Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1954, he became the first state field sec­re­tary of the NAACP in Mississippi. As such, he orga­nized vot­er-reg­is­tra­tion efforts, demon­stra­tions, and eco­nom­ic boy­cotts of com­pa­nies that prac­ticed dis­crim­i­na­tion. He also worked to inves­ti­gate crimes per­pe­trat­ed against blacks.

On JunRenowned civ­il rights activist Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi. Growing up in a Mississippi farm­ing fam­i­ly, Evers was draft­ed into the U.S. Army in 1943. He fought in both France and Germany dur­ing World War II, and received an hon­or­able dis­charge in 1946. In 1948, he entered Alcorn College (now Alcorn State University) in Lorman, Mississippi. During his senior year, Evers mar­ried a fel­low stu­dent, Myrlie Beasley. They lat­er had three chil­dren: Darrell, Reena and James.e 12, 1963, Evers was assas­si­nat­ed out­side of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Born in 1933, Myrlie Evers-Williams was the wife of mur­dered civ­il rights activist Medgar Evers. While fight­ing to bring his killer to jus­tice, Evers-Williams also con­tin­ued her hus­band’s work with her book, For Us, The Living. She also wrote Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be. Evers-Williams served as chair of the NAACP from 1995 to 1998.Born Myrlie Louise Beasley on March 17, 1933, in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Raised by her grand­moth­er, a school­teacher, Evers-Williams loved learn­ing and music. Growing up in the seg­re­gat­ed South, she went to Alcorn A&M College, one of the only col­leges in the state that accept­ed African American stu­dents. While at Alcorn, she met Medgar Evers, a World War II vet­er­an sev­er­al years her senior. The cou­ple fell in love and mar­ried in December of 1951.

When her hus­band became the Mississippi field sec­re­tary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Evers-Williams worked along­side him. She assist­ed him as he strove to end the unjust prac­tice of racial seg­re­ga­tion in schools and oth­er pub­lic facil­i­ties and cam­paigned for vot­ing rights as many African Americans were denied this right in the South. Medgar made ene­mies of those who did­n’t want race rela­tions in the South to change. On June 12, 1963, Medger Evers was shot to death in front of his home by a white suprema­cist named Byron De La Beckwith.

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Stokely Carmichael was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on June 29, 1941. Carmichael rose to promi­nence as a mem­ber and lat­er the chair­man of SNCC, work­ing with Martin Luther King Jr. and oth­er Southern lead­ers to stage protests. Carmichael lat­er lost faith in the tac­tic of non-vio­lence, pro­mot­ing “Black Power” and ally­ing him­self with the mil­i­tant Black Panther Party.Famed civ­il rights leader StokelyCarmichael was born on June 29, 1941, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Carmichael’s par­ents immi­grat­ed to New York when he was a tod­dler, leav­ing him in the care of his grand­moth­er until the age of 11, when he fol­lowed his par­ents to the United States. His moth­er, Mabel, was a stew­ardess for a steamship line, and his father, Adolphus, worked as a car­pen­ter by day and a taxi dri­ver by night. An indus­tri­ous and opti­mistic immi­grant, Adolphus Carmichael chased a ver­sion of the American Dream that his son would lat­er crit­i­cize as an instru­ment of racist eco­nom­ic oppres­sion. As Stokely Carmichael lat­er said, “My old man believed in this work-and-over­come stuff. He was reli­gious, nev­er lied, nev­er cheat­ed or stole. He did car­pen­try all day and drove taxis all night& The next thing that came to that poor black man was death — from work­ing too hard. And he was only in his 40s.“http://​www​.biog​ra​phy​.com/​p​e​o​p​l​e​/​s​t​o​k​e​l​y​-​c​a​r​m​i​c​h​a​e​l​-​9​2​3​8​629.

Robert George Seale was born October 22, 1936 in Dallas, Texas. Seale was one of three kids. His moth­er was a stay at home mom and his father was a car­pen­ter in Dallas. After mov­ing around Texas a few times, the fam­i­ly moved to Oakland, CA dur­ing WWII. Seale attend­ed Berkeley High School and joined the U.S Air Force and was there three years before he was dis­charged for fight­ing with an offi­cer. When he went back to Oakland, he began attend­ing night school to earn his high school diplo​ma​.In 1962, at the age of 25, Seale began attend­ing Merritt College, a com­mu­ni­ty col­lege locat­ed near the Berkeley city-lim­its. There, he joined the Afro-American Association and met Huey Newton, with whom he lat­er co-found­ed the Black Panther Party. Seale and Newton were heav­i­ly inspired by Malcolm X and his teach­ings. The two joined togeth­er to cre­ate the Black Panther Party in 1966 and adopt­ed the slo­gan,” free­dom by any means necessary”.

Bobby Seale was one of the orig­i­nal “Chicago Eight” defen­dants charged with con­spir­a­cy dur­ing the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, but the evi­dence against Seale was slim. The judge though sen­tenced him for four years for his out­bursts dur­ing tri­al .While serv­ing his four-year sen­tence, Seale was put on tri­al again in 1970 in the New Haven Black Panther tri­als. Several offi­cers of the Panther orga­ni­za­tion had mur­dered a fel­low Panther. The leader of the mur­der plan, George Sams, Jr., tes­ti­fied that he had been ordered to kill the Panther by Seale him­self. The jury was unable to reach a ver­dict in Seale’s tri­al, and the charges were even­tu­al­ly dropped. Seale was released from prison in 1972. http://​www​.gus​d120​.k12​.il​.us/​h​i​g​h​/​a​c​a​d​e​m​i​c​s​/​B​u​s​i​n​e​s​s​/​m​o​v​e​m​e​n​t​s​/​s​e​a​l​e​.​h​tml

