See Blil Clinton sleep on MLK day!
Like many of you who follow politics, I saw the exchange between Fox reporter Major Garrett and Senator Hillary Clinton, where Senator Clinton said “Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act,” Mrs. Clinton said when asked about Mr. Obama’s rejoinder by Fox’s Major Garrett after her speech in Dover. “It took a president to get it done.”
After some reflection, I don't think Senator Clinton was being entirely racist, but she was certainly acting stupidly. As my video says, Dr. King's work came at a time when it was not "comfortable" -- to say the least -- to be a Black American citizen. Dr. King didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize for nothing.
As this is 2008 and we have a generation of Americans who never experienced, and it seems learned about, Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, here's a good biography:
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.
In 1954, Martin Luther King accepted the pastorale of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.
In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
In my opinion, Hillary Clinton owes the King family an appology for essentially dimishing Dr. King's contributions in her words. The Clintons are placing themselves in the position of working to divide America just as Senator Barack Obama's working to unite our country. They're doing this because they think it will work in America, but as Senator Obama and I both know, this is a different country than in was in 1992.
New News. New email asserts that the NH Primary Votes were miscounted! See below..
News Updates from Citizens for Legitimate Government
09 Jan 2008
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Where Paper Prevailed, Different Results By Lori Price 09 Jan 2008
2008 New Hampshire Democratic Primary Results --Total Democratic Votes: 286,139 - Machine vs Hand (RonRox.com) 09 Jan 2008
Hillary Clinton, Diebold Accuvote optical scan: 39.618%
Clinton, Hand Counted Paper Ballots: 34.908%
Barack Obama, Diebold Accuvote optical scan: 36.309%
Obama, Hand Counted Paper Ballots: 38.617%
Machine vs Hand:
Clinton: 4.709% (13,475 votes)
Obama: -2.308% (-6,604 votes)
2008 New Hampshire Republican Primary Results --Total Republican Votes: 236,378 Machine vs Hand (RonRox.com) 09 Jan 2008
Mitt Romney, Diebold Accuvote optical scan: 33.075%
Romney, Hand Counted Paper Ballots: 25.483%
Ron Paul, Diebold Accuvote optical scan: 7.109%
Paul, Hand Counted Paper Ballots: 9.221%
Machine vs Hand :
Romney: 7.592% (17,946 votes)
Paul: -2.112% (-4,991 votes)
NH: "First in the nation" (with corporate controlled secret vote counting) By Nancy Tobi 07 Jan 2008 81% of New Hampshire ballots are counted in secret by a private corporation named Diebold Election Systems (now known as "Premier"). The elections run on these machines are programmed by one company, LHS Associates, based in Methuen, MA. We know nothing about the people programming these machines, and we know even less about LHS Associates. We know even less about the secret vote counting software used to tabulate 81% of our ballots. [ See also CLG's Coup 2004 and Yes, Gore DID win!.]
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The Clinton's are racists. Please note below:
ReplyDeleteClinton gave the nation's highest civilian award — the Presidential Medal of Freedom — to a man who spent the vast majority of his public career and life as a proud segregationist.
1. Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67, when Fulbright was still a segregationist. Fulbright became Clinton's "mentor."
2. In April 1985, Governor Bill Clinton signed Act 985 into law, making the birthdates of Martin Luther King Jr. (the preeminent leader of the civil-rights movement) and Robert E. Lee (the general who led the Confederate army) state holidays on the same day. Of course, the word "segregation" never passed Clinton's considerable lips, but the (uncoded) message he was sending to certain of his white constituents could not have be clearer.
3. Clinton took no steps during his twelve years as governor to repeal a Confederate flag law: Arkansas Code Annotated, Section 1-5-107, provides as follows:
(a) The Saturday immediately preceding Easter Sunday of each year is designated as 'Confederate Flag Day' in this state.
(b) No person, firm, or corporation shall display an Confederate flag or replica thereof in connection with any advertisement of any commercial enterprise, or in any manner for any purpose except to honor the Confederate States of America. [Emphasis added.]
(c) Any person, firm, or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
In 1989, then-Gov. Bill Clinton was sued as one of three top Arkansas officials responsible for the intimidation of black voters in his state as part of a legal action brought under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, NewsMax.com has learned.
And a year earlier the U.S. Supreme court ruled that Clinton had wrongfully tried to overturn the election of a black state representative in favor of a white Democrat.
In a related 1988 case, Clinton had tried to replace a duly elected African-American state representative with a white candidate, only to be stopped by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ruling came as the then-governor was fighting another court battle to preserve racial profiling in his state, a tool that Clinton later criticized while president as a "morally indefensible, deeply corrosive practice."
But a decade earlier he approved the profiling of Hispanics by Arkansas State Police as part of a drug interdiction program in 1988, the Washington Times revealed in 1999.
"The Arkansas plan gave state troopers the authority to stop and search vehicles based on a drug-courier profile of Hispanics, particularly those driving cars with Texas license plates," the Times said.
"A federal judge later ruled the program unconstitutional," the paper reported. "A lawsuit and a federal consent decree ended the practice - known as the 'criminal apprehension program' the next year."
