“So, when asked if America has made any progress on race, Jones is dumbstruck. “Are you kidding?” he said, with shock in his voice. “Any person who says that to the contrary, any black person who alleges themselves to be a scholar, or any white person who says otherwise, they’re just not telling you the truth.”
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Please feel free to tell the Democrat Party about this because they are still aggressively profiteering off of Black People.
Bingo. Some members of all races have figured out that pandering to the black community is a nice profitable business that is almost criticism proof. Any dissent is dismissed as racism, even from a black person. And Joe Biden? You ain't black if you don't vote democratic. Jim Crow 2.0 if you dare to make sure elections are fair.
Another group of white Progressives are the racist and snobbish white intellectuals like Robin DiAngelo. She literally admits to her racism and details some of the stupid things she would say to black intellectuals at get-togethers among her colleagues. But she then does a reverse flip and tries to tie everyone lacking skin pigment to her way of being a moron. She can't accept in her pea brain that most of us (of all colors) are much smarter than her. Even as a 5-yr-old if I had heard or seen some of the stuff she admits to, I would have asked why she's so ignorant.
Even the most racist and dumbest people in the Democrat Party do not defend Robin DiAngelo anymore. She is a known psychotic bigot on the level of Louis Farrakhan and Adolf Hitler and Barack Hussein Obama.
So please bask in the glory of Compost’s efforts in this regard.
Progressive people appear to be motivated as much by a desire to be tyrants in their real behavior as they are by the desire to be viewed as a savior by themselves and others.
Ot how about Biden's quote on Obama - "I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Doesn't matter though. Blacks love Biden.
Jim Crow was what the Dem/Commie Party was in up until the civil rights act. It was Dems who fought the civil rights act tooth and nail. Robert Byrd was their spokesman and the Dems loved the old Klansman and honored him over and over again.
the racist people in this country are all the blacks in power. They only see skin color. they have perverted what MLK has trying to do. Shame on them all.
The leading racists are those who insist that Blacks cannot be racists. They change the use of the term from an attitude of individuals to an inescapable attribute of Whites. They would say the Jewish people who marched with Dr. King were racists because of their skin color.
In fact today's progressives are some of our most prominent anti semites- because Jews are "white" and successful in America. For the same reason, blacks hate Asians.
President Lyndon B. Johnson let the cat out of the bag when a governor traveling with him on Air Force One asked, “Why do you want these War on Poverty and Great Society programs so much?” Johnson responded, I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years.
The source of the “200 years” quote is Ronald Kessler’s 1995 book "Inside the White House." Kessler got the quote from Robert MacMillan, an Air Force One steward who said LBJ uttered it to two governors during a conversation on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Snopes doubts the veracity of this quote, but it is historically sound as a firsthand account from an eyewitness. Whether the eyewitness was wrong is anyone's guess I suppose.
Sure, but there's no evidence he did. So, we're not going to suddenly reverse the standards of proof here.
Also, it's interesting that no one has ever noted that he ever said it again/similar sentiment during his entire presidency. Which I find incredibly odd. Just one time on a plane? And you heard it from someone who heard it from someone? Sounds like something you would say more than once.
It's really nothing more than BS uncorroborated hearsay that serves an ideological purpose for conservatives that African-Americans have been "tricked" into voting for Democrats.....as opposed to.....y'know, actually listening to/observing what the GOP says and does.
Conservatives it seems, only know two quotes. This one and MLK, Jr's. "Content of Character" line. There's a reason for that.
Do you have proof he didn’t? He was a blunt racist. Whether someone was there recording him with a microphone or not the quote encapsulated his thinking.
Dude, are you serious? You want me to prove that someone DIDN'T say something? I'm aware of many reports LBJ used the n word. But the only evidence he said the above quote is in a book that doesn't seem to provide any attribution.
That's a fair response / question. I've heard versions of the LBJ quote, but never heard he used those words. Tim K's point might have more impact without the provocation anyway.
It makes you wonder why it's so vitally important to some of these people that he never said it. Because...because...it would mean he didn't actually CARE about blacks! Oh boo-hoo!!
Um, did you actually read the Snopes article? Their conclusion is there's "little evidence to back it up". That's you're proof that he said it? I was asking the question sincerely, so spare me your snark.
Yea I read it. As far as I know there is no recording, however I found these excerpts compelling background:
“Biographer Caro also notes that Johnson is said to have replied as follows to a black, “As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture”
“These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again”
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
We can't know. But, in context it's just like him saying Negra, Nigra, or nigger depending on who he's talking to. He has to pitch the bill in a way the listener can hear. In this case, some racist motherf****ers.
No different than an entrepreneur pitching his idea in a way the listener will believe.
I remember from when I was a kid reading things LBJ said that made it crystal clear that he, himself, thought the racism was appalling. Whereas JFK did not see it that way. Without JFK's death, we would not have had civil rights in the 1960's. LBJ cleaned his house.
and, seeing Snopes and Google as reliable sources? i'm sorry, these clowns lost their credibility years ago... when they cited a story of Trump paying off someone's mortgage as untrue.. i know the guy's sister-in-law. she told me the story before it became a political football. Snopes and Google lie, edit, etc... do not trust them!
that said, there are an awful lot of liars out there~ and, most people are ready to dismiss the truth if it inflicts with their previously held beliefs.
believe Snopes and Google at your own risk~ it's a free country ;)
That's what conspiracy theorists say. I'm not even saying the quote is untrue, just asking to cite their source. If you have a problem with that, then I'm not sure why you bother to read The Free Press.
Just googled it. Apparently this was a quote from a book by Ronald Kessler with weak attribution. Tell me "bestuvall", who was the governor traveling with LBJ?
That may be true. But people here are responding to my request for source by citing a Snopes article that says there's no evidence for the quote. Or is Snopes's unreliability supposed to mean that whatever they say, the opposite must be true???
How funny, because I think you could argue the same thing applies to their treatment of Trump. If Trump announced, "the grass is green" they would "fact check" it and declare, well it's not technically green, it's actually a different shade of...
To finish your sentence, Kate, " a different shade of... orange!", as befitting everything about a "bad orange man". I believe that regardless of how much Trump has been mistreated by the media, he's better as a comedian than as a president. On the other hand I don't like Joe Biden and the Democrats either. So I'm an independent currently without a sensible choice at the top of the 2024 ticket. I voted Libertarian for president in 2016 and 2020, but I don't know whether that will be a reasonable choice this year.
“ Let’s face it. Our ass is in a crack. We’re gonna have to let this n*gger bill pass.” —LYNDON JOHNSON to Senator John Stennis, 1957
Source: Lyndon Johnson, statement to Missouri Democratic senator John Stennis during debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957, cited by Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (New York: Vintage, 2003), p. 954.
MacAoidh, “From the JFK Assassination Files: Was Lyndon Johnson a Klansman?” October 27, 2017, thehayride.com.
>> The recent release of the JFK assassination files shows a memo filed by FBI agent William Branigan that reveals that Johnson may been in the Ku Klux Klan at one time.
Supposedly, LBJ was a known racist and segregationist, but the story goes that he was “transformed.” Yet there is no plausible evidence for it, not even from biographer Robert Caro, who seems to have followed LBJ’s life virtually day by day for decades and wrote a four-volume biography of him. LBJ told no one of his great conversion; he never wrote about it or made a speech about it, so if it happened he kept it entirely to himself. Which is odd, because if such a transforms did happen, sharing such a story would have helped actually fight racism, demonstrating to others that you can learn and grow.
In addition, Caro says that LBJ had “a hunger for power in its most naked form, for power not to improve the lives of others, but to manipulate and dominate them, to bend them to his will.” So did LBJ really change? Or was he playing a political game all along?
When an aide suggested to LBJ that there were other qualified black jurists he could have chosen over Thurgood Marshall, suggesting as an alternative possibility Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, LBJ responded, “The only two people who ever heard of Judge Higginbotham are you and his momma. When I appoint a n*gger to the court, I want everyone to know he’s a n*gger.”
source: Dallek, Flawed Giant, p. 441.
LBJ speaking of black riots in California:“Negroes will end up pissing in the aisles of the Senate and making fools of themselves, the way … they had after the Civil War and during Reconstruction.”
Source: Dallek, Flawed Giant, p. 223
Biographer Robert Caro describes an incident involving Robert Parker, LBJ’s chauffeur. Parker recalled an occasion when Senator Johnson asked him whether he would prefer to be called “boy,” “nigger” or “chief.” Parker asked to be called by his name. Johnson erupted, “Let me tell you one thing, nigger. As long as you’re black, and you’re going to be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, n*gger, you just let it roll off your back like water and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture.”
Source: Caro, Years of Lyndon Johnson, p. 717.
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin cites LBJ telling Senator Richard Russell during the debate over the Civil Rights Act of 1957, “These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’re got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”
Source: Cited by Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, p. 155.
Clearly, LBJ had a history of talking like this. It was not just one time. His “conversion” to progressive anti-racism was not some moral awakening, but clearly part of a strategy to stay in power.
Smart, very rich neoliberal Dems have done exactly what smart, very rich neoliberal Republicans have done for the past forty years. Under Reagan, these Republicans easily bought the Evangelical preachers in order to guarantee the Evangelical block vote as the bedrock of the party to endlessly manipulate with culture wars. The very rich neoliberal Dem golf parents of these very rich Republicans did exactly the same thing with the black church, especially in the South, since their own manipulative culture war con job was centered on blacks since the 60s. These Dems' bitter enemies, of course, are Bernie progressives--note how Bernie never focused on culture war at all, just the old FDR economic class war that made the Dems so powerful decades ago. So in both 2016 and 2020, when Bernie was pulverizing the candidates of the neoliberal Dem rich, Hillary and Joe, all the rich had to do was call in their black cavalry in Southern primaries to save the day. Worked like the charm they knew they had.
Blacks are choosing to let the Democrat Party use them...and Jews are okay with Blacks bashing them...remember Jesse James' "Hymietown" comment in 1984. Rev. Jesse Jackson referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City as "Hymietown" during a conversation with a black Washington Post reporter, Milton Coleman. Jackson had assumed the references would not be printed because of his racial bond with Coleman, but several weeks later Coleman permitted the slurs to be included far down in an article by another Post reporter on Jackson's rocky relations with American Jews.
