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.
“Trump’s treatment of Puerto Ricans as “third world class” citizens will also be reflected in the school and housing conditions available to Puerto Ricans arriving in Florida.”
“Many of the detainees had been held in custody for years without access to a lawyer or ever having appeared before a judge.”
“The people of Ethiopia are showing their defiant resistance.”
Black Misleadership Class Specializes in Groveling
Most Black elected officials and established civic organizations long ago stopped making substantive demands of U.S. rulers. “They have no demands.
