Honored Carlos Santana Herbie Hancock Martina Arroyo! Honor King’s Condemnation of US Wars!
By Jay Janson
19 January,2014
Countercurrents.org
Black celebrities, have cooperated by their silence with America’s total blackout of King’s condemnation of US wars for predatory investments, while brothers kill innocent non-whites abroad. Needed: a great artist and composer like Herbie Hancock or Carlos Santana write a floor-under-your-feet-moving smash hit recording with lines from Martin Luther King Jr.‘ awesomely important sermon Beyond Vietnam - a Time to Break Silence
Wow, what a surprise! An awards presentation telecast really worth listening to. On the last Sunday of 2013, some of the best jazz musicians in the world performed Carlos Santana’s and Herbie Hancock’s hit recordings to their composers obvious delight as Herbie and Carlos sat next to the President of the United States looking on. This was followed by a super fine and thrilling well sung and beautifully staged Triumphant Scene from Giuseppe Verdi’s Opera Aida, as the TV lens captured the emotion in Met soprano Martina Arroyo’s joyful facial expressions. All three artists were among this years recipients of the Annual Kennedy Center Honors for the Performing Arts.
As personal fate would have it, your musician author crossed paths with these three giant celebrities in circumstances that for me relate to Martin Luther King Jr.’ now long betrayed and forgotten condemnation of “US atrocity wars and covert violence on three continents.”
Back in 1980, yours truly performed in the symphony orchestra that accompanied Herbie, Tina Turner and Wayne Shorter in concert at the Washington DC Great Mall to an audience of twenty thousand Buddhists from all over the world who had just paraded for peace past the Jefferson Monument. Last I heard, Herbie still belongs to that Buddhist group that is continually working to make its members aware of the crimes against humanity being committed by fellow Americans both covertly and openly by its military and CIA in so many nations at the same time.
A few years later I was introduced to Carlos Santana by a mutual friend who had written a peace cantata staring Carlos’ guitar playing and United Nations guru Swami Sri Chin Moi. Carlos was a disciple of guru Swami Sri Chin Moi. and would at that time usually be dressed all in white, a sign among Sri Chin Moi’s disciples of purity of mind. Divadip Carlos Santana appears in spiritual white dress on jackets of his early CD’s. His guru had gone on soulfully meditating during evenings sessions at the UN, throughout the relentless US war on the Vietnamese and Laotians.
Ten years earlier I had listened from my chair in the brass section of the Casals Festival Orchestra to Martina Arroyo sing the Verdi Requiem Mass, along with Placido Domingo, Zubin Mehta conducting.
Looking back from the perspective of today’s unceasing programed genocide, I can’t help but recall that in each of my encounters with these three music giants, great music was accompanying sorrow for genocidal acts of violence. That Verdi mass Arroyo sang in ’72, was dedicated to sixteen Puerto Rican Christian pilgrims who had just died in a terrorist attack at a Tel Aviv airport, and I had just arrived from performing with the Zagreb Philharmonic in a Yugoslavia, whose embassies were being bombed by fascist Croatian groups (CIA support assumed [1]).
I had come into contact with these three great musicians during spiritual music responses to insane violence in the world. I imagine all three of them must of had their own share of less than sane personal experiences growing up black, latino or half-black-half-latina during the racial violence right up through the sixties.
These three simpatico hero musicians had become internationally famous about the same time that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. went international with his campaign for justice for non-whites overseas as well as in the United States emphasizing that social progress at home was hopelessly impossible while Americans were denying the very right to live to millions of the poor in countries overseas. [2]
King was vilified in all of corporate media and shot dead within the year. During that 1968, when a mainstream media disparaged King was silenced with a bullet to his head, Martina, after singing in Europe’s opera houses, was being hailed as the first black person to have ever portrayed a role in Wagner's Opera Lohengrin, not just at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, but in all of opera history. One year after King’s assassination, Hancock already an internationally popular artist, dedicated, with Miles Davis, a mournful jazz album “The Prisoner” to the slain Martin Luther King. In the same year Santana brought Latin Rock Fusion to Woodstock, and his first album with CBS Records ‘Evil Ways’ sold more than 4 million copies.
