CORE Leader Blasts Global-warming Alarmists

The New American ^ | 24 March 2009 | Ed Hiserodt

[neverdem]

While most civil rights organizations are marching in lock-step with the leftist climate catastrophe alarmists, Roy Innis, leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) for 35 years, has broken ranks and is urging the poor and black communities to rebel against purveyors of global-warming gloom and doom and other radical environmentalists. Speaking at the 2009 Conference in New York City last week, Innis said, "A lot of people are searching for the right thing to believe in and [have been] captured by a corrupted ideology," a "green" religion.

As examples of how "'green' has become a religion ... un-quantified and undefined," the CORE leader relates the stories of two women, one in the urban United States and the other in a poverty-stricken village in Africa. The relatively affluent Chicago woman was complaining about the price of gas. Asked if she would be in favor of opening an oilfield about the size of O’Hare airport on a small part of the isolated Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), she adamantly objected because of "harm to the environment." Asked if she had been there, was going there, or even knew anyone else who might be interested in ANWR, she answered "No," but still refused to consider such drilling to gain an ability to use domestic oil thus giving less control to foreign sources and ultimately lowering her fuel prices.

An ocean away the second woman was mother of a child sick of malaria and very likely to die. She was admonished to use DDT to rid her hut and her village of the Anopheles mosquito. While this would probably not save her baby, at least it would prevent similar occurrences in the future. She refused. Why? Even though approximately one million African children die of the disease that can be controlled by applications of DDT, an insecticide so safe that a human can eat a teaspoon a day without harm, this poverty-stricken woman has been sufficiently filled with environmental extremist propaganda that she will trade her family's and fellow villagers' lives rather than rick using DDT.

“Coal and natural gas are the new civil rights battleground,” says Innis, “because without these sources, ‘we’ cannot enjoy this great society.”

Regarding the oil man constantly on television promoting wind energy from Canada to Texas, Innis is anything but equivocal:  “T.B. Pickens is part of a conspiracy against decency.”

Photo of Roy Innis: Elijah Childs

 

 

[Trueblackman]

Great minds think alike.

[xjcsa]

Excellent. We need to fight the Watermelon Cult tooth and nail. (You know, green on the outside, etc.)

[neverdem]

That’s a cold tagline. LOL!

[yazoo]

If anyone pays a huge price for this Global Warming cure it will be the poor. But the elites don’t care because it will just expand the dependent class.

[Maine Mariner]

Yes and I think Roy Innis does not want black people to be part of the dependent class. I believe there is a history of his organization supporting Republicans.

[yazoo]

“I believe there is a history of his organization supporting Republicans.”

Absolutely, and why he is pretty much ignored by the MSM.

[Excellence]

I'd rather call them crypto-Marxists, but I like the whole lawn jockey thing.

[TXnMA]

LOL! Kevin, only you could get away with that tagline!

BTW, has anyone ever known an envirowacko who was, in all other ways a true conservative?

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...didn't think so...

[Rocky]

I haven’t seen anything in the news about CORE or Innis for years. I guess I see why. The MSM would ignore someone with his views. Without the internet, we would never hear his opinion.

[IAMIUBU]

wow

[BenLurkin]

hmmm...

[neverdem]

When the deniers go on the terrorist watch list, all bets are off.

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I didn't notice any difference from 2030 hours to 2130 hours.

[cyborg]

Turnabout is fair play. Conservatives had to put up with Clarence Thomas being called a lawn jockey for years.

[Aria]

What gets me is how the left gets away with this insanity! You’d think just ordinary common sense plus some survival instinct would prevent anyone from such backwards thinking.

[GOPJ]

“I believe there is a history of his organization supporting Republicans.”

Absolutely, and why he is pretty much ignored by the MSM.

The two do seem to go together...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

At this point, anybody against the global warming screamers is ok in my book, no matter what their political ideology.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[SunkenCiv]

neverdem, thanks, great topic! and KUDOS for that selection of other links pinged here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2217083/posts?page=13#13