Grab a mug and hold on by the handle because the tea coming from a steaming member of the Beckham family is piping hot.

After years of speculation, Brooklyn Beckham announced to the world this week that he is done with his famous parents, David and Victoria Beckham, and has no plans to reconcile after claiming his family tried to sabotage his marriage.

“I do not want to reconcile with my family. I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in my life,” Brooklyn said.

In a lengthy post on Instagram, the 26-year-old said his parents have tried to ruin his relationship with his wife, Nicola Peltz Beckham, well before the two tied the knot in 2022.

“The night before our wedding, members of my family told me that Nicola was ‘not blood’ and ‘not family.’ Since the moment I started standing up for myself with my family, I’ve received endless attacks from my parents, both publicly and privately, that were sent to the press on their orders,” Brooklyn said.

The Beckhams’ first born continued with scathing allegations against his parents, including that they tried to bribe him to sign away the rights to his name, his mom refused to make Nicola’s wedding dress, and his parents would invite his former flings around the family to purposely make him and his wife uncomfortable.

Brooklyn added that several members of his family allegedly told him that Nicola was “not blood” and “not family” ahead of their wedding day.

But wait— the most public part of the allegations may be that Brooklyn claims Victoria “hijacked” the “first dance” during his wedding from his wife, Nicola, and “danced very inappropriately.”

“My mum hijacked my first dance with my wife, which had been planned weeks in advance to a romantic love song. In front of our 500 wedding guests, Marc Anthony called me to the stage where the schedule was planned to be my romantic dance with my wife but instead my mum was waiting to dance with me instead,” Brooklyn said. “She danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone. I’ve never felt more uncomfortable humiliated in my entire life. We wanted to renew our vows so we could create new memories of our wedding day that bring us joy and happiness, not anxiety and embarrassment.”

Brooklyn and Nicola noticeably didn’t attend David’s 50th birthday bash last spring. Don’t worry, Brooklyn addressed this scenario as well.

“We still travelled to London for my dad’s birthday and were rejected for a week as we waited in our hotel room trying to plan quality time with him. He refused all of our attempts, unless it was at his big birthday party with a hundred guests and cameras at every corner. When he finally agreed to see me, it was under the condition that Nicola wasn’t invited,” Brooklyn said.

The now-obvious strain was solidified late last year when he blocked his parents and brothers on social media.

“The narrative that my wife controls me is completely backwards,” Brooklyn said. “I have been controlled by my parents for most of my life.”

David was asked about his son’s statements on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. The soccer legend chose to be “Switzerland” on the matter and ignored the question from the reporter.

Later in the day, David appeared on a talk show where he seemingly addressed the accusations by discussing the positives and negatives of social media.

“It can be dangerous, but what I’ve found—especially with my kids as well—use it for the right reasons,” Beckham said on CNBC’s “Squawkbox.” He shared how he has used social media for good before adding, “I’ve tried to do the same with my children—to educate them. They make mistakes. Children are allowed to make mistakes … you have to sometimes let them make those mistakes as well.”

Brooklyn doesn’t view his social media spill as a mistake, instead saying, “My wife and I do not want a life shaped by image, press, or manipulation. All we want [is] peace, privacy and happiness for us and our future family.”

Though Brooklyn said he has found “peace” since parting with his once picture-perfect family, stay tuned for the next chapter in this apparent fractured fairytale.

Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day celebrating the legacy of a man who is famous in the United States for saying that we ought to judge people based on the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin.

The story of the Civil Rights Act is one of Southern Democrats largely opposing the Civil Rights Movement.

Ever since then, Democrats have been searching for the next Civil Rights Movement. We’ve seen many iterations of this over the course of the subsequent decades. We saw a quasi-civil rights movement pushed by the Left with regard to gender and sexuality, the idea that women had to be freed from the predations of the patriarchy, similar to the way that black people required freeing from the predations of Jim Crow.

That, of course, was a bad analogy.

Then we heard the same thing with regard to LGBTQ+-, that this was the new civil rights movement.

But now, Democrats seem to have hit upon the idea that the new civil rights movement is illegal immigration.

They believe illegal immigrants must be allowed to stay in the United States, and enforcement of the laws against illegal immigration is itself a form of white supremacy.

The Democrats are stretching on this one because they’re running out of examples of true policy-driven widespread American racism. The demand is higher than the supply.

Here’s one example: Eric Holder, the former attorney general of the United States, suggested on Monday that the Voting Rights Act is under a serious and abiding threat. Not only that, he suggested that there was the threat that America was about to be resegregated by the Trump administration, saying, “We are experiencing unprecedented mid-decade gerrymandering attempts designed to disproportionately disenfranchise black and brown voters. As the president desperately clings to power like an insecure dictator, there is a concerted effort to resegregate America.”

There is not a “concerted effort to segregate America.” No one who is sentient in America believes that there is. No one is worried that black Americans are now going to be forced to drink out of different water fountains, or be forced to go to different schools, or that we are going to resegregate restaurants or anything like that.

This is a wild overstatement. The reality is that the story of the post-Jim Crow racial situation in America was one of increasing good relations between the races.

That was true all the way up to 2013, according to the polling data. A vast majority of both black Americans and white Americans, up until roughly 2013, thought that American race relations were improving steadily, and that they had improved markedly since the 1960s.

Then we slipped into the BLM era and the late stages of the Obama presidency. That sank Americans’ perceptions of race relations.

But that does not mean that black Americans are being held underfoot by white Americans, that white supremacy rules the roost these days.

Thus, Democrats are looking for their new civil rights movement. They need another excuse for why they ought to be in charge, why they have the moral high ground.

That’s a hard case to make. The Democratic Party has lost the moral high ground on a wide variety of issues: It has become not only the abortion-on-demand party, but the Celebrate Your Abortion party. The Democratic Party has become a party that cannot explain to you why a woman isn’t a man and a man isn’t a woman. It has become the party of full-scale open borders, and so now they are going to attempt to cram the illegal immigration issue into the civil rights discussion.

And it won’t work.