After the frightening week of riots and terrible loss of life with police firing on wild destructive demonstrations in dozens of cities across the nation in response to King’s assassination, one imagines the white establishment began to think it better to rehabilitate the name of Martin Luther King Jr.; raise King not only up to having been a good American, but up to celebrity and national hero status in order to both pacify black anger and at the same time get King’s image as a revolutionary off the streets and make it easier to bury King’s bad for business as usual, condemnation of America’s “atrocity wars and covert genocide on three continents in maintenance of unjust predatory investments“
King’s world shaking outcry, “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world is my own government” [2] became for the ensuing forty-four years taboo to mention in America’s owned CIA fed conglomerate owned mainstream media. The many black Baptist churches, which had not concurred in condemning the war in Vietnam, had little problem with going along with the establishment blackout of the sermon Beyond Vietnam a Time to Break Silence which had made headlines in every newspaper around the world the next day.
I feel sure that Hancock, Santana and Arroyo in private conversation have talked about King having America and Americans, including King himself, responsible for the atrocities on three continents for predatory investments, about King accusing Americans being fully capable of the non-participation, non-support, non-acquiescence and conscientious objection that would make such atrocity wars unacceptable and inoperable. [2]
However, this peoples historian of a white colonialism that for centuries savagely occupied and mercilessly plundered wealthier civilizations (and is still very much alive), has been unable to locate a record of any attempt by any of America’s beloved African American celebrities, to break this near half-century boycott of King’s blistering condemnation of US wars in former colonies on three continents.
For four decades, America’s famed Black celebrities, somehow, either out of fear or lack of interest, have cooperated by their silence with America’s total blackout of Martin Luther King’s anguished cry of “silence is betrayal!” and have remained silent, mercilessly silent, while non-white men, women and children by the millions have perished in harms way of Americans in uniform, or incognito in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Congo, Cuba, Lebanon, Panama, Grenada, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran (Reagan funding aiding arming Saddam Hussein’s eight year invasion thereof), Chile, Argentina, Haiti, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria and causing immense suffering and death by overthrowing or seeking to overthrow governments in almost every country in Latin America and many elsewhere in the world.
America’s black celebrities and government officials are even silent when candidates during election campaigns are hailed in their ads and in mainstream media as heroes!! That could not happen if Americans knew what King cried out about the war in Vietnam, which continued for eight genocidal years after his assassination, “They languish under our bombs and consider us, not their fellow Vietnamese, the real enemy. They move sadly and apathetically as we herd them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are rarely met. They know they must move on or be destroyed by our bombs.
So they go, primarily women and children and the aged. They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops. They must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees. They wander into the hospitals with at least twenty casualties from American firepower for one Vietcong-inflicted injury. So far we may have killed a million of them, mostly children. They wander into the towns and see thousands of the children, homeless, without clothes, running in packs on the streets like animals. They see the children degraded by our soldiers as they beg for food. They see the children selling their sisters to our soldiers, soliciting for their mothers.
What do the peasants think as we ally ourselves with the landlords and as we refuse to put any action into our many words concerning land reform? What do they think as we test out our latest weapons on them, just as the Germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe? Where are the roots of the independent Vietnam we claim to be building? Is it among these voiceless ones?
We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops.” We have cooperated in the crushing in the crushing Buddhist Church. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men. [2]
Black leaders in all areas of America society have helped America and the world to forget the powerful last teaching of the politically mature King. In spite of careful research, have not been able to find one African American celebrity’s public effort to redress the cruel blackout of King’s condemnation of America’s genocidal predatory wars on the poor non-white and formerly colonially enslaved populations overseas.
