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.
“People Have a Right to Go Into a Restaurant and Have Dinner”
“With each passing day under Trump, the mythology of US exceptionalism becomes more fragile.”
“Cutting-edge biomedical technology actually perpetuates certain inequalities.”
“The constraints empire placed on its racial contradictions are falling away.”
“Mainstream feminists never quite knew what to do with the welfare rights movement.”
