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Sen. Joe Biden was a big fan of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, the former Ku Klux Klansman who voted against Thurgood Marshall and took part in the “high-tech lynching” of Clarence Thomas. Biden claimed Byrd “elevated the Senate” and the Delaware Democrat had no problem working with segregationist southern Democrats James Eastland and Herman Talmadge.
Whatever Biden says about Martin Luther King Jr. is essentially meaningless. Consider also the composite character David Garrow profiled in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. On January 15, 2016, when he proclaimed the national holiday for King, the president said:
With profound faith in our Nation’s promise, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., led a non-violent movement that urged our country’s leaders to expand the reach of freedom and provide equal opportunity for all.
Together, with countless unsung heroes equally committed to the idea that America is a constant work in progress, he heeded the call etched into our founding documents nearly two centuries before his time, marching and sacrificing for the idea of a fair, just, and inclusive society.
And so on, all inviting a look at what that the composite character said about King on his way up the ladder. Barry, as mother Ann Dunham called him, was born on August 4, 1961, so he had yet to turn three on August 22, 1963, when King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. In 1965, Ann Dunham married Indonesian Lolo Soetoro and Barry was attending the Besuki school in Jakarta when King was murdered on April 4, 1968. The author of the 1995 Dreams from My Father is pretty quiet about King’s impact at the time.
In that book, Barry’s strongest influence is the poet “Frank,” who is really the Communist Frank Marshall Davis, who dedicated most of his life to the all-white dictatorship of the Soviet Union. In Dreams Frank gets more than 2,000 words but the says nothing about Martin Luther King Jr. At Occidental College Barry gathers books from the library, but not Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, from 1958, or any other book by King.
The student did gather books by James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and W.E.B. DuBois, but as Barry explains, “only Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different.” As Stanley Crouch recalled, Malcolm X was the “chief black heckler of the civil rights movement,” and regarded non-violence as “nonsense.” As Penn professor Thomas J. Sugrue notes, black-power radicals derided King as “de Lawd” and branded him as “hopelessly bourgeois, a detriment rather than a positive force in the black freedom struggle.”
In Dreams, Barry meets a tall, gaunt man named Malik, “who mentioned that he was a follower of the Nation of Islam.” The narrative portrays the NOI uncritically and as a positive force. As one character explains, “If it wasn’t for Islam, man, I’d be dead.”
As Crouch explained, for NOI boss Louis Farrakahn, “the white man was a devil ‘grafted’ from black people in an evil genetic experiment by a mad, pumpkin-headed scientist named Yacub,” and “the first devils to roll off Yacub’s assembly line were the Jews, the idea of their being the chosen was a lot of baloney.”
Nobody doing serious work in civil rights, Crouch recalled, “would have anything to do with the Nation of Islam. It was too racist and too much of an intellectual embarrassment.” On the other hand, as the Department of Justice notes, Jews played significant roles in the civil rights movement:
Fully half of the young people who flooded into Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964 were Jewish. Among them were Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered along with African American activist James Chaney because of their efforts to register Black voters. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel served as an advisor to Dr. King and marched with him from Montgomery to Selma in 1964. That year, 17 rabbis were arrested with Dr. King in St. Augustine, Florida, after a challenge to racial segregation in public accommodations.
That failed to register with the Dreams author, who in 2005 happily posed for a photo with Louis Farrakhan, the nation’s leading anti-Semite. It’s hard to find any serious criticism of Farrakhan by the composite character president, who invited Black Lives Matter leaders to the White House. BLM is the direct descendant of BLA, the Black Liberation Army, a violent criminal gang.
BLM’s hero is not Martin Luther King. BLM’s hero is fugitive cop-killer Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur. In 2011, Obama brought to the White House the rapper Common, whose “Song for Assata,” released in 2000, portrayed Chesimard as a victim of police violence.
As Tablet editor David Samuels noted last August in “The Obama Factor,” the composite character is still running the country and “responsible for the disaster that we are living through now.” After 10/7, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, Obama decried the “occupation,” the term Osama bin Laden used three times in his 2002 letter to America.
“What is happening to the Palestinians is unbearable,” the composite character also said, striking moral equivalence between the Hamas terrorists and their Jewish victims.
