeing their father's image used to sell everything from T-shirts to vodka, calling the growth of the revolutionary as a global super-brand "embarrassing."

Aleida Guevara, the eldest of Guevara's four children by his second wife, Cuban revolutionary Aleida March, said the commercialization of her father's image contributed to tension between rich and poor in some countries.

"Something that bothers me now is the appropriation of the figure of Che that has been used to make enemies from different classes. It's embarrassing," she wrote during an Internet forum sponsored by Cuba's government ahead of what would have been her father's 80th birthday on June 14.

Aleida Guevara was asked about the use of her father's image to sell British vodka and French soft drinks. She decried those campaigns as well one in Switzerland that uses his likeness to peddle cell phones.

"We don't want money, we demand respect," wrote Guevara, who is a trained physician like her father.

Last edited by AussieReaper (2009-04-21 20:58:14)

Im_Dooomed wrote:

but maybe he's the new newsmaster?

Macbeth wrote:

MLK is probably really pissed off right now even though he is dead.

• Attempting to auction off their father's private papers (which they had previously withheld from the public unless the public wished to pay a fee). These papers, including an early draft of the "I Have a Dream" speech were spared from auction when a group of philanthropists banded together and paid off the King children to the tune of $32 million.
• Demanding millions in "licensing fees" for campaign paraphernalia (mostly homemade) linking their father to then-candidate Barack Obama.
• Hurling lawsuits at one another over their parents' estate after Coretta Scott King died in 2006.

Last edited by Protecus (2009-04-22 13:41:09)

Protecus wrote:

Sad, but hardly surprising.

Despite the good their father fought (and died) for, his children apparently dodged the "decent human being" genes their father had an abundance of.

Some of the most recent money-grabbing schemes of the remaining King tribe:

• Attempting to auction off their father's private papers (which they had previously withheld from the public unless the public wished to pay a fee). These papers, including an early draft of the "I Have a Dream" speech were spared from auction when a group of philanthropists banded together and paid off the King children to the tune of $32 million.
• Demanding millions in "licensing fees" for campaign paraphernalia (mostly homemade) linking their father to then-candidate Barack Obama.
• Hurling lawsuits at one another over their parents' estate after Coretta Scott King died in 2006.

Most recently, two of the children are suing a third over the rights to their mother's papers. Since there is a multi-million dollar book deal linked to the papers, you can see the motivation.

The King children's lack of decency is so massive, its almost impressive.

Impressively disgusting.

Wouldn't be surprised if they started demanding reoyalties every Martin Luther King Day.

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