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The Woke Movement Is Assassinating MLK All Over Again
Posted By Ruth King
A week from Tuesday we will mark the 55th anniversary of the day the murderous James Earl Ray took the life of Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights leader should be allowed to rest in peace, but he is being slain yet again, this time by a mob of mediocre minds with rock-bottom character that seeks to overturn his life’s works.
In what is widely acknowledged as his greatest speech, King dreamed that his “four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” that “one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”
King also damned the “dark and desolate valley” and “manacles” of segregation. He identified us all as “God’s children.”
He couldn’t have been clearer about his vision for a color-blind society. And in the 40 years that followed his death, our country moved in that direction, year by year, heart by heart.
But much has changed. The woke mob, critical race theory, and the DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) movement have reopened a once-gaping, raw wound that had almost closed. Consider just a few of the many instances in which our “leaders” and institutional luminaries not only reject King’s teaching but actively try to return this country to an era of segregation and ugly, unapologetic bigotry.
We could start just about anywhere, but we begin with Florida International University, a public institution that mirrors the insurgents’ march through our institutions. Its diversity, equity, and inclusion program “condemns the United States as a system of ‘white supremacy,’” and “segregates scholarships and student programs by race,” says author and filmmaker Christopher Rufo.
Elsewhere in Florida, Rufo tells us, universities funded by taxpayers’ dollars are:
encouraging “active discrimination against the ‘oppressor’ class, characterized as ‘male, white, heterosexual, able-bodied, and Christian’”;
using psychological conditioning to address, among other issues, the killing of unarmed blacks, systemic racism and privilege, presumed to be all white;
creating racially segregated counseling programs;
adopting a series of DEI programs that divide “Americans along a ‘matrix of oppression,’ castigate Christians for their ‘Christian privilege,’ and offer a racially segregated scholarship that deliberately bars white students from applying.”
Remember, these few examples, which make Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle, are in Florida, a red state whose governor is diligently trying to ensure that schools educate rather than indoctrinate. Imagine how deeply embedded the rot is elsewhere.
Moving on to the federal level, we have an administration bent on tearing down a half-century of progress.
“There is nothing that President Joe Biden has done while in office that has as much long-term potential for doing damage to American society and government as his embrace of the woke DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion – catechism,” writes Jonathan S. Tobin, editor in chief of the Jewish News Syndicate.
DEI, says Tobin, “which stems from critical race theory ideology,” runs counter “to the principle of equality and the vision of a color-blind society that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of.” Yet Biden’s mandate “that every federal department, agency and office devise and then implement its own equity plan ensures a future of quotas and heightened racial division.”
Divisive programs have even infected the Pentagon, which has a DEI office whose chief has sown division, and a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who’s said “I want to understand white rage, and I’m white, and I want to understand it.”
Locally, teachers, administrators, and school boards are wrecking the MLK legacy. If they’re not telling white students that they are racist, should be ashamed of themselves, and indulging radical speakers who believe schools are “spirit murdering” black children, then they’re lowering standards to aid minorities, fully consistent with the soft bigotry of low expectations.
And then there are the DEI shysters such as Robin DiAngelo, a white woman who has grown fabulously wealthy making progressive rich whites feel guilty for sins they haven’t committed (while simultaneously being disappointed by them), and telling “people of color” they “need to get away from white people and have some community with each other.”
None of this is what Martin Luther King Jr. lived or died for. But it’s a pot of gold for grifters, race hustlers, status seekers, political hacks, and just plain mean people. At least we know who they are.
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The Real Meaning Of 'Pro-Palestinian'
by Bassam Tawil
An anti-Israel group called Palestinian Solidarity Forum (PSF) on March 20 invited officials from the Iranian-backed Palestinian terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to speak at an event at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
The two terror leaders, Khaled Qaddoumi of Hamas and Nasser Abu Sharif of PIJ, addressed students during the annual "Israel Apartheid Week," a one-sided propaganda event smearing Israel that takes place every year on a number of university campuses in the US and Europe.
Inviting Hamas and PIJ officials to participate in such events shows that the real aim of the so-called pro-Palestinian groups is not to help the Palestinians, but to incite and spread hate and libels against the only democracy in the Middle East: Israel.
This public display of support for terror groups does not serve the interests of the Palestinians. Instead, it sends a message to the Palestinians that the students and professors at the universities around the world support terrorism as a means to kill Jews and destroy Israel.
The participation of the terror leaders in the "Israel Apartheid Week" shows that the real intention of the anti-Israel groups on campus is not to criticize Israel, but to eliminate it.
