Politico has become a leftist, Obama rag. It had the potential, when it was first formed, to be a good insider political publication, but then it went off the Left End and became a propaganda voice for Obama and the Democrats.
If you read between the lines of what black civil rights activist and agitator Bob Moses said about Freedom Summer, you can see the wicked genius of the Left. They were going to use the white children of Democrat Northern Liberals as cannonfodder for the terrible police of the South and their Klan allies.
It worked. With the unjustified killing of the 3 civil rights workers (Schwerner, Goodman and Cheney), the Feds finally came in to try and stop white racial extremists against the civil rights workers. It was way too late. LBJ should have thrown Wallace and his police into a federal pen and tried them for various criminal acts of violence.
That would have broken white extremist resistance way earlier than it did.
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the 3 civil rights workers (2 whites, 1 black), the whites came from far-left, Communist-Party front affiliated families, esp. Schwerner. The CPUSA was the power behind a lot of the civil rights agitation, and provided most of the powerful attorneys (Kunstler, Kinoy, etc) who guided the protests and legal actions.
Read books about the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Freedom Summer, etc. and you’ll find a lot of names (never properly identified as key leaders/members of CPUSA fronts, esp. the National Lawyers Guild, and the soon to be formed Center for Constitutional Rights, a Guild creation).
THe honest liberal civil rights workers were used, abused and even killed so that the Communists could gain significant influence in, and even some power, over less radical civil rights leaders and organizations (NAACP).
SCLC, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was long time in the hands of the CPUSA, from Martin Luther King Jr’s private secretary Jack O’Dell (CPUSA National Committee, South organizer and possessor of Soviet organizational documents); Stanley Levison, MLK’s personal advisor and fundraiser, as well as eventually admitted KGB bagman for the CPUSA; Jesse Jackson Jr. who promoted O’Dell within the SCLC and Op. Breadbasket/Push/Rainbow Coalition; Ralph Abernathy, who for years was affiliated with both CPUSA and Soviet fronts until he defected in the early 80’s; Joseph Lowery, red through and through; Rev. Willie Barrows (friend of Michele O), a Chicago red sympathizer and Hanoi traveler during the war; Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, color him pinko; etc.
I would say that 90% of the civil rights movement were people who were liberal but not communist, honest in thoughts and deeds, but they were coopted, usually without ever knowing it, by a very well organized, funded and decided Left, led by the Communist Party USA and its Soviet operatives.
If you read David Garrow’s book, “THe FBI and Martin Luther King Jr”, you will only get a small amount of information about the CPUSA’s literal domination of Dr. King. Garrow, a leftist, did a lot of research but either didn’t know what he had, and left it alone, or deliberately omitted any serious expose’ of the CPUSA and Dr. King/Movement.
There is so much more to this story that someone, someday will win a Pulitzer Prize for telling the truth. But not any time soon as the Pulitzer, like the Nobel Peace Prize, has been bastardized towards the Left, and the Left never likes to let the TRUTH see the light of day.
Thank you for the detailed response. That is interesting and sounds like a topic to explore.
And thank you to everyone who posted.
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