Then-Gov. Clinton, however, not only criticized the profiling ban; "at one point, [he] threatened to reinstate the program despite the court's ruling," the Times said.
Hearing Clinton's condemnation of racial profiling in 1999, Roberto Garcia de Posada, executive director of the Hispanic Business Roundtable, complained that the then-president "had been a strong supporter of racial profiling against Hispanics in the past."
After he was sued in the late 1980s by the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund for failing to enforce the Voting Rights Act in Arkansas, then-Gov. Bill Clinton suggested to a group of pro-segregation whites that they were being unfairly targeted by civil rights laws as a result of the South's loss in the Civil War.
"The meeting turned sour when one of the local whites demanded to know why, in his view, the whites were always made to pay for others' problems. Other whites in the group began to echo his charge. ..." "Bill Clinton, the lead defendant in the case, took to the podium to respond. In a tone of resignation, Clinton said, 'We have to pay because we lost.'" Clinton was referring to the South's Civil War loss.
Bill Clinton spent Wednesday afternoon playing golf at a country club accused of discriminating against blacks and Jews. Jake Siewert, Clinton's rep, confirmed it was the second time Clinton has played at the Indian Creek Country Club about 20 miles north of Miami. He first played there a year and a half ago. Siewert said, "All venues are fully vetted," and dismissed allegations of racism and anti-Semitism as "not true."
"There's no question about it, the club has anti-Semitic policies in place to keep out Jews," said Earl Barber, who was on the club's board for 14 years, and a member for 22. Barber, along with Alvah Chapman, a former chairman of Knight Ridder, and M. Anthony Burns, a trucking magnate, resigned their club memberships because of its "membership policies."
To add insult to injury, 14 of the island's 34 homes are owned by Jews, and although they are denied access to the club, a portion of the residents' property tax is used for the club's upkeep. Miller notes that he refused to meet Clinton during his 1999 visit to Indian Creek because the president was playing at the anti-Semitic club. The snub even made the local news.
When Jeb Bush was slated to pay a visit to the club, Miller informed the Florida governor of the restrictive policies, and Bush cancelled.
I could not believe that Hillary Clinton said the following: "Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act. It took a president to get it done."
ReplyDeleteThis is totally unacceptable for Hillary Clinton to say. Black people across the nation should demands an official apology from her. She covers herself under the Democratic Party to gain African America support, and votes. However she does not represent the party ideology. I am afraid that she is just a racist, hypocrite and an opportunist who fooled the black community in the past. She was right when she said that she found her voice in New Hampshire thereafter. She does even have a modicum of restraint for our most respectable hero - A man who gave his life for the liberty of back people. I could not believe that she said the following: "Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act. It took a president to get it done."
Not only she is going to loose the votes of the black people in South Carolina, but also she is going to loose the black votes across the nation. The last time I remember checking the official US census, Black people accounts for about 12.8% of the population
Please allow me to introduce myself as Maria Landry Ross, founder of the first commemorative Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Flag. I would like to present to you our vision and tell you a bit about it’s cause and how it came to be. We’d first like to give thanks to God for the relationship we’ve established with Congresswoman Sheila J Lee over the past 8 years. Unfortunately this relationship came to exist under very unfortunate circumstances. In the year 2000 we were victims of a hate crime in Katy TX, a suburb of Congresswoman Lee’s Houston Congressional District. On Juneteenth, 2000 we awoke to find a 7 foot cross burning on our lawn, less than 5 feet from our children’s bedroom. On that day, a day which traditionally is a day of celebration, our lives were turned upside down. I’ve shared this story with you, not to highlight the difficulties we endured as a result of the hate crime, but to show how negatives can be turned into positives. Dr. King’s life was about turning negatives into positives. The sacrifices he made are why we’re able to have events like we’re having today. You are carrying forward Dr. King’s legacy as a result of your endless and untiring efforts at this school. Dr. King’s dream continues to unfold and we’re hopeful that our creation of this flag might inspire others to reach beyond their comfort zone and make this country and world a better place. Our goal is to have our flag flown at every school and resident in the country. We know that’s a tall task, but little by little, school by school, neighborhood by neighborhood, we are determined to make that happen. Today history as unfolded with the first African American President of the United States of America, a feat we didn’t think possible not long ago, and proof that Dr. King’s dream is within our grasp…
ReplyDeleteMLK flag inspires Students
BY CYNTHIA ROBY
LAUDERHILL, FL — When Mavis Ward came to Martin Luther King Elementary School in July, there were no visual reminders of its namesake on the campus. As principal, she began to facilitate creative ways and visual avenues to instill the legacy of the slain civil rights leader in the minds of her students.
When the opportunity came to have an MLK flag outside the school as a daily reminder of King’s legacy, and to sell the flags to fund specific school projects, Ward seized on it quickly.
The school, at 591 NW 31st Avenue in Lauderhill, flies its flag daily in honor of MLK’s legacy. It is the first school in the country to both display this particular flag – licensed and authorized by King’s family – on its campus, and leverage it as a fundraiser.
The MLK flag, created in 1998 by Maria Landry Ross, founding partner of Ross Flag and Design, LLC (RFD) in Chino Hills, California, was released in May of this year.