Huey Newton was born in a small town in Louisiana and lat­er mov­ing with his fam­i­ly to Oakland, California as an infant, Huey P. Newton became the co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for over 2 decades. Dr. Newton, who found­ed the Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale, became one of the most charis­mat­ic sym­bols of black anger in the late 1960’s. After his con­vic­tion in 1967 in the death of an Oakland police offi­cer, rad­i­cals and many col­lege stu­dents took up the ral­ly­ing cry ”Free Huey.” At the same time, Dr. Newton and the Black Panthers were accused of being con­trolled by the Communist Party and were inves­ti­gat­ed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In recent years Dr. Newton con­tin­ued to face numer­ous legal charges, served time in jail and fought to reha­bil­i­tate him­self from alco­hol and drug abuse. Newton Co-found­ing The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (lat­er short­ened to The Black Panther Party) with Bobby Seale in 1966, Newton and his com­pa­tri­ots were known for their strong left­ist pol­i­tics, all-black garb and sound intel­lec­tu­al debate. Beyond the activism and fight for equal­i­ty for African-Americans, the Panthers also start­ed “sur­vival pro­grams” designed to assist the less for­tu­nate such as meal pro­grams, self-defense class­es, med­ical clin­ics and first aid. The orig­i­nal Black Panthers would large­ly dis­solve the orga­ni­za­tion in 1982.http://www.biography.com/people/huey-p-newton-37369

On June 10, 1940, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., pub­lish­er, entre­pre­neur, ora­tor, and Black Nationalist, died. Garvey was born August 17, 1887 in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. In 1914, Garvey found­ed the Universal Negro Improvement Association, “To unite all peo­ple of African ances­try of the world to one great body to estab­lish a coun­try and absolute gov­ern­ment of their own.”Garvey moved to New York City in 1916 and found­ed the Negro World news­pa­per. In June, 1923, Garvey was unjust­ly con­vict­ed of mail fraud and sen­tenced to five years in prison. That sen­tence was com­mut­ed by President Calvin Coolidge and Garvey was released in November, 1927 and deport­ed to Jamaica where he is interred at a shrine inNational Heroes Park. There are memo­ri­als to Garvey around the world, includ­ing stat­ues and streets and schools named after him in Jamaica, Trinidad, the United States, Canada, Kenya, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom. A num­ber of books have been pub­lished about Garvey and his move­ment, includ­ing “Black Power and the Garvey Movement” (1971), “Marcus Garvey: Anti-Colonial Champion” (1988), and “Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and his Dream of Mother Africa” (2008).http://​the​bur​ton​wire​.com/​2​0​1​3​/​0​6​/​1​0​/​p​o​l​i​t​i​c​s​/​a​k​o​s​u​a​-​r​e​p​o​r​t​-​m​a​r​c​u​s​-​g​a​r​v​ey/

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His moth­er, Louise Norton Little, was a home­maker occu­pied with the family’s eight chil­dren. His father, Earl Little, was an out­spo­ken Baptist min­is­ter and avid sup­porter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Earl’s civ­il rights activism prompt­ed death threats from the white suprema­cist orga­ni­za­tion Black Legion, forc­ing the fam­ily to relo­cate twice before Malcolm’s fourth birth­day. Regardless of the Little’s efforts to elude the Legion, in 1929, their Lansing, Michigan home was burned to the ground. Two years lat­er, Earl’s body was found lying across the town’s trol­ley tracks. Police ruled both inci­dents as acci­dents, but the Littles were cer­tain that mem­bers of the Black Legion were respon­si­ble. Louise suf­fered emo­tional break­down sev­eral years after the death of her hus­band and was com­mit­ted to a men­tal insti­tu­tion, while her chil­dren were split up among var­i­ous fos­ter homes and orphanages.

Malcolm’s faith was dealt a crush­ing blow at the height of the civ­il rights move­ment in 1963. He learned that his men­tor and leader, Elijah Muhammad, was secret­ly hav­ing rela­tions with as many as six women with­in the Nation of Islam orga­ni­za­tion. As if that were not enough, Malcolm found out that some of these rela­tion­ships had result­ed in chil­dren. Since join­ing the NOI, Malcolm had strict­ly adhered to the teach­ings of Muhammad, which includ­ed remain­ing celi­bate until his mar­riage to Betty Shabazz in 1958. Malcolm refused Muhammad’s request to help cov­er up the affairs and sub­se­quent chil­dren. He was deeply hurt by Muhammad actions, because he had pre­vi­ously con­sid­ered him a liv­ing prophet. Malcolm also felt guilty about the mass­es he had led to join the NOI, which he now felt was a fraud­u­lent orga­ni­za­tion built on too many lies to ignore. Shortly after his shock­ing dis­cov­ery, Malcolm received crit­i­cism for a com­ment he made regard­ing the assas­si­na­tion of President John F. Kennedy. “[Kennedy] nev­er fore­saw that the chick­ens would come home to roost so soon,” said Malcolm. After the state­ment, Elijah Muhammad “silenced” Malcolm for 90 days. Malcolm, how­ever, sus­pected he was silenced for anoth­er rea­son. In March 1964, Malcolm ter­mi­nated his rela­tion­ship with theNOI. Unable to look past Muhammad’s decep­tion, Malcolm decid­ed to found his own reli­gious orga­ni­za­tion, the Muslim Mosque, Inc. That same year, Malcolm went on a pil­grim­age to Mecca, which proved to be life alter­ing for him. For the first time, Malcolm shared his thoughts and beliefs with dif­fer­ent cul­tures and found the response to be over­whelm­ingly pos­i­tive. When he returned, Malcolm said he had met “blonde-​haired, blued-​eyed men I could call my broth­ers.” He returned to the United States with a new out­look on inte­gra­tion and a new hope for the future. This time when Malcolm spoke, instead of just preach­ing to African-​Americans, he had a mes­sage for all races. After Malcolm resigned his posi­tion in the Nation of Islam and renounced Elijah Muhammad, rela­tions between the two had become increas­ingly volatile. FBI infor­mants work­ing under­cover in the NOI warned offi­cials that Malcolm had been marked for assas­si­na­tion – one under­cover offi­cer had even been ordered to help plant a bomb in Malcolm’s car. After repeat­ed attempts on his life, Malcolm rarely trav­eled any­where with­out body­guards. On February 14, 1965 the home where Malcolm, Betty, and their four daugh­ters lived in East Elmhurst, New York was fire­bombed. Luckily, the fam­ily escaped phys­i­cal injury.

