This post underscores the need for all of us to read and discuss
extensively what is occurring around us.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/22/17, M Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> I think she's absolutely right and I thought so when I first heard the
> statement.
> Miriam
>
> Freedom Rider: No Tears For John Lewis
>
> EDUCATE! CONGRESS, US HISTORY
> By Margaret Kimberley, www.blackagendareport.com
> January 21st, 2017
>
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> Above Photo: From blackagendareport.com
> John Lewis has parlayed his 1965 beating at the hands of Alabama police
> into
> a phony sainthood, and "now exemplifies everything that is wrong with the
> Congressional Black Caucus, the Democratic Party and the black
> misleadership
> class." He "parrots every word" of the CIA in blaming Russia for Hillary
> Clinton's defeat. There are many reasons to boycott Donald Trump's
> inauguration, but "Russia" is the only one mentioned by Lewis, the party
> hack.
> "Lewis is giving the new president the cold shoulder only because he
> believes that Russia interfered in the electoral process."
> "I was beaten bloody by police officers. But I never hated them. I said,
> 'Thank you for your service.'" -Congressman John Lewis
> The people who fought against Jim Crow segregation in the 1960s were quite
> literally risking their lives. The list of martyrs is a long one. Activists
> of that era are rightly respected and their courage must not be forgotten
> or
> taken for granted. But as congressman John Lewis proves, their actions at
> that time should not provide dispensation from critique in the 21st
> century.
> Lewis is the latest target of president-elect Donald Trump's attacks but
> that shouldn't give him a pass either.
> Despite his early history, Lewis now exemplifies everything that is wrong
> with the Congressional Black Caucus, the Democratic Party and the black
> misleadership class. The caucus was once known as "the conscience of the
> Congress." Those men and women were always among the most left leaning
> members and could be counted on to reliably fight against domestic
> injustice
> and imperialism abroad. They were unafraid of their party leadership or of
> presidents either.
> "The CBC that is a shell of its former self."
> But all that changed when they were targeted by big money contributors like
> the rest of their congressional colleagues. After years of unsuccessfully
> attempting to make inroads among black Americans the right wing realized
> their error. They began to promote compliant corporatist candidates for
> office and to target people like Cynthia McKinney and Earl Hilliard for
> defeat. The result is now a CBC that is a shell of its former self.
> Instead of providing inspirational leadership to their constituents CBC
> members are now mere lackeys for the corporate wing of the Democratic
> Party.
> They said nothing when Barack Obama made grand austerity bargains with
> Republicans, or used sanctions, jihadists and drone warfare to kill in
> Somalia and Libya, or when he refused to prosecute killer cops. Only one of
> them, Keith Ellison, chose to support Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary
> Clinton, and CBC's lobbying arm gave her a hearty and undeserved
> endorsement.
> Lewis stood out among all the genuflectors. Having been dubbed a "civil
> rights icon" his opinions are given undue weight and he uses them to uphold
> the corrupt establishment. Not only did the Congressional Black Caucus
> Foundation endorse Clinton but Lewis chose to give the hapless Sanders a
> very public beat down. Sanders used his own youthful movement activism as a
> political calling card but Lewis dismissed him. He claimed he knew nothing
> about Sanders but did know the Clintons who were great friends of black
> people. The effort to discredit Sanders was so obvious and the claims about
> the Clintons were so outrageous that Lewis was forced to back track and
> clarify his comments.
> "The CBC said nothing when Barack Obama made grand austerity bargains with
> Republicans, or used sanctions, jihadists and drone warfare to kill in
> Somalia and Libya, or when he refused to prosecute killer cops."
> But, like the rest of the black misleaders, Lewis never stopped stomping on
> the mildly reformist Bernie Sanders. Sanders signature proposal of
> providing
> free university education was rejected out of hand by the civil rights
> icon.
> "I think it's the wrong message to send to any group. There's not anything
> free in America. We all have to pay for something. Education is not free.
> Health care is not free. Food is not free. Water is not free. I think it's
> very misleading to say to the American people, we're going to give you
> something free."
> Of course all of those things should be free. That statement alone exposed
> Lewis as a rank opportunist. We don't know what went through his mind at
> the
> moment he was beaten by cops but it doesn't matter now. He used his
> experience to win a congressional seat and all the trappings that come with
> it, including giving paid speeches at Goldman Sachs.
