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.
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“We got into what I call a Faustian pact with big business from Mandela onwards.”
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“First Lady Hillary Clinton referred to certain youths as ‘super-predators.’”
“American blacks needed no outsiders to awaken their sense of the tremendous contradiction between America's professed beliefs and its actual practices.”