A star studded roster of beloved black celebrity roll-models have lived through all or part of this forty-four year suppression of King’s condemnation of America’s atrocity wars in public silence:
Mohammed Ali, Michael Jackson, Louie Armstrong, Harry Belafonte, Ray Charles, Michael Jordan, Lena Horne, Sammy Davis Jr., Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Mahila Jackson, Marian Anderson, Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Ross, Steve Harvey, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Eartha Kitt, Paul Robeson, Whoopi Goldberg, Toni Morrison, Alex Haley, Eddie Murphy, Joe Lewis, Sugar Ray Leonard, Magic Johnson, Serena and Venus Williams, Althea Gibson, Marvin Gaye, Arthur Ash, Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Prince, Sarah Vaughn, Whitney Houston, Joe Williams, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Josephine Baker, Sonny Rollins, Maya Angelou, Willie Mays, Chandra Wilson, BB King, Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Jay-Z, Snoop-Dog, Usher, Travis Smily, Arsenio Hall, Diahann Carrol,, NFL’s OJ Simpson, Walter Payton, Jerry Rice, Spike Lee, James Earl Jones, dancer Gregory Hines, Thelonius Monk, Clark Terry, Charles Mingus, Joe Wilder, Max Roach, Quincy Jones, Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughn, Earl Hines, Grover Washington Jr. Chuck Berry, Bill Cosby, 50 Cents, Sean John Combs, Rihanna, Dulé Hill, Jay-Z, Alvin Ailey, James Brown, Oprah Winfrey, Vanessa Williams, Ethel Waters, Ralph Bunche, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Richard Pryor, Dick Gregory, Arsenio Hall, Jesse Owens, Danny Glover, Katherine Dunham, Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Reggie Jackson, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Tommie Smith and John Carlos (Olympics Medal Winers Black Power Salute); Civil rights leaders: A. Philip Randolph, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy, Jessie Jackson, Julian Bond, Joseph Lowery, Stokely Carmichael, Cornel West, Amiri Baraka, Louis Farrakhan, James Farmer, Roy Wilkins, Benjamin Hooks, Roy Innis, Vernon Jordan, James Meredith, Odetta, Perry Sutton, Fred Shuttlesworth, Al Sharpton, NAACP officials - and surely an equal number of names are missing from this incomplete roster of publicly well known personalities.
The public silence of the above noted gifted African American celebrities and influential personalities regarding King’s condemnation of US atrocity wars and covert genocide has given crucial assistance to an evil wars-promoting criminal media ‘gentleman’s agreement’ history blackout, so that extremely few young people today, including black youths, will have ever heard of King’s devastating and bitter condemnation of US wars and demand for America and Americans to take responsibility for them, make reparations, and make them impossible in the future.
Your author needs some help here. Our African American roll-model celebrities are really the sharpest of people. Most of them have supported progressive organizations and some have been seen leading protest demonstrations against an American war. But strangely none are fighting the taping of King’s mouth shut. None are following in King’s last footsteps so critical for mankind’s survival. None are heard condemning of both the plundering capitalist investments and the wars and covert violence to maintain them. [2]
Year after year, on King's birthday and the anniversary of "I have a Dream" speech, corporate mainstream media programs week long newsreels and commemorative discussions in great praise of the King of civil rights,
from people betraying King, the condemner-of-US-wars at the same time, helping to throw a beautiful "I have a Dream" blanket over King's 'we have a nightmare' rage "Beyond Vietnam" sermon given four years later, in which King shouted why that dream hadn't happened and wasn't going to happen until the slaughtering overseas stopped!