Malcolm X.

One week lat­er, how­ever, Malcolm’s ene­mies were suc­cess­ful in their ruth­less attempt. At a speak­ing engage­ment in the Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965, three gun­men rushed Malcolm onstage. They shot him 15 times at close range. The 39-​year-​old was pro­nounced dead on arrival at New York’s Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Fifteen hun­dred peo­ple attend­ed Malcolm’s funer­al in Harlem on February 27, 1965 at the Faith Temple Church of God in Christ (now Child’s Memorial Temple Church of God in Christ). After the cer­e­mony, friends took the shov­els away from the wait­ing gravedig­gers and buried Malcolm themselves.Later that year, Betty gave birth to their twin daughters.

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Malcolm’s assas­sins, Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler, and Thomas 15X Johnson, were con­victed of first-​de­gree mur­der in March 1966. The three men were all mem­bers of the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X’s lega­cy has moved through gen­er­a­tions as the sub­ject of numer­ous doc­u­men­taries, books, and movies. A tremen­dous resur­gence of inter­est occurred in 1992 when direc­tor Spike Lee released the acclaimed movie, Malcolm X. The film received Oscar nom­i­na­tions for Best Actor (Denzel Washington) and Best Costume Design. Malcolm X is buried at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. http://​www​.mal​colmx​.com/​a​b​o​u​t​/​b​i​o​.​h​tml

THE MAN WHO DID NOT KILL MALCOLM X.

The Man Who Didn’t Shoot Malcolm X. He spent twen­ty-​two years in prison for an infa­mous mur­der he didn’t com­mit. But Khalil Islam, con­fined, trav­eled inward. http://​nymag​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​f​e​a​t​u​r​e​s​/​3​8​3​58/

Born at noon on Tuesday, January 15, 1929 at the fam­ily home in Atlanta, Martin Luther King, Jr. was the first son and sec­ond child born to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. The son of a min­is­ter, Martin Luther King, Jr. grows up to fol­low in his father’s foot­steps; study­ing at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and earn­ing a doc­tor­ate at Boston University’s School of Theology.Dr. King heads the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) to protest the arrest of NAACP offi­cial Rosa Park for refus­ing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Dr. King’s vision expands glob­ally and a trip to India increased his under­stand­ing of Gandhian ideas of non­vi­o­lent resis­tance. With the SCLC King helps orga­nize the Birmingham protests, writes “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, and focus­es atten­tion nation­ally with the March on Washington. King speaks out on the Vietnam War and forms the Poor People’s Campaign, designed to prod the fed­eral gov­ern­ment to strength­en its antipover­ty efforts.http://​www​.thek​ing​cen​ter​.org/​a​b​o​u​t​— d​r​— king

ROSA PARKS.

“Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 to October 24, 2005) was an African-American civ­il rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called “the first lady of civ­il rights” and “the moth­er of the free­dom movement”.[1] Her birth­day, February 4, and the day she was arrest­ed, December 1, have both become Rosa Parks Day, com­mem­o­rat­ed in the U.S. states of California and Ohio.

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus dri­ver James F. Blake’s order that she give up her seat in the col­ored sec­tion to a white pas­sen­ger, after the white sec­tion was filled. Parks was not the first per­son to resist bus segre­ga­tion. Others had tak­en sim­i­lar steps in the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry, includ­ing Irene Morgan in 1946, Sarah Louise Keys in 1955, and the mem­bers of the Browder v. Gayle law­suit (Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith) arrest­ed months before Parks. NAACP orga­niz­ers believed that Parks was the best can­di­date for see­ing through a court chal­lenge after her arrest for civ­il dis­obe­di­ence in vio­lat­ing Alabama seg­re­ga­tion laws though even­tu­al­ly her case became bogged down in the state courts.[2][3]

Parks’ act of defi­ance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became impor­tant sym­bols of the mod­ern Civil Rights

Movement. She became an inter­na­tion­al icon of resis­tance to racial seg­re­ga­tion. She orga­nized and col­lab­o­rat­ed with civ­il rights lead­ers, includ­ing Edgar Nixon, pres­i­dent of the local chap­ter of the NAACP; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a new min­is­ter in town who gained nation­al promi­nence in the civ­il rights movement.

MARCUS GARVEY.

On June 10, 1940, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., pub­lish­er, entre­pre­neur, ora­tor, and Black Nationalist, died. Garvey was born August 17, 1887 in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. In 1914, Garvey found­ed the Universal Negro Improvement Association, “To unite all peo­ple of African ances­try of the world to one great body to estab­lish a coun­try and absolute gov­ern­ment of their own.”Garvey moved to New York City in 1916 and found­ed the Negro World news­pa­per. In June, 1923, Garvey was unjust­ly con­vict­ed of mail fraud and sen­tenced to five years in prison. That sen­tence was com­mut­ed by President Calvin Coolidge and Garvey was released in November, 1927 and deport­ed to Jamaica where he is interred at a shrine inNational Heroes Park. There are memo­ri­als to Garvey around the world, includ­ing stat­ues and streets and schools named after him in Jamaica, Trinidad, the United States, Canada, Kenya, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom. A num­ber of books have been pub­lished about Garvey and his move­ment, includ­ing “Black Power and the Garvey Movement” (1971), “Marcus Garvey: Anti-Colonial Champion” (1988), and “Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and his Dream of Mother Africa” (2008).http://​the​bur​ton​wire​.com/​2​0​1​3​/​0​6​/​1​0​/​p​o​l​i​t​i​c​s​/​a​k​o​s​u​a​-​r​e​p​o​r​t​-​m​a​r​c​u​s​-​g​a​r​v​ey/

HUEY NEWTON.