> Trump won the old fashioned way. He went right to the heart of white
> American angst about immigration and white survival and the economic
> insecurity that they feel they should not suffer. But he is in over his
> head. Trump is not only a political novice but he is thin skinned and
> oafish. In the case of Lewis he has turned an ordinary Democratic Party
> hack
> into a victim of the man half of the country hates.
> Lewis opined that he wouldn't attend the inauguration because he deemed
> Trump "illegitimate." He reached this conclusion not because Trump lost the
> popular vote or stacked his cabinet with generals or appeals to outspoken
> white supremacists. Lewis is giving the new president the cold shoulder
> only
> because he believes that Russia interfered in the electoral process. This
> canard has the stamp of approval from the Democratic Party and their
> minions
> in the corporate media.
> "Lewis claimed he knew nothing about Sanders but did know the Clintons who
> were great friends of black people."
> This Russophobia proves Democratic allegiance to empire and kills several
> political birds with one stone. The United States scores propaganda points
> in its endless fight against any nation that opposes their hegemony. Russia
> is also used to explain away the Democrats' defeat and distract their
> members who won't call the leadership to account like they ought to do.
> The NSA and CIA and FBI do for Barack Obama what they do for every
> president. When presidents want to make the case for war or domestic
> oppression they tell the intelligence agency to say that there is WMD in
> Iraq or an imminent threat from the black liberation movement. Intelligence
> agencies are used as a tool of propaganda to get the public buy in to the
> state's actions. The movement that spawned Lewis was the primary victim of
> COINTELPRO, the program used to discredit and even to kill people who
> fought
> against the system as Lewis did. The movement was crushed by the deep state
> but 50 years later, one of its "icons" parrots their every word.
> The black misleaders feed at the trough of the party establishment and
> their
> benefactors in corporate America. Their lives and livelihoods depend on
> keeping the status quo alive. Lewis is a predictably bland Democrat who
> uses
> his past as a cover to commit the worst of Democratic Party wrong doing.
> It shouldn't matter what Trump thinks of Lewis. If this phony contretemps
> is
> any indication we'll have four years of foolishness ahead of us. Any
> mediocre politician will be elevated to sainthood status if the defensive
> and paranoid president attacks. John Lewis has certainly earned his iconic
> status this week. As Inauguration Day approaches he presents a teachable
> moment. The lesson is to ignore the likes of Lewis and his ilk. They are no
> friends of black people and are undeserving of our support, even if Donald
> Trump attacks.
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> Freedom Rider: No Tears For John Lewis
>
> Educate! Congress, US history
> By Margaret Kimberley, www.blackagendareport.com
> January 21st, 2017
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> Above Photo: From blackagendareport.com
> John Lewis has parlayed his 1965 beating at the hands of Alabama police
> into
> a phony sainthood, and "now exemplifies everything that is wrong with the
> Congressional Black Caucus, the Democratic Party and the black
> misleadership
> class." He "parrots every word" of the CIA in blaming Russia for Hillary
> Clinton's defeat. There are many reasons to boycott Donald Trump's
> inauguration, but "Russia" is the only one mentioned by Lewis, the party
> hack.
> "Lewis is giving the new president the cold shoulder only because he
> believes that Russia interfered in the electoral process."
> "I was beaten bloody by police officers. But I never hated them. I said,
> 'Thank you for your service.'" -Congressman John Lewis
> The people who fought against Jim Crow segregation in the 1960s were quite
> literally risking their lives. The list of martyrs is a long one. Activists
> of that era are rightly respected and their courage must not be forgotten
> or
> taken for granted. But as congressman John Lewis proves, their actions at
> that time should not provide dispensation from critique in the 21st
> century.
> Lewis is the latest target of president-elect Donald Trump's attacks but
> that shouldn't give him a pass either.
> Despite his early history, Lewis now exemplifies everything that is wrong
> with the Congressional Black Caucus, the Democratic Party and the black
> misleadership class. The caucus was once known as "the conscience of the
> Congress." Those men and women were always among the most left leaning
> members and could be counted on to reliably fight against domestic
> injustice
> and imperialism abroad. They were unafraid of their party leadership or of
> presidents either.
> "The CBC that is a shell of its former self."
> But all that changed when they were targeted by big money contributors like
> the rest of their congressional colleagues. After years of unsuccessfully
> attempting to make inroads among black Americans the right wing realized
> their error. They began to promote compliant corporatist candidates for
> office and to target people like Cynthia McKinney and Earl Hilliard for
> defeat. The result is now a CBC that is a shell of its former self.