Mr. Jones cares about the truth and actual progress. Mr. Democrat (I.e., all partisan Democrats) care only about power and/or the ideology they are wrongly convinced we all must kowtow to, or else be labeled racists, xenophobes, homophobes, etc.
Thank you, Francesca, for this lovely portrait of perhaps, the last of the lions--a charming man who contributed to so much in the country. His words are gold. He reminds me a bit of my advisor at Stanford, Herbie Lindenberger, whom, I am sure, Clarence Jones may have known. Both men--clear as tuning forks, forward-thinking, not bitter. Appreciate the reporting.
I wonder why the mainstream media isn't interviewing this man to gain some insight on current race relations, or even more poignantly, Black/Jewish relations. Maybe because he would tell their narrative to pound sand.
Perhaps. There is a lot of Arab money in media stocks. But the memory hole is just as likely, if not more so.
Nearly 20 years ago, a 3rd year journalism major at a major university read a piece I had written. She came to me and said, "This is interesting. But, what is this USSR?"
If I hadn't told her, she probably would have gone out into the workplace like many of her classmates clueless about perhaps the biggest force in the 20th century.
Americans can't tell you the dates and belligerents involved in both world wars, they've never studied the Civil War, and forget about understanding any part of the history of Israel and the Middle East.
How did we get to a place where all anyone under 50 knows is that Fascism is evil because Hitler. Whereas Communism is good, because it is just a stronger form of socialism which has never really been tried?
Keep in mind this was almost 20 years ago. 9-11 for 18 year olds today was before they were born. The USSR is as far in the past for them as the end of WW2 was for people born in 1980.
It's truly scary to me that we have a whole generation that not only doesn't remember the Soviet Union and the Cold War, but 9/11 either. And, they're not being taught about it in the indoctrination centers we call public schools, which is even scarier. This is why we see them demonstrate for Hamas. They are also likely not being taught about the Holocaust. But you can bet they are being taught about all the bad done to the "indigenous" peoples and African-American slaves. I fear we are doomed to repeat history.
Matin', buggin', and lickin'? Gender, bender, and protest? Cannabis, shatter, dabs, and honey oil? Fukin', cheatin', and word salad?
Seriously, with salaries so low, people that go into teaching now are either very dedicated, or they have some weirdo axe to grind. For instance, religion, Marxism, queer theory (pedophilia, a la Foucalt, Shottler, etc.). I've been told stories about kids ignoring teachers in class, doing hash, shatter, dabs in vape pens in class, etc..
Not having worked there, I don't know, and it varies from place to place.
Because he advocates for Dr. King’s ideals and those ideals are completely anathema to the desires of today’s (and yesterday’s) left.
When you desire to judge people solely by skin color and ignore character completely why would they care what the giants of the civil rights movement think?
Stanley Levison. Jones is credited as a co-author. Perhaps. Perhaps he went abd got coffee. I take anything any leftist says or publishes with a grain of salt.
The rogue FBI repeatedly threatened MLK during the early 1960s. J. Edgar Hoover was pressuring MLK to commit suicide or face the disclosure of MLK's many extramarital dalliances and his association with the suspected communist Levison. Levison suggested a public distancing to MLK to which MLK acquiesced but after a short time found himself in need of Levison's counsel and considerable talent. At that point it was agreed that Clarence Jones would serve as intermediary between the intellect and the mouthpiece. Levison was the quintessential King.
Race relations in America have markedly deteriorated. There is no doubt of that. But you fool yourself if you don't understand the hideous damage done by the American Left and particularly the Leftist Democrat Party to the racial healing that followed the Civil Rights Act and continued right up to the turn of this Century. But then something strange and sinister took hold. Fostered by dark forces that didn't want racial harmony. . Calling half of America "white supremacists" and fostering a grievance culture by pushing a false narrative of white police hunting black men they peddled sheer poison. Seeking to divide Americans they shrieked for ridiculous slave reparations for people who were never enslaved. Whites are increasingly marginalized in their own land. The mayhem and riots following the George Floyd debacle were a sad spectacle of intimidation and craven cowardice by our institutions in the face of racist shakedowns. Do you honestly think this will end well? Or that it wasn't all done with a very sinister purpose? When a legally colorblind society is replaced by demonization of white Americans we are entering truly dangerous waters. To have an American president braying this vile garbage - notwithstanding his senility and patent stupidity - needs to be stopped. Not only because it is dangerous and idiotic, but because in the destabilization of our nation, it is nothing less than treason.
There is also completely missing from the race narrative that more Irish were enslaved and sold into the Americas before the 18th century than black or any other. In its time this was humanitarian. What Cromwell's Puritans did to the Irish was exactly like what Hamas did on October 7th. Right down to the murderous rape, cutting off women's breasts, limbs, killing children and babies, throwing them into bonfires. They drove Irish en masse naked into the snow to die.
Irish girls were bred to black slaves. This is why so many have freckles. Many escaped, and their common fate was why pirate crews existed, and why pirates had black fighting side by side with white Irish.
The Puritans who settled America are portrayed as fleeing persecution, but there was reason for it in England, where most people were repulsed by Cromwells cruelty. And that culture is what Irish came to.
Much of the poor whites legacy comes equally from slavery and centuries of oppression here in America.
I am with Morgan Freeman. There is darkness in everyone's history. Don't dwell on that shit or you'll never be free.
You cannot take America down using guns. No way. but you CAN take America down from within, and this is what the Left is trying to do. Obama, Biden, and their henchmen like Fauci, are the enemy within. Their tactics, as described by Bruce, are extremely effective. This is a whole new kind of warfare. They create CONSTANT chaos that keeps us unfocused, on edge and fighting, and not paying attention to how they are dismantling the American way. They many, many examples of this chaos:
-BLM
-Defund the police
-Aggressively Promoting black victimhood
-Doing unconstitutional things knowingly, just for the sake of creating the legal battle
-LGBTQ and attack of children by trans ideology and pedophiles
-America being the biggest market for human trafficking
-Trans against women sports and calling Trans "women" men better women than biological women!
-Illegal immigrants and unsafe borders
-Anti-semitism
-Support of Hamas terrorists
-DEI in our universities, especially the ones training our future leaders
-DEI hires, like in the airline industry
-Out of control inflation
-Covid - all of it!
-Dakota Access pipeline
-Legalizing marijauan (skunk smell is everywhere now and addicts have taken over our cities)
Abortion issues which have been galvanizing the country for years...
-In many blue states like CA, making it illegal to investigate infant deaths up to 28 days AFTER birth, Late term abortions of fully viable babies
-Federal funding of abortions which was disallowed before
-Planned Parenthood openly admitting to extracting tissues and organs from still-alive fetuses (and specifically targeting teenage mothers for these).
I can still remember fondly Trump proclaiming that the first thirteen cases found in California in February 2020 was all that we'll ever have. Ahh..those were the days!
You think the chaos as described by your characterization of the Left isn't matched by the idiocy and chaos/drama/victimhood of your present spearchucker Donald? You want change on all your points? Find someone who can articulate it.
And by the way, no GOP candidate can control inflation. That's the Fed..
I don't bother anymore. Anyone who rants about Trump isn't worth the time and usually they're lying to themselves.
But I can never pass the opportunity to remind everyone that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are responsible for preventing disease - not the president - and that they openly said they were going to allow the infection to happen because closing borders is racist. Then they closed the borders two months later when we were already infected.
So, people who come out of that thinking it was Trump's fault and not the CDC's are telling you that they are stupid, full of hate, and incapable of understanding how the federal government functions.
The CDC did make huge mistakes. And I guess every single person working there is a progressive Lefty Commie Democrat. You know better than that, Anthony.
Who agreed to nationwide lockdowns? Trump did, initially. Just like Biden. They both could have vetoed it and leave the states to do their own thing - as what eventually happened. There was chaos in the country under both Administrations during Covid. But, of course, around here, the evil Dems own all the blame.
You’re an idiot. You’re not even partially paying attention to what has been going on throughout the entire covid bullshit years. No one will take you seriously if that’s all you’ve got.
You better believe I’m willing. I need tools to negotiate through the minefield this comment thread resembles. It’s fun, though I do get blown up from time to time.
You're clearly center left except when it comes to DJT. No? I'm clearly center right except when it comes to.....anything leftist...yesh. Yesh. Dear Lee. Be reasonable take half of one red pill.
Well at least I can elicit a comment as illuminating as yours. I’m honored, Alice.
I do give credit to Trump in accelerating the vaccine - you know, the needle MAGA loves to hate. Did you take it? He used to get booed at his rallies when he mentioned it. I notice he doesn’t do that anymore.
Now that I agree with. But I find Trump to be a vacuous, empty vessel that his followers (the 'movement,' if you will) fill their desires and anger with. He's a chameleon and an opportunist. And now, of course, he's using his base to throw his victimhood at, taking solace in their sympathy for him, as he claims vengeance at his tormenters if he wins. As I wrote elsewhere, I forget to whom, find another leader ! - someone who is smart, who can articulate - and be the kind of leader that independents and disaffected Dems could also be interested in supporting (someone like me). But all he does is double down on his base, they lap it up, while the other half of the country just recoils.
Spot on.. reading America’s Cultural Revolution- How the radical left concurred everything. By Chris Rufo... while this interview makes me feel better the reality is we are in a battle with nihilistic morons..
My ingrained and sometimes annoying typo spotter suggests that you meant "conquered" rather than "concurred", which means agreed or happened at the same time. Sorry!
The race industry is a huge money maker. Some of its biggest benefactors have been in the news recently, not for a genuine dedication to improving race relations, but as a vehicle for personal enrichment. As long as you can buy multiple homes in upscale neighborhoods and receive dozens of millions to create a program which yielded nothing and was shuddered with no repercussions the cries of racism will echo well into the future.
The dark forces who didn't want racial harmony saw that there was no way to profit from it; therefore insisting upon the opposite became necessary to keep the cash flow.
Partially. But I see something different and more sinister. The global elites benefit by a weak and divided America. Because a strong America, dedicated to the principles of free speech, free people and a free economy is precisely what they do NOT want. So destabilizing America and setting us upon each other furthers their interests.
agreed. I think there's also an element of weaponization involved here. It's much easier to harness people's anger, and get them to unite against a common enemy (the whites or "whiteness"), than to rally people to a common good. Now, how Biden was elected under the auspices of being the great "antiracist", and not seen the blatant racist he is, has never made any sense to me. His self-professed mentor was Robert Byrd, but hey, he's a useful idiot, so I guess it's okay for them?
