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.
It was natural enough. To be white in Mississippi is to be a Republican, to be black is to be a Democrat.
“The imperial populace is immensely forgiving of crimes against weaker peoples.”
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“Anyone and anything connected to Russia gets the double standard treatment and is targeted for attack.”
Last year the African Union resisted Western pressure to intervene militarily in Burundi.