The 10/7 attack unleashed armies of anti-Semites even at Harvard. Instead of criticizing the pro-Hamas squads, the composite character backed president Claudine Gay, a plagiarist who preferred to see anti-Semitism in context. All things considered, the composite character has less claim on the King legacy than his puppet Joe Biden.
Beez says
He plagiarized his doctoral dissertation.
Joe Esposito says
Us White folks learned a lot from Dr. King.
We now understand the wrongs that were committed and have been trying
for 60 years to correct those mistakes.
I just hope Black folks wake up and see how the Democrat party has played them for the last 60 years and go back to being Conservatives and Republicans like their ancestors were in the past.
Mo de Profit says
In the 60’s Tampa Mowtown records made a fortune by being the best at producing soul music and they employed only one white artist R Dean Taylor, they didn’t need help from the white people, we didn’t commit the mistakes that we’ve been accused of.
In the 70’s came Philadelphia, and Stax specialising and making their fortunes from doing a great job of producing music that was better than the crap lots of white bands produced, the Osmonds for example and the genre called bubblegum. They didn’t need your help.
They do not need our help, they need to help themselves.
Steve Chavez says
“MLK’S DREAM turned into his Worst NIGHTMARE now that people are hired, appointed, and Elected ONLY due to the Color of their Skin, their LGBTQ+ Status, for DEI, being a First, their Political Tilt, and NOT the Content of their Qualifications!” SC
Now “BLACKS ONLY” SEGREGATION with raised BLACK POWER fists. Black Student Unions, Black dorms, and Black Safe Spaces.
Up to 75 Black’s Only Graduations. (Counter to end this: “A White’s Only Graduation.” Just proposing it would cause a national uproar and hopefully the point would be made.)
In NY, a “Colored’s Only” party and hosted by the Mayor. (No White city employee is suing her?) AND THEY DARE TO HONOR ROSA PARKS TOO?
University of Michigan, 142 DEI Staff with a five-year goal of 241 DEI staff. (Are MAGA’s, Jews, Christians, Pro-Life, Straight’s, White’s allowed on campus? Imagine a student wearing a MAGA hat on any campus today? Protected by the DEI czars, right?)
BLACK LIVES MATTER except those thousands that are shot and murdered in Chicago, Philly, Baltimore, St. Louis, New Orleans, Atlanta, etc…, NO TEARS, NO RIOTS for them because their BLACK LIVES DON’T MATTER! Democrats don’t care about those Blacks.
Why, after going back and researching on who started this Black Supremacist movement, I always end up with Obama? I then add Michelle, Oprah, and the Congressional Black Caucus?
Kasandra says
Well, the Obama’s may not have started it but they sure glommed onto it.
Steve Chavez says
“They”, meaning Communists from TheRedNation.org have renamed Columbus Day and now starting on the White invaders, Thanksgiving Day to The Day of Mourning. THEREFORE, I rename MLK Day to “BILLY GRAHAM DAY!”
There were news programs show the MLK statue on The Mall. We’ve seen the Lincoln Memorial spray-painted, and “they” want to remove it and the Jefferson Memorial and a movement to remove statues around the country, led again, but Communist groups like ANSWER, The Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Revolutionary Communist Party, and the CPUSA. Any arrests, and if there are, when are the court cases so we can see what happens to them.
Imagine if the MLK statue was defaced with spray paint!
I also have changed other names on their day: “Straight Pride Month. White History Month.” I also want an Hispanic National Anthem played at all the sporting events and so do the Asians, Native Americans, India Indians, and even the Yanomami. No? Are they racist for not doing this?
Ed Snider says
Dr. king was on the mark when he said that men and women should be judged by the content of their character. A good indicator of character is their attitude toward Jews.
TruthLaser says
Those criticisms are not the issue. It is the morality of today’s Democrats.
TruthLaser says
The entire colorblind civil right movement is not accepted by Obama and Biden. Its leaders such as Randolph, Rustin, and King were not racists and anti-Semites. This was true of entertainers, such as Billy Daniels, who disagreed with black racists in Brooklyn.. I heard those mentioned in person.
Beez says
Communist Stan Levison was MLK’s Geppetto.