Bernice King, the daughter of late civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is pushing back against Vice President JD Vance’s comments surrounding white privilege in the U.S.

King sounded off on social media, writing, “@ JDVance Help me with this. In my 62 years, I don’t recall white people ever having to apologize for being white in America. The courage to tell the truth about the advantages white people have had in this country is the real issue.”

“It’s time to stop reframing accountability as injury and start reckoning honestly with history, power, and responsibility—so we can move toward repair justice, and a shared future where dignity is not selective,” she added.

What did JD Vance say about white privilege at AmFest 2025?

Over the weekend, Turning Point USA, or AmFest 2025, took place for the first time since Charlie Kirk‘s assassination on Sept. 10, 2025. In his speech, Vance encouraged people to join ICE, but it’s his comments about white privilege that folks can’t stop talking about.

“In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore,” Vance told the crowd.

Unsurprisingly, countless people, including rapper Ice Cube’s son, O’Shea Jackson Jr., who co-hosts the No Contest Wrestling podcast, slammed Vance for his remarks.

“When the f**k did you have to?” Jackson wrote on X.

“When JD Vance declares that white people no longer have to apologize for being white, what he’s truly signaling is a license for them to embrace open racism without remorse—emboldening them to spout bigoted rhetoric with brazen impunity, just as he and Trump do,” another person wrote on X. “This isn’t about pride in identity; it’s a dog whistle for unchecked prejudice, freeing supporters to echo their leaders’ divisive slurs against immigrants, minorities, and anyone who challenges the status quo.”

“If being white is the only thing going for you I really feel sorry for you,” someone else added.

On the other hand, some argued there’s no such thing as white privilege: “I know plenty of white Americans living the exact same struggle as people in the Black community same wages, same bills, same stress, same lack of opportunity,” they commented under The Jasmine Brand’s Facebook post.

JD Vance called Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett a ‘street girl’ at AmFest 2025

As Blavity reported, Vance took shots at Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett at the Turning Point USA America Fest.

“The record speaks for itself. She wants to be a senator, though her street girl persona is about as real as her nails,” Vance said.

Crockett was quick to fire back at Vance during her appearance on MS NOW’s The Weekend: Primetime.

“When they can tell me about their policies that are helping Texas, then we can have a conversation, until then, take whatever shots you want to take at me, because I have been a Black woman my entire life,” she said.

Crockett, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, also called out the fact that Vance should be more concerned about the real reason why he’s Trump’s VP.

“Baby, let’s talk about your record, because the only reason you’re the vice president is because the current President tried to have his last [vice] president killed,” she said, referencing the January 6 Capitol attack in which Trump supporters chanted “Hang Mike Pence” following Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.