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I was recently reading an article where black civil rights acivist
Julian Bond was mentioned.
I refreshed myself on what he was about, a black civil rights activist from 1959 forward. He started his activist career visiting Cuba immediately after Castro's revolution, and speaking glowingly about how starstruck by by the charisma of Castro and his revolutionaries, and the wonderful society they had built in Cuba, a praise of Cuba that Julian Bond never renounced, even when the arocities were clear over the last 60 years.
It's hilarious how benevolently Julian Bond is portrayed in his Wikipedia listing, where it doesn't even mention he was a lifelong member of Students for a Democratic Society, Communist Party USA, and other Soviet Union-funded communist front groups for 40 years, or Bond's undermining the United States and deliberately fomenting division and revolution in the United States over all rhe decades of his life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_BondThen I went over to his DiscoverTheNetworks listing, that says the quiet part out loud, what Julian Bond was really about :
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/julian-bond/Among the things listed is that Julian Bond was elected to and held local and state political offices in Georgia, but when he ran for office as a Georgia U.S. Representative, he was beaten in that election by...
John Lewis, another leftist activist, with a similar radical leftist history deeply rooted in communist groups, that has likewise been glossed over, by an American Left that writes their own softer version of the actual facts :
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/john-lewis/- RADICAL AND COMMUNIST TIES :
In 1963 Lewis was named chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
From 1962-64, Lewis was a vice chairman of a Communist Party USA (CPUSA) front group known as the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee (NCAHUAC). He also served as a vice chairman for the “Southern Region” of NCAHUAC’s successor organization, the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation.
In 1964 Lewis paid tribute to Norman Thomas, a six-time presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket, as a man who “has symbolized to millions of Americans the ideals of peace, freedom and equality.”
At a 1965 banquet in Terre Haute, Indiana, Lewis was the first honoree to receive the annual Eugene Debs Award, named for the founder of the Socialist Party of America. That same year, Lewis wrote an article lauding Paul Robeson, who had been a CPUSA member and a devoted admirer of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, as an “Inspirer of Youth,” for the CPUSA propaganda magazine Freedomways. And at a gala event celebrating Robeson’s 67th birthday in April 1965, Lewis stated that “we of SNCC are Paul Robeson’s spiritual children” because “we too have rejected gradualism and moderation.”
In 1966 Lewis was replaced as SNCC chairman by Stokely Carmichael.
When the U.S. Attorney General in 1966 sought to require the W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs of America to register as a Communist-front organization under the terms of the Internal Security Act of 1950, Lewis protested stridently.
In their 1969 book Left of Liberal, Anthony Bouscaren and Daniel Lyons characterized Lewis as a “Marxist revolutionary” who “before turning over the chairmanship of SNCC to Stokely Carmichael helped author that organization’s infamous call for draft evasion.”
Circa 1969 as well, Lewis served as a sponsor of the GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee, an anti-U.S.-military organization dominated by the Socialist Workers Party.
In May 