> Instead of providing inspirational leadership to their constituents CBC
> members are now mere lackeys for the corporate wing of the Democratic
> Party.
> They said nothing when Barack Obama made grand austerity bargains with
> Republicans, or used sanctions, jihadists and drone warfare to kill in
> Somalia and Libya, or when he refused to prosecute killer cops. Only one of
> them, Keith Ellison, chose to support Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary
> Clinton, and CBC's lobbying arm gave her a hearty and undeserved
> endorsement.
> Lewis stood out among all the genuflectors. Having been dubbed a "civil
> rights icon" his opinions are given undue weight and he uses them to uphold
> the corrupt establishment. Not only did the Congressional Black Caucus
> Foundation endorse Clinton but Lewis chose to give the hapless Sanders a
> very public beat down. Sanders used his own youthful movement activism as a
> political calling card but Lewis dismissed him. He claimed he knew nothing
> about Sanders but did know the Clintons who were great friends of black
> people. The effort to discredit Sanders was so obvious and the claims about
> the Clintons were so outrageous that Lewis was forced to back track and
> clarify his comments.
> "The CBC said nothing when Barack Obama made grand austerity bargains with
> Republicans, or used sanctions, jihadists and drone warfare to kill in
> Somalia and Libya, or when he refused to prosecute killer cops."
> But, like the rest of the black misleaders, Lewis never stopped stomping on
> the mildly reformist Bernie Sanders. Sanders signature proposal of
> providing
> free university education was rejected out of hand by the civil rights
> icon.
> "I think it's the wrong message to send to any group. There's not anything
> free in America. We all have to pay for something. Education is not free.
> Health care is not free. Food is not free. Water is not free. I think it's
> very misleading to say to the American people, we're going to give you
> something free."
> Of course all of those things should be free. That statement alone exposed
> Lewis as a rank opportunist. We don't know what went through his mind at
> the
> moment he was beaten by cops but it doesn't matter now. He used his
> experience to win a congressional seat and all the trappings that come with
> it, including giving paid speeches at Goldman Sachs.
> Trump won the old fashioned way. He went right to the heart of white
> American angst about immigration and white survival and the economic
> insecurity that they feel they should not suffer. But he is in over his
> head. Trump is not only a political novice but he is thin skinned and
> oafish. In the case of Lewis he has turned an ordinary Democratic Party
> hack
> into a victim of the man half of the country hates.
> Lewis opined that he wouldn't attend the inauguration because he deemed
> Trump "illegitimate." He reached this conclusion not because Trump lost the
> popular vote or stacked his cabinet with generals or appeals to outspoken
> white supremacists. Lewis is giving the new president the cold shoulder
> only
> because he believes that Russia interfered in the electoral process. This
> canard has the stamp of approval from the Democratic Party and their
> minions
> in the corporate media.
> "Lewis claimed he knew nothing about Sanders but did know the Clintons who
> were great friends of black people."
> This Russophobia proves Democratic allegiance to empire and kills several
> political birds with one stone. The United States scores propaganda points
> in its endless fight against any nation that opposes their hegemony. Russia
> is also used to explain away the Democrats' defeat and distract their
> members who won't call the leadership to account like they ought to do.
> The NSA and CIA and FBI do for Barack Obama what they do for every
> president. When presidents want to make the case for war or domestic
> oppression they tell the intelligence agency to say that there is WMD in
> Iraq or an imminent threat from the black liberation movement. Intelligence
> agencies are used as a tool of propaganda to get the public buy in to the
> state's actions. The movement that spawned Lewis was the primary victim of
> COINTELPRO, the program used to discredit and even to kill people who
> fought
> against the system as Lewis did. The movement was crushed by the deep state
> but 50 years later, one of its "icons" parrots their every word.
> The black misleaders feed at the trough of the party establishment and
> their
> benefactors in corporate America. Their lives and livelihoods depend on
> keeping the status quo alive. Lewis is a predictably bland Democrat who
> uses
> his past as a cover to commit the worst of Democratic Party wrong doing.
> It shouldn't matter what Trump thinks of Lewis. If this phony contretemps
> is
> any indication we'll have four years of foolishness ahead of us. Any
> mediocre politician will be elevated to sainthood status if the defensive
> and paranoid president attacks. John Lewis has certainly earned his iconic
> status this week. As Inauguration Day approaches he presents a teachable
> moment. The lesson is to ignore the likes of Lewis and his ilk. They are no
> friends of black people and are undeserving of our support, even if Donald
> Trump attacks.
>
>
>
>
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