“We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men...and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube." [2] Sad to be dead sure our very hip black celebrities are aware of this perfect snow job of praising good American King to heaven in order to cover King’s ‘disloyalty’ to America’s “atrocity wars meant to maintain unjust predatory investments.” [see
Dream Anniversary Celebration Shrouds King's "Beyond Vietnam' Nightmare Sermon, His Martyrdom, Syrians
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Dream-Anniversary-Celebrat-by-Jay-Janson-Martin-Luther-King_Media-Blackout-130904-499.html
Where is the African American anger over the continuous killing of non-whites that King condemned and surely cost him his life, for King was too intolerable an enemy for the investors in war who rule us to let a charismatic figure like him go on exposing the truth of wars to maintain trillions of dollars of predatory investments in former colonies.
Where was the anger of black Americans when their government was leading the bombing of a prosperous African nation with a higher quality of life index ranking than nine European countries under a blatant lie of CNN-CIA telecast phony revolution with hired gunman in heavily armed pickup trucks supported by the air forces of white colonial powers!? Where was black anger when British, French and other Europeans, who were enslaving their African ancestors centuries before white Americans began to, joined the bombing? Where was the anger of black America’s intelligent celebrities when nearly one million Libyans (out of a total population of six million), were wildly demonstrating against the former colonial masters of Libya bombing their government’s army and militias and destroying Tripoli and hunting down their revolutionary leader? The videos of this demonstration (that spokesperson Saif Gadaffi naively thought would shame Europeans into desisting), were, and still, are on the Internet.
The Internet is free for the interested, the concerned, the ashamed, the angry. Where was the interest, anger and shame of black Americans, as they watched CNN feature for nine months, obvious hired guns in heavily weaponized pick-up trucks hailed by commentators as freedom-fighters, while these ‘freedom fighters’ were cruelly executing black Libyans?
Most celebrities are Internet savvy, they must know the truth. Are these African American idols biting their lip, afraid to risk any part of their careers by speaking out? We enjoy seeing them on TV, charming, noble, projecting confidence, living it up, on the same day the evening news gives news of the wars and shows photos of young men in dress uniform (most of them Black or Latino) for having heroically died ‘for us’ (killed while killing, mostly). They everyone forget or pretend to forget what King had anguished over, namely, poor and innocent fellow human beings slaughtered by his own countrymen. (“we may have killed a million of them, mostly children.”)
Where is the anger of Black American heavy roll models with fans the world over for their achievements and media promotion? They’re not just roll models for Black people and Black kids. They are influential role models for perhaps a majority of Americans now. Where is their anger and sympathy for the slaughtering of non-white poor in dozens of former colonies up to genocide level. Mohammed Ali, a hero King had praised and looked up for refusing to go to Vietnam, like a hundred other Black personalities listed above, have given themselves over to pleasant visits to the White House making presidents look good, while as Commander-in-Chief wontedly ordering military acts that bring death and destruction to innocent black and brown complexioned citizens overseas.
How many of the six billion non-white people of Majority Mankind have not seen police dogs, police billy clubs and water cannons used against African Americans at least twice a year? How many African American role models celebrities have not seen the piles of dead dark skinned Vietnamese, Afghani, Iraqi, Afghani, Pakistani, Syrian men women and children killed by Americans, including African Americans on TV continually?
Via satellite transmission, the world sees African America soldiers within the overwhelmingly white armed forces of every white populated nation in the world killing the dark skinned enemy in Afghanistan. The only Black American anger seen is over lack of jobs, housing and health care for the many African American veterans of the twelve years of occupation war in Afghanistan. But not only concerned Blacks, but all activists insisting in pursuing social issues on the same level as peace, should be aware that Rev. Dr. King cried out that this anger over racial and social progress United States of America is useless “I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.” [2] Besides useless, King reminded that it was immoral to put our well being as more important than the poor we were slaying.
