Julianne Malveaux: King's legacy lives on - in Venezuela

USA Today ^ | January 16, 2004 | Julianne Malveaux

[Cincinatus' Wife]

People too often celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. as a "dreamer" who envisioned a day when people would be judged by their character, not the color of their skin. That was not all he wanted, or what Monday's holiday is entirely about. Although King is an icon of the civil rights movement, he hardly belongs only to African- Americans. As he underscored in his Nobel Peace Prize speech when he asserted his "audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits," King championed all people living in poverty worldwide.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Castro's Venezuelan Piracy***In this nation that once had a free press, the tightening grip of the Chavez dictatorship has forbidden the photographing of this airport influx of operatives from his friend Fidel Castro’s Communist police state. “The use of TV cameras as well as the presence of journalists from any mass media is prohibited,” reported El Universal. “Nevertheless, a few photojournalists have managed to catch images from landings, defeating security controls.”

Between September 26 and October 27, this journal reports from its sources that 11,530 Cubans arrived in Venezuela on 76 such flights. Chavez’s seizure of one television station and threats against the rest of the press have reduced such critical news coverage of his regime.

Facing potential recall by voters, Chavez has also taken personal dictatorial control of the state-run oil giant Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (Pdvsa), and since then its many aircraft have also been ferrying an unknown number of Cuban operatives into his turbulent nation. These Cubans are officially welcomed as health care workers, educators and helpers by the

Chavez government. But many of them, as an October 6 report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies indicated, are “Cuban intelligence officers” who have been embedded in key sectors of the Venezuelan Government, including its computer data processing, military, oil production, and political police (DISIP). What is clearly underway under our noses is the subversion and takeover of a second Latin American nation by Fidel Castro. Venezuela’s oil wealth and power make it vitally important to the United States and a prize that could rescue Communism from becoming extinct in the New World. ***

Chavez appoints radicals to head Venezuelan passport agency - reports of Arabs otaining ID documents

Cuba: U.S. Scuttling Migration Accords - US: Castro/Chavez promote/finance anti-gov groups in Latin America

Fidel Castro - Cuba

Hugo Chavez - Venezuela

[Fledermaus]

Bush visited King's grave today and got protested. But of course, if he hadn't, the same stupid people would accuse him of racism for not visiting.

I've been to King's memorial in Atlanta. The entire surrounding neighborhood looks like Bam in Iran after the last earthquake. The people that live there don't even bother to keep the neighborhood kept up.

Every building that wasn't boarded up had bars on the windows and the housing was subpar. It's so run down you can't believe it's a federal monument site except for the nice, clean federal King museum.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

President Bush did the right thing. He made more inroads despite the "rent a mob" that booed him. I'm sure he gained a lot of respect for going despite the attempts to discourage him. The people who only listen to poverty pimps saw a different face, a non-pandering LIBERAL, in the pulpit. That's progress.

[Fledermaus]

Yeah, they were just a bunch of hired boobs to do their 3-5 word chants. I'm so sick of those stupid chants.

Can't they be more creative?

[Lancey Howard]

I think Julianne Malveau's "significant other" should load her up with fatty, high cholesterol foods. Nothing but greasy cheeseburgers, rings of kielbasa, buckets of fried chicken, and pizza with a puddle of grease in every slice of pepperoni. The pig.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Can't they be more creative?

No.

[Fledermaus]

TOUCHE!

[Fledermaus]

Well, here's one for them..."Shut up, you're a nut"..."Shut up, you're a nut".

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I think Julianne Malveau's "significant other" should load her up with fatty, high cholesterol foods.

I think she's been cooking for Hugo.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez addresses the National Assembly, giving his annual speech in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Jan. 15, 2004. (AP photo/Gregorio Marrero)

[Slings and Arrows]

In a ranking of 155 countries for economic freedom, Venezuela came in 147th. Freedom of all types is being lost in Venezuela.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Excerpt from Hillary Clinton and the Radical Left Hillary Clinton and the "Third Way" ***New Left progressives-including Hillary Clinton and her comrade, Acting Deputy Attorney General Bill Lann Lee-were involved in supporting, or protecting or making excuses for violent anti-American radicals abroad like the Vietcong and anti-American criminals at home like the Black Panthers.* We did this then-just as progressives still do now-in the name of "social justice" and a dialectical world-view that made this deception appear ethical and the fantasy seem possible.

As a student of the left, Jamie Glazov, has observed in an article about the middle-class defenders of recently captured Seventies terrorist Kathy Soliah: "if you can successfully camouflage your own pathology and hatred with a concern for the 'poor' and the 'downtrodden,' then there will always be a 'progressive' milieu to support and defend you."* Huey Newton, George Jackson, Bernadine Dohrn, Sylvia Baraldini, Rubin Carter, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rigoberta Menchu and innumerable others have all discovered this principle in the course of their criminal careers.

There is a superficial sense, of course, in which we were civil rights and peace activists-and that is certainly the way I would have described myself at the time, particularly if I were speaking to a non-left audience. It is certainly the way Mrs. Clinton and my former comrades in the left refer to themselves and their pasts in similar contexts today.

But they are lying. (And when they defend racial preferences now-a principle they denounced as "racist" then-even they must know it).

The first truth about leftist missionaries, about believing progressives, is that they are liars. But they are not liars in the ordinary way, which is to say by choice. They are liars by necessity-often without even realizing that they are. Because they also lie to themselves. It is the political lie that gives their cause its life.

