Sunday, August 17, 2014

Obama Mentor Charles Ogletree on 'Three Days of Rioting' in Ferguson: 'It's Just Starting'



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.
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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.
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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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