EXCUSE me if you want to be listened to please do not say 'leftist.' There is no "left' in the US. Bernie got close and was subjected to all sorts of manoeuvers by the DNC
You can never have a 'left' in the US because you have been propagandized to such an extent you believe Socialism is communism which is why you have rotten education/healthcare etc.
I hope your comment means that you do not use the following terms: "far right," "right wing," "MAGA extremists," etc. Jenny please let us know which political side runs the public schools in the major US cities and why their test scores are so abysmal. I too prefer that we not use labels , but rather focus on issues. Happy to discuss matters of race, education , borders, national debt and so forth all day long. BTW also happy to hear your views as to what socialism actually means and where it has proved to be successful. I imagine Bruce would love to participate in any such dialogue ( and we can all stay away from name calling).
Unbelievable. You are back on that train to nowhere...no leftists in America. You clearly don't have the capacity to think rationality. Why are you here? You have your own Substack to spew your drivel.
How is socialism in practice any different than communism in practice? Sure, you can go quote from a hundred books about how there are differences between the two. But once a totalitarian government takes over, no one keeps score on how closely the govt is following the "rules" of whatever political / economic theory is supposedly being used as the template. Rotten education due to the political system? No, rotten because teacher's unions refuse to acknowledge the failures of the public education systems across the US, and fight to preserve what does not work.
Oh please, the Brooklyn "socialist" who owns three homes? The American left is enshrined in the Democrat Party and that party hates America and its people. Now that doesn't mean the Republican Party doesn't suck - it just sucks less. I use Left in the same way that Orwell does - a totalitarian repressive regime that enriches the elites while the working people suffer. We need a party devoted to the American working man and woman, their freedom, rights and well being. Call it what you will but the American leftist Democrat Party is the party of repression, racial division, controls on speech and thought and elevation of the elites at the expense of working Americans.
From my point of view not many know right from left in the US.
You can still be a 'socialist' however many homes you own as long as you don't charge exhorbitant rents. This is childish 'old' rubbish you are spouting and it always comes from right wing people who have been brainwashed into thinking socialism is the same as communism.
I think you need to read Orwell again........how old are you?
The dems are right wing and the Repubs are facists!
Socialism is just an ideology that doesn’t work very well. Anyone who wants it is just looking for handouts. Anyone I know who has it either hates it or is fleeing their countries. Our education system in the US is not focused on education but on indoctrinating with left ideology. So when someone says you’re a leftist it’s like someone saying I’m a Maga because I vote republican. I’m choosing to make America great again…not live by left ideologies. PS…hoping for Nikki Haley as our first female president!!
> Socialism is communism which is why you have rotten education/healthcare etc.
IMO, we have rotten education because it's been infiltrated by communists trying to create "equity," while we have rotten healthcare because it's been infiltrated by capitalists trying to make as much money as possible by foisting useless medical treatments on people, and drive up costs. Both sides can hold hands on the destruction of institutions.
Given that, it makes sense why trans medicalization is pushed so far, so early. The communist revolutionary elite wants to use it to destabilize family units and just break up social order. The capitalist elite wants to use it to sell a bunch of cosmetics, unnecessary surgeries, drugs, therapies, etc, enriching themselves and the insurance companies.
I hate Biden more than any politician I have ever come across. I have never seen a politician, so keen to destroy our country. He is a traitor, who deserves to swing from a lamppost..
So to say he's a traitor is to assume he knows that what he's doing is detrimental to America's interests. I think you're mistaking that for his blind stupidity on certain things, of which border security at the Mexican border is paramount. Biden is making major mistakes, but just like Trump did (in my opinion) as in inviting behind closed doors in the WH the two highest Russian diplomats in a reporters barred meeting - similar to what he did with Putin in Helsinki. Now some people in some circles would think that to be, well, slightly against America's interests. I just put it to an idiotic error, commensurate with a man who I consider to be an idiot. Biden can also be slowly closing in to be considered an idiot.
i know that you'll vote for Trump because of your loathing for Biden - just like I would close my eyes and vote for Biden because I can't stand Trump. But we should not have to vote for either. This country deserves better.
Trump did nothing remotely treasonous in Helsinki or anywhere else. The fight with Russia is idiotic. They never would have invaded Ukraine if Trump were in office and never forget that the Crimea and Eastern provinces were taken under B Hussein (psst... tell Vlad I'll have more flexibility after the idiots re-elect me) Obama. Biden is competent enough to know what he's doing when he calls half of America "white supremacists." He needs to pay for the racial division he's incited and the damage he's done the country we love with his alien invasion and divisive policies.
I'm laughing. If Biden at a podium with Putin said what Trump did, saying that he believed Putin more than his own intelligence agencies in public with the world listening, you and every commenter leaning conservative would be up in arms, and rightly so. Try to remember back that far.
Nobody with a firing neuron would believe anything that Gina Haspel or Chris Wray said. So while that would clearly leave out Biden. Trump did nothing wrong in Helsinki or anywhere else.
When Obama was elected I thought "this is awesome, he's living proof that anything is achievable and he's going to lead by example." I naively thought that he might actually put the racism bogeyman to bed.
And what did he do?
He stirred the pot and ginned up racial grievance like no other president since reconstruction. He promoted misinformation about Trayvon Marin and Michael Brown. He bitched and moaned and sowed the seeds of discord. He is directly responsible for the grievance olympics we're all forced to compete in. What a complete PoS. Biden managed to be even worse. A legacy of total failure.
But Obama pretended to want to move race relations further forward, in the direction of equality of opportunity, rather than towards the black power racism of equity his party promotes today.
His A More Perfect Union speech, in which he criticized and contextualized racist remarks by his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, inspired belief in many voters that Obama saw the potential for racial equality in the US, and sought to promote unity between people regardless of their race.
Unfortunately, in his two administrations he chose to support the divisive politics of identity, cloaked in the deceptive label Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. A more perfect union cannot be accomplished by promoting the divisive ideology of DEI (aka cultural Marxism).
Rev. Wright is also known to have had a negative view of Jews, a problem Obama must have also had to recognize and reckon with in his continued support for his pastor.
"belief in many voters that Obama saw the potential for racial equality in the US"
Did you mean equity? How did any given race not have equal opportunity during Obama's presidency? Whites might complain that they didn't have it, due to Affirmative Action.
I agree. I do wonder what Mr. Jones (or even MLK Jr?) would think of the vast potential Obama had, and how he squandered it on sowing more seeds of hatred. Such a tragedy.
He really did. It started with his dumb comments and personal involvement when that black professor for arrested for trying to break into his own house (a neighbor called the police) when he lost his keys.
Actually, he said "if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." That made lots of people mad. Not sure why? Who do they think he'd look like? Charlie Kirk?
What was the misinformation re: Martin & Brown.
"He bitched and moaned and sowed the seeds of discord. "
- Interesting.....do you have examples of these speeches/statements? Because I seem to remember he stayed as far away from discussing race/race relations as possible.
I doubt your claim of your election happiness is entirely accurate.
Btw I laughed at your Charlie Kirk comment, but you're gaslighting. You know exactly what the implication is: that poor little Trayvon was an innocent victim of racism. Obama was a master politician but anyone who has an IQ over 85 knows exactly what he meant.
"I can only imagine what these parents are going through and when I think about this boy, I think about my own kids, and I think every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together, federal, state and local, to figure out how this tragedy happened. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."
There is no "implication" of anything. No statement about race, no statement about culpability, no statement about profiling, no statement against Zimmerman, etc.
I believe you're simply upset he said anything at all. Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
But please feel free to explain how the above statement, or perhaps another one of your own choosing, destroyed race relations in America.
Uhhh Ferguson? This isn't a scholarly article. 73 people agree with me and nobody agrees with you. That should be a hint. This isn't Fox News, these are reasonable people here. Try google. It's useful.
Lots of people agreed that eating Tide Pods was a good idea, too.
Reasonable? Lol!! Yeah, I wouldn't hang my hat too much on "stolen election," FBI did Jan. 6th" and "Covid vaccine has killed millions" fans. That should be a hint. Yeah, you go ahead and enjoy that 73.
No....I don't want to try Google. You put up the statement about Ferguson that destroyed American race relations. Or how about your #1 "Obama Destroys American Race Relations" speech? Try to back up your argument. It's useful.
It is a shame, that while Jewish people were the first white group to support MLK’s dream, today, many, if not most, black communities are anti-semitic. When together we formed a powerful coalition. When divided, the nation loses dramatically.
I honor “The Last Lion,” and I hope his memory and that of Dr. King are not lost forever.
The whole nation suffers from ignorance of history and this is just one example. Obama was launched by liberal Jews in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Even he forgot from where he came.
Obama may have benefitted from Jewish financial and voter support, but ideologically, he is a product of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who has no love for the Jewish people.
Rabidly anti-semitic. I lived half of my life in a majority black
community I can tell you with certainty that most Blacks despise Jews. The general racism towards whites has gotten far worse as well, enabled by elite whites that don't have to deal with the consequences of their politics.
I left. My family's do-gooder experiment failed, totally. Bye.
Ugh I live in a city that I feel very unsafe in because of racism! I will say most people are very kind and friendly but it just takes a few to see me as a white woman of privilege and therefore a bad person. I also spend half my time in a wealthy East coast costal community and my neighbors and friends think Joe Biden has been trying so hard to bring the nation together and be inclusive to everyone 🧐 What the heck am I missing?????
It's not what you're missing. It's what you're doing. Here's how you can get up to speed:
Stop reading The Free Press and other independent journalism on Substack. Stop watching Rumble, especially subversives like Glenn Greenwald and Russell Brand, and stay away from podcasts, especially Joe Rogan and other far-right propagandists. Read only the NY Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic and the New Yorker. Watch only Stephen Colbert and MSNBC, CNN, PBS and the major networks (except for Fox). And, if you must turn on the radio, listen only to NPR. I'm sure I'm leaving a lot out, but ask your wealthy East coast neighbors and friends to fill in the gaps.
Then you'll be woke. I mean awakened. You will know how mentally and physically fit Biden is, how selflessly he works to preserve our democratic values, especially freedom of speech, how he works long hours day after day without a break despite his advanced age, what an extraordinary military strategist he is, and what a sharp businessman his accomplished son Hunter is.