Why, for example, if you were one of them, would you tell the truth? If you were serious about your role in humanity's vanguard, if you had the knowledge (which others did not), that you were certain would lead them to a better world, why would you tell them a truth that they could not "understand" and that would hold them back?

If others could understand your truth, you would not think of yourself as a "vanguard." You would no longer inhabit the morally charmed world of an elite, whose members alone can see the light and whose mission is to lead the unenlightened towards it. If everybody could see the promised horizon and knew the path to reach it, the future would already have happened and there would be no need for the vanguard of the saints.

That is both the ethical core and psychological heart of what it means to be a part of the left. That is where the gratification comes from. To see yourself as a social redeemer. To feel anointed. In other words: To be progressive is itself the most satisfying narcissism. ***

Actor Danny Glover, left, speaks at press conference after meeting Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan 8, 2004. Glover and other black American activists are on an an eight-day trip exploring President Hugo Chavez's social programs and race relations in the South American country. (AP Photo/Gregorio Marrero)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

Thank you for the LINK.

[Fledermaus]

Ewww, I first thought that title was "Hillary Clinton and a Three-Way". Whew.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Here's number three in that commie fest:

Moon Mission Hurts Children, Group Says***Sounding off from the left of the political spectrum, the head of the Children's Defense Fund says President Bush's space initiative will divert critical resources away from important domestic priorities.

"Today's speech by the President was an attempt to mask the enormous price tag on further space exploration," said CDF President Marian Wright Edelman.

"This is the wrong priority for America at a time when its children are facing so many challenges and our federal deficit is reaching record high levels," Edelman said in a press release.

Instead of spending money to colonize the Moon and travel to Mars and the asteroids, Edelman said a much smaller amount of money could be invested in ways that would make an immediate difference in the lives of children.

"Eighty-one billion dollars phased in over five years would provide health insurance to all uninsured children in America, and $81 billion phased in over five years would give Head Start to every eligible pre-schooler who needs it," Edelman said.***

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They pounce, they bitch, they miss.

[Fledermaus]

They already get billions. It's never enough for these idiots.

Same tired old arguments we've heard for 100 years when any money is spent on stuff they don't like...space, military, etc.

Maybe they should concentrate on not wasting the money they already get in overhead and fat salaries for morons like Edelman who run organizations so bad they can't even be audited.

I'm sick of these jerks.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I'm sick of these jerks.

They've done nothing "for the children." They're leeches, who for decades have betrayed generations with their support of teacher's unions and failed public education. The result: human potential and productive lives lost forever.

[livius]

What a nauseating article. Aside from fawning over a dictator, it implies that the only way blacks (by implication, the "poor" in question) can get anything is if a government gives it to them.

[Jimmy Valentine]

you can always trust Julianne Malveaux to suck up to people like Chavez and Castro.

Her "French" name translates roughly to mean "evil lump" or "bad veal" in English.

Good enough, I think.

Regards,

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Danny Glover leads TransAfrica on fact-finding mission to Venezuela [Full text] Caracas, Venezuela - One of the most distinguished organizations of African Americans in the United States, the TransAfrica Forum, sent a delegation of acclaimed artists, actors, activists and scholars to visit Venezuela for a weeklong series of events.

During a meeting with the vice president of Venezuela, José Vicente Rangel, award-winning actor Danny Glover, who chairs the TransAfrica board, confirmed that the portrayal of Venezuela in U.S. media is inaccurate and amounts to disinformation. Glover said he could not miss the opportunity to witness the historical changes in Venezuela through its creation of a nation that seeks inclusion of all of its citizens.

TransAfrica Forum President Bill Fletcher, also a renowned African American activist, confirmed that the U.S. government obviously supported the coup in Venezuela in April 2002 and has been consistently hostile towards President Chávez, who was "elected with possibly a higher level of democracy than in any other part" of the hemisphere. Fletcher has expressed great interest in the political developments in Venezuela during the past few years and has defended the Bolivarian Revolution in several articles published in national newspapers in the United States, including the Washington Post.

The delegation is accompanied by the ambassador of Venezuela in Washington, D.C., Bernardo Alvarez, and included - in addition to actor Danny Glover and activist Bill Fletcher - Patricia Ford, the international vice president of the Service Employees International Union; Sylvia Hill, professor of criminology and director of the Department of Urban Studies in Washington, D.C.; Julianne Malveaux, economist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and TransAfrica Forum Vice President Selena Mendy Singleton, among others.

The group planned to attend the inauguration of the Bolivarian school named for Martin Luther King Jr. in the coastal town of Naiguata - where large numbers of Venezuelans of African descent live. It will be the first official recognition in Venezuela of the leadership and importance of one of the most important civil rights leaders from the United States. The event will be hosted by Minister of Education, Culture and Sports Aristobulo Isturiz and Ambassador Alvarez, as well as community members.

The TransAfrica delegation's presence in Venezuela will also launch the official recognition of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national day of celebration in the South American country - where a high percentage of the population trace their roots to Africa. The holiday has been celebrated in the United States since Jan. 20, 1986, despite significant controversy and it being the only federal holiday commemorating an African American.

The delegation will also participate in President Chavez's weekly radio and television program, "Hello, Mr. President," to honor this important civil rights leader. During their stay, they will also meet with local community groups, members of the women's rights movement, government officials, educators and opposition leaders.

The delegation will hold several meetings with government officials and local civil and community groups and visit several working class neighborhoods in Caracas to meet with community activists. [End]

[macrahanish #1]

I notice that MCI is no longer using Glover as a spokesman. Their ads now feature
James Taylor with voice-over by Kiefer Sutherland.