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 Palestinians face the last bastion of legalized racial rule on the planet.”
“It's time for us to grow up and join the rest of the world that has several different political parties.”
“If having black faces in high and not so high places doesn’t save our lives why should we support them at all?”
“Kanye West merely represents what happens when the Black misleadership class begins to reflect the crisis of the US system.”
“The systematic violence could not have occurred without the ongoing support from the U.S.”
