Writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer Star Parker meets and exceeds her typical standard of high coonshowmanship - managing in one loopy screed to take a whack at Jesse, {who's prolly just there trying to arrange for a Citgo discount gas franchise for himself or a member of his extended entourage in a hood near you} deny MLK's suppressed vision for social justice and structural change, and most astonishingly, defend Pat Robertson's call for the assassination of the democratically elected leader of Venezuela who just happens to be black!!!
Jackson addressed the Venezuelan parliament, met personally with President Chavez and used the occasion to condemn Pat Robertson's unfortunate remarks calling for Chavez's assassination. However, Robertson's remarks, for which he had already apologized, were provoked by genuine and well-founded concern about the ongoing erosion of human liberty in Venezuela and Chavez's activities in spreading his influence throughout Latin America.Jackson, however, was more interested in attacking Robertson than in whether Robertson's concerns are legitimate.
oh Lawd...,
Jackson falls short of King's ideals
By Star Parker
Jesse Jackson chose to celebrate the 42d anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech by going to Venezuela and paying homage to its left-wing strongman president Hugo Chavez. Choosing this venue for recalling King's ideals tells us a lot about how Jackson understands those ideals and what he is about.
Jackson's politics have largely defined black politics since King's death. It has been my view that these politics have played a central role in creating the serious social problems in our community today. Checking out whom Jackson chooses to embrace provides insight into those politics and, hopefully, into our problems.
Jackson addressed the Venezuelan parliament, met personally with President Chavez and used the occasion to condemn Pat Robertson's unfortunate remarks calling for Chavez's assassination. However, Robertson's remarks, for which he had already apologized, were provoked by genuine and well-founded concern about the ongoing erosion of human liberty in Venezuela and Chavez's activities in spreading his influence throughout Latin America.
Jackson, however, was more interested in attacking Robertson than in whether Robertson's concerns are legitimate.
In response to concerns from the Bush administration that Chavez is a force for instability in Latin America, headlines in Venezuela and the United States reported Jackson as saying that Venezuela was "no threat."
However, here is what Michael Shifter, vice president of the Inter-American Dialogue, who also teaches Latin American politics at Georgetown University, had to say in a Washington Post op-ed piece on Sunday:
"The Venezuelan leader is waging battles on several fronts. A great deal is at stake, including the prospects for liberal democracy in Latin America. Chavez is constructing a model of domestic governance that is inimical to democratic values and individual rights. He appears to be embarked on a mission that is not only virulently anti-U.S. but that seeks to push the region back toward authoritarian politics."
When Pat Robertson broadcast his suggestion that we "take out" Chavez, Chavez himself was in Cuba visiting his good friend Fidel Castro. Also among his friends is African dictator Robert Mugabe, whom Chavez honored in Venezuela last year.
However, Jesse Jackson had nothing but words of praise for Chavez.
"Your focus on foreign debt, debt relief, and free and fair trade to overcome years of structural disorder, unnecessary military spending, land reform... these are some of the great themes of our time."
Regarding the "unnecessary military spending," Peter Brookes, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation reports on Chavez's buying spree of MiG 29 fighters, helicopter gunships and AK-47 assault rifles from Russia and additional arms purchases from Spain and Brazil. Chavez has indicated intent to increase Venezuela's army reserve as "an honorable answer to President Bush's intention of being master of the world."
Meanwhile, Chavez has been busy using oil as a diplomatic tool, making sweetheart deals throughout Latin America, according to the Inter-American Dialogue's Shifter, to advance his anti-U.S. agenda.
King fought oppression with nonviolence and carried a message of freedom driven by Christian ideals. His message was transformed, under leaders such as Jesse Jackson, to the politics of power and political patronage, of entitlement and welfare. Since King's death, single-parent black households and out-of- wedlock black births have tripled. Life in our inner cities has become defined by drugs, aids, promiscuity, disdain for education, and unemployment.
I believe if King were with us today, he would be in our cities working to restore faith, family, and personal responsibility. He wouldn't be in Venezuela giving credibility to a garden variety Latin American despot.
Star Parker is president of Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education and author of "Uncle Sam's Plantation." The Web site address for her organization is www.urbancure.org.
Posted by at August 30, 2005 03:21 PM | TrackBackI can hear Spence now;
I don't know Star Parker!
but I'm old school and country like that. Even when a publicly certifiable chickenheaded strawberry shows her teef like this - my eyes tend to roll up in my head and suddenly I'm involuntarily channeling Sgt. Vernon Waters;
You know the damage one ignorant Negro can do? We were in France in the first war; we'd won decorations. But the white boys had told all them French gals that we had tails. Then they found this ignorant colored soldier, paid him to tie a tail to his ass and run around half-naked, making monkey sounds. Put him on the big round table in the Cafe Napoleon, put a reed in his hand, crown on his head, blanket on his shoulders, and made him eat *bananas* in front of all them Frenchies. Oh, how the white boys danced that night... passed out leaflets with that boy's picture on it. Called him Moonshine, King of the Monkeys. And when we slit his throat, you know that fool asked us what he had done wrong?
Ain't no story like A Soldier's Story.
Posted by: Temple3 at August 31, 2005 08:26 AM
"Robertson Apologist Blasts Jackson"
"Heritage Foundation accolyte Rejects Reverend"
"Bush's Fears of Chavez Legitimize Call for Murder"
"Venezuela Sweetens Pot for Latin American nations undermining Legitimacy of World Bank Bankruptcy Plank"
"Heritage Foundation Defines Parameters of Unnecessary Military Spending: Venezuela Is Out of Bounds"
"He's A Strongman Because He's a Strongman, Not Because He was Elected"
Pick your headline. this dumb s!*%% is really pervasive in the media ain't it.
Posted by: Temple3 at August 30, 2005 03:59 PM