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.
“We need a real debate between a Democratic Party team player and a Green Party no-corporate-money candidate.”
“This country continues to routinely separate children from their parents and has done so well before this current border crisis.”
“One must always be mindful of the kinship models one mobilizes to get people together in a quest for justice.”
“Tricontinentalism was deeply rooted in a long tradition of black internationalist thought.”
“The police respond as if the black person is guilty of whatever transgression the white person said they committed.”