Hamas and PIJ, which call for the destruction of Israel and reject a two-state solution, are designated as terrorist organizations by the US, Canada, the European Union, Israel, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Britain. The two groups have carried out thousands of terror attacks against Israel, including suicide bombings, drive-by shootings, stabbings, and car-rammings. They are also responsible for the launching of thousands of missiles from the Gaza Strip into Israel over the past two decades.
It is ironic that those purporting to be "pro-Palestinian" would invite representatives of radical Islamist groups to spew hate against hatred against Israel at a time when Palestinians living under the rule of Hamas and PIJ in the Gaza Strip are suffering from oppression and repression.
For the past two decades, the two Palestinian terror groups have dragged the residents of the Gaza Strip into several rounds of fighting with Israel, mostly after launching missiles towards Israeli cities and towns. The wars have claimed the lives of thousands of Palestinians and brought havoc on the two million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.
More disturbing is that the students at the South Africa university did not conceal their support for Hamas and PIJ "resistance" against Israel. The term "resistance" is a euphemism for terror attacks against Israelis. The "pro-Palestinian" students even held a "vigil" on campus in support of the "martyrs that sacrificed their lives for the liberation of Palestine." The term "martyrs" refers to the terrorists of the two groups who were killed while carrying out attacks against Israel or during armed clashes with Israeli security forces.
During the "vigil," the students held flags and banners of Hamas and Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terror group in Lebanon, as well as photos of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander who was assassinated by the US in Iraq in 2020.
If the "pro-Palestinian" groups really cared about the Palestinians, they would be speaking out against the repressive measures and human rights violations perpetrated by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
On March 22, Hamas security officers beat and arrested Palestinian journalist Hani Abu Rizek. According to sources in the Gaza Strip, Abu Rizek was arrested after he reported that Palestinians were complaining about high taxes imposed by the Hamas government.
By voicing support for Hamas and ignoring the plight of Palestinians such as Abu Rizek, the students marking the so-called "Israel Apartheid Week" are actually saying that they back the terror group's crackdown on journalists.
Glorifying a mass murderer such as Soleimani is not an expression of solidarity with the Palestinians. In fact, many Palestinians have denounced the slain Iranian military commander as a murderer responsible for atrocities against many Muslims, including Iraqis, Syrians and Palestinians. When Hamas hung billboards with Soleimani's photos in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians tore them down as an act of protest against his crimes.
The "pro-Palestinian" activists on the campuses probably do not know that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were celebrating and handing out sweets upon learning about the assassination of Soleimani. Palestinian columnist Ibrahim Hamami commented:
"Anyone who praises Qassem Soleimani is complicit in his crimes. I consider any statement in this regard as political stupidity and a betrayal of the blood of the Muslims that was shed by this criminal."
It is hard to see how support for a mass murderer such as Soleimani and Iran's proxy terror groups – Hamas, PIJ and Hezbollah – does anything good for the Palestinians. On the contrary, those who are empowering these terrorists are doing a massive disservice to the Palestinians, especially those who continue to suffer under the rule of Hamas and PIJ in the Gaza Strip.
Instead of building schools and hospitals for their people, Hamas and PIJ are investing millions of dollars in smuggling and manufacturing weapons and digging tunnels that would be used to infiltrate Israel and kill Jews. Instead of improving the living conditions of their people, Hamas and PIJ leaders are imposing new taxes and leading comfortable lives in Qatar, Lebanon and other countries. Instead of bringing democracy and freedom of speech to their people, the terror groups are arresting and intimidating journalists, human rights activists and political opponents.
All these violations are, needless to say, of no concern to the so-called "pro-Palestinian" students on the campuses. Have these students ever denounced Hamas for suppressing public freedoms and depriving its people of a good life? No. Will these students ever call out the Palestinian leadership for the financial corruption and persecution of political opponents and critics? No.
The "pro-Palestinian" individuals and groups might also understand that by siding with Hamas and PIJ, they are harming, not helping, the same people -- the Palestinians -- they claim to support.
Hamas, for example, has a long history of going after journalists who dare to expose its corruption. These include Abu Rizek, arrested by Hamas last week; Saeed Ahmad in November 2022, for exposing the alleged involvement of the terror group in smuggling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Europe; and a year earlier, without providing any explanation.
In addition to journalists, targeted by Hamas on a regular basis, academics are also being arrested by the terror group. Salem al-Sabah, for instance, head of the University of Palestine in the Gaza Strip, was arrested by Hamas last year -- without even an arrest warrant, leading "many" social media users to denounce the episode as a "kidnapping." His alleged crime was reportedly to have "exposed figures close to Hamas and accused them of money laundering and corruption."
