U.S. SENATOR Hillary Rodham Clinton in an attempt to compete with leading Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Barack Obama said that "Dr King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964…’ and ‘it took a president to get it done." The remark generated heated discussions in the Black Communities.
William “Bill” Jefferson Clinton coming to the rescue of wife Hillary also made a remark about Senator Barack Obama’s Democratic presidential nominee campaign success: "This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen." Mr. Clinton uses the past participle of see: seen not heard but seen.
According to Wikipedia “a fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional story that usually features folkloric characters (such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, witches, giants, and talking animals) and enchantments, often involving a far-fetched sequence of events.”
Both statements enraged Americans who are now taking a second look at Mrs. & Mr. Hillary and Bill Clinton.
Why the outrage from Black folks, the Press, and Americans in general? The answer is the Clintons are experienced experts in political sophistication.
Senator Clinton intellectualized on civil rights: “I would point to the fact that that Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when he was able to get through Congress something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do, the President before had not even tried, but it took a president to get it done. That dream became a reality, the power of that dream became a real in people's lives because we had a president who said we are going to do it, and actually got it accomplished."
In my opinion the above mentioned statement by Senator Clinton is prejudice and misleading. “If” U.S. President Lyndon Johnson (1963 - 1969) initiated, suggested, or even desired a Civil Rights Bill or Civil Rights Voting Act on his own accord Senator Clinton would be correct.
The Negro of America died, fought, and petitioned for a “Civilized Rights Bill” from their first day of enslavement in British America. The Negro people of America have been waging a war to civilize the white community for over three centuries.
During the 1960’s America realized that Black Folk was either going to die fighting or burn America down; America then decided to change.
The beloved Fannie Lou Hamer of the Mississippi “Freedom Summer” and SNCC coordinator changed the segregated 1964 National Democratic Convention. Her thunderous statement to the convention: “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired” echoed throughout America.
Civil Rights and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader, Dr. James Forman said it best: “If we cannot sit down at the table of brotherhood then we will kick the damn legs off.” And, “The sons and daughters of Africa have paid a heavy price to build the great capitals of France, England, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and the United States.”
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. did not campaign for President Lyndon Johnson, he warned the president: no more “Bloody Sunday’s”, read my “Birmingham Letter,” you heard “I have a Dream,” freedom now “How long, not long”, and you want to know “Why we can’t wait?”
Cities were burning, bombed, and police stations overwhelmed to the point that the Army and National Guard had to be summoned to patrol the streets of America.
As a reminder Mrs. & Mr. Clinton it took 251 (1619-1870) years of resistance against the pernicious Peculiar Institution to pass constitutional based civil rights legislation.
The Black Power Movement, urban street revolution, and non-violent demonstrations throughout America “reinforced” the following U.S. Constitution Amendments: the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery in 1865; the 14th Amendment that guaranteed equal protection under the law and citizenship in 1868; the 15th Amendment which guaranteed the right to vote in 1870.
“The Supremacy Clause establishes the Constitution, Federal Statutes, and U.S. treaties as "the supreme law of the land." The Constitution is the highest form of law in the American legal system. State judges are required to uphold it, even if state laws or constitutions conflict with it.” (Wikipedia).
The White American public, government, and their corporations after 1870 established an apartheid criminal system of uncivilized behavior against its Negro population. As you know “Jim Crow Segregation” is a criminal act in its application. The Congress, Supreme Court, and the clan of governors of the United States of America repeatedly violated the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution from 1865 to 1965.
The violations of the above mentioned constitutional amendments guaranteed our human rights. African and African American lawyers are afraid to take this case before an international court of law or the United Nations.
When it became apparent that America was in violation of the “Supremacy Clause” the liberal bourgeois (black & white) invented a political legal spectacular act portraying the government as giving the Negro people of America something they had not earned 100 years earlier by U.S. Constitutional Law. They declared it the Civil Rights Bill and the Voting Rights Act.
On July 27, 2006 President George W. Bush reluctantly granted a 25 year extension to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Why an extension? Black Folks either have the right to vote without corruption or they don’t.
The 1960’s younger generation of Blacks also initiated the Black is Beautiful Revolution. Along with some white allies (Hippies & students) we fought against American apartheid and exposed America’s hypocrisy as a champion of democracy and civilized behavior before the entire world.
The Clinton political machine has demonstrated in their carefully thought out controversial statements against Barack Obama’s presidency campaign can be defined as: the science of media-spinology, the art of persuasion, and the art of how to trap or fool a person into your own arguments.
The liberal Clintons and their Black supporters had to devise a way to draw sympathetic women voters away from Barack Obama’s overwhelming political constituency.
