Mary Mostert
Could Condi as president undo Martin Luther King's hate-the-whites' legacy?
By Mary Mostert
Yesterday, Laura Bush told CNN that a Republican woman would be the first female president of the United States and if she had her choice; it would be Condoleezza Rice, her husband's Secretary of State.
If Condi Rice should run for president and be elected she would not only be the first woman president of the United States but also the first black president of the United States.
I would have thought that such a possibility would prompt the media to make that the lead story civil rights story for the federal holiday set aside to honor Martin Luther King who is considered by most Americans as the hero of the Civil Rights movement.
Instead, it seems, I've heard a lot more in the media about the money battle taking place among Martin Luther King's four children over the dying carcass of their cash cow, the Martin Luther King Center which was built when there was a lot more money coming in to pay their six digit salaries than there is today.
I find it fascinating that it is Condoleezza Rice the black woman who is not really black, according to Washington Post's black assistant editor Eugene Robinson that is being urged to run for president. According to Robinson Condi is not "really an African-American" because she votes Republican, is middle class, doesn't hate white people and is "so dumb that she didn't even notice when her dad took out his gun to defend the family against segregationist diehards:"
Apparently Robinson believes that having a protective father in the home creates a "dumb" daughter, regardless of her impressive accomplishments. And, it is true that her parents shielded her from the "you are a victim" philosophy peddled by Martin Luther King. According to Condi, her parents "absolutely convinced" her that while she might not be able to have a hamburger at Woolworth's she could become "president of the United States." The fact that some are hoping she will become just that deserves recognition and appreciation for her parents' remarkable courage and wisdom in teaching her to ignore Martin Luther King as she worked to get a good education, to appreciate good music, act like a lady ,and to not hate people with white skins.
The Martin Luther King I knew was very different from the mythical non-violent icon we hear about today. I have in my files an article written in September 1965 by newspaper editor George Schuyler and author of "Black No More" and "Slaves Today." He tried to warn Americans, black and white, about Martin Luther King and his "posse of political parsons in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)" who were then "roaming the country collecting coin and infecting the mentally retarded with the germs of civil disobedience, camouflaged as non-violence and love for white people."
Schuyler claimed that most black people in 1965 wished "white people in authority would stop flattering and encouraging the sorcerer's apprentices leading astray the mentally retarded and criminally-bent black minority" who were "utilizing the traditional techniques of 'spontaneous' disorder, well known to Communists, Nazis and other political perverts."
Schuyler, Rosa Parks and I were all activists in what was once called the Race Relations movement. I first met Mrs. Martin Luther King in 1962 when she and I were among 52 American women who flew to Geneva Switzerland to petition delegates of the 17 nation Disarmament Conference delegates to sign a treaty banning the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. In 1962 very few people had ever heard of her or her husband. There were some wealthy pro-communists on that trip who paid for Coretta King's expenses and kept her at their side teaching her about civil disobedience, which they tried to get the all the women to support in Geneva.
I was one of the major opponents of the push for civil disobedience because I knew that our nation was founded on the rule of law. It was years later, however, that I realized the efforts of people like me and Rosa Parks who worked for mutual improvement and better understanding between whites and blacks were effectively destroyed by Martin Luther King and other "political parsons" who adopted class warfare tactics advocated in the Communist Manifesto.
Years later, in her book My Story Rosa Parks talked about being pushed aside as she marched in a parade commemorating the boycott of the Montgomery buses which was started by her white and black friends when she was in jail. Contrary to what is now taught, Martin Luther King was not the key figure in the starting the boycott and the race riots in Rochester and other cities were planned events, not "spontaneous."
Schuyler accurately noted in 1965 that Martin Luther King's "encouragement of civil disobedience, disdain for authority and general disrespect for public morals, was to set the stage for the successive disgraceful orgies of burning, looting, vandalism and death with the criminal elements of the slum proletariat taking over."
After the Rochester race riot of 1964 that killed 4 and injured over 200 people, the city asked Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Council for advice in organizing the black community. The advice they got was to hire Saul Alinsky, an organizer who the used methods of class warfare outlined in the Communist Manifesto to teach the ministers and their congregations how to seize control of the city.
What Alinsky taught still affects Rochester, New York today. As the "hate-the-whites" black activists took control, using millions of dollars handed to them by Lyndon Johnson's War of Poverty, the economy began to change. The organized black militant group called F.I.G.H.T. demanded and was given a piece of downtown commercial property on which to build public housing for blacks, even tho 78% of the poor in Rochester were white people. The push for socialized housing in the business area was followed by a massive exodus or down-sizing of major job-producing businesses.
Few people today can even comprehend the courage, the wisdom and the risks that Condi's parents took to teach their young daughter how to live and nourish the principles of Christian tolerance, equality, cooperation and unity of purpose set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution as she was growing up in the eye of the storm of the divisive and contentious Civil Rights Movement headed by Martin Luther King.
