Obama Mentor Charles
Ogletree on 'Three Days of Rioting' in Ferguson: 'It's Just Starting'
by Tony Lee 17 Aug 2014, 3:02 PM PDT
After a week of riots and looting in Ferguson, Missouri, Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law professor
who was President Barack Obama's mentor, predicted
that this is just the beginning of more unrest.
After police shot and killed Michael Brown last weekend,
Ogletree said the problem is, "you have these white officers who don't
live there, who aren't a part of the community, who don't know the community,
and yet they're given all the power to make things happen."
"We need to have a change in that sense right now,"
Ogletree said on Meet
The Press. "And I'll tell you what, people think that three days of
rioting is the end of it in Ferguson, Missouri. It's just starting."
"The people are upset, they're frustrated, they want to
take their city back, they don't like the way the young black men are being
stopped and killed," Ogletree continued. "How many people have to
bury young people for people to understand that something is wrong in Ferguson,
Missouri? And I think we have to change that right now."
Missouri Gov. Jay
Nixon (D) instituted a midnight curfew on Saturday. After multiple arrests
after police were forced to fire tear gas to disperse the crowd, there will be
another midnight curfew on Sunday evening.
Ogletree advocated for non-violence and said Ferguson
residents should learn from the non-violent protests of Rep. John Lewis (R-GA) during
the 1960s. He also said of the federal government's investigation, "we
need a lot more to happen, a lot more to get going."
Ogletree also praised Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) for his op-ed in
which he pointed out that black Americans have every right to feel that their
government is targeting them, especially when local police forces are
militarized.
"I think Rand Paul is telling the truth," Ogletree
said. "And I'm glad that the Republican is saying that. I think
people are going to really understand that this is a problem. And what's going
on in Ferguson, Missouri, is now like any other city. It's never going to
change. The conflict between African Americans who are arrested too often, too
young, too many times by white police officers, and this is a predominantly
black community."
In his Time op-ed, Paul said that "it
is almost impossible for many Americans not to feel like their government is
targeting them," and "given the racial disparities in our criminal
justice system, it is impossible for African-Americans not
to feel like their government is particularly targeting them."
"Anyone who thinks that race does not still, even if
inadvertently, skew the application of criminal justice in this country is just
not paying close enough attention," Paul wrote. "Our
prisons are full of black and brown men and women who are serving
inappropriately long and harsh sentences for non-violent mistakes in their
youth."
As Breitbart News has noted, "Ogletree admitted to
hiding the video of Barack Obama with radical Derrick Bell during the 2008
election and even implied that the late Andrew Breitbart was a bigot."
Charles Ogletree
Charles J.
Ogletree Jr. was Barack Obama’s
college mentor, edited a campus Black
Panthers newspaper called The Real News, is a Harvard Law School professor, a director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund,
and an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner.
Note: Charles
Ogletree
Education
and radicalization
In
1970, Ogletree enrolled at Stanford University, at the time a center of black
radicalism. Ogletree became a campus radical[1], organizing an Afrocentric
dormitory, where he met his future wife, Pamela Barnes. He edited a campus Black Panthers
newspaper called The Real News and traveled to Africa and Cuba with student
activist groups. In 1973 Ogletree was president of the Black Student
Union.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
George Soros is the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Tonya Lewis Lee
is a director at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, and married to Spike
Lee.
Spike Lee is married
to Tonya Lewis Lee, and an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner.
Spike Lee pays
up for wrong-address tweet in Trayvon Martin case
March
30, 2012
Henry Louis
Gates Jr. is a director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund,
an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, a Harvard University professor, and the
host of African American Lives.
Harvard
Professor Jailed; Officer Is Accused of Bias
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published:
July 20, 2009
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund,
an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the
senior adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and was a director at the Joyce Foundation.
Joyce Foundation
was a funder for Achieve Inc.
Jay Nixon is a
director at Achieve Inc., and
the Missouri state government governor.
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Newton N. Minow
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an
intern at Sidley Austin LLP, Charles J. Ogletree Jr’s was his college
mentor, and is the president for the Barack
Obama administration.
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