The Clinton’s aggressive behavior and invocation of the name Martin Luther King in addition to crediting President Lyndon Johnson as the civil rights savoir have led to a growing consensus among Black folks to publicly define this behavior as highly questionable.
Are the following King excerpts below any different from Senator Hillary and Bill Clinton views as displayed on the U.S. Secretary of State’s website on Dr. King?
“The Martin Luther King We Remember” by Adam Wolfson and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Below are a few excerpts from the US Department of State - USINFO - U.S. Culture, Life & History website:
‘He [King] issued inflammatory comments about the U.S. government's conduct of the Vietnam War that were condemned by conservatives and liberals alike, as well as by colleagues of his from within the civil rights movement.’
‘And so if King was not an original thinker, he was certainly an untimely thinker.’
‘Servitude may be hateful, but it is in some respects easier to be a bondsman than to accept the burdens of freedom.’
‘Yet if King was principally a man of action, his actions are for the most part lost to us. Actions are by their nature evanescent.’
‘Throughout the fifties and sixties, Martin Luther King, Jr., was a blur of activity.’
‘The "real" King strived to keep his private life private, and was, by many accounts, deeply ashamed of his infidelities.’
‘In the recounting of his [King] marital infidelities, acts of plagiarism, and ties to (former) members of the American Communist Party, we have lost sight of why he was lionized in his own day and is still remembered in our own-for his political achievements and rhetorical gifts.’
‘Marshall Frady complains that King "has been abstracted out of his swelteringly convoluted actuality into a kind of weightless and reverently laminated effigy of who he was."
The day before the New Hampshire election a so-called radio heckler threatened U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf and Pres. Bush reacted with a press conference war talk warning Iran.
Simultaneously, Hillary did a classic tear jerk Betty Boot special, pretending all the male candidates are ganging up on her. She played the only-female-card and won by a 3% margin.
Timesonline reported Hillary Clinton’s statement: “I had this incredible moment of connection with the voters of New Hampshire and they saw it and they heard it. And they gave me this incredible victory last night,” she said during an interview with CBS.”
After barely winning in the New Hampshire democratic primaries the Clintons, all juiced up, crashed while addressing South Carolina voters. U.S. Congressman and U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn just so happened to be out the country. If the Clintons trusted Jim to deliver South Carolina votes there was no need for the race/feminine card play.
Jim Clyburn is sweating because on January 21, 2008 the Congressional Black Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute’s Democratic Primary Presidential Debate will take place at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Does Hillary need a way out or back door excuse? Can she survive a debate? Is she woman enough? Is she afraid to debate intellectually?
In the sixties there where two powerful political women (now deceased) Sen. Clinton can take examples from. Presidential candidate Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm of New York and powerful Congresswoman Barbara Jordan of Texas (Watergate Committee) are recommended.
So the Clinton campaign strategist and media spinologist decided to gamble with two young handsome political mavericks, Senator Obama and Senator Edwards, a political dream team. For Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton the young boys will earn you your stripes if qualified.
Black TV and radio talk shows that normally play all music are integrating their stations with Obama/Clinton and MLK/Johnson who’s right or wrong political debates.
Further enraging the Black community, especially the Hip Hop community, Sen. Clinton campaigned with the despised millionaire Bob Johnson. Bob, a political operative for ex-Congressman Walter Fauntroy, is a sellout to some and founder of BET (Black Entertainment Television) cable television network. He restated Obama’s admitted pass drug use for public consumption.
BET is also accused of promoting black trash and female denigrating programs as voiced by black radio stations, call-ins, news commentators, and most important the Hip Hop community.
Senator John Edwards was born in Seneca, South Carolina. South Carolinians may vote overwhelmingly for John Edwards because he’s a homeboy and Barack Obama for his cross over appeal. This might leave Senator Clinton with a possible low margin third place in the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary elections.
Foxnews.com quotes smooth Democratic nominee Senator John Edwards speaking at a Black church in South Carolina as follows: “I’m gonna say I was troubled recently to see a suggestion that real change came not through the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, but through a Washington politician,” Edwards said.
“I fundamentally disagree with that. Those who believe that real change starts with Washington politicians have been in Washington too long and are living in a fairy tale.”
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Prince Chengu • n/a Subject: n/a Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:49:07 • I think this is a very good analysis. The US has been trying hard to downplay the relevance of MLK in the USA. They cannot believe a blk man could have the record for being the greatest orator of modern times. The Clintons have done the unforgivable and they stand to lose. America is not ready for a woman president or presidential candidate, but Obama stands a chance. Jesse Jackson won the nomination befor, so it's not entirely impossible.
Well done 'Son Of My Father's Land,' Africa.
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