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Obama’s Harvard mentor compares Brown shooting to MLK assassination
The Washington Times ^ | August 26, 2014 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 08/26/2014 2:29:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Harvard Law professor who mentored President Obama and the first lady during their time in Cambridge has compared the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown to the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Speaking with MSNBC’s Alex Wagner, Charles Ogletree also compared the police shooting of 18-year-old Brown to the 1955 killing of Emmett Till.

“Looking at what’s happened, this is just like the assassination of Dr. King in 1968, when everybody was very upset trying to figure out what was going to happen,” he said. “It’s like the killing of Trayvon Martin two years ago.

“This is the example of a young man who did no wrong in the context of what people are talking about,” Mr. Ogletree said of Brown....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Massachusetts; US: Mississippi; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: emmetttill; harvard; martyrdom; michaelbrown; obama; ogletree; trayvon; victimhood
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“THEY” are determined to start a new wave of “Civil Rights Movement”. Except in this second movement they want to be “judged” exactly because of their skin color.

All pretense of honoring MLK’s “I Have a Dream” (8/23/1963)dream gone. 51 years ago MLK’s dream resonated with all Americans. I somehow doubt this second ‘dream’ will attract wide spread support. (yes, sarcasm)

21 posted on 08/26/2014 2:53:49 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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All pretense of honoring MLK’s “I Have a Dream” (8/23/1963)dream gone. 51 years ago MLK’s dream resonated with all Americans. I somehow doubt this second ‘dream’ will attract wide spread support. (yes, sarcasm)

Hispanics and other immigrants could give a cr_______  They got their own problems

Immigrants are not in awe of black claims to righteousness and reparations which really is just a cynical ride on their slave ancestors legacy. My people got here in 1905 to slave away 14 hours a day so screw it!

22 posted on 08/26/2014 3:00:06 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah I seen the same video of MLK robbing a convenience store and threatening the shop owner


23 posted on 08/26/2014 3:20:00 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Professor” Ogletree is nothing but a WORTHLESS RABBLE-ROUSER!!!!

I’m a Harvard alumnus, so I have the right and the standing to be ashamed of such current and former denizens of the Harvard faculty as Ogletree, Cass Sunstein, Samantha World Power, Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren, and the Harvard President, the femiinazi scalawag Drew Gilpin Faust!!!!

I also have the right and the standing to be ashamed that Harvard awarded that BIG NOTHING Oprah a honorary degree!!!! Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel!

Harvard needs to get back to VERITAS—NOT PUTRITAS!!!!


24 posted on 08/26/2014 3:20:29 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Charles Ogletree

25 posted on 08/26/2014 3:25:10 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That is simply outrageous. There is no evidence that Brown was a Marxist.


26 posted on 08/26/2014 3:31:05 PM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does that mean we get a Michael Brown monument on the National Mall?


27 posted on 08/26/2014 3:48:19 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama: The turd that won't flush.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Morons of Acadumbia.


28 posted on 08/26/2014 4:02:30 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have a dream that someday black thugs won’t be judged by the color of their skin but by the sweetness of their cigarillos.


29 posted on 08/26/2014 4:07:08 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All this inflamatory reporting of confrontations between black youths and authority is ruthlessly designed to keeping the black segment of Obama’s political support riled up so that any thought of instituting a richly deserved impeachment proceeding goes nowhere.


30 posted on 08/26/2014 4:10:33 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

There’ll be another one along any minute comparing it to Big Bang. Even bigger than the show.


31 posted on 08/26/2014 5:02:44 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Blackgammon
http://joshuapundit.blogspot.com/2014/08/blackgammon-eric-holder-plays-game-in.html


32 posted on 08/26/2014 5:11:33 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ogletree is Harvard’s resident racist professor who reportedly taught both Obama and Holder. He’s the father of the “Reparations” movement (along with the late professor James Cone, another black extremist).

The truth has nothing to do with his world views. If you are white, you are a racist killer and owe blacks reparations for things your ancestors didn’t do.

Harvard - the Equal Opportunity hiring cesspool for mentally ill black extremists and white communists.


33 posted on 08/26/2014 5:33:25 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As with everywhere else, there are plenty of morons at Harvard.


34 posted on 08/26/2014 5:48:15 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: savedbygrace

Oh, OK. The picture explains a lot.


35 posted on 08/26/2014 6:19:31 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Responsibility2nd

I agree TOTALLY with your statements.

May I add my thoughts on both this matter and the Zimmerman one? If the media and garbage racist-baiting a-holes had their way, both of these guys who defended themselves - IF they had done nothing in their own defense, would have been beaten to death. Not one of the trouble makers, rioters, looters, parents of the thugs, Obama people all, would have been upset in the least. After all, black thugs have the right to kill whitey.


36 posted on 08/26/2014 6:33:46 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: savedbygrace

Christ. He’s got a Shark Hat.


37 posted on 08/26/2014 6:35:04 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All black criminals are really angels in disguise.


38 posted on 08/26/2014 6:38:26 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Nothing says you are sad that someone died like looting local places of business!)
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To: Carry me back
The communist always overreach to the ridiculous. The know the things they say makes no sense.

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I don't know what to say.I'm lost for words. The HARVARD professor must be losing his mind. I think it is time to retire, dear professor.

What is next? Is the good professor going to compare the killing to the Crucifixion of Jesus?

39 posted on 08/26/2014 9:48:05 PM PDT by john mirse
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To: TigersEye

“Gibsmedat”


40 posted on 08/26/2014 11:07:30 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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