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I said it ,but it didn’t show up

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/15/6390/?jal_edit_comments#comment-182726

On the “Daily Show”, tonight, January 15th (a week and a day since HRC drew her King/LBJ comparison), Jon Stewart aired the full clip, and said, in effect (I’m making a leap to paraphrase it this way):

‘Huh? What’s the big deal, seems reasonable to render unto The President, what is The President’s.’

That Biblical comparison seems apt to me, at the moment, because no matter how willing LBJ was to sacrifice the ‘future of the party, for a generation’, a dark mist of suspicion, fear and loathing still obscures LBJ’s ghost.

It’s some sort of Mother of All Battles of the Unconscious. The top of the mountain, The Dream, is hidden in a Black Cloud.

Barr McClellan (the former press secretary’s father, attorney and Texas pol) wrote a book called “BLOOD, MONEY, & POWER: How LBJ Killed JFK.”

http://www.bookfinder4u.com/IsbnSearch.aspx?isbn=0963784625&mode=direct

What *did* LBJ know about the MLK, JFK, and RFK assasinations?

I haven’t read the book, not that I expect that it would Reveal All, but I know I don’t fully believe the Official Stories, either.

“This letter is written in response to the concluding sentiment of yesterday’s editorial. The writer(s), in an attempt to interweave current debates on affirmative action and the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., suggest that King would have opposed affirmative action. This would be a warm and fuzzy sentiment were it correct, but it is in fact desperately mistaken.

The misconception that King would have opposed affirmative action is not a new one — in fact, it is favored by many who oppose affirmative action, because it seems like an air-tight debate stopper (“If MLK was against it, it must be bad.”) This error can be corrected if we examine the words of the man who gave his life espousing views that were not only highly controversial at the time, but would be highly controversial today.

In 1967, just one year before his death, King wrote “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community,” in which he said, “A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis.” King was also a key organizer in “Operation Breadbasket,” which dared to boycott businesses where a disproportionately low number of blacks were employed. This is even more extreme than current affirmative action programs.

King did hope that someday people would not be judged by the color of their skin, but he also thought that as long as the effects of slavery, Jim Crow laws and other institutionalized racism persisted, some sort of boost ought to be provided.

It is not only unfortunate, but terrifying, that the words of such a great man are being ignored in favor of a watered-down, saccharine image of an “unthreatening” civil rights advocate who wanted only simple equality and nothing more. In fact, King said of such a notion, “On the surface, this appears reasonable, but it is not realistic. For it is obvious that if a man enters the starting line of a race three hundred years after another man, the first would have to perform some incredible feat in order to catch up.”

My argument here is not that affirmative action is a “solution,” or that King’s words are infallible. My argument is simply that King did in fact support the idea of affirmative action. King also had myriad other beliefs that many people today would find threatening or at least unacceptable. I happen to consistently agree with him, but that is not my point. My point is that the best way to honor him is to remember what he really had to say and what his legacy actually is, not to sugarcoat and whitewash his teachings (pun quite intended).
Jessica Teaman
GRADUATE STUDENT”

Charles

…I copped this link to LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibit on The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture of The Black Panther Party.

Click on the thumbnails for enlarged images and quotes from the artist.

http://www.moca.org/emorydouglas/

Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4062025&mesg_id=4068161

I believe King spoke directly in favor of affirmative action somewhere.