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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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Did Michael and Trayvon look "inappropriately" at a white woman or lead the national civil rights struggle? I guess I missed that part of the story.
1 posted on 08/26/2014 2:29:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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MLK was a cop-beating strongarm thief? Learn something new every day.


2 posted on 08/26/2014 2:30:22 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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I predict that we will be hearing this nonsense endlessly right up to the day of the midterm elections. It will be nothing but the helpless “Saint Michael Brown” versus the evil murderous white officer Wilson, 24 hours a day.

Once the elections have passed it will suddenly stop and charges against officer Wilson will be discretely abandoned.

Truth and justice have no bearing on any of this, it’s just a desperate Democrat get-out-the-vote ploy.


3 posted on 08/26/2014 2:33:51 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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Great. Another racist apologist heard from.

I hope they read my replies. And that of other FReepers.

Michael Brown was a low-life thug who deserved to die. Had he died like other punks of his ilk - by another black man - there would be no outrage, no rioting, looting and race baiting by Sharpton, Crump, Obama, Holder and the media.

The more lies and crap I read from these “educated” lowlifes; the madder I get.


4 posted on 08/26/2014 2:34:58 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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The truth means absolutely nothing to these people and their agenda. It’s why we should just laugh off everything they say.


5 posted on 08/26/2014 2:35:09 PM PDT by Bullish (You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
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MLK didn’t know what Skittles were - they didn’t come to America until 1979 (according to the inter-webs).


6 posted on 08/26/2014 2:35:20 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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So the kind of education one can expect from Harvard is.....substandard?

No substandard is too kind for the Marxist tripe coming out of that institution.


7 posted on 08/26/2014 2:35:24 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Yeah. And Emmett Till beat down that Paki store manager in Mississipi, stole $50 worth of Swisher Sweets.

Then whistled at that white lady.


8 posted on 08/26/2014 2:37:20 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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These people are intellectual midgets.


9 posted on 08/26/2014 2:37:21 PM PDT by rbg81
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and Cambridge as well.
10 posted on 08/26/2014 2:37:41 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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The communist always overreach to the ridiculous. The know the things they say makes no sense.


11 posted on 08/26/2014 2:37:48 PM PDT by Carry me back
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The communist always overreach to the ridiculous. The know the things they say makes no sense.


12 posted on 08/26/2014 2:37:48 PM PDT by Carry me back
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Charles Ogletree....What plush white liberal honky suburb does he live in?


13 posted on 08/26/2014 2:37:50 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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14 posted on 08/26/2014 2:38:27 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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Is Ogletree a slave name?

5.56mm


15 posted on 08/26/2014 2:44:01 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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I guess the author is trying to say “Yeah, we beez all alike. Yo!”


16 posted on 08/26/2014 2:44:35 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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That is no small insult to the memory of Martin Luther King.

17 posted on 08/26/2014 2:46:23 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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Interesting. I did not know that Martin Luther King Jr was a dirt bag criminal that robbed stores and assaulted people.
Thanks for the info Professor.............


18 posted on 08/26/2014 2:47:16 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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He did no wrong?

It gauls me when people line up behind a perpatrator of a wrong doing that goes wrong. First he stole cigars and roughed up a man half his size. Then he was walking down the middle of the street with his friend in arrogance. When the officer showed up and asked him to move to the sidewalk, he got into a struggle with the officer instead of doing what was asked. Then he bum rushed the officer who had a broken bone in his face (according to reports). The officer shot his pistol in line with what he had been trained to do.

And the news media is still reporting that Michael Brown did nothing wrong. In reality, if he had acted as he should, he’d still be alive. How can this joker claim he did nothing wrong?


19 posted on 08/26/2014 2:47:56 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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You can see why they call them , Professor


20 posted on 08/26/2014 2:48:28 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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