(AP) -- “It’s sad and pathetic to see the three of them behaving in this self-destructive way,” said David J. Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Dr. King. “Unfortunately all of the children seem to regard their father’s legacy as first and foremost an income maximization opportunity for themselves.”

Lawyers for both sides drew similar conclusions, although of course they blamed different children.

“Bernice and Martin appear willing to tear down Dr. King’s legacy to build their own,” said L. Lin Wood, a lawyer for King Inc., the corporation that handles the rights to their father’s works. “They are engaged in what can fairly be described as self-destructive behavior. It’s a scorched-earth policy. And unfortunately they’ve tarnished the legacy of Dr. King.”

Jock Smith, the lawyer for Bernice and Martin King, said: “Martin Luther King’s whole philosophy was based on inclusion of all of God’s children. For Dexter to not allow Bernice and Martin to have equal rights within the very corporation that evangelizes their father is totally contrary to that philosophy.”

Ms. Reynolds, 66, a journalist, minister and longtime acquaintance of the King family, has said she may now abandon the book. “There’s an African proverb, ‘When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled,’ ” she said. “These are fights between siblings for control. I’m just a writer caught in the middle.”

A rally of back-and-forth lawsuits within the family began in July, when Bernice and Martin sued Dexter, alleging that he had mismanaged their father’s estate and illegally removed funds from their mother’s estate. He countersued, claiming that his siblings had improperly borrowed office space and company cars from the King Center, an Atlanta civil rights museum. He also accused Bernice of corrupting their father’s legacy by acting as host of an anti-gay-marriage rally at the center.

(UPH)--  This one speaks for itself...  I will remain quiet on this one.