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4/23/2004
Martin Luther King's advisor is now advising Moon's missionaries
Bevel, then...
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[t]he white person who does not mind transacting business with a black bank clerk may yet be averse to accepting the clerk as his sister-in-law, and THIS IS NOT RACISM, no matter what Madison Avenue, Hollywood and Washington tell us.
Meanwhile, the architect of Sun Myung Moon's sex education program has blamed the civil rights movement for the rise of AIDS.
Nevertheless, today Moon can count on quite a few black civil rights leaders, which has helped him make inroads with the Black Congressional Caucus. Writes RightWeb:
Members of the American Freedom Coalition like civil-rights veterans Ralph Abernathy and James Bevel have become champions for Moon and his followers. Abernathy, for instance, has compared criticisms of Moon to injustices suffered by blacks in the United States. Bevel has handed out flyers asking "Are the Moonies our new n****s?"
Abernathy died in 1990. But this week, Bevel was speaking for Moon's "American Clegy Leadership Conference," which has sponsored coast-to-coast events asking black ministers to "tear down the cross" and consider Moon's religious views instead. The logo on the podium is that of Moon's Unification Church, which has changed its name to the "Family Federation" for obscure reasons. Bevel is also known for defending convicted King assassin James Earl Ray. Writing for Salon.com, David Garrow doesn't buy it, and says:
[...]Bevel was invited to the University of New Mexico by the local [Moon college group]."We'll get communism and humanism out of the schools," Bevel told the group at the university,"and the n*****s and crackers that don't like it can go to Cuba or somewhere." The AFC had sponsored Bevel for a talk the previous evening.
Since [Ray's trial], a bizarre susceptibility to outlandish claims of Ray's innocence has slowly spread throughout Martin Luther King's circle of aides and associates. The first to succumb was the mercurial and once-brilliant James Bevel, who began championing Ray in 1969 before moving on to subsequent alliances with Lyndon LaRouche, Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Louis Farrakhan.
Now Bevel is advising Moon. From FamilyFed.org:
Finally our longtime supporter for over 20 years Rev. James Bevel (strategist for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) closed everything with some final remarks that put everyone into perspective of what we need to be focused on at this time.
Bevel has also been Lyndon LaRouche's running mate. Here's more.
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