Coretta Scott King is trending on Twitter/X after Jonathan Majors compared the wife of Martin Luther King Jr to his current girlfriend, Meagan Good.
“She’s an angel. She’s held me down… like a Coretta,” he told ABC News anchor Linsay Davis in an exclusive interview on Monday, Jan. 8.
The full interview will air on Hulu on Thursday, Jan. 11.
Majors’ mention of “Coretta” sent her name trending No. 1 on Twitter/X Monday morning.
The best part of Jonathan Majors interview was when he joined in on the Coretta jokes ? pic.twitter.com/lhP21yZyPm
— ChillMonger (@ChillMongerr) January 8, 2024
Black Twitter/X reacted swiftly.
One user wrote: “What makes Meagan anything like Coretta Scott King and more importantly what have you done to make you think you are MLK? and right before Martin Luther Kings’ birthday, too. This is blasphemy.”
Another user wrote: “Ppl treating Coretta Scott King like she was an accessory when she’s the reason MLK was who he was never ceases to annoy me.”
A fourth person wrote: “It’s so funny to me how men like Majors view Coretta as merely supplementary to MLK Jr.’s legacy. She was there only to ‘hold him down.’ Reduced to nothing more than a smiling, doting prop. Meanwhile she was an accomplished musician, author, and a civil rights leader.”
I need us to start using the question "what do you mean by that?" more. I need journalists to start actually asking questions. Because what the hell do you mean by "she's held me down like a Coretta" ? Say more.
— gloria alamrew / ???? ??? (@GloriaAlamrew) January 8, 2024
Exactly! MLK did a lot of trifling shiiii to Coretta so hearing him say this not only to white woman but now his BLACK girlfriend is hilarious Lmmfaoooooo https://t.co/oUDsJh92MT
— ??-LÉAK.=M?LIK (@MALIK_VS_LAMAR) January 8, 2024
Asking your Yt gf to be like Coretta is insane ….
— fiyah ? (@_mariyahRiyah) January 8, 2024
You can chase a Coretta, but you can never BE a Coretta.
Period, exclamation pernt.— FTCUTD: The Naysayer Soccer Podcast (@FTCUTD) January 8, 2024
