by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Since the onset of the Obama phenomenon, Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth and death days have been “polluted” by false and ahistorical comparisons between Obama and MLK. The two men represent opposite political poles: one, a radical opponent of imperial war and concentrated economic power, the other, an ally of Wall Street and commander-in-chief of “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” In focusing on King, the man of peace, Tavis Smiley’s PBS special corrects a history that has been distorted, sometimes beyond recognition – not the least by the revisionist and poseur in the White House.
The focus on separate “identities” has led to numerous academic theories and non-profit career opportunities but no real power for oppressed and working-class people.
This book shows that the liberal road to reform was a dead end; it is time to commit to revolution.
The white power movement drew recruits, many of them women, from every region of the country and all socio-economic sectors of white America.
BAR’s senior columnist: “If everything you know about Russia is from the New York Times and the Washington Post, you don’t know anything about Russia.”
The US must cease its military occupation of Africans at home and abroad, and abandon its attempt to rule the world by force.