You will also learn how competent his trusty V.P., Kamala Harris, is, how smart and brave she is, and what a good job she did when she was tasked with figuring out what to do with "The Border."
In summation, you will learn that Joe Biden is the savior of the American people. He is the Politician's Politician. He would never take a bribe or lie. And perhaps most importantly, he knows, without a shadow of a doubt, what a woman is.
I feel the Free Press’ momentum building with each passing month.. I’m seeing credits across numerous platforms given to Free Press contributors... This gives me hope for a better tomorrow in the USA.. Interviews like this one! What a soulful and sweet man Mr Jones is.. sweet in a sense that his story brings such a positive tone in this mess of a race relations world we live in today. His relationship with MLK and this story so important as I reflect this weekend. Thank you Free Press!
I can’t first hand of course but Europe has similar issues with immigration.. and other challenges on the race front.. you are right it’s not the every where.. thank you
I agree that words mean things. The word "mistake" means an unintentional error; "correction", fixing an error made. I don't expect perfection from any human, only an ability to learn and repair. In any case, the sass was what I took issue with, not the pointing out of an error.
Everything King and Jones believed and worked for was tossed in the toilet the day they (the black community) judged George Floyd by the color of his skin rather than the content of his character
This wasn't entirely the "black community" doing that. It was the media. And in fact ever since Occupy Wall Srtreet, racism was talked up constantly in the media. It hit a boiling point then. And it will again in 2024, since that's what they need to get a Democrat elected again -- another summer of rioting.
It is a shame that the lions like Jones and Sowell are not heard by all. Thank you TheFreePress for taking another lead on reporting and hopefully reaching beyond the walls of the subscriber choir.
This is a very important interview with an even more important message. I certainly hope that Kendi and the other anti-MLK Jr. activists read this and heed Jones' final words here.
Thank you, Francesca! America needs a resurgence of King's words and ideals.
“The tide has turned”? You are in for a shock, my friend!
In the wake of some near-disaster air incidents, the FAA (in its wisdom) has announced it is doubling down on its diversity programs. It is, in particular, looking to hire people with “...complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability...psychiatric disability”. Now, isn’t that reassuring?
Imagine: Flight 2462 is incoming with an emergency, but ATC can’t handle it because one of the controllers is having an epileptic episode, and another is in psychiatric crisis. Fabulous.
All done with you, the expendable citizen in mind, because, according to the FAA, “diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.”
Unfortunately, these ill conceived programs have been so completely integrated into our legal and governmental systems over the past few years that it would take a decade or more to completely unravel them. We have won a few skirmishes lately, but they are a drop in the bucket.
Kendi wouldn't care what Jones said. He will say he's not relevant anymore. I would think even MLK had he lived to speak and write more would be ignored now. But it works both ways too. I don't think Richard Nixon nor Reagan matters to the present day GOP. Does Bush even matter? It appears we are in a reality divorced from the past.
I think you're right about Kendi and I think it's also a form of evolution. Things change in response to the present and anticipated future. Not all change is good and every now and again, we should pause and ask ourselves if we've gone too far. I'm more in favor of a color- blind society (character-based) than I am for a color-bound society (identity-based).
Henry Rogers, I’m sorry “Ibram X Kendi” 😂, would simply say that Mr. Jones is a racist since he is not “anti-racist” and that’s all you need to know about Henry’s grift.
It is a sin that this man is not better known and celebrated. It is also a sin that the wisdom and teachings of Dr King are disappearing as the years go by. We desperately need more people of good character in our lives on both a personal level and at the leadership level ( and that applies on both sides of the political aisle and in all too many of our critical educational, business and other institutions-- this is about values not personalities).
I recall the very early days of identity politics and diversity training in the USAF back in the late 1960s when the Black Panthers were at their peak, street riots were common and calls for affirmative action for African-Americans, based on past slavery and racial discrimination, were everywhere. During my military basic training we were required to sit through a lecture by a Black sergeant, a nice guy as I recall and a thoughtful one. He used the ball-and-chain analogy oft-heard at the time to justify preferential treatment, suggesting that someone who has been so burdened, rather than lining up with everyone else at the starting line, should be advanced farther down the course in order to make things fair and more equal in trying to get ahead in this world. I listened attentively if not fully approvingly, questioning whether the proper remedy for those discriminated against in the past was to now discriminate against other groups. Though such preferential treatment may be welcomed by the recipients and supported by those of goodwill, it cannot be said to be just to those abused or made to suffer by such an action of the State, one constitutionally dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal under the law. My demeanor may have revealed my worry, as the good sergeant seemed to take note, asking me, “And Airman Hastings, what do you think?”
I was nonplussed and appreciated his openness, but didn’t reply, not possessing a fully formed proper answer and not wanting to openly challenge what I perceived to be a genuine attempt to talk freely about a sensitive and complex topic. No doubt, I was also not responding out of fear that my comments would give offense. But the words of Victor Hugo did cross my mind and I’ve often thought that I should have uttered them, offered as an anodyne and inducement for further reflection, rather than remained mum: “In joined hands there is hope; in the clenched fist there is none.”
"He used the ball-and-chain analogy oft-heard at the time to justify preferential treatment, suggesting that someone who has been so burdened, rather than lining up with everyone else at the starting line, should be advanced farther down the course in order to make things fair and more equal in trying to get ahead in this world."
Whenever I hear this analogy my response is: "Fine. Give that person good nutrition and training to give him a better chance in the race. But don't just cancel the race and declare him the winner."
I’m guessing you don’t know any publicly educated white women between the age of 10 and 40. Many of them support DEI and embrace white guilt as their birthright.
Too bad this guy isn’t more predominant to counteract the voices of hustlers like sharpton and Jackson and all the grifter black reps in congress and Kamala Harris. He sounds too smart for that crowd however.
And guess who was in office 10 years ago? The guy that wanted to fundamentally change America, Barack Hussein Obama.
Shelby Steele and his son, Eli Steele, address the race grifters in their work, such as the documentary, "What Killed Michael Brown?" I'm sure the topic will be addressed again in their upcoming film, "White Guilt."
Shelby Steele’s book, “The Content of Our Character” was recommended by John McWhorter recently as having been an important influence for him. It is excellent. If it were as popular as the race hustling garbage by Kendi and DiAngelo, life would be better for black and white Americans.
“So, when asked if America has made any progress on race, Jones is dumbstruck. “Are you kidding?” he said, with shock in his voice. “Any person who says that to the contrary, any black person who alleges themselves to be a scholar, or any white person who says otherwise, they’re just not telling you the truth.”
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Please feel free to tell the Democrat Party about this because they are still aggressively profiteering off of Black People.
Bingo. Some members of all races have figured out that pandering to the black community is a nice profitable business that is almost criticism proof. Any dissent is dismissed as racism, even from a black person. And Joe Biden? You ain't black if you don't vote democratic. Jim Crow 2.0 if you dare to make sure elections are fair.
The dems are also pandering to Progressive whites that have a consuming desire to be saviors.
And martyrs
Another group of white Progressives are the racist and snobbish white intellectuals like Robin DiAngelo. She literally admits to her racism and details some of the stupid things she would say to black intellectuals at get-togethers among her colleagues. But she then does a reverse flip and tries to tie everyone lacking skin pigment to her way of being a moron. She can't accept in her pea brain that most of us (of all colors) are much smarter than her. Even as a 5-yr-old if I had heard or seen some of the stuff she admits to, I would have asked why she's so ignorant.
I've been impressed at how angst ridden....dare I say "fragile" people have been in response to DiAngelo's book.
Even the most racist and dumbest people in the Democrat Party do not defend Robin DiAngelo anymore. She is a known psychotic bigot on the level of Louis Farrakhan and Adolf Hitler and Barack Hussein Obama.
So please bask in the glory of Compost’s efforts in this regard.
I read it and all I could think was that was one major case of transference, or a way of trying to drag others into the mud wrestling pit with her.
Progressive people appear to be motivated as much by a desire to be tyrants in their real behavior as they are by the desire to be viewed as a savior by themselves and others.
And don't forget Biden's other little gem, "Poor kids are just as smart as white kids"
Or--If you don't vote for me you ain't black.
Ot how about Biden's quote on Obama - "I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Doesn't matter though. Blacks love Biden.
Jim Crow was what the Dem/Commie Party was in up until the civil rights act. It was Dems who fought the civil rights act tooth and nail. Robert Byrd was their spokesman and the Dems loved the old Klansman and honored him over and over again.
Compro has a picture of him in his wallet.
Biden eulogized him.
So did Bill Clinton.
The elections are not fair?
the racist people in this country are all the blacks in power. They only see skin color. they have perverted what MLK has trying to do. Shame on them all.
There are plenty of racists of all colors.
And "all" black people in power are not racist anymore than all white or Jewish people are.
Thank you for pointing that out!
A meaningless cliche. Surveys by the ADL show that 39% of blacks hold anti semitic views compared to 8% of whites.
At what percentages is it no longer considered a cliche?
The leading racists are those who insist that Blacks cannot be racists. They change the use of the term from an attitude of individuals to an inescapable attribute of Whites. They would say the Jewish people who marched with Dr. King were racists because of their skin color.
I don't know about being "leading racists," but they are certainly racists in spite of all their twisting and protestations.
In fact today's progressives are some of our most prominent anti semites- because Jews are "white" and successful in America. For the same reason, blacks hate Asians.
That would be racist blacks, not "blacks."
President Lyndon B. Johnson let the cat out of the bag when a governor traveling with him on Air Force One asked, “Why do you want these War on Poverty and Great Society programs so much?” Johnson responded, I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years.
Source?
The source of the “200 years” quote is Ronald Kessler’s 1995 book "Inside the White House." Kessler got the quote from Robert MacMillan, an Air Force One steward who said LBJ uttered it to two governors during a conversation on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Snopes doubts the veracity of this quote, but it is historically sound as a firsthand account from an eyewitness. Whether the eyewitness was wrong is anyone's guess I suppose.
Yeah.....amazing how NO ONE else ever heard that statement again for the rest of his time in office.
Johnson was a product of his time in history and culture he grew up in. So it would be very possible that he would have said that.
Sure, but there's no evidence he did. So, we're not going to suddenly reverse the standards of proof here.