The world gets to watch movies and sports with jovial black super stars and oddly(?) at the same time watch lots of black soldiers of all ranks fighting for a corrupt Quisling Afghan government while kids outside Kabul freeze to death or starve to death for twelve f**king years. see:
2002 Dec 13, Afghan Refugees Freeze to Death AP,
http://www.rawa.org/refugee-cool.htm
2005 Feb. 19, CBS News “Cold, Disease Kills 120 Children; Opium Given In Lieu Of Health Care”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghans-give-opium-to-frozen-kids/
2008 01.02., Afghanistan: Freezing to death in Kabul
Astrid Sehl, Norwegian Refugee Council
http://www.nrc.no/?did=9230332
2009 Nov., IRIN Asia KABUL, - "The onset of winter means freezing nights, cold-related diseases and more problems for the children"
2009 Dec. Kids Freezing To Death In Kabul. A U.S. Christian President Ignores Them, and
2012 Feb. Cold Weather Kills Children in Afghan Refugee Camps - NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/world/asia/cold-weather-kills-children-in-afghan-refugee-camps.html
2012 Afghani Kids Still Freeze to Death Die in Air Strikes! Retribution? http://www.opednews.com/articles/Should-Americans-be-Strung-by-Jay-Janson-120204-199.html
Man, all these years Amers, including Black Americans are having a ball watching black football and basketball stars, funny and exiting movies, Black comedians, singers, ministers, commentators, talk shows, war establishment Black politicians and their brother president as if insane genocide was not being perpetrated in the same moments against Black people overseas. “God damn America for her crimes against humanity!” Rev. Jeremiah Wright got to hear and see himself sound-bit on prime time in 2008, as a target of derision as Obama’s embarrassing family pastor.
To see King betrayed by the absolute silence of even and especially African American celebrities is more than disconcerting. It’s a lousy puzzle for those of us long disaffected and alienated from white Anglo-saxon and northern European American culture and mores. By the time many of us were thirty years old, all our heroes save Latino Che Guevara were black. As my own pantheon in time was added to, it lengthened to were it stands today: Paul Robeson, Joe Lewis, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Francis Fannon, Cheddi Jagan, Mohammed Ali, Fred Hampton, Malcolm, Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and rather recently, Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan. The ones that impacted me most, Hampton, Malcolm and King were filled with lead, Robeson and Carmichael escaped such a fate abroad.
This ex-patriot musician-historian, who for a half century has only felt at home and enjoyably alive in Black,Llatino or Asian settings, finds non-white cultures and communities in the U.S. have kept their charm, naturalness and nobility while America’s multitude of Black celebrities have moved to a comfortable even happy integration with the false, phony, hyper and murderous American super empire.
One needs some help to understand why, the cruel blackout of King’s condemnation of America’s genocidal predatory wars on the poor non-white and formerly colonially enslaved populations overseas is accepted by the descendants those enslaved earlier. As dedicated to seeding in the public consciousness the confidence that US colonial genocide will see prosecution and lawsuits for compensation and reparations, one logically looks to Black leadership.
Sure, in Amerika, a celebrity pays a price for speaking up. After Eartha Kitt’s wonderful denunciation of the war in Vietnam at a White House dinner [3] her career suffered greatly, and that the same thing happened to the Dixie Chicks, when just days before the bombing began in Iraq, singer Natalie Maines spoke out to fans in London against the President Bush, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."
But still, those who are or were old enough to have heard King’s anguished plea for the lives of non-white brothers and sisters and their children in Vietnam and other poor countries, maintained a silence that King called betrayal. “"A time comes when silence is betrayal." And that time has come for us.” [2] One wonders what King felt when the black Americans he was risking his life for distanced themselves from him in agreement with the five times more numerous white majority around them supporting the wars.
Are today’s black celebrities in general not a hell of a lot more in tune, in sync, in play, work, style, and politics, in league with that wealthier, even wealthiest part of America which is still unfairly and immeasurably an awful lot more wealthier materially than the vast majority of noble in character African Americans who this author is at home among.
So far we have been noting the acquiescence, even collaboration of celebrities betraying King’s condemnation of US atrocity wars and covert genocide. We shall not be so naive to be indignant or expect much from the thousands of elected and appointed government officials, military, clergy and CEOs of African descent that play an even more immediately important role. Government, as FDR confided to close colleague, “has been owned by a financial element in the centers of power since Andrew Jackson.”