Huey Newton was born in a small town in Louisiana and lat­er mov­ing with his fam­i­ly to Oakland, California as an infant, Huey P. Newton became the co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for over 2 decades. Dr. Newton, who found­ed the Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale, became one of the most charis­mat­ic sym­bols of black anger in the late 1960’s. After his con­vic­tion in 1967 in the death of an Oakland police offi­cer, rad­i­cals and many col­lege stu­dents took up the ral­ly­ing cry ”Free Huey.” At the same time, Dr. Newton and the Black Panthers were accused of being con­trolled by the Communist Party and were inves­ti­gat­ed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In recent years Dr. Newton con­tin­ued to face numer­ous legal charges, served time in jail and fought to reha­bil­i­tate him­self from alco­hol and drug abuse. Newton Co-found­ing The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (lat­er short­ened to The Black Panther Party) with Bobby Seale in 1966, Newton and his com­pa­tri­ots were known for their strong left­ist pol­i­tics, all-black garb and sound intel­lec­tu­al debate. Beyond the activism and fight for equal­i­ty for African-Americans, the Panthers also start­ed “sur­vival pro­grams” designed to assist the less for­tu­nate such as meal pro­grams, self-defense class­es, med­ical clin­ics and first aid. The orig­i­nal Black Panthers would large­ly dis­solve the orga­ni­za­tion in 1982.

BOBBY SEALE.

I recent­ly wrote about what I per­ceive to be the selec­tive way Human Rights abus­es are report­ed and exposed by Groups Like The DC based Inter American Commission on Human Rights and Amnesty International based in London England .https://​mike​beck​les​.com/​m​y​w​p​b​l​o​g​/​?​p​=​6​2​1​8​#​r​e​s​p​ond.

Whether it is unlaw­ful Police Killings, or killings by States, The Inter American Commission on Human Rights and Amnesty International are sur­rep­ti­tious­ly silent when the killings occur in the United Sates and oth­er Industrialized nations. Herbert Smulls a Missouri inmate was put to death before his last appeal had been decid­ed . Smulls was alleged­ly on the phone with his Lawyer when he was tak­en away by Prison guards to the exe­cu­tion cham­ber. This hap­pened while the Supreme Court was sup­pos­ed­ly hear­ing his last ditch attempt for clemen­cy. Smulls was con­vict­ed for the killing of a Jeweler dur­ing a 1991 robbery.

Whether you believe in the death penal­ty or not is imma­te­r­i­al in this instance I believe . This inmate deserved due process. How could the state of Missouri move ahead with an exe­cu­tion when the accused had not exhaust­ed all his appeals? The Missouri Attorney General claims the state act­ed prop­er­ly. Smulls Attorney stat­ed how­ev­er, that this was the third time the state of Missouri had moved ahead with the exe­cu­tion of inmates who had not exhaust­ed their appeals

This rene­gade Justice gives cred­i­bil­i­ty and trac­tion to those opposed to the death penal­ty. Even those of us who are some­what pro-death penal­ty can­not in good con­science agree with a state cir­cum­vent­ing the law. What’s the hur­ry he was on death row all these years and enti­tled to his last appeal? What was the state of Missouri afraid of ? What was the rea­son the state moved to kill him while the high­est arbiter in the coun­try had not made it’s final deci­sion. Can we con­clude then, because it was a black man the State knew the Supreme court of the United States would not inter­vene? You see, this is why peo­ple in cer­tain com­mu­ni­ties do not believe that the sys­tem works for them. They have more than enough evi­dence the sys­tem works against them.

Yet despite these acts of obvi­ous crim­i­nal­i­ty by States, despite protes­ta­tions to the con­trary, no human rights agency had a sin­gle word of con­dem­na­tion, not a word of crit­i­cism. This was not just about Herbert Smulls the accused in this case. This was big­ger than him. This was about Justice and fair­ness. It was about the rule of law, it is about no one being above the law. Not even the state of Missouri.

It behooves the American peo­ple to stop and fig­ure out what is behind the mas­sive cam­paign to demo­nize, de-fund and do way with Obama Care? Why have the Koch broth­ers invest­ed mil­lions in Ad cam­paigns to get young peo­ple not to sign up? Why have their tools in the Republican cau­cus been so dead set on destroy­ing the coun­try just to repeal a law which has been cer­ti­fied con­sti­tu­tion­al? Why do Republicans want to do away with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)? What’s behind their cam­paign to move moun­tains to make sure that the Keystone Pipeline is approved, who stand to ben­e­fit? Why have Republicans denied sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence that man has done sig­nif­i­cant dam­age to our envi­ron­ment? Why do they pre­tend not to see notable changes in tem­per­a­tures around the world and huge deple­tion of the Polar ice caps?

Have peo­ple stopped to won­der who is behind this relent­less cam­paign to keep Immigrants out? Who wins when Black and Latino Americans are pre­vent­ed from vot­ing? Does Nullification ben­e­fit cit­i­zens in states which does­n’t obey Federal law? Who ben­e­fits when lunatics on the right talk about seces­sion? A whole is no more than the sum of its parts” So how does America ben­e­fit when some talk about lov­ing their coun­try while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly talk­ing about dimin­ish­ing it with seces­sion and nullification? 

There is a kind of brain-dead stu­pid­i­ty which runs the gamut of the Republican right fueled by hatred of President Obama. This removes com­mon sense from every con­ver­sa­tion. This begs the ques­tion, is this blan­ket obstruc­tion based on pol­i­cy dif­fer­ences, or is it a clear attempt to nul­li­fy Obama’s Presidency? There is a clear feel­ing among the right that Obama is attempt­ing to redis­trib­ute wealth to his peo­ple. Mitt Romney’s 47% com­ment behind closed-door was an indi­ca­tion of that. The demo­niz­ing of Food-stamp recip­i­ents. Not pass­ing a new Farm Bill . Opposition to the afford­able Care Act. Opposition to Immigration Reform, are more than enough evi­dence to con­vince any­one not sure of Republican motives.