Also, it's interesting that no one has ever noted that he ever said it again/similar sentiment during his entire presidency. Which I find incredibly odd. Just one time on a plane? And you heard it from someone who heard it from someone? Sounds like something you would say more than once.
It's really nothing more than BS uncorroborated hearsay that serves an ideological purpose for conservatives that African-Americans have been "tricked" into voting for Democrats.....as opposed to.....y'know, actually listening to/observing what the GOP says and does.
Conservatives it seems, only know two quotes. This one and MLK, Jr's. "Content of Character" line. There's a reason for that.
Do you have proof he didn’t? He was a blunt racist. Whether someone was there recording him with a microphone or not the quote encapsulated his thinking.
Dude, are you serious? You want me to prove that someone DIDN'T say something? I'm aware of many reports LBJ used the n word. But the only evidence he said the above quote is in a book that doesn't seem to provide any attribution.
That's a fair response / question. I've heard versions of the LBJ quote, but never heard he used those words. Tim K's point might have more impact without the provocation anyway.
That's not how "proof," works dude.
It makes you wonder why it's so vitally important to some of these people that he never said it. Because...because...it would mean he didn't actually CARE about blacks! Oh boo-hoo!!
You can start with this:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-voting-democratic/
There's plenty more on the topic, even a few books, although I doubt you're really interested.
Um, did you actually read the Snopes article? Their conclusion is there's "little evidence to back it up". That's you're proof that he said it? I was asking the question sincerely, so spare me your snark.
Yea I read it. As far as I know there is no recording, however I found these excerpts compelling background:
“Biographer Caro also notes that Johnson is said to have replied as follows to a black, “As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture”
“These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again”
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
We can't know. But, in context it's just like him saying Negra, Nigra, or nigger depending on who he's talking to. He has to pitch the bill in a way the listener can hear. In this case, some racist motherf****ers.
No different than an entrepreneur pitching his idea in a way the listener will believe.
I remember from when I was a kid reading things LBJ said that made it crystal clear that he, himself, thought the racism was appalling. Whereas JFK did not see it that way. Without JFK's death, we would not have had civil rights in the 1960's. LBJ cleaned his house.
Yeah....might want to actually read the link, dude.
Nobody wants to click on the links that you provide because the links you provide go directly to child pornogrophy websites, Compost.
Not only are you a Holocaust denier but you are also a child pornography distributor and a Democrat voter. You are the trifecta, Compost.
The link was provided by Timothy Kaluhiokalani. Get a life.
No link I have ever posted contains child pornography.
I seem to recall Robert Caro saying it was true.
do your own research. easy to do
and, seeing Snopes and Google as reliable sources? i'm sorry, these clowns lost their credibility years ago... when they cited a story of Trump paying off someone's mortgage as untrue.. i know the guy's sister-in-law. she told me the story before it became a political football. Snopes and Google lie, edit, etc... do not trust them!
Yeah, right.....of course you do.
my, my~ don't trust 1st degree sources?
that said, there are an awful lot of liars out there~ and, most people are ready to dismiss the truth if it inflicts with their previously held beliefs.
believe Snopes and Google at your own risk~ it's a free country ;)
That's what conspiracy theorists say. I'm not even saying the quote is untrue, just asking to cite their source. If you have a problem with that, then I'm not sure why you bother to read The Free Press.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-voting-democratic/
CF, are you citing this as proof of the quote?
Just googled it. Apparently this was a quote from a book by Ronald Kessler with weak attribution. Tell me "bestuvall", who was the governor traveling with LBJ?
Snopes is known for "fact-checking" stories from the Babylon Bee.
That may be true. But people here are responding to my request for source by citing a Snopes article that says there's no evidence for the quote. Or is Snopes's unreliability supposed to mean that whatever they say, the opposite must be true???
Johnson used to complain about the way he was treated by the media. Here's a funny example from BrainyQuote (https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lyndon_b_johnson_106228):
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'"
How funny, because I think you could argue the same thing applies to their treatment of Trump. If Trump announced, "the grass is green" they would "fact check" it and declare, well it's not technically green, it's actually a different shade of...
To finish your sentence, Kate, " a different shade of... orange!", as befitting everything about a "bad orange man". I believe that regardless of how much Trump has been mistreated by the media, he's better as a comedian than as a president. On the other hand I don't like Joe Biden and the Democrats either. So I'm an independent currently without a sensible choice at the top of the 2024 ticket. I voted Libertarian for president in 2016 and 2020, but I don't know whether that will be a reasonable choice this year.
Other racist quotes by LBJ:
“ Let’s face it. Our ass is in a crack. We’re gonna have to let this n*gger bill pass.” —LYNDON JOHNSON to Senator John Stennis, 1957
Source: Lyndon Johnson, statement to Missouri Democratic senator John Stennis during debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957, cited by Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (New York: Vintage, 2003), p. 954.
MacAoidh, “From the JFK Assassination Files: Was Lyndon Johnson a Klansman?” October 27, 2017, thehayride.com.
>> The recent release of the JFK assassination files shows a memo filed by FBI agent William Branigan that reveals that Johnson may been in the Ku Klux Klan at one time.
Supposedly, LBJ was a known racist and segregationist, but the story goes that he was “transformed.” Yet there is no plausible evidence for it, not even from biographer Robert Caro, who seems to have followed LBJ’s life virtually day by day for decades and wrote a four-volume biography of him. LBJ told no one of his great conversion; he never wrote about it or made a speech about it, so if it happened he kept it entirely to himself. Which is odd, because if such a transforms did happen, sharing such a story would have helped actually fight racism, demonstrating to others that you can learn and grow.
In addition, Caro says that LBJ had “a hunger for power in its most naked form, for power not to improve the lives of others, but to manipulate and dominate them, to bend them to his will.” So did LBJ really change? Or was he playing a political game all along?
When an aide suggested to LBJ that there were other qualified black jurists he could have chosen over Thurgood Marshall, suggesting as an alternative possibility Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, LBJ responded, “The only two people who ever heard of Judge Higginbotham are you and his momma. When I appoint a n*gger to the court, I want everyone to know he’s a n*gger.”
source: Dallek, Flawed Giant, p. 441.
LBJ speaking of black riots in California:“Negroes will end up pissing in the aisles of the Senate and making fools of themselves, the way … they had after the Civil War and during Reconstruction.”
Source: Dallek, Flawed Giant, p. 223
Biographer Robert Caro describes an incident involving Robert Parker, LBJ’s chauffeur. Parker recalled an occasion when Senator Johnson asked him whether he would prefer to be called “boy,” “nigger” or “chief.” Parker asked to be called by his name. Johnson erupted, “Let me tell you one thing, nigger. As long as you’re black, and you’re going to be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, n*gger, you just let it roll off your back like water and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture.”
Source: Caro, Years of Lyndon Johnson, p. 717.
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin cites LBJ telling Senator Richard Russell during the debate over the Civil Rights Act of 1957, “These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’re got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”
Source: Cited by Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, p. 155.
Clearly, LBJ had a history of talking like this. It was not just one time. His “conversion” to progressive anti-racism was not some moral awakening, but clearly part of a strategy to stay in power.
Smart, very rich neoliberal Dems have done exactly what smart, very rich neoliberal Republicans have done for the past forty years. Under Reagan, these Republicans easily bought the Evangelical preachers in order to guarantee the Evangelical block vote as the bedrock of the party to endlessly manipulate with culture wars. The very rich neoliberal Dem golf parents of these very rich Republicans did exactly the same thing with the black church, especially in the South, since their own manipulative culture war con job was centered on blacks since the 60s. These Dems' bitter enemies, of course, are Bernie progressives--note how Bernie never focused on culture war at all, just the old FDR economic class war that made the Dems so powerful decades ago. So in both 2016 and 2020, when Bernie was pulverizing the candidates of the neoliberal Dem rich, Hillary and Joe, all the rich had to do was call in their black cavalry in Southern primaries to save the day. Worked like the charm they knew they had.
Blacks are choosing to let the Democrat Party use them...and Jews are okay with Blacks bashing them...remember Jesse James' "Hymietown" comment in 1984. Rev. Jesse Jackson referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City as "Hymietown" during a conversation with a black Washington Post reporter, Milton Coleman. Jackson had assumed the references would not be printed because of his racial bond with Coleman, but several weeks later Coleman permitted the slurs to be included far down in an article by another Post reporter on Jackson's rocky relations with American Jews.
winning comment! race hustling doesn't work. Don't vote democrat!
Mr. Jones cares about the truth and actual progress. Mr. Democrat (I.e., all partisan Democrats) care only about power and/or the ideology they are wrongly convinced we all must kowtow to, or else be labeled racists, xenophobes, homophobes, etc.
That last part of your comment...🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thank you, Francesca, for this lovely portrait of perhaps, the last of the lions--a charming man who contributed to so much in the country. His words are gold. He reminds me a bit of my advisor at Stanford, Herbie Lindenberger, whom, I am sure, Clarence Jones may have known. Both men--clear as tuning forks, forward-thinking, not bitter. Appreciate the reporting.
America needs a lot more MLK Jr. and a lot less Ibrahim Kendi.
I wonder why the mainstream media isn't interviewing this man to gain some insight on current race relations, or even more poignantly, Black/Jewish relations. Maybe because he would tell their narrative to pound sand.
Perhaps. There is a lot of Arab money in media stocks. But the memory hole is just as likely, if not more so.
Nearly 20 years ago, a 3rd year journalism major at a major university read a piece I had written. She came to me and said, "This is interesting. But, what is this USSR?"
If I hadn't told her, she probably would have gone out into the workplace like many of her classmates clueless about perhaps the biggest force in the 20th century.
Americans can't tell you the dates and belligerents involved in both world wars, they've never studied the Civil War, and forget about understanding any part of the history of Israel and the Middle East.
How did we get to a place where all anyone under 50 knows is that Fascism is evil because Hitler. Whereas Communism is good, because it is just a stronger form of socialism which has never really been tried?
Boston Terriers Rule
I’m sorry - she said what?!?!?😱😱😱😱
Keep in mind this was almost 20 years ago. 9-11 for 18 year olds today was before they were born. The USSR is as far in the past for them as the end of WW2 was for people born in 1980.