The United States of America establishment is not that lily white Anglo-saxon run affair championed by East Europeans Americans with that sprinkling Italians and Irish and very few wealthy Jews that it used to be before and after the second World War.
Scan the long list of Prominent African Americans who held high government office at some time or another during American wars and invasions and covert crimes in Laos, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Lebanon, Panama, Somalia, Cuba, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Grenada, and Libya, up through the current wars on Syrians, Libyans, Afghani, Somali, Yemeni, Pakistani and the still current long term illegal and acts-of-war sanctions on the North Korea America it had created and then bombed flat; on Cuba, which it also invaded, ran sabotage against, and frequently tried to assassinate Fidel Castro; on Iran, which President Eisenhower in 1953 ordered its democratic government overthrown by CIA with M16, and was invaded for eight years by Saddam Hussein aided and abetted by President Reagan; on Syria, (since 1986), for Syria not recognizing the colonial powers crime against humanity that was and is the partition of the Holy Land as legal; on Burma, for its amazingly rich natural resources in gems, minerals, gold, precious woods and oil (nationalized by the Burmese in 1963), now hurriedly being exploited by the colonial powers even as indigenous wars against it go on against the exploitation; on Sudan, for to see its oil rich lands separated off for easy domination; on the popular Arab socialist government Libya, the most prosperous and wealthy nation in Africa, which had a UN Quality of Life Index higher than nine European nations, the sanction restricted to areas still independent, since Libya was bombed out of existence by war planes and ships of colonial powers US, Britain, France protecting the gangs it had hired, armed and overseen:
US Supreme Court: Thurgood Marshall, Clarence Thomas, US Cabinet Officials: Andrew Young, Andrew Young, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Susan Rice,US Senators:Carol Moseley Braun, Cory Booker, Tim Scott, Roland Burris, Edward Brooke;
US Congressmen: Adam Clayton Powell, Barbara Jordan, Julian Bond, Kweisi Mfume, Cynthia McKinney, Karen Bass, Joyce Beatty, Sanford Bishop, Corrine Brown, G.K.Butterfield, André Carson, Yveette Clarke, William Lacy Clay, Emanuel Cleaver, Jim Clyburn, John Conyers, Elijah Cummings, Danny Davis, Donna Edwards, Keith Ellison, Chaka Fattah, Marcia Fudge, Al Green, Alcee Hastings, Steven Horsford, Hakeem Jeffries, Eddie B. Johnson, Hank Johnson, Robin Kelly, Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson Lee, John Lewis, Gregory Meeks, Gwen Moore, Donald Payne, Charles Rangel, Cedric Richmond, Bobby Rush, Bobby Scott, Terri Sewell, Bennie Thompson, Marc Veasey, Maxine Walters, Mel Watt, Frederica Wilson, US Delegates Eleanor Holmes Norton and Donna Christian-Christensen; Governors: Douglas Wilder, Virginia; Deval Patrick, Massachusetts, David Patterson New York. Mayors, New York’s David Dinkens, Chicago's Harold Washington, Atalanta's Andrew Young, only three of perhaps a thousand, for we find that one hundred and thirty-eight are women. African Americans are CEO’s of corporations like, Xerox, American Express, Merck, McDonald's, and until a few years ago, Myrill Linch and Time Warner.
