Story highlights Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says, "All lives matter"

Huckabee said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be "appalled" by the Black Lives Matter movement

Washington (CNN) Mike Huckabee says Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be "appalled" by the Black Lives Matter movement, and that "it's more of a sin problem than a skin problem."

The Republican presidential contender and former Arkansas governor said Tuesday in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer that he's bothered by the movement's focus on one ethnicity.

"When I hear people scream, 'black lives matter,' I think, 'Of course they do.' But all lives matter. It's not that any life matters more than another," Huckabee said in the interview aired on "The Situation Room."

"That's the whole message that Dr. King tried to present, and I think he'd be appalled by the notion that we're elevating some lives above others," Huckabee said.

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