It's truly scary to me that we have a whole generation that not only doesn't remember the Soviet Union and the Cold War, but 9/11 either. And, they're not being taught about it in the indoctrination centers we call public schools, which is even scarier. This is why we see them demonstrate for Hamas. They are also likely not being taught about the Holocaust. But you can bet they are being taught about all the bad done to the "indigenous" peoples and African-American slaves. I fear we are doomed to repeat history.
Call them, "Gen Dumbass".
That's actually a really good point. But I still knew about WW2 after I graduated from high school in 1994. So what are they teaching now?
Matin', buggin', and lickin'? Gender, bender, and protest? Cannabis, shatter, dabs, and honey oil? Fukin', cheatin', and word salad?
Seriously, with salaries so low, people that go into teaching now are either very dedicated, or they have some weirdo axe to grind. For instance, religion, Marxism, queer theory (pedophilia, a la Foucalt, Shottler, etc.). I've been told stories about kids ignoring teachers in class, doing hash, shatter, dabs in vape pens in class, etc..
Not having worked there, I don't know, and it varies from place to place.
"There is a lot of Arab money in media stocks."
Yeah.....that's where the money in the media comes from....
Because he advocates for Dr. King’s ideals and those ideals are completely anathema to the desires of today’s (and yesterday’s) left.
When you desire to judge people solely by skin color and ignore character completely why would they care what the giants of the civil rights movement think?
Well said! I concur.
Stanley Levison. Jones is credited as a co-author. Perhaps. Perhaps he went abd got coffee. I take anything any leftist says or publishes with a grain of salt.
The rogue FBI repeatedly threatened MLK during the early 1960s. J. Edgar Hoover was pressuring MLK to commit suicide or face the disclosure of MLK's many extramarital dalliances and his association with the suspected communist Levison. Levison suggested a public distancing to MLK to which MLK acquiesced but after a short time found himself in need of Levison's counsel and considerable talent. At that point it was agreed that Clarence Jones would serve as intermediary between the intellect and the mouthpiece. Levison was the quintessential King.
Yeah....nothing more upsetting than the "bitter" and "resentful" ones.
Race relations in America have markedly deteriorated. There is no doubt of that. But you fool yourself if you don't understand the hideous damage done by the American Left and particularly the Leftist Democrat Party to the racial healing that followed the Civil Rights Act and continued right up to the turn of this Century. But then something strange and sinister took hold. Fostered by dark forces that didn't want racial harmony. . Calling half of America "white supremacists" and fostering a grievance culture by pushing a false narrative of white police hunting black men they peddled sheer poison. Seeking to divide Americans they shrieked for ridiculous slave reparations for people who were never enslaved. Whites are increasingly marginalized in their own land. The mayhem and riots following the George Floyd debacle were a sad spectacle of intimidation and craven cowardice by our institutions in the face of racist shakedowns. Do you honestly think this will end well? Or that it wasn't all done with a very sinister purpose? When a legally colorblind society is replaced by demonization of white Americans we are entering truly dangerous waters. To have an American president braying this vile garbage - notwithstanding his senility and patent stupidity - needs to be stopped. Not only because it is dangerous and idiotic, but because in the destabilization of our nation, it is nothing less than treason.
There is also completely missing from the race narrative that more Irish were enslaved and sold into the Americas before the 18th century than black or any other. In its time this was humanitarian. What Cromwell's Puritans did to the Irish was exactly like what Hamas did on October 7th. Right down to the murderous rape, cutting off women's breasts, limbs, killing children and babies, throwing them into bonfires. They drove Irish en masse naked into the snow to die.
Irish girls were bred to black slaves. This is why so many have freckles. Many escaped, and their common fate was why pirate crews existed, and why pirates had black fighting side by side with white Irish.
The Puritans who settled America are portrayed as fleeing persecution, but there was reason for it in England, where most people were repulsed by Cromwells cruelty. And that culture is what Irish came to.
Much of the poor whites legacy comes equally from slavery and centuries of oppression here in America.
I am with Morgan Freeman. There is darkness in everyone's history. Don't dwell on that shit or you'll never be free.
You cannot take America down using guns. No way. but you CAN take America down from within, and this is what the Left is trying to do. Obama, Biden, and their henchmen like Fauci, are the enemy within. Their tactics, as described by Bruce, are extremely effective. This is a whole new kind of warfare. They create CONSTANT chaos that keeps us unfocused, on edge and fighting, and not paying attention to how they are dismantling the American way. They many, many examples of this chaos:
-BLM
-Defund the police
-Aggressively Promoting black victimhood
-Doing unconstitutional things knowingly, just for the sake of creating the legal battle
-LGBTQ and attack of children by trans ideology and pedophiles
-America being the biggest market for human trafficking
-Trans against women sports and calling Trans "women" men better women than biological women!
-Illegal immigrants and unsafe borders
-Anti-semitism
-Support of Hamas terrorists
-DEI in our universities, especially the ones training our future leaders
-DEI hires, like in the airline industry
-Out of control inflation
-Covid - all of it!
-Dakota Access pipeline
-Legalizing marijauan (skunk smell is everywhere now and addicts have taken over our cities)
Abortion issues which have been galvanizing the country for years...
-In many blue states like CA, making it illegal to investigate infant deaths up to 28 days AFTER birth, Late term abortions of fully viable babies
-Federal funding of abortions which was disallowed before
-Planned Parenthood openly admitting to extracting tissues and organs from still-alive fetuses (and specifically targeting teenage mothers for these).
Not to mention George Soros and his “social experiment” funding which is leading to the destruction of America!
Brilliant expose of their perfidy.
Covid? All of it? Even in the first year?
I can still remember fondly Trump proclaiming that the first thirteen cases found in California in February 2020 was all that we'll ever have. Ahh..those were the days!
You think the chaos as described by your characterization of the Left isn't matched by the idiocy and chaos/drama/victimhood of your present spearchucker Donald? You want change on all your points? Find someone who can articulate it.
And by the way, no GOP candidate can control inflation. That's the Fed..
Trump Derangement Syndrome.
I don't bother anymore. Anyone who rants about Trump isn't worth the time and usually they're lying to themselves.
But I can never pass the opportunity to remind everyone that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are responsible for preventing disease - not the president - and that they openly said they were going to allow the infection to happen because closing borders is racist. Then they closed the borders two months later when we were already infected.
So, people who come out of that thinking it was Trump's fault and not the CDC's are telling you that they are stupid, full of hate, and incapable of understanding how the federal government functions.
The CDC did make huge mistakes. And I guess every single person working there is a progressive Lefty Commie Democrat. You know better than that, Anthony.
Who agreed to nationwide lockdowns? Trump did, initially. Just like Biden. They both could have vetoed it and leave the states to do their own thing - as what eventually happened. There was chaos in the country under both Administrations during Covid. But, of course, around here, the evil Dems own all the blame.
Actually it was the esteemed Dr Fauci that made that statement. Also, he said the virus would never come to America.
You’re an idiot. You’re not even partially paying attention to what has been going on throughout the entire covid bullshit years. No one will take you seriously if that’s all you’ve got.
He's not an idiot. He is a willing tool. That is far worse than an idiot.
You better believe I’m willing. I need tools to negotiate through the minefield this comment thread resembles. It’s fun, though I do get blown up from time to time.
Everybody here seems so angry! Like Alice above..
You're clearly center left except when it comes to DJT. No? I'm clearly center right except when it comes to.....anything leftist...yesh. Yesh. Dear Lee. Be reasonable take half of one red pill.
Well at least I can elicit a comment as illuminating as yours. I’m honored, Alice.
I do give credit to Trump in accelerating the vaccine - you know, the needle MAGA loves to hate. Did you take it? He used to get booed at his rallies when he mentioned it. I notice he doesn’t do that anymore.
Dear Lee. He is playing a role. DJT is the current front man for a movement. The nation, if it is to remain as such needs to grasp that concept.
Now that I agree with. But I find Trump to be a vacuous, empty vessel that his followers (the 'movement,' if you will) fill their desires and anger with. He's a chameleon and an opportunist. And now, of course, he's using his base to throw his victimhood at, taking solace in their sympathy for him, as he claims vengeance at his tormenters if he wins. As I wrote elsewhere, I forget to whom, find another leader ! - someone who is smart, who can articulate - and be the kind of leader that independents and disaffected Dems could also be interested in supporting (someone like me). But all he does is double down on his base, they lap it up, while the other half of the country just recoils.
Spot on.. reading America’s Cultural Revolution- How the radical left concurred everything. By Chris Rufo... while this interview makes me feel better the reality is we are in a battle with nihilistic morons..
My ingrained and sometimes annoying typo spotter suggests that you meant "conquered" rather than "concurred", which means agreed or happened at the same time. Sorry!
LoL. Your talents are underappreciated.
Thanks, although I have little control over when I exercise them. I think it's a neurological condition, maybe a bit like Tourette syndrome.
The race industry is a huge money maker. Some of its biggest benefactors have been in the news recently, not for a genuine dedication to improving race relations, but as a vehicle for personal enrichment. As long as you can buy multiple homes in upscale neighborhoods and receive dozens of millions to create a program which yielded nothing and was shuddered with no repercussions the cries of racism will echo well into the future.
The dark forces who didn't want racial harmony saw that there was no way to profit from it; therefore insisting upon the opposite became necessary to keep the cash flow.
Partially. But I see something different and more sinister. The global elites benefit by a weak and divided America. Because a strong America, dedicated to the principles of free speech, free people and a free economy is precisely what they do NOT want. So destabilizing America and setting us upon each other furthers their interests.
agreed. I think there's also an element of weaponization involved here. It's much easier to harness people's anger, and get them to unite against a common enemy (the whites or "whiteness"), than to rally people to a common good. Now, how Biden was elected under the auspices of being the great "antiracist", and not seen the blatant racist he is, has never made any sense to me. His self-professed mentor was Robert Byrd, but hey, he's a useful idiot, so I guess it's okay for them?
This.
Who exactly are the "global elites?"
Start with Gates, and work down. They all love the UN. Surprised?
Bill Gates? So he's trying to destroy race relations?
Yes, I am surprised by that claim.
What information re: Gates should I start with?
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Thanks Bruce!
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I couldn’t have said it better!
EXCUSE me if you want to be listened to please do not say 'leftist.' There is no "left' in the US. Bernie got close and was subjected to all sorts of manoeuvers by the DNC
You can never have a 'left' in the US because you have been propagandized to such an extent you believe Socialism is communism which is why you have rotten education/healthcare etc.