The silence of the "pro-Palestinian" students towards these arrests actually causes harm to Palestinians: it allows Hamas to continue its brutality without having to worry about negative reactions from the international community.
The "pro-Palestinian" activists on campuses have again proven that all they have to offer is hatred toward Israel. The real "pro-Palestinian" advocates are those who want to see a good life for the Palestinians, not those who encourage them to embrace terror groups.
Instead of sitting at a campus and aligning themselves with Hamas and PIJ, the "pro-Palestinian" activists should, for example, wage campaigns to demand democracy and freedom of speech for the Palestinians living under the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
These activists should be defending the rights of women and gays in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. That is the way to be a real "pro-Palestinian" activist. Being "pro-Palestinian" does not necessarily mean that one has to be anti-Israel.
Instead of calling for boycotts and sanctions against Israel, the "pro-Palestinian" students should invite Israelis and Palestinians to their campuses to build, not destroy, bridges between the two peoples. If these students want Palestinians to boycott Israel, they should offer the Palestinians jobs and salaries, not more messages of hate.
Bassam Tawil is a Muslim Arab based in the Middle East.
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Americans Have Stopped Trusting the Pentagon With Their Lives
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By Derek Hunter
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So, That's Why John Fetterman's Hospital Stay Got Extended Another Two Weeks
By Matt Vespa
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In a previous memo I restated my concerns regarding China. Like with all aggressive oligarchs and large aggressive nations the picture is not always positive. So what are the downsides regarding China?
First, as with the Japanese, the Chinese are not always accepted/liked by other Asians.
Second, China's banking system is loaded with debt and, though the asset base, has improved it is still weak.
Third, aggressive loans have a tendency to break a recipient nation, and often end in loss of the project as the borrowing nation is not able to repay the loan.
Fourth, the borrowing nation often believes it's own workers will be employed but that often proves to be incorrect. In essence, the Chinese send their own population to construct so the borrower owes China money to employ China own workers that are overly costly and, eventually, benefit China's goal of obtaining ports and military infrastructure strategically located.
Fifth, Over time, Xi has negotiated China into a position of where is also positioned to offer itself as a peace negotiator. That prospect might prove correct in Yemen.
Sixth, the consequence is that America has been shoved out of it's former role of the dominant force when it comes to America's foreign policies. Biden has been totally snookered after decades of American prominence.
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I looked out of my living room window yesterday in horror to see a crowd gathered round a crashed motorcyclist.
So, I quickly put on my coat and shoes and rushed outside.
I pushed through the crowds, shouting, “Let me through, let me through!”
I finally managed to reach the front of the crowd.
A woman turned to me and said, “Oh thank goodness, are you a doctor?”
I replied, “No, but that’s my pizza!”
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New Georgia Museum of Art Director
David Odo, director of academic and public programs, division head and research curator at the Harvard Art Museums, has been named the next director of the Georgia Museum of Art following a national search. His appointment is effective June 26.
In his current position, Dr. Odo oversees the Harvard Art Museums’ academic and public engagement programs, including Harvard University course collaborations, student programs, public education, and community partnerships. As a member of the senior leadership team, he led planning for an institution-wide research and learning ecosystem for the museum’s recently completed five-year strategic plan and reaccreditation package
During his tenure at Harvard, Dr. Odo established numerous initiatives that connected departments and schools across the university with the museums. These initiatives include the Ho Family Student Guide Program, which trains undergraduates from a wide variety of STEM and humanities backgrounds to lead original tours of the museum for the public. In addition, he created a program for nuclear medicine that brings physicians from Harvard Medical School and its teaching hospitals into the museum for a year-long series of art-centered discussions.
A visual and material anthropologist, Dr. Odo researches and teaches primarily in the anthropology of art, the body in art and material culture, and the intersections of art and medicine. He has published and lectured widely as an expert on 19th-century Japanese photography as well as on museum pedagogy.
Dr. Odo earned his D.Phil. in social and cultural anthropology from the University of Oxford and his B.A. from Columbia University in East Asian studies. He has held numerous research fellowships, including at Harvard University, the Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, and the University of Tokyo.
His appointment concludes a nationwide search led by an eight-member search advisory committee chaired by Dr. Toby Graham, university librarian and associate provost. The committee was assisted by Phillips Oppenheim, a professional executive search firm specializing in nonprofit searches.
Dr. Odo will succeed Dr. William Underwood Eiland, who served as director of the Georgia Museum of Art from 1992 until his retirement on March 31.
Under Eiland’s leadership, the Georgia Museum of Art saw its collections, stature, and reach grow dramatically. Since he became director, the museum has won more than 250 awards for its publications, programming, staff, and exhibitions, and earned a reputation as one of the leading university art museums in the country.
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