In a 2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview Barack Obama discusses the best way to bring about a Redistribution of Wealth! He also laments that the Warren Court is not Liberal enough.
With this tape, Obama supporters and the “Main Stream Media” cannot pretend that “Spread the Wealth” was just a slip of the tongue, or that his socialist “New Party” involvement was just a momentary thing in 1996. It is clear to any who will look that Obama is a die hard Socialist with a long-standing disdain toward all who believe in less “Radical” approaches to society. His “Change” mantra is finally being exposed for what it really means… a Socialist America.
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Transcript of the audio:
If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be okay.
But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.
And to that extent as radical as people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn’t shifted. One of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributed change and in some ways we still suffer from that.
Barack Obama’s words are being taken out of context in regards to what he was actually speaking about…the civil rights movement.
What I find to be so interesting is the amount of people who obviously are unaware of this highly debated history.
Just yesterday, I was arguing with conservative friends (I am moderate and independent) who claimed that MLK was a Republican. MLK was not and is not ideologically Republican and Obama’s sentiments fall directly in line with what MLK said.
MLK believe that he helped integrate blacks into a burning house (American institutions so I assume that you guys would call him anti-American) and called for a re-ordering of the system and a “redistribution of wealth”. He outlined much of the same sentiments as Barack Obama which are historically accurate. I have argued the same point. The issue for blacks were not solely about integration and as a matter fact, black populations outside of the South had a plethora of issues (social justice, urban decay and policy, economic equality etc…) that went entirely unaddressed by the Civil Rights Movement. This is what MLK was fighting at the end of his life.
This is what Obama was speaking about.