What was your reaction to hearing Bill Clinton talk about Stokely Carmichael at John Lewis’s funeral? So, if he’s under surveillance for trying to advocate for those things, he’s absolutely correct in saying that America was a corrupt society. Carmichael considérait la non-violence comme une tactique et non comme un principe, ce qui le distinguait des militants modérés des droits civils tel Martin Luther King. That’s why he answered the phone, “Ready for revolution.” And whether or not you agree with what his solutions were, his diagnosis, just like Dr. King had a diagnosis that America was sick with the cancer of racism. Stokely goes to the 1964 Democratic National Convention, and that’s the last convention he goes to. PENIEL JOSEPH: Thank you for having me, Aaron. When we think about Stokely Carmichael, he’s born in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 1941, June 29th. Carmichael devint premier ministre honoraire des Black Panthers en 1968[8]. This is to white people, and he says that now we found out you’re not nice guys, we found you out, and we’re going to move for black political power and self-determination and self-defense, whether the heavens and the earth fall in that move. He says they wanted somebody who would stand up to Lyndon Johnson, who would stand up to these racists and not negotiate with them. So, what Clinton sets up as this dichotomy is actually something much more complex. Stokely is organizing with black and white students in the 1950s. So, Stokely leaves that political convention, never attends a Democratic political convention or any political convention in the United States ever again, because Fannie Lou Hamer had represented the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the racially integrated, genuine representatives of democracy. It’s a great conversation. STOKELY CARMICHAEL: For me, it’s always been a tactic and never a way of life. Il sera par la suite arrêté de nombreuses autres fois, n'en tenant plus le décompte au-delà de la 32e arrestation[6]. modifier - modifier le code - modifier Wikidata. BILL CLINTON: We had a rap singer here last night named Sister Souljah. So, people are very, very complicated. I grew up in the slums of New York, and I learned there that the only way that one survived was to use his fists. But, of course, he was investigated. And he’s an activist in high school. Stokely Carmichael est père de deux enfants, Bokar Biro Ture et Alpha Yaya Ture. À la fin des années 1960, sous l'impulsion de leaders comme Stokely Carmichael [5], le SNCC se concentra sur le Black Power et la lutte contre la guerre du Viêt Nam.

At the funeral for Congressmember John Lewis, former president Bill Clinton took a strange detour when he disparaged the veteran civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael, later known as Kwame Ture.

It’s one of the last times Dr. King and Lyndon Johnson actually meet. “There were two or three years there where the movement went a little bit too far towards Stokely,” Clinton said, “But in the end, John Lewis prevailed.”, Dr. Peniel Joseph, professor at University of Texas at Austin and author of “Stokely: A Life”, responds to Clinton’s comments and discusses Carmichael/Ture’s legacy as a black power revolutionary. En 1999, le juge écossais William Macpherson apporte au terme une définition plus précise, celle de « l'incapacité collective d'une organisation à procurer un service approprié et professionnel à des individus en raison de leur couleur de peau, de leur culture ou de leur origine ethnique ». MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: The negro has an opportunity to inject morality in the veins of our civilization, and for this reason I will continue to preach non-violence. PENIEL JOSEPH: We think about presiding over the death penalty case of Ricky Ray Rector, a black man who was mentally challenged, but Clinton made sure that the state violently killed Ricky Ray Rector so he could prove his bona fides to white supremacists, and still only ended up with 43 percent of the vote in 1992.

He doesn’t become a professor at an Ivy League school, talking about old war stories. The legacy of Malcolm X influences King and so does Stokely Carmichael. By January of 1966, where they come out against the Vietnam War, and by the time Julian Bond, the late Julian Bond—who John Lewis defeated in 1986 to win his congressional seat—when Julian Bond says that he is against the war in Vietnam as well, the Georgia State Legislature refuses to allow him to be seated in the Georgia State Legislature, after he has won election twice. Under such leaders as Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown, SNCC adopted increasingly radical policies. Because these are all lies, these are lies.

PENIEL JOSEPH: Thank you for having me. He’s anti-capitalist, he’s for revolutionary African socialism as theorized by Kwame Nkrumah and Sékou Touré. Né à Port-d'Espagne (Trinité-et-Tobago), Carmichael est élevé à partir de deux ans par sa grand-mère, ses parents ayant émigré à New York. And then when you talk about even black women in the movement and all the sexism and a deep misogyny that they faced, and now we’re seeing massive, massive high-profile black female leadership in the Black Lives Matter movement, radical black feminists, radical black queer feminists, trans women, the whole…the whole works. And, again, Clinton is good at spinning lies, but certainly he had no right to do that at the funeral of a black American hero. They can do two and three and four and five things at the same time. And that’s why coming out against the war in Vietnam is what really hurts Julian Bond’s political career in Georgia, because it’s in a Georgia that’s overwhelmingly white, and even after the Voting Rights Act—except for very specific districts like the district that John Lewis won, that Andy Young won, that was gerrymandered to try to create representation—Julian Bond could never really win statewide again. I will continue…. He knew Malcolm X, he was friends with Martin Luther King Jr. By the time he takes a five-month tour of the world in ’67, he gets to meet Fidel Castro in Cuba, he gets to meet Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, he meets Kwame Nkrumah and [Ahmed] Sékou Touré in Guinea.

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: What I remember was the listening, the patience. Deux cents étudiants Afro-Américains étaient présents lors du premier meeting, parmi lesquels Stokely Carmichael de l'université Howard. What do you think he was trying to say? AARON MATÉ: Let’s talk about what you think Clinton might have meant by his jab at Kwame Ture, Stokely Carmichael. ANDREW YOUNG: Martin was an amazingly tolerant, understanding father figure for all of us. La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 13 septembre 2020 à 12:42. Yet the Democratic Party, they allowed white supremacists to be seated at the DNC that year, and the Mississippi delegation still walked out. BERNARD LAFAYETTE, JR.: He believed in self-defense.

And we think about that black power movement, certainly Malcolm X is the avatar of that movement. But SNCC boycotts the civil rights conference because they say the White House is not doing enough, right? And when you push back against Stokely Carmichael, it’s because Stokely Carmichael wasn’t interested in political reform.