Ten days before Thomas Eric Duncan brought Ebola to Dallas, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson gave a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in which he did not mention Ebola until he was asked about it, but did manage to work in denunciations of America and reverent references to black power radicals Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton:
Zitat In the name of national security, our government should not overreact or react out of fear, anger or prejudice. Our American history, old and recent, is riddled with unfortunate examples in which our government in the name of national security has gone too far.
Long before this nation honored Martin Luther King with a national holiday and a street named for him in virtually every major city, he was the target of government surveillance and harassment.
Professor Charles V. Hamilton, retired from Columbia University, is one of the most respected political scientists in the United States and a member of this Council. In the 1960s, he coauthored the book “Black Power” with Stokely Carmichael and was suspected of being a dangerous subversive by his own government. More recent and in reaction to 9/11, our government engaged in enhanced interrogation techniques, contrary to who we are as a great nation.
Let me emphasize that this guy — whose only qualifications are a radical background and having bundled donations for Obama — is in charge of our national security. Dangerous subversives of the Stokely Carmichael stripe are now running the federal government.
M. Catharine Evans connects Johnson’s appalling ideology with the Obama Administration’s refusal to take anything but grudging cosmetic measures to protect the population from Ebola:
Zitat Johnson is an advocate of ‘black power’ politics. Unfortunately he’s not the only one. Michelle Obama based her 1985 Princeton thesis on Carmichael and Hamilton’s book which preached the rejection of assimilation, white middle-class values, nonviolence, and coalition building.
Carmichael came up with the catchy ‘black power’ rallying cry to mean just that — the acquisition of power by blacks. Inspired by Marxism and egged on by the Communist Party USA, militant activists like Carmichael sought to uproot what they perceived to be a racist-based, exploitative, capitalist system.
If our Homeland Secretary was not on board with the black power movement, why would he bring up Carmichael and Hamilton’s book in September, 2014 — 48 years after Carmichael coined the term and a week before a sick Liberian was allowed into the country?
Why would leftist media like the Guardian be pushing Ebola as America’s fear of “African-ness” and “blackness?”
While Americans scratch their heads in disbelief over this administration’s seeming ineptitude over Ebola, the long-dead communist Carmichael’s dream of sticking it to ‘whitey’ via the White House and its apparatchiks is coming true.
Let people who hate your society take charge of it and there will be a price to pay. Ebola may put that price at a large number of American lives.