How do you nul­li­fy 8 years of American his­to­ry? You can’t. You can­not un-kill Osama Bin Laden. You can­not un-end the Iraq war. You can­not un-end the war in Afghanistan. You can­not undo the mir­a­cle which has hap­pened to the 3 big car com­pa­nies. You can­not undo the resur­gence of the stock mar­ket. You can­not undo what Obama did to save the American econ­o­my. You can­not undo the dec­i­ma­tion of Al-Qaeda. You can­not undo the things which Obama has done so far. What you can do is to gum-up the works which in their esti­ma­tion will reduce him to a fail­ure. How can they reduce some­one already a phe­nom­e­nal suc­cess, by any stan­dard to fail­ure? They can’t . Such is the luna­cy of racial big­otry, it is root­ed in absolute igno­rance. That is exact­ly what they are doing, it’s more than politics.

Yesterday there was a ruckus in front of the White House . The offi­cial sto­ry fed to the American peo­ple was that they were march­ing in sup­port of mil­i­tary vet​er​ans​.It was billed as a mil­lion vets march, the march how­ev­er turned out to be a colos­sal dud . There are ques­tions regard­ing whether many who turned up were in fact vet­er­ans. Heading the cha­rade were two elect­ed US Senators . Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas.

Ted Cruz.

Mike Lee.

Yup, elect­ed offi­cials of the American Government active­ly par­tic­i­pat­ing in a march at which the Confederate flag was proud­ly dis­played in front of the White House, along with racist posters. Thugs in the group of Confederate anar­chists heaped bar­ri­cades in front in the White House fence as a mark of dis­re­spect to the President. Some of the anar­chists tus­sled with police. 

Front and cen­ter of the shame­ful , dis­gust­ing débâ­cle was the failed quit­ter who parad­ed as Governor of Alaska for awhile Sarah Palin. These are the types who head the move­ment which are mak­ing life mis­er­able for mil­lions fur­loughed from their jobs. Palin the igno­ra­mus and two sit­ting American Senators par­tic­i­pat­ed in a march which open­ly waved the Confederate flag in front of the White House.

Palin. Lee . Cruz.

This is so shame­ful , I am ashamed for them. Really it is shock­ing that these crea­tures which calls them­selves human beings, civ­i­lized human beings no less, could be so woe­ful­ly illit­er­ate. The entire world is look­ing at America destroy her­self. No Country can do that . America is doing it to her­self. One Revolutionary war to chart a nation, one civ­il war to define a nation , the next war will be to destroy a nation. This war may not be fought with guns and bay­o­nets. The next war is being waged with self-inflict­ed defaults, and shut-downs and. Drip ‚drip, drip,bleeds America to death, while the Chinese watch and wait. Racism was here from the begin­ning, it has eat­en away at this nation all through­out. Don’t be fooled by Obama’s elec­tion. Racism the can­cer will destroy us or maybe the Chinese will get us first, either way we are doomed.

This was in front the White House yesterday.

America enters week (3) three of a fed­er­al shut-down orches­trat­ed by a minor­i­ty of the minor­i­ty par­ty in one of the three branch­es of the Government. So much for best mod­el of Government when a minor­i­ty seg­ment can hold the major­i­ty of the Federal Bureaucracy hostage. So much for a sys­tem which allows one ego-mani­a­cal Senator to grind the coun­try to a halt.

Over the last few blogs I have sys­tem­at­i­cal referred to the Republican Part as the Confederate/​Republican Party. Some of you have asked why I believe the Republican Party is to be seen in the same light as the old Confederacy? I point you to the poli­cies which obtained after the Civil War . 

Jim Crow Laws enact­ed then . Stand your ground laws now. Chain Gangs then. Prison Industrial com­plex now. Poll Tax and mas­sive vot­er sup­pres­sion then. Voter Id Laws,poll-tax) obsta­cles to vot­ing now. Talks of nul­li­fi­ca­tion and seces­sion then. Talks of nul­li­fi­ca­tion and seces­sion now. Talks of States Rights then. Talks of states Rights now. Lynchings then. Increased police and vig­i­lante killings now.

There is ample evi­dence which, if not ignored shows that the Republican Party now rep­re­sents the Southern Confederacy. Does any­one believe this fuss in the Nation’s Capitol is about (Obama-Care), The Affordable Care Act? If you do you are woe­ful­ly mis-informed . The peo­ple who dreamed up this conun­drum do not think so , they have since dropped that talk­ing point after clos­ing the Government down and now blame Obama for the shut-down. Many in the Lame-stream-Media laments that Republicans had no strat­e­gy to get out of the impasse they cre­at­ed, I dis­agree. Ted Cruz the present day Joe McCarthy, is a lot of things , stu­pid not being one of them. As I wrote before, House and Senate Republicans may have been blind vic­tims to Pied-Piper Ted Cruz’ strat­e­gy , but Cruz knew exact­ly what he want­ed to do.

Ted Cruz.

Once Cruz had the coun­try grind to a halt he went on the road. He gath­ered the usu­al rab­ble, Sarah Palin and oth­ers sur­round­ed by the most vile big­ots and pro­ceed­ed to blame Obama for the shut-down he ini­ti­at­ed. What that says is, Cruz has zero respect for the intel­li­gence of the peo­ple he wants to leads as pres­i­dent. Cruz believes you are too stu­pid to see through his strat­e­gy which is as clear as day if you open your eyes. The Confederate/​Republican Party is unable to rec­on­cile that a black man is sit­ting atop the Federal Bureaucracy. They are unable to accept a black man at the zenith of pow­er cre­at­ed by over 400 years of racial priv­i­leged. What we are wit­ness­ing is actions of a spurned lover. “If I can’t have you, no one else will, I will take you down with me in a heap of ashes”.

That is what the calls of “we want our coun­try back” and “impeach Obama” are all about.