If she runs for president, she would certainly have my vote.
© Mary Mostert
Yesterday, Laura Bush told CNN that a Republican woman would be the first female president of the United States and if she had her choice; it would be Condoleezza Rice, her husband's Secretary of State.
If Condi Rice should run for president and be elected she would not only be the first woman president of the United States but also the first black president of the United States.
I would have thought that such a possibility would prompt the media to make that the lead story civil rights story for the federal holiday set aside to honor Martin Luther King who is considered by most Americans as the hero of the Civil Rights movement.
Instead, it seems, I've heard a lot more in the media about the money battle taking place among Martin Luther King's four children over the dying carcass of their cash cow, the Martin Luther King Center which was built when there was a lot more money coming in to pay their six digit salaries than there is today.
I find it fascinating that it is Condoleezza Rice the black woman who is not really black, according to Washington Post's black assistant editor Eugene Robinson that is being urged to run for president. According to Robinson Condi is not "really an African-American" because she votes Republican, is middle class, doesn't hate white people and is "so dumb that she didn't even notice when her dad took out his gun to defend the family against segregationist diehards:"
Apparently Robinson believes that having a protective father in the home creates a "dumb" daughter, regardless of her impressive accomplishments. And, it is true that her parents shielded her from the "you are a victim" philosophy peddled by Martin Luther King. According to Condi, her parents "absolutely convinced" her that while she might not be able to have a hamburger at Woolworth's she could become "president of the United States." The fact that some are hoping she will become just that deserves recognition and appreciation for her parents' remarkable courage and wisdom in teaching her to ignore Martin Luther King as she worked to get a good education, to appreciate good music, act like a lady ,and to not hate people with white skins.
The Martin Luther King I knew was very different from the mythical non-violent icon we hear about today. I have in my files an article written in September 1965 by newspaper editor George Schuyler and author of "Black No More" and "Slaves Today." He tried to warn Americans, black and white, about Martin Luther King and his "posse of political parsons in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)" who were then "roaming the country collecting coin and infecting the mentally retarded with the germs of civil disobedience, camouflaged as non-violence and love for white people."
Schuyler claimed that most black people in 1965 wished "white people in authority would stop flattering and encouraging the sorcerer's apprentices leading astray the mentally retarded and criminally-bent black minority" who were "utilizing the traditional techniques of 'spontaneous' disorder, well known to Communists, Nazis and other political perverts."
Schuyler, Rosa Parks and I were all activists in what was once called the Race Relations movement. I first met Mrs. Martin Luther King in 1962 when she and I were among 52 American women who flew to Geneva Switzerland to petition delegates of the 17 nation Disarmament Conference delegates to sign a treaty banning the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. In 1962 very few people had ever heard of her or her husband. There were some wealthy pro-communists on that trip who paid for Coretta King's expenses and kept her at their side teaching her about civil disobedience, which they tried to get the all the women to support in Geneva.
I was one of the major opponents of the push for civil disobedience because I knew that our nation was founded on the rule of law. It was years later, however, that I realized the efforts of people like me and Rosa Parks who worked for mutual improvement and better understanding between whites and blacks were effectively destroyed by Martin Luther King and other "political parsons" who adopted class warfare tactics advocated in the Communist Manifesto.
Years later, in her book My Story Rosa Parks talked about being pushed aside as she marched in a parade commemorating the boycott of the Montgomery buses which was started by her white and black friends when she was in jail. Contrary to what is now taught, Martin Luther King was not the key figure in the starting the boycott and the race riots in Rochester and other cities were planned events, not "spontaneous."
Schuyler accurately noted in 1965 that Martin Luther King's "encouragement of civil disobedience, disdain for authority and general disrespect for public morals, was to set the stage for the successive disgraceful orgies of burning, looting, vandalism and death with the criminal elements of the slum proletariat taking over."
After the Rochester race riot of 1964 that killed 4 and injured over 200 people, the city asked Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Council for advice in organizing the black community. The advice they got was to hire Saul Alinsky, an organizer who the used methods of class warfare outlined in the Communist Manifesto to teach the ministers and their congregations how to seize control of the city.
What Alinsky taught still affects Rochester, New York today. As the "hate-the-whites" black activists took control, using millions of dollars handed to them by Lyndon Johnson's War of Poverty, the economy began to change. The organized black militant group called F.I.G.H.T. demanded and was given a piece of downtown commercial property on which to build public housing for blacks, even tho 78% of the poor in Rochester were white people. The push for socialized housing in the business area was followed by a massive exodus or down-sizing of major job-producing businesses.
Few people today can even comprehend the courage, the wisdom and the risks that Condi's parents took to teach their young daughter how to live and nourish the principles of Christian tolerance, equality, cooperation and unity of purpose set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution as she was growing up in the eye of the storm of the divisive and contentious Civil Rights Movement headed by Martin Luther King.
If she runs for president, she would certainly have my vote.
© Mary Mostert
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