“Blacks occupy more management positions in the military than in any other sector of American society, Atlantic Monthly reported back in 1986, Seventy-six generals and admirals -- active, reserve, and retired. Four star generals: Roscoe Robinson, Colin Powell, Johnnie Wilson, Larry Ellis, William Ward, Lloyd Austin, Dennis Via, Vincent Brooks must know that following orders will not be an accept defense in a Nuremberg Principle trial. We list president and commander-in-chief Obama last for him being the least likely to have his handlers allow him to even see an article of this nature. That photo of a smiling David Rockefeller with his arm around a young Senator Barack Obama (no longer on the Internet) says a thousand words. David Rockefeller, now 98, has been the grey eminence behind US wars from Korea onward through his confidents the Dulles brothers, Henry Kissinger Zbigniew Brzezinski, and his overseen Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and associates of the annual Bilderberg Conference. [4 ] Having a minority representing loyal black president of the globalized American neocolonial empire has facilitated making the condemnations of the mature King hidden away from public knowledge, and making Americas wars on the world less unacceptable in non-white Majority Mankind.
Even better than celebrities, government officials all know the Nuremberg Principles laws and many know Robert Jackson, the US Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Principles law trials of Germans for genocide and other crimes against humanity, found it necessary to pronounce the law being enforced as applying to citizens of all nations. They might not be aware that. Some of them probably know Gen. Telford Turner, Consul for the Prosecution at Nuremberg, during the US war in Vietnam told CBS (for years suppressed), that he “would have been glad to lead the prosecution of US bomber pilots shot down over Vietnam.”[5]
It is a devastatingly betrayal that the very friends that held the dying King in their arms and went on to successful careers in the wars-dedicated white establishment, and even at their speech at the dedication of the King Monument in Washington, mentioning not a single word of King’s condemnation of US wars for predatory investments! How could this be otherwise. Jesse Jackson ran as a candidate for president of the American financial, political and military colonial empire that King had blisteringly condemned to hell, and Andrew Young represented it in the the equally US conquered United Nations. see Unveiling The Monument But NOT King's Condemnation Of U.S. Wars for Wall St.http://www.opednews.com/articles/Unveiling-The-Monument-But-by-Jay-Janson-111016-569.html
This is black adherence to chopping half of King away is heartbreaking for those who have long come to feel more comfortable, relaxed and happy in a Black setting than otherwise. More than just heartbreaking for this writer with Korean and Vietnamese family and friends, colleagues and students in many of the sixty-seven countries lived or performed in, most all bombed by his fellow Americans at one time or another. Its like having the ground cut away from under your feet to notice African Americans going along with scheming and murderous neocolonial imperialist wars and their preposterously fanciful justifications. You tell in departing the members of the orchestra in Burma and Vietnam that you were devoting the rest of your life to making the British and French pay up big for the millions murdered, intensely aware that those listening and are looking at your pale skin that recalls for them their beastly cruel English colonial masters and then what? Returning a nation in solidarity with the British Empire joined and then surpassed with no interest, care or compassion the beautiful people both empires have dispatched and are dispatching still.
The now nearly unknown war condemning Martin Luther King Jr. taught a recipe for “a person-oriented” noble American society to replace “a thing oriented” murdering society. His Beyond Vietnam sermon is, for at least this peoples historian, the the most salient text of any sermon given since that of the Sermon on the Mount, which King closely follows in essence. And it wasn’t just a sermon. Half of it was a needed honest history lesson about our WW II ally Vietnamese from 1945 up to his day and a general history of US overt and covert genocidal violence on three continence for maintenance of “unjust predatory capital investments on three continents.
Peoples historian activist Howard Zinn always ended his radio broadcasts with a urgent encouragement to quote from King’s comprehensive-in-injustice-denouncing sermon Beyond Vietnam rather that speak out in one’s own far less notable name. A second consideration, is that it be far less dangerous to one’s own career and personal safety to quote the single America hero, who being the only American of such stature to warrant a national holiday on his birthday (even though it was surely originally done in part to keep remolded with his best half cut away).
What us 'bleeding hearts‘ or ‘oversensitive’ Americans feeling drenched in blood, or just plain ordinary folks naturally seeing ourselves in all fellow human beings, especially human beings labeled and targeted for death, collaterally or intentionally, would like to see, is a great artist and composer like Herbie Hancock or Carlos Santana write a floor-under-your-feet-moving smash hit recording with lines from Martin Luther King Jr.‘ awesomely important sermon Beyond Vietnam - a Time to Break Silence.
