Karl Rove to be Honored by CORE at MLKing ceromony?????

[roenyc]

I had to read this three times and go to Core's web site and get ill just to make sure i wasnt making a mistake. anyway we are living in bazarro world.

From NYC Indy Media:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/139021/index.php
Karl Rove to be honored in NYC for his contribution to civil rights Current rating: 0
by Lauren
(No verified email address) 14 Jan 2005
Modified: 15 Jan 2005
(from the Open Newswire): "Karl Rove will be honored by CORE, as part of their Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, in NYC this Monday.

"CORE sees Karl Rove as a champion of civil rights apparently, and is honoring him along with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dr. Norman Borlaug. Somehow, this addition of Karl Rove does not seem to fit the true character of Dr. King. The same man who oversaw the voter disenfranchisment of black voters in Florida and Ohio is being honored by a civil rights group. You can call CORE's National Chairman, Roy Innis, at [phone] or e-mail him at corenyc (at) aol.com. And if anyone wants to head on over to the reception to greet Mr. Rove, it'll be held at the New York Hilton Hotel & Towers 53rd Street & Avenue of the Americas."

According to GMWatch, while CORE began as a pioneering civil rights organization in the 1940's, in the 1970's it was taken over by Roy Innis and moved sharply to the Republican right.

Past invitees to the CORE King Day celebration include Rudy Giuliani, Austrian anti-semite Jorg Haider, Bob Barr, and right-wing radio host Bob Grant, who called Martin Luther King a "scumbag" on his radio show.One People's Project article on the honoring of Karl Rove on King day.


CORE sees Karl Rove as a champion of civil rights apparently, and is honoring him along with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dr. Norman Borlaug. Somehow, this addition of Karl Rove does not seem to fit the true character of Dr. King. The same man who oversaw the voter disenfranchisment of black voters in Florida and Ohio is being honored by a civil rights group. You can call CORE's National Chairman, Roy Innis, at [phone] or e-mail him at corenyc (at) aol.com. And if anyone wants to head on over to the reception to greet Mr. Rove, it'll be held at the New York Hilton Hotel & Towers 53rd Street & Avenue of the Americas.

Perhaps CORE sees this as an opportunity to see how many times Dr. King would turn in his grave.
See also:
http://www.core-online.org/events/current_mlk.htm

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[HamdenRice]

1. This is perfectly consistent with CORE

CORE or the Congress of Racial Equality was once on of the most important civil rights organizations of the 1960s under the leadership of James Farmer.

But in the late 1960s, it was taken over by Roy Innis, who consistently became more and more of a crackpot until the 1990s, when he became a right wing nutjob. CORE is little more than the means of getting Innis a paycheck, and it is being set up to be handed down to Innis equally crackpot son. So it is not at all surprising that it would honor Rove -- it is that wack!

[KittyWampus]

3. Do You Know If CORE Has Any Depth Of Support In Af.Am. Community?

somehow, I find this really creepy.

[HamdenRice]

4. CORE has absolutely, absolutely no support

in the African American community. You have to understand that it is just a shell organization. Innis raises money from ill-informed businessmen or right wing zealots -- and just enough to pay his salary and keep one office open.

Occassionaly, he will engage in stunts -- like getting in a fist fight on Geraldo (about 10 years ago), or supporting Bernard Goetz (who gunned down 4 black youths on the NYC subway) or supporting some racist or segregationist.

Other than that, CORE does not really exist.

[roenyc]

5. whew... ok, thanks feel better

i think many men of color moved away from the democrats in the 70's because of Sharptons antics back then.

they may have wanted to associate themselves with a better image. and guess who was ready to exploit them. yup. and they are such tools of that party.

one good thing is that most black voters are smart enough to know that they are full of shit.

[HamdenRice]

6. It has nothing to do with Sharpton

I doubt that Sharpton had anything whatsoever to do with CORE's decline, nor did Sharpton's "antics" have a negative impact on the Democrats.

Sharpton is like a Rorshach test -- black people and white people see him completely, completely differently -- so much so that there is little point in even trying to have a rational discussion about him. But since you refer to his activism as "antics" I can pretty much see where you stand. Other people see him as taking on a very tough issue that no one would touch -- police gunning down young black men on a regular basis and white mobs attacking black people in southern Brooklyn in the 1980s and 1990s.

Roy Innis took over CORE and destroyed it when Sharpton was still a teenager and so there is no connection there. Innis is simply a nutjob and always has been. And CORE has had absolutely no profile in the black community for over 30 years. It's just a one man freak show and you can't really explain it rationally.

If you are trying to understand how Innis got control of CORE it's because CORE essentially went bankrupt in the late 1960s and the last real president, Floyd McKissick resigned. Innis, who was the director of the Harlem office of CORE was elected, and he turned it into purely a fund raising operation to pay off the organization's debts. After the debts were paid off, he just continued to use it to raise money and do nothing else whatsoever, except once in a while get on TV for some silly stunt. To the extent it has any political position at all, CORE is an extremely right wing organization that supported Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, African dictators Mobutu and Savimbi, apartheid South Africa and southern segregationists.

As I said, CORE is really just a freak show that happens to share the same name as the very important organization of the 1950s and 1960s.

[msgadget]

10. Thank you, Hamden.

I was sputtering too much to get it out.

[UL_Approved]

2. Bottom of the barrel

But let us not forget, this is just more of the grand-standing and blatant lies that we are forced to accept. The funny thing is, this is EXACTLY the kind of debauchery that King himself writes about in his literary works.

I hope that this is compared to nominating Adolph Hitler for a Nobel Prize for pulling Germany out of an economic collapse.

Untrue, unholy, unjust, un-American.

[ooglymoogly]

7. what is wrong with this picture

the m. o. of the pugs is to take over old dem organizations and install their own and then co-opt their message. carl rove is a master at this and is idiotically giving himself an award in the name of mlk when it should be in the name of adolf hitler. every democrat should be insulted by this blatant attempt to co-opt one of their most revered leaders. power corrupts etc.

[KoKo]

8. We were waiting to see what stunt Bushies would pull for MLK's Birthday

Every year they've been installed they've managed to do something to throw it in the face of MLK's memory.

This year is the worst insult, I can think of. Karl Rove... Disgusting.

[blm]

9. Yes, Rove is SO good at assuring blacks have access to voting machines

and an unbiased court system.

The ONLY black voices BushInc hears are those willing to sell out their race to mouth the talking points of BushInc.