Bernice King called out Republican candidate Josh Mandel for invoking her father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to denounce critical race theory.

Mandel, running for Senate in Ohio, recently said that people who want to teach critical race theory in schools are “stomping on the grave of Martin Luther King.”

“Martin Luther King once said that he had a dream that his grandkids would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character,” he said. “But what you have going on in the government schools by these liberals and the media, by the secular left, by the radical left, they’re trying to make everything about skin color.”

By advancing the lie of Critical Race Theory, the liberals are stomping on the grave of Martin Luther King. pic.twitter.com/7uimOGR8cR

— Josh Mandel (@JoshMandelOhio) September 22, 2021

King responded by tweeting at Mandel that he should study her father’s teachings “in full and in context.”

“Don’t use my father or his grave to increase fear regarding CRT,” she continued. “My father’s words and teachings should bolster our courage to eradicate racism, beginning at its roots.”

But, @joshmandel, don’t use my father or his grave to increase fear regarding CRT.

My father’s words and teachings should bolster our courage to eradicate racism, beginning at its roots.

I suggest you start with ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’: https://t.co/JNgS16IoCC

— Be A King (@BerniceKing) September 23, 2021

Mandel doubled down in response and called her a “race politics profiteer.”

Dear @BerniceKing,

Spare me your lectures.

1. Critical Race Theory teaches kids to be racists.

2. Critical Race Theory stomps on the grave of Martin Luther King.

3. I’ll take me civil rights guidance from @AlvedaCKing. Not from race politics profiteers like yourself. https://t.co/FOSyDdDBkd

— Josh Mandel (@JoshMandelOhio) September 23, 2021

King reiterated, “As long as we fail to understand how racism harmed us then and hurts us still, we can’t arrive at true peace.”

This is a response to an invitation to study my father’s teachings and to avoid using one quote from him, out of context and erroneously, to suppress truth.

As long as we fail to understand how racism harmed us then and hurts us still, we can’t arrive at true peace. https://t.co/EEvkmGLE0R

— Be A King (@BerniceKing) September 23, 2021

Martin Luther King III also weighed in and said, “CRT doesn’t seek to divide. It seeks to teach our nation’s founding and history. It provides a window to the past so that we can open a door to a better future for all.”

And @JoshMandelOhio, since you seem to know my father’s words so well, you’ll remember that he also said, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”‘

— Martin Luther King III (@OfficialMLK3) September 23, 2021

If we cannot reckon with our country’s past, how are we to heal as a nation? How are we to move forward so that every person is seen as equal and judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin?

— Martin Luther King III (@OfficialMLK3) September 23, 2021

Mandel accused him of “doing a horrible disservice to children and to your father’s legacy” and called critical race theory “the real virus facing our nation.”

Dear @OfficialMLK3,

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

Critical Race Theory is the real virus facing our nation.

You are doing a horrible disservice to children and to your father’s legacy by serving as lapdog to the Democrats’ agenda of division and race-baiting. https://t.co/s3U9QQUNYG

— Josh Mandel (@JoshMandelOhio) September 24, 2021

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