John Boehner Ted Cruz

The Republican Party was hijacked by the South after Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into Law. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan cap­i­tal­ized on the racial ani­mus of whites to win lat­er elec­tions. The Bushes were ben­e­fi­cia­ries of that ani­mus despite not over­ly play­ing to racial fears with the excep­tion of the elder Bush’s use of the Willie Horton Ad. The Ad por­trayed Michael Dukakis as a weak crim­i­nal-cod­dling Massachusetts lib­er­al on whose watch Willie Horton a con­vict­ed mur­der received a week­end fur­lough. Horton did not return but went to Maryland where he com­mit­ted mul­ti­ple rapes and assault before he was re-arrest­ed and con­vict­ed. Democratic Presidential can­di­date Michael Dukakis was the gov­er­nor of Massachusetts at the time of Horton’s release, and while he did not start the fur­lough pro­gram, he had sup­port­ed it as a method of crim­i­nal reha­bil­i­ta­tion. The Republican Party is now a reac­tionary , fundamentalist,Confederate Party. What we are wit­ness­ing is it’s com­ing apart at the seams because a black fam­i­ly is occu­py­ing the White House. They are not even pre­tend­ing to care about what they say or do anymore.

Racism has reduced the Republican par­ty to a spec­ta­cle wor­thy of ridicule. Obama-hatred has made them look bad even to some of their own. When ide­o­logues like Long Island’s Peter King begin to ques­tion the san­i­ty of Republican actions, you know the wag­on wheels have start­ed to come off. Don’t believe for one moment that the rel­e­vance of the Republican Party will wane any­time soon. They have mas­sive grass-roots Organizations gin­ning up even more hatred and lies about Blacks , Immigrants, Entitlements, Government, Science, the EPA, and every­thing else they hate. Their sup­port­ers are not exact­ly far removed from the flat earth soci­ety, recent polls revealed many Republicans believe the Affordable Care Act is bet­ter than Obama Care. Republican vot­ers who have no health Insurance, vote and demon­strate against the afford­able care act at the behest of their polit­i­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tives who them­selves have great health plans, paid for and pro­vid­ed by the Government. Many exco­ri­ate Government yet they live off Social Security and Medicare. Even as they hate Government , they do any­thing to get and stay elect­ed. I won­der who make up the Government?

One can arguably under­stand their hatred for the first black pres­i­dent and his fam­i­ly, they are low-lives. What is mind blow­ing is the reck­less care-free aban­don with which they treat the American work­ers . They cal­lous­ly shut the Government down send­ing tens of thou­sands of work­ers home on fur­lough glee­ful­ly pro­claim­ing that they are win­ning ! Winning that’s what it’s all about ?Never mind the con­se­quences of a Government shut­down to aver­age Americans and the harm being done to the econ­o­my ! They are quite hap­py to go out and cre­ate pho­to-ops and lie to ill-informed peo­ple that the pres­i­dent and sen­ate major­i­ty leader shut the Government down. Here’s a bit of advice to pro­gres­sives, stop say­ing John Boehner is to be pitied. John Boehner is a cow­ard, he is a poor leader who has cow­ered out of fear of Tea Party con­fed­er­ates, fear­ing the loss of his speak­er-ship , even as he takes actions which threat­ens his coun­try. Any man who puts his posi­tion over the good of his coun­try does not deserve respect or empa­thy. In my book John Boehner is a wimp and a damn coward.

The Republican Party allowed itself to be sold out to the far reach­es of kook-land. Now it has no idea how to find itself back to main­stream America, ques­tion is does it want to find itself back? The lat­est grouse they have is that no Republican was invit­ed to the 50^th com­mem­o­ra­tion of the march on Washington. The kooks at Fox as usu­al will not allow truth to get in the way of their nar­ra­tive of lies.

Sean Hannity:

The prob­lem with that , as with every­thing else which comes from their mouths ?.. It’s a lie. The two Presidents Bush were invit­ed, Jeb Bush was invit­ed. The impo­tent Speaker of the House John Boehner was invit­ed ‚Eric Cantor was invit­ed, so was every mem­ber of the Congress, yes the black-skinned Republican Senator from South Carolina Tim Scott was invit­ed. Everyone to a man, turned orga­niz­ers down . They turned their backs on black Americans, they turned their backs on the dream of Doctor King and they turned their backs on what the move­ment has meant for the pos­i­tive growth of America and the World. The race-baiters on FOX mis-infor­ma­tion did not even both­er to check before they start­ed their assault. The blovi­at­ing idiot Bill O’Reilly could­n’t con­tain him­self, he was telling every FOX lis­ten­er that no Black Republican was invit­ed. The only time hate-mon­gers of the Right have use for blacks is when they need us to make their fac­tu­al­ly defi­cient points.

Bill Oreilly:

There is an almost para­dox­i­cal tragedy in the way infor­ma­tion gets dis­sem­i­nat­ed as a result of social media. Good infor­ma­tion gets spread rapid­ly and so does false­hoods. Many peo­ple who ought to know bet­ter ‚who claim to have the Black com­mu­ni­ty’s inter­est at heart, also buys into this hog-wash. It would be great just to take a few min­utes and check before you post some­thing so patent­ly false. When you spread false infor­ma­tion you do not help the black com­mu­ni­ty, you do the bid­ding of the ene­mies of the black community.

Rush Limbaugh:

Many who claim that Doctor King was a Republican may have been right on that score. What they failed to tell you, or are them­selves igno­rant to, is the fact that the Republican Party’s Policies of today , are the Policies of the Democratic Party and the Dixie-crats 50 years ago. After President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, the vast major­i­ty of whites sym­pa­thet­ic to the Southern cause, hijacked the Republican Party.

John Boehner:

I would like to dis­abuse those who argue that King was a Republican, of the notion that King could pos­si­bly be sym­pa­thet­ic to a par­ty which is clear­ly hos­tile to peo­ple of col­or. A par­ty which whole­sale turned it’s back on him and his work 50 years after he was tak­en out by ene­mies of his own peo­ple. The African-American has to do some pulling up of it’s boots-straps what it does not need are lec­tures from White Supremacists on the right. Self-serv­ing black-skinned Republicans have a right to be house Negros, it’s the rea­son Harriet Tubman car­ried a pis­tol. What we in the real black com­mu­ni­ty do not need is for Sean Hannity or Bill O’reilly to tell us who our lead­ers should be, or what actions we need to take to fix our prob­lems. We refuse to have our ene­mies devis­ing strat­e­gy for our community.