It also flies at institutions including the National Civil Rights Museum, which is formerly the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., where King was assassinated in 1968; the Birmingham Civil Rights Institution; DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago; the African American Museum of Philadelphia; as well as Howard University and Morehouse College.
“When I saw the picture of the flag,” Ward said, “I thought it would not only help, but open another avenue to keep Dr. King’s dream alive. It will also allow the community an opportunity to support his dream.”
Money raised from the flag sales will be used to purchase technology equipment for the students and fund the school’s academic programs. Third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students will be taken on a trip to The King Center in Atlanta, “where we will also make a donation,” Ward said.
The cost of the King Center trip has not yet been finalized, Ward said, “but I have faith and know we are going.”
Ward said strong academics are at the forefront of her approach. “We are a D school, but have shown continuous improvement. There has been a major change in the students’ behavior since implementing our Dream Keepers program.”
A student becomes a Dream Keeper when he or she excels academically and makes a conscious effort to keep the dream alive, Ward said.
Timbria Burke, 10, a Dream Keeper at the school, described MLK as a great man who helped her “see that we can prove a point without the violence; practice peaceful ways.”
The fifth-grader said she reads books and talks about MLK with her grandmother because “she knows a lot about him even though she never met him.”
She continued, “If I saw two kids who did not like each other because they were different, I would say to them that everybody is different in their own way. And if they just stopped for a minute to learn about each other, they might find out that they have something in common.”
Maria Ross, the MLK flag’s creator, said it was a 10-year journey to get it licensed by the King family.
“We first submitted the flag in 2003 [to The King Center] and were turned down,” she said. “We tried again last year after repackaging it, and they decided to work with us.”
This year, on May 24, the flag began to fly daily at the King Center, the first in its history, she said.
Lori Ross, RFD’s operations officer and Maria Ross’ sister-in-law (Maria and Lori are married to two brothers), said that The King Center asked the RFD to do a grassroots launch, reach out to the community, and let the community know that the flag is available.
“We want to get it into our schools to educate our youth,’’ Lori Ross said. “They should be able to look on their classroom wall and recognize who he is.”
It was a struggle bringing the flag to fruition, one marked by some of the atrocities of the Civil Rights Movement itself. Although Maria Ross created the original design 10 years ago, the project was placed on hold after her family, while living in Katy, Texas, was targeted for a hate crime on Juneteenth (the June 19 annual recognition of the end of slavery) in 2000.
“Our neighbors knocked on the door around 2:30 that morning,” Maria Ross said. “There was a seven-foot cross burning in our front yard; the flames had reached more than 20 feet. The tree that cross was butted against was near the bedroom of where my 3-year-old slept. I was horrified and afraid.’’
Maria Ross said that she later discovered that her family had been “watched for about a year. They actually planned it for Juneteenth.”
She added that the perpetrators “wore pillow cases; dug a two-foot hole about 10 feet from our front door where they placed the cross, draped in a Confederate flag, and doused it with gasoline.”
During the trial, Maria Ross said, they admitted to driving by the house “to see how the cross was burning,” and that they “thought our home would burn to the ground.
“They filmed the entire incident,” she added.
Houston attorney Benjamin L. Hall III, who represented the Rosses, told the Journal that on the morning of June 19, 2000, the men, then each 20 years old, trespassed on the Rosses' property while wearing pillowcases over their heads and carrying a wooden cross wrapped in sheets.
After a failed attempt to dig a hole in which to place the cross, the men leaned it against a tree outside of the home, doused it in gasoline, ignited it and fled, the Journal reported.
Charles R. Parker, a Houston attorney who represented three of the five men, told the Journal that he argued at trial that the criminal sanctions imposed on his clients and their co-defendants, which ranged from a 10-year sentence in federal prison to a seven-month sentence in a federal boot camp, were sufficient punishment.
Maria Ross said the incident left her feeling that she had a place and had stepped outside of it, “and that is not my American dream.’’
Later, Ross, along with the family of James Byrd, testified about the incident in Austin and was instrumental in convincing government officials to pass Texas’ hate crime bill.
After the trial and sentencing of the perpetrators, the Ross family, because of harassment and stress, relocated to California, where Maria Ross continued her vision for the flag.
The flag, she said, is “a healing for me because of the cross burning.’’
For more information or to purchase a Martin Luther King, Jr. flag or banner, contact www.rossflags.com
Here is the Ross Family, pic taken day after Thanksgiving 2008 in my home town in Louisiana. The kids were 3 and 7 years when the cross burning occurred in Katy, Texas. Since trial we moved away relocating to Southern California…became dormant wanting to put the ordeal behind us….now we are currently residing in Dallas Texas. You see before us our creation of healing “First Commemorative MLK Flag”. Starting to speak about for the first time in 8 years is also healing. We did our very first story and spoke about what happened …with the Florida Times Newspaper… published a few days ago. It would be nice if the Dallas Newspaper and Houston Chronicle would feature an article to push forth the awareness as done by the Florida Times Newspaper. Or every major newspaper across the country!
Maria Ross
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