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.
“Oppressed communities around the world need to divorce themselves from empires.”
“This cannot possibly be an actual investigation into an actual allegation.”
“This is the most evil plan that has ever existed. It’s insane.”
“The drug war is the justification to create a police state of black and Latinx communities.”
“It was a very sharp reduction in birth weight.”