I hope your comment means that you do not use the following terms: "far right," "right wing," "MAGA extremists," etc. Jenny please let us know which political side runs the public schools in the major US cities and why their test scores are so abysmal. I too prefer that we not use labels , but rather focus on issues. Happy to discuss matters of race, education , borders, national debt and so forth all day long. BTW also happy to hear your views as to what socialism actually means and where it has proved to be successful. I imagine Bruce would love to participate in any such dialogue ( and we can all stay away from name calling).
Bernie, like AOC, buried himself with his calls for ceasefire, and blocking support against Hamas. That was the end of both of them for me.
Unbelievable. You are back on that train to nowhere...no leftists in America. You clearly don't have the capacity to think rationality. Why are you here? You have your own Substack to spew your drivel.
How is socialism in practice any different than communism in practice? Sure, you can go quote from a hundred books about how there are differences between the two. But once a totalitarian government takes over, no one keeps score on how closely the govt is following the "rules" of whatever political / economic theory is supposedly being used as the template. Rotten education due to the political system? No, rotten because teacher's unions refuse to acknowledge the failures of the public education systems across the US, and fight to preserve what does not work.
Three house Bernie?
But thanks for the comic relief.
Would you mind extrapolating on this 'three house Bernie?'
Oh please, the Brooklyn "socialist" who owns three homes? The American left is enshrined in the Democrat Party and that party hates America and its people. Now that doesn't mean the Republican Party doesn't suck - it just sucks less. I use Left in the same way that Orwell does - a totalitarian repressive regime that enriches the elites while the working people suffer. We need a party devoted to the American working man and woman, their freedom, rights and well being. Call it what you will but the American leftist Democrat Party is the party of repression, racial division, controls on speech and thought and elevation of the elites at the expense of working Americans.
From my point of view not many know right from left in the US.
You can still be a 'socialist' however many homes you own as long as you don't charge exhorbitant rents. This is childish 'old' rubbish you are spouting and it always comes from right wing people who have been brainwashed into thinking socialism is the same as communism.
I think you need to read Orwell again........how old are you?
The dems are right wing and the Repubs are facists!
Spoken like the true, ill-educated child that you are.
Jenny, go back to your own substack. You’re not smart enough for this one.
Socialism is just an ideology that doesn’t work very well. Anyone who wants it is just looking for handouts. Anyone I know who has it either hates it or is fleeing their countries. Our education system in the US is not focused on education but on indoctrinating with left ideology. So when someone says you’re a leftist it’s like someone saying I’m a Maga because I vote republican. I’m choosing to make America great again…not live by left ideologies. PS…hoping for Nikki Haley as our first female president!!
> Socialism is communism which is why you have rotten education/healthcare etc.
IMO, we have rotten education because it's been infiltrated by communists trying to create "equity," while we have rotten healthcare because it's been infiltrated by capitalists trying to make as much money as possible by foisting useless medical treatments on people, and drive up costs. Both sides can hold hands on the destruction of institutions.
Given that, it makes sense why trans medicalization is pushed so far, so early. The communist revolutionary elite wants to use it to destabilize family units and just break up social order. The capitalist elite wants to use it to sell a bunch of cosmetics, unnecessary surgeries, drugs, therapies, etc, enriching themselves and the insurance companies.
The traditionalist in me hates both.
Gee Bruce, I think you hate Biden even more than Trump does..
Ever think of being Donald's speech writer?
I hate Biden more than any politician I have ever come across. I have never seen a politician, so keen to destroy our country. He is a traitor, who deserves to swing from a lamppost..
So to say he's a traitor is to assume he knows that what he's doing is detrimental to America's interests. I think you're mistaking that for his blind stupidity on certain things, of which border security at the Mexican border is paramount. Biden is making major mistakes, but just like Trump did (in my opinion) as in inviting behind closed doors in the WH the two highest Russian diplomats in a reporters barred meeting - similar to what he did with Putin in Helsinki. Now some people in some circles would think that to be, well, slightly against America's interests. I just put it to an idiotic error, commensurate with a man who I consider to be an idiot. Biden can also be slowly closing in to be considered an idiot.
i know that you'll vote for Trump because of your loathing for Biden - just like I would close my eyes and vote for Biden because I can't stand Trump. But we should not have to vote for either. This country deserves better.
Trump did nothing remotely treasonous in Helsinki or anywhere else. The fight with Russia is idiotic. They never would have invaded Ukraine if Trump were in office and never forget that the Crimea and Eastern provinces were taken under B Hussein (psst... tell Vlad I'll have more flexibility after the idiots re-elect me) Obama. Biden is competent enough to know what he's doing when he calls half of America "white supremacists." He needs to pay for the racial division he's incited and the damage he's done the country we love with his alien invasion and divisive policies.
I'm laughing. If Biden at a podium with Putin said what Trump did, saying that he believed Putin more than his own intelligence agencies in public with the world listening, you and every commenter leaning conservative would be up in arms, and rightly so. Try to remember back that far.
/www.politico.com/story/2018/07/16/trump-russia-putin-summit-722418
Read the whole thing.
Nobody with a firing neuron would believe anything that Gina Haspel or Chris Wray said. So while that would clearly leave out Biden. Trump did nothing wrong in Helsinki or anywhere else.
I blame Barack "Nat X" Obama and that damn tan suit.
"Legally colorblind society....."
- Where do you get that from?
When Obama was elected I thought "this is awesome, he's living proof that anything is achievable and he's going to lead by example." I naively thought that he might actually put the racism bogeyman to bed.
And what did he do?
He stirred the pot and ginned up racial grievance like no other president since reconstruction. He promoted misinformation about Trayvon Marin and Michael Brown. He bitched and moaned and sowed the seeds of discord. He is directly responsible for the grievance olympics we're all forced to compete in. What a complete PoS. Biden managed to be even worse. A legacy of total failure.
And he reversed years of support that the US had shown Israel. BiBi didn't grovel sufficiently, so let's build Iran up and screw Israel at the UN.
When Biden reversed course with Iran and legitimized the Houthis, it was clear that Obama was enjoying his third term.
YES!! exactly this
Obama is and was a very racist person. He did nothing to bring the country together. He stoked racial tensions and divide vs trying to heal it.
But Obama pretended to want to move race relations further forward, in the direction of equality of opportunity, rather than towards the black power racism of equity his party promotes today.
His A More Perfect Union speech, in which he criticized and contextualized racist remarks by his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, inspired belief in many voters that Obama saw the potential for racial equality in the US, and sought to promote unity between people regardless of their race.
Unfortunately, in his two administrations he chose to support the divisive politics of identity, cloaked in the deceptive label Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. A more perfect union cannot be accomplished by promoting the divisive ideology of DEI (aka cultural Marxism).
Rev. Wright is also known to have had a negative view of Jews, a problem Obama must have also had to recognize and reckon with in his continued support for his pastor.
"belief in many voters that Obama saw the potential for racial equality in the US"
Did you mean equity? How did any given race not have equal opportunity during Obama's presidency? Whites might complain that they didn't have it, due to Affirmative Action.
But I thought Obama was a Muslim.
Really? How so?
I agree. I do wonder what Mr. Jones (or even MLK Jr?) would think of the vast potential Obama had, and how he squandered it on sowing more seeds of hatred. Such a tragedy.
Maybe we should as MLK Jr?.....anyone know how we can get in contact?
"he squandered it on sowing more seeds of hatred."
- Really? How so?
Very much agree.
He really did. It started with his dumb comments and personal involvement when that black professor for arrested for trying to break into his own house (a neighbor called the police) when he lost his keys.
Actually, he said "if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." That made lots of people mad. Not sure why? Who do they think he'd look like? Charlie Kirk?
What was the misinformation re: Martin & Brown.
"He bitched and moaned and sowed the seeds of discord. "
- Interesting.....do you have examples of these speeches/statements? Because I seem to remember he stayed as far away from discussing race/race relations as possible.
I doubt your claim of your election happiness is entirely accurate.
Btw I laughed at your Charlie Kirk comment, but you're gaslighting. You know exactly what the implication is: that poor little Trayvon was an innocent victim of racism. Obama was a master politician but anyone who has an IQ over 85 knows exactly what he meant.
Let's examine the statement:
"I can only imagine what these parents are going through and when I think about this boy, I think about my own kids, and I think every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together, federal, state and local, to figure out how this tragedy happened. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."
There is no "implication" of anything. No statement about race, no statement about culpability, no statement about profiling, no statement against Zimmerman, etc.
I believe you're simply upset he said anything at all. Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
But please feel free to explain how the above statement, or perhaps another one of your own choosing, destroyed race relations in America.
Uhhh Ferguson? This isn't a scholarly article. 73 people agree with me and nobody agrees with you. That should be a hint. This isn't Fox News, these are reasonable people here. Try google. It's useful.
Uhhh what was the statement?
Lots of people agreed that eating Tide Pods was a good idea, too.
Reasonable? Lol!! Yeah, I wouldn't hang my hat too much on "stolen election," FBI did Jan. 6th" and "Covid vaccine has killed millions" fans. That should be a hint. Yeah, you go ahead and enjoy that 73.
No....I don't want to try Google. You put up the statement about Ferguson that destroyed American race relations. Or how about your #1 "Obama Destroys American Race Relations" speech? Try to back up your argument. It's useful.
It is a shame, that while Jewish people were the first white group to support MLK’s dream, today, many, if not most, black communities are anti-semitic. When together we formed a powerful coalition. When divided, the nation loses dramatically.
I honor “The Last Lion,” and I hope his memory and that of Dr. King are not lost forever.
The whole nation suffers from ignorance of history and this is just one example. Obama was launched by liberal Jews in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Even he forgot from where he came.
Obama may have benefitted from Jewish financial and voter support, but ideologically, he is a product of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who has no love for the Jewish people.
Rabidly anti-semitic. I lived half of my life in a majority black
community I can tell you with certainty that most Blacks despise Jews. The general racism towards whites has gotten far worse as well, enabled by elite whites that don't have to deal with the consequences of their politics.
I left. My family's do-gooder experiment failed, totally. Bye.
