The Far-Left Democratic Party and their Obsession with Race

They only use race as a wedge issue to bloc voting demographics.

If you are black, hispanic, female, etc. and you vote for a Republican, you are a race traitor, an uncle tom, an aunt jemimah (all of these terms have been used). A “sell out”.

Recall that Barack Obama wrote about how in college he hung out smoking with the Marxist professors, feminist activists, etc. so he would NOT be a “sell out”.

Your skin color only matters to a Democrat if you can serve The Party. Otherwise you are an enemy of the state.

The Civil Rights movement was indeed a part of the Left's assault on the USA. Its intent was to create division along racial lines, the same as Feminism did along gender lines. Below was supposed to be an AP photo of MLK protesting against the war in Vietnam but only the caption will copy.

53 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., leads a crowd of 125,000 Vietnam War protesters in front of the United Nations in New York on April 15, 1967, as he voices a repeated demand to "Stop the bombing." (AP Photo)

The Civil Rights movement and the protests against the war were all part of the same Marxist effort. LBJ was very active in furthering the Leftist cause with his Great Society social programs, including Medicare, and his attempt to outdo FDR.

After signing the Civil Rights law into effect in 1964 he called Senator Richard Russell of Georgia and said, "That'll keep the n----rs voting Democrat for the next 200 years."

It was all about moving the socialist agenda forward and maintaining power.

Your assessment does seem a little off, although not entirely. There were no doubt (at all) political leftists hanging about, and LBJ used "the N word." The quote you gave captures the party's, and particularly his intentions perfectly.

The article is specifically about the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) (as Wikipedia calls it), not the broader use of the term by corrupt extremists friends of Barack Obama. I don't know you, so I don't know your age. Blacks suffered a great deal in America, and their Civil Rights Movement is one we can all identify with - as humans. Martin Luther King was key to the character of the movement, which was peaceful and aimed at positive results.

His I Have a Dream speech is one of the greatest speeches ever given by an American, right up there with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

MLK's niece Alveda King verses Al Sharpton on the matter of race make the difference between her uncle's vision and the corrupt far-left perfectly clear. It's about whether people are lifted up or dragged down.

Addressing the Restoring Honor Rally, she said it beautifully. "I too have a dream, that white privilege will become human privilege and that people of every ethnic blend will receive everyone as brothers and sisters in the love of God.”

On the other end, Al Sharpton preaching hate and an end to "privilege" (also known as "human rights").

I was born in Jackson, MS in 1938, so I doubt you have more personal knowledge of this subject than I do. We probably share many of the same experiences. From the 1st grade through completing college I never attended an integrated school.

However, I was fortunate that although my family grew up in rural MS, moving to town during the depression to try to find work, they never taught me prejudice nor did they ever mistreat anyone, black or white. I remember being surprised as a young adult that there was prejudice against Jews by some folks. I then realized I had many friends whose names indicated they were Jews and I never even knew it. The subject was never broached. We were just friends. There was no prejudice against Jews at all that I knew of.

I don’t need to read about the Gulf of Tonkin as I remember it very well. Before that I remember growing up during WWII, with two uncles in the midst of it there was rapt attention paid to all news about the war. I remember the Korean War and a young neighborhood favorite, J.E. Allgood, being killed there. I remember the Vietnam war and all the street protests, not in Jackson but elsewhere, when the Left came out of their shell big time. There was an organized protest against segregation at Jackson State College, and all black university and alma mater of Walter Payton.

I remember all about the civil rights protests, the politics of the time and that the same people who were against the war were agitating for civil rights laws. I also remember our few black friends were not in agreement with that approach, thinking prayer and good Christian political leadership could solve the problem better, faster and that it would last longer. I agree with them. If you disagree, explain how those laws have not eliminated the racial problems, how Obama has not bridged the racial divide as they said he would. The answer is that the Left keeps it alive. Ingrained American racism is not the truth. That is simply a charge by the Left to keep the issue alive and the races divided.

I could write a book on this going back to when Vladimir Lenin dispatched Dr. Julius Hammer to the USA to raise money to support the Communists in their fight against the Tsar in Russia. He founded the Workers Party of America in 1907, later changed to Communist Party USA, before he was sent to prison (for a botched abortion that killed a society woman) and his son Armand took over. Armand enlisted the Sulzbergers, Publishers of the NYTimes, and Senator Albert Gore, Sr., as well as many others into the cause.

The Communist effort to subvert the USA has continued from President Woodrow Wilson through FDR, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Slick Willie, and now Obama.

And yes, the civil rights movement was and is part of it.

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