The MSNBC commentator and Wake Forest University Law School professor delivers a profanity-laced speech at Cornell University’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture:

The event took place in Sage Chapel, with an audience of about 250 packed into the pews. Despite the sanctity of the setting, Harris-Perry could not resist herself in peppering curse words throughout her speech, some of which were obviously planned and not spur of the moment. At one point, she referred to her vision of democracy–that “democracy is for losers”– as “hot shit” and later exclaimed she hoped Trayvon Martin “whooped the shit out of George Zimmerman.”

What would Dr. King, a pacifist, think of those who champion violence in his commemoration?

It actually does not matter what he would think, argued Harris-Perry, because there is now way of knowing. True, but then the MSNBC spin-doctor went on to claim Dr. King is a “social construction” anyways, so what the actual Dr. King said and did is of little relevance and consequence to the modern-day conception of Dr. King.

In one of her many bids to come off as quirky, Harris-Perry also equated Dr. King, an icon of peace who changed the nation and the world for the better, with Beyoncé, a pop singer who does not even write her own lyrics.

“We think of King as the one great voice, like Beyoncé,” said Harris-Perry.

Question is what would Dr. King think of the likes of Professor Harris-Perry speaking for him and his movement? We will never know, and probably wouldn’t were King alive today because he would hopefuly pay her no mind.