Mitch Mcconnell

Lets get some­thing straight, the Republican Party of today is not the Party of Lincoln. This Republican Party is the the Party of Confederate seces­sion­ist,Jefferson Davis. Those on the left who con­tin­ue to talk about Republicans not reach­ing out to blacks are mak­ing a mock­ery of them­selves. The Right has done noth­ing but dis­re­spect , demean, and dem­a­gogue Blacks every oppor­tu­ni­ty they get. Word to the Left , get over it. The new Confederate Republican Party does not want blacks in their par­ty. African-Americans must grant them their wish, every inter­est group must grant them their wish.

Blacks .Hispanics. Latinos. Women. Gays. Lesbian. Transgenders. Arabs. Muslims. Asians. Native Americans. Unionized work­ers. Let’s see how well that Racist white men who can­not com­pete on a lev­el play­ing-field thing work for them.

Doctor Martin Luther King Jnr.

On this 50^th Commeration of the march on Washington, Dr. Kings daugh­ter Dr Bernice King brought tears to my eyes as she talked about social injus­tice and the work ahead for America.

Today more than ever the need for social jus­tice is great. America has made great strides in its elu­sive quest for jus­tice. There is a long way to go. One man told me today, all we need now is for the old racists to die out. I asked him to look at the young Senators and Congress-men and women. I asked him to look at the voic­es in the media and tell me if they are old peo­ple on the verge of dying out. In fact no, they aren’t dying out, Racism is taught today as it was back when the great Martyrs of the Civil Rights Struggle toiled tire­less­ly for racial and social justice.

The same atti­tudes of the 50’s and 60’s are still on dis­play today. Evident on the Highest Court in the land. In the hol­lowed halls of the Congress. It is evi­dent in the Board-Rooms of cor­po­rate America. It is evi­dent in our prison pop­u­la­tion. It is evi­dent in State Legislatures all across America. It is evi­dent in how our streets are policed. In our places of wor­ship, in Restaurants , and in every crevasse and cor­ner of nation­al life. Yes there have been changes. No Racism is not going to die out. Dr King’s speech here:http://​www​.archives​.gov/​p​r​e​s​s​/​e​x​h​i​b​i​t​s​/​d​r​e​a​m​-​s​p​e​e​c​h​.​pdf.

Each and every Generation which require and desire social and racial jus­tice must be pre­pared to run its lap . We can­not relax on the sac­ri­fices of those who went before us ‚jeop­ar­diz­ing the future of those com­ing after us. Our Generation has done immea­sur­able harm to the sac­ri­fice of Dr King and oth­ers . Let us adopt the cause of social and racial jus­tice not just for blacks , but for all peo­ple. Dr. King warned 50 years ago against accept­ing the tran­quil­iz­ing drug of grad­u­al­ism, our gen­er­a­tion did not listen.

We must all be alarmed when we the peo­ple, all of us, can­not rely on the high­est seat of arbi­tra­tion in the coun­try. The Supreme Court in its assault on the Voting Rights Act, brings into ques­tion its own abil­i­ty to be just , fair, and hon­est in delib­er­at­ing on behalf of all Americans. The strug­gle continues.

Fifty years after the March on Washington and the icon­ic “I have a dream speech” by Doctor Martin Luther King, Civil Rights Activist have arranged a sim­i­lar march for Saturday August 24^th.

The King Center, along with the National Park Service and oth­ers, is co-spon­sor­ing a full day of activ­i­ties on August 28^th, the actu­al anniver­sary of the 1963 March on Washington and Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. There will be an Interfaith Service at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. that will include a vari­ety of reli­gious dis­ci­plines.http://​www​.thek​ing​cen​ter​.org/​n​e​w​s​/​2​013 – 08-excite­ment-builds-com­mem­o­ra­tion-50^th-anniver­sary-march-wash­ing­ton-mlk-s-i-have-dream.

Civil Rights Organizations orga­niz­ing the March have gone out of their way to empha­size that the March is com­mem­o­ra­tive and not cel­e­bra­to­ry. Why is there this con­cert­ed attempt to dif­fer­en­ti­ate between whether this event will be a com­mem­o­ra­tive event as against a cel­e­bra­to­ry one? After all, why should there not be a cel­e­bra­tion-Doctor King and count­less oth­ers have sac­ri­ficed much? The Nation has elect­ed a black President-so what’s the problem?

I’ll tell you what the prob­lem is ! Black America got com­fort­able. Black America stopped fight­ing after win­ning a few bat­tles. Stalwarts like Doctor King, Medgar Evers, Stokely Carmichael and all of the heroes of the strug­gle must be toss­ing in their graves. Black America got into con­sumerism, expen­sive cars, clothes and tacky jew­el­ry. I was stunned to hear Myrlie Evers Williams talk about grow­ing up in the South,not see­ing any blacks on tele­vi­sion. She explained that Sammy Davis Jr. and a few oth­ers would be on Television, and that as soon as one of these stars came on Television the TV screen would go black and the song “I wish I was in Dixie” would replace that pro­gram­ming until their seg­ment was over. I mean how igno­rant were those people?

Black America moved from love of God to love of stuff. The sanc­ti­ty of holy mat­ri­mo­ny was replaced with any­thing goes, sex and myr­i­ad baby-mom­mas. To date 71% of all African American kids are born out of wed-lock to sin­gle teenage moth­ers. America’s pris­ons are pop­u­lat­ed large­ly by African-American men of all ages. The con­se­quences of those actions are almost a total removal of respon­si­ble male influ­ence from Black homes.

These are not the things Doctor King and oth­ers fought and died for. Somewhere along the line the African-American train got off the track and the ene­mies of human­i­ty are wast­ing no time in try­ing to put Blacks back onto the Plantation. You may argue there are no more plan­ta­tions . I chal­lenge you to explain to me what you call the inabil­i­ty to par­tic­i­pate in your own life when you lose the right to vote. What do you believe the mass incar­cer­a­tion of Black men and women is about?