End Notes
1.The Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood (CRB) (Croatian Hrvatsko revolucionarno bratstvo (HRB)) was a far right wing organization formed in Australia in the early 1960s. The organization was created by Croation migrants to Australia from Yugoslavia after World War II. The organisation carried out more than 120 actions in Europe and Australia As opposed to the Croatian Liberation Movement, an organization founded by Poglavnik Ante Pavelic. CRB was more radical organization and didn't expected any help from Western countries as CLM did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Revolutionary_Brotherhood
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
3.
In 1968, during the administration of US President Lyndon Johnson, Kitt encountered a substantial professional setback after she made antiwar statements during a White House luncheon.Kitt was invited to the White House luncheon and was asked by Lady Bird Johnson about the Vietnam War. She replied: "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot."
During a question and answer session, Kitt stated:
The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons — and I know what it's like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson — we raise children and send them to war.
Her remarks reportedly caused Mrs. Johnson to burst into tears and led to a derailment in Kitt's career. The public reaction to Kitt's statements was extreme, both pro and con. Publicly ostracized in the US, she devoted her energies to performances in Europe and Asia. It is said that Kitt's career in the US was ended following her comments about the Vietnam war, after which she was branded "a sadistic nymphomaniac" by the CIA. She assumed she would have to endure more assaults from friends or former friends for returning to South Africa. It was similar to the kind of criticism she had leveled years earlier at her old friend, Sammy Davis Jr., when he supported Richard Nixon. But she was still defiant.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Demonic David Rockefeller Fiends Dulles Kissinger Brzezinski - Investor Wars Korea thru Syria
History of David Rockefeller led global arrangements of financial-political control thru public information management culminating in "The International Community' (formerly, "The Free World', earlier The Colonial Powers), arraying covert agencies and military of US-NATO-UN, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, in war on Syria and Iran. China and Russia's pathetic resistance after having acquiesced to the destruction of Libya
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Demonic-David-Rockefeller-by-Jay-Janson-120816-942.html
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Robert Richter, an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, and political director for CBS News from 1965 to 1968 recently wrote in Bomber Pilot McCain: War Heroism or War Crimes? published by Institute for Public Accuracy, October 15, 2008, writes,
I will never forget how stunned I was when Gen. Telford Taylor, a chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials after World War Two, told me that he strongly supported the idea of trying the U.S. pilots captured in North Vietnam as war criminals — and that he would be proud to lead in their prosecution.
Jay Janson is an archival research peoples historian activist, musician and writer; has lived and worked on all continents; articles on media published in China, Italy, UK, India and the US; now resides in NYC; First effort was a series of articles on deadly cultural pollution endangering seven areas of life emanating from Western corporate owned commercial media published in Hong Kong's Window Magazine 1993; Howard Zinn lent his name to various projects of his; Global Research; Information Clearing House; Counter Currents, Kerala, India; Minority Perspective, UK; Dissident Voice, Ta Kung Pao; Uruknet; Voice of Detroit; Mathaba; Ethiopian Review; Palestine Chronicle; India Times; MalaysiaSun; China Daily; South China Morning Post; Come Home America; CubaNews; TurkishNews; HistoryNews Network; Vermont Citizen News have published his articles; 300 of which are available at: click http://www.opednews.com/author/author1723.html ; Weekly column, South China Morning Post, 1986-87; reviews for Ta Kung Bao; article China Daily, 1989. Is coordinator of the King Condemned US Wars International Awareness Campaign: (King Condemned US Wars) http://kingcondemneduswars.blogspot.com/ and website historian of Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now Campaign http://prosecuteuscrimesagainsthumanitynow.blogspot.com/ featuring a country by country history of US crimes and laws pertaining.
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