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["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

Maybe the blacks will get sufficiently pissed off at the green wienie 
that they are getting to
actually rise up and start causing some serious trouble.  The Occupy! 
movement
really doesn't have the resolve to be any sort of a serious threat to 
the status quo.




On 01/23/13 1:57, David Johnson wrote:
>
> *Don’t You Dare Conflate MLK and Obama*
>
> *by BAR executive editor Glen Ford*
>
> *“/Had King survived, his break with Obama would have come early.”/*
>
> *Back in 1964, under prodding from a BBC interviewer, Dr. Martin 
> Luther King Jr. predicted that a Black person might be _elected 
> president <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku_6hT6gHJM>_ “in 25 years 
> or less.” Four years later, shortly before his assassination, King 
> _confided 
> <http://www.scu.edu/ethics/architects-of-peace/Belafonte/essay.html>_ 
> to actor/activist Harry Belafonte that he had “come to believe we're 
> integrating into a burning house." We now see that the two notions are 
> not at all contradictory. At least /some/ African Americans have 
> achieved deep penetration of the very pinnacles of white power 
> structures – integrating the White House, itself – while conditions of 
> life for masses of Black folks deteriorate and the society as a whole 
> falls into deep decay.*
>
> *The fires lit by the “giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, 
> and militarism” that Dr. King identified in his 1967 “_Beyond Vietnam: 
> Breaking the Silence 
> <http://academic.udayton.edu/race/2008electionandracism/raceandracism/race18.htm>_” 
> speech are consuming the world, now stoked by a Black 
> arsonist-in-chief. Domestic poverty hovers only a fraction of a 
> percentage below the _levels of 1965 
> <http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3580>_, with “extreme 
> poverty” the highest on record. Black household wealth has collapsed 
> to one-twentieth that of whites. Today, more Black men are under the 
> control of the criminal justice system than were slaves in the decade 
> before the Civil War, according to Michelle Alexander, author of /The 
> New Jim Crow/. *
>
> *The intervening years have shown that Dr. King’s 1960s visions were 
> not in conflict: the rooms at the top floors of the national house may 
> have been integrated, but the building still burns. *
>
> *The deepening crisis of capitalism, the triumph of Wall Street 
> finance over industrial capital, the increasing imperial reversion to 
> international lawlessness in a desperate bid to maintain global 
> supremacy – all this was predictable under the laws of political 
> economy. Had the assassin’s bullet not found him, Dr. King would have 
> continued his implacable resistance to these unfolding evils, 
> rejecting Barack Obama’s invasions, drones and Kill Lists with the 
> same moral fervor and political courage that he broke with Lyndon 
> Johnson over the Vietnam War. Absolutely nothing in King’s life and 
> work indicates otherwise.*
>
> *“/The very notion of a grand austerity bargain with the Right would 
> have been anathema to MLK.”/*
>
> *One school of thought holds that corporate servants like Obama could 
> not have taken root in Black America if Dr. King, Malcolm X and a 
> whole cadre of slain and imprisoned leaders of the Sixties had not 
> been replaced by opportunistic representatives of a grasping Black 
> acquisitive class. In any event, had King survived, his break with 
> Obama would have come early. Surely, the Dr. King who, in his 1967 
> “_Where Do We Go from Here 
> <http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/where_do_we_go_from_here_delivered_at_the_11th_annual_sclc_convention/>_” 
> speech called for a guaranteed annual income would never have abided 
> Obama’s targeting of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in the 
> weeks before his 2009 inauguration. Forty-five years ago, King’s 
> position was clear: “Our emphasis must be twofold: We must create full 
> employment, or we must create incomes.” The very notion of a grand 
> austerity bargain with the Right would have been anathema to MLK.*
>
> *Were Martin alive, he would skewer the putative leftists and their 
> “lesser evil” rationales for backing the corporatist, warmongering 
> Obama. As both a theologian and a “revolutionary democrat,” as Temple 
> University’s Prof. Anthony Monteiro has described him, MLK had no 
> problem calling evil by its name – and in explicate triplicate. His 
> militant approach to non-violent direct action required him to 
> confront the underlying contradictions of society through the 
> methodical application of creative tension. He would make Wall Street 
> scream, and attempt to render the nation ungovernable under the 
> dictatorship of the Lords of Capital. And he would deliver a withering 
> condemnation of the base corruption and self-serving that saturates 
> the Black Misleadership Class.*
>
> *He would spend his birthday preparing a massive, disruptive action at 
> the Inauguration.*
>
>
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