The forces of evil are lined up with cut-backs in edu­ca­tion­al oppor­tu­ni­ties. Voter sup­pres­sion. Mass incar­cer­a­tion. I mean why not ? If a peo­ple squan­der the rights that was won for them, if they do noth­ing to fur­ther the agen­da, why would any­one respect them? Black-America has squan­dered 50 years of hard-won gains. We do not own Banks, we do not own enough busi­ness­es. We don’t sup­port the busi­ness­es owned by oth­er Blacks so they fail , fur­ther reduc­ing Black own­er­ship. We do not love each oth­er, our young peo­ple are filled with so much hate and anger they kill each oth­er for the stu­pid­est rea­sons. So Black America will have to fight the bat­tles of 50 years ago all over again. That’s the rea­son Saturday’s march orga­niz­ers can­not have a cel­e­bra­to­ry march. They have to coin it a com­mem­o­ra­tive march. They know that the bat­tles of yester-year will have to be fought all over again because they got comfortable.

There are two dia­met­ri­cal­ly oppos­ing view-points in America. Conservatism and Liberalism. These two defin­ing char­ac­ter­is­tics have divid­ed the coun­try straight down the mid­dle., About a 45 to 47% on either side with a sliv­er of vot­ers in the mid­dle who decide nation­al elections.

♦ Democratic : ♦ Republican.

A map of the US depict­ing how Americans vot­ed in the last National Elections.

There are also a num­ber of issues which sep­a­rates the two Political ideologies.

Gun Rights>The Economy>Foreign Policy>Energy>Entitlements>The Environment>Social Issues>Immigration> Taxes.>

On issue after issue the Republican Party have legit­i­mate pol­i­cy pro­pos­als. Yet the par­ty has buried it’s head in the sand, total­ly obliv­i­ous to con­se­quences of it’s racist and destruc­tive behav­ior. Enacting laws which makes it hard­er for cer­tain Americans to vote has the oppo­site effect of pre­vent­ing peo­ple from vot­ing. It makes them angry, it makes them vote. Even after the last nation­al elec­tion was called for the Democrats, Florida vot­ers remained in line so they could deliv­er the state to Barack Obama. What part of that does Republican Governors and Legislators not get.

Current Data shows that less than one hun­dredth of one per­cent of all votes cast in America are fraud­u­lent. The issue of Voter ID is a man­u­fac­tured solu­tion to a phan­tom prob­lem. As I write this Article today, the Governor of North Carolina just signed into law sweep­ing new vot­er sup­pres­sion measures.

Republican NC Governor Gov. Pat McCrory  http://​www​.wash​ing​ton​times​.com/​t​o​p​i​c​s​/​p​a​t​-​m​c​c​r​o​ry/.Quote:“I am proud to sign this leg­is­la­tion into law, “Common prac­tices like board­ing an air­plane and pur­chas­ing Sudafed require pho­to ID and we should expect noth­ing less for the pro­tec­tion of our right to vote.”

But is that the rea­son Republican Legislators and Governors are mov­ing to enact regres­sive and restric­tive vot­er ID laws before the upcom­ing 2014 and 2016 Elections?

Voter ID, which is going to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done,” he said to applause at a Republican State Committee met­ing> http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​E​u​O​T​1​b​R​Y​dK8.

Americans , irre­spec­tive of par­ty affil­i­a­tion should be extreme­ly afraid of these guys. This idea of rig­ging the sys­tem to ensure a par­tic­u­lar result is not Democracy.Those on the right and the left who val­ue and talk about democ­ra­cy should be extreme­ly scared of this bla­tant­ly-overt, anti-American practice.

The ideas of low tax­es. Small gov­ern­ment. Strong nation­al defense. Free-mar­ket cap­i­tal­ism. Belief in God and coun­try, through a strong fam­i­ly, encap­su­lat­ed in a mar­riage between a man and a woman were once Republican ideas. Those were the belief of Colin Powell and the likes of Jack Kemp.

The prob­lem with the repub­li­can mes­sage is, there is no mes­sage any longer. The mes­sage has been hijacked by racists zealots from the far fringe of the par­ty. In fact the far fringe is now the Republican Party.

Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity of Fox Television Network:

The mes­sage of the Republican Party is now being deliv­ered by Fox-news,  Sarah Palin, Reince Priebus. Donald Trump. Ted Nugent: Rush Limbaugh. Sean Hannity -and oth­er racists from the far fringe.

Donal Trump and Sarah Palin:

The racist mes­sen­gers of the Republican Right has lit­er­al­ly killed any valid­i­ty the right may have had on the issues. Immigration Marriage. Entitlements. Homosexuality. The mes­sage is lost in the racist intol­er­ant rants of the mes­sen­gers. That is a tragedy for the Country. Since President Obama took Office what was once known and accept­ed as mar­riage, one man, one woman has now been turned on it’s head. The fun­da­men­tal phi­los­o­phy that Marriage is a sacro­sanct Covenant between a male and a female, which was cre­at­ed by God is done. The President’s sup­port for it was wrong I believe. Obama did not sup­port Homosexual unions because he is a black man. He did so because he is the pres­i­dent. The Political Right gave away the issue and many more by attack­ing the pres­i­den­t’s geneal­o­gy. That strat­e­gy chased away more than it attract­ed. I am one of those opposed to homo­sex­u­al mar­riages, yet vehe­ment­ly opposed to Republican racist atti­tudes toward the President.

Message to Republicans. Denying the vote, is not a legit­i­mate strat­e­gy. Intolerance of oth­ers , despi­ca­ble racist rhetoric is not going to change cur­rent demo­graph­ic trends. Unless you engage, under­stand, and coöper­ate with oth­ers , your par­ty will be rel­e­gat­ed to the regions below the Mason-Dixon line. And that is not a good thing for nei­ther you nor America.