Ugh I live in a city that I feel very unsafe in because of racism! I will say most people are very kind and friendly but it just takes a few to see me as a white woman of privilege and therefore a bad person. I also spend half my time in a wealthy East coast costal community and my neighbors and friends think Joe Biden has been trying so hard to bring the nation together and be inclusive to everyone 🧐 What the heck am I missing?????
It's not what you're missing. It's what you're doing. Here's how you can get up to speed:
Stop reading The Free Press and other independent journalism on Substack. Stop watching Rumble, especially subversives like Glenn Greenwald and Russell Brand, and stay away from podcasts, especially Joe Rogan and other far-right propagandists. Read only the NY Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic and the New Yorker. Watch only Stephen Colbert and MSNBC, CNN, PBS and the major networks (except for Fox). And, if you must turn on the radio, listen only to NPR. I'm sure I'm leaving a lot out, but ask your wealthy East coast neighbors and friends to fill in the gaps.
Then you'll be woke. I mean awakened. You will know how mentally and physically fit Biden is, how selflessly he works to preserve our democratic values, especially freedom of speech, how he works long hours day after day without a break despite his advanced age, what an extraordinary military strategist he is, and what a sharp businessman his accomplished son Hunter is.
You will also learn how competent his trusty V.P., Kamala Harris, is, how smart and brave she is, and what a good job she did when she was tasked with figuring out what to do with "The Border."
In summation, you will learn that Joe Biden is the savior of the American people. He is the Politician's Politician. He would never take a bribe or lie. And perhaps most importantly, he knows, without a shadow of a doubt, what a woman is.
A master class in sarcasm. Well played.
What do you mean, sarcasm? We only just met and you’re mocking my deeply felt political convictions. This relationship is over. 🥴
In a word “Brilliant”
This piece on Obama’s spiritual guide, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, may throw some light on Obama’s support for Iran.
https://m.jpost.com/international/obamas-ex-pastor-israel-is-apartheid-state-jesus-was-a-palestinian-422665
“Many, if not most, black communities are anti-semitic.”
Where exactly/how are we defining these “communities?”
What evidence do we have this it is “if not most?”
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“ Jewish people were the first white group…”
We Jews are not white. (But don’t feel bad—it’s a common mistake.)
I feel the Free Press’ momentum building with each passing month.. I’m seeing credits across numerous platforms given to Free Press contributors... This gives me hope for a better tomorrow in the USA.. Interviews like this one! What a soulful and sweet man Mr Jones is.. sweet in a sense that his story brings such a positive tone in this mess of a race relations world we live in today. His relationship with MLK and this story so important as I reflect this weekend. Thank you Free Press!
Agree on your comment of TFP momentum. I would love to see more objective journalism across all mainstream media.
Do not confuse the 'world' with Americanism!
I can’t first hand of course but Europe has similar issues with immigration.. and other challenges on the race front.. you are right it’s not the every where.. thank you
You sure seem to devote attention to it.
Please,PLEASE correct this wording: "King’s now infamous “I Have a Dream” speech..."
It's a FAMOUS speech, not infamous.
"Infamous: a) well known for some bad quality or deed: b) wicked; abominable"
Thank you!
I just checked and I believe it was corrected ...
Fixed! Thank you for catching this.
Good catch. You'd think someone who writes for a living would know word definitions!
no need for sass. people make mistakes all the time and 'infamous' is frequently used in common parlance not in the way it is strictly defined.
Not by professional journalists and their editors. Words mean things. Professionals should hold themselves to a higher standard.
I agree that words mean things. The word "mistake" means an unintentional error; "correction", fixing an error made. I don't expect perfection from any human, only an ability to learn and repair. In any case, the sass was what I took issue with, not the pointing out of an error.
Also, the difference between "fix", and "affix" when speaking of the mezuzah on his door post.
Everything King and Jones believed and worked for was tossed in the toilet the day they (the black community) judged George Floyd by the color of his skin rather than the content of his character
This wasn't entirely the "black community" doing that. It was the media. And in fact ever since Occupy Wall Srtreet, racism was talked up constantly in the media. It hit a boiling point then. And it will again in 2024, since that's what they need to get a Democrat elected again -- another summer of rioting.
It is a shame that the lions like Jones and Sowell are not heard by all. Thank you TheFreePress for taking another lead on reporting and hopefully reaching beyond the walls of the subscriber choir.
This is a very important interview with an even more important message. I certainly hope that Kendi and the other anti-MLK Jr. activists read this and heed Jones' final words here.
Thank you, Francesca! America needs a resurgence of King's words and ideals.
Kendi and the others have discovered a very lucrative grift.
Why on Earth would they give that up?
I think the tide has turned on DEI, ESG, SJW, etc. and that Kendi and his cohort are in for a crash.
“The tide has turned”? You are in for a shock, my friend!
In the wake of some near-disaster air incidents, the FAA (in its wisdom) has announced it is doubling down on its diversity programs. It is, in particular, looking to hire people with “...complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability...psychiatric disability”. Now, isn’t that reassuring?
Imagine: Flight 2462 is incoming with an emergency, but ATC can’t handle it because one of the controllers is having an epileptic episode, and another is in psychiatric crisis. Fabulous.
All done with you, the expendable citizen in mind, because, according to the FAA, “diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.”
Bon voyage! [https://www.faa.gov/jobs/diversity_inclusion]
Unfortunately, these ill conceived programs have been so completely integrated into our legal and governmental systems over the past few years that it would take a decade or more to completely unravel them. We have won a few skirmishes lately, but they are a drop in the bucket.
We can hope, but I think they will always have a model to follow in Al Sharpton and other Hucksters of his ilk.
I remember the best line about these guys from, of all people, Marion Barry:
Fresh out of prison, he was planning his
return to the DC mayor’s office and was told there were other serious contenders already.
He asked, “Like, who?”
An adviser said, “Like Jesse Jackson!”
The once and future mayor snorted and answered, “Jesse don’t wanna run nuthin’ but his mouth!”
As I read this interview, I wondered what Rogers thinks of Jesse Jackson, who claimed to be a confidante of MLK.
Henry Rogers is an empty suit.
Kendi wouldn't care what Jones said. He will say he's not relevant anymore. I would think even MLK had he lived to speak and write more would be ignored now. But it works both ways too. I don't think Richard Nixon nor Reagan matters to the present day GOP. Does Bush even matter? It appears we are in a reality divorced from the past.
I think you're right about Kendi and I think it's also a form of evolution. Things change in response to the present and anticipated future. Not all change is good and every now and again, we should pause and ask ourselves if we've gone too far. I'm more in favor of a color- blind society (character-based) than I am for a color-bound society (identity-based).
Agree on color blind. Let's hope the pendulum swings that way again.
Henry Rogers, I’m sorry “Ibram X Kendi” 😂, would simply say that Mr. Jones is a racist since he is not “anti-racist” and that’s all you need to know about Henry’s grift.
Bless your heart.
So good to read this ....
It is a sin that this man is not better known and celebrated. It is also a sin that the wisdom and teachings of Dr King are disappearing as the years go by. We desperately need more people of good character in our lives on both a personal level and at the leadership level ( and that applies on both sides of the political aisle and in all too many of our critical educational, business and other institutions-- this is about values not personalities).
I would love to hear he and Victor Davis Hanson jointly lecture, on anything they wanted to discuss, sometime.
I'm guessing they know each other, and their messages are so important, yet overlooked.
I recall the very early days of identity politics and diversity training in the USAF back in the late 1960s when the Black Panthers were at their peak, street riots were common and calls for affirmative action for African-Americans, based on past slavery and racial discrimination, were everywhere. During my military basic training we were required to sit through a lecture by a Black sergeant, a nice guy as I recall and a thoughtful one. He used the ball-and-chain analogy oft-heard at the time to justify preferential treatment, suggesting that someone who has been so burdened, rather than lining up with everyone else at the starting line, should be advanced farther down the course in order to make things fair and more equal in trying to get ahead in this world. I listened attentively if not fully approvingly, questioning whether the proper remedy for those discriminated against in the past was to now discriminate against other groups. Though such preferential treatment may be welcomed by the recipients and supported by those of goodwill, it cannot be said to be just to those abused or made to suffer by such an action of the State, one constitutionally dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal under the law. My demeanor may have revealed my worry, as the good sergeant seemed to take note, asking me, “And Airman Hastings, what do you think?”
I was nonplussed and appreciated his openness, but didn’t reply, not possessing a fully formed proper answer and not wanting to openly challenge what I perceived to be a genuine attempt to talk freely about a sensitive and complex topic. No doubt, I was also not responding out of fear that my comments would give offense. But the words of Victor Hugo did cross my mind and I’ve often thought that I should have uttered them, offered as an anodyne and inducement for further reflection, rather than remained mum: “In joined hands there is hope; in the clenched fist there is none.”
"He used the ball-and-chain analogy oft-heard at the time to justify preferential treatment, suggesting that someone who has been so burdened, rather than lining up with everyone else at the starting line, should be advanced farther down the course in order to make things fair and more equal in trying to get ahead in this world."
Whenever I hear this analogy my response is: "Fine. Give that person good nutrition and training to give him a better chance in the race. But don't just cancel the race and declare him the winner."
It's not white people who have turned their backs on MLK's Dream.
Thanks for sharing this portrait of an important, forgotten hero.
I’m guessing you don’t know any publicly educated white women between the age of 10 and 40. Many of them support DEI and embrace white guilt as their birthright.
White guilt is a separate from what I’m talking about. Different cause and different solution.
Are you kidding? Robin DiAngelo practically started the new race war we're having now. If Kendi is Marx, she's Lenin.
Too bad this guy isn’t more predominant to counteract the voices of hustlers like sharpton and Jackson and all the grifter black reps in congress and Kamala Harris. He sounds too smart for that crowd however.
And guess who was in office 10 years ago? The guy that wanted to fundamentally change America, Barack Hussein Obama.
Shelby Steele and his son, Eli Steele, address the race grifters in their work, such as the documentary, "What Killed Michael Brown?" I'm sure the topic will be addressed again in their upcoming film, "White Guilt."
Also recommended, Eli Steele's Substack: https://substack.com/@manofsteele
Shelby Steele’s book, “The Content of Our Character” was recommended by John McWhorter recently as having been an important influence for him. It is excellent. If it were as popular as the race hustling garbage by Kendi and DiAngelo, life would be better for black and white Americans.