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.
“American exceptionalism is rooted in the fairy-tale belief of racial superiority, of which American exceptionalism is a national and imperial expression.”
“More censure of Israel is no doubt in the works, given Israel’s latest massacres in Gaza.”
“If the federal government ‘caging children’ and ‘separating families’ doesn’t put you in the streets, what will?”
“The bipartisan war making consensus is in full effect.”
“This is a storied victory for Debbie and her family, and the Move organization.”
