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.
On December 1, our comrade and friend Akinyele Umoja published a piece titled “’
“Putin exposed the U.S. alliance with al Qaida on the world stage.”
“The capitalist moribund two-party electoral politics takes us down a dead-end road.”
“Are whites so committed to the modern day slave patrol that they will allow no one justice, even those who look like them?”
“The discourse on sexual assault has been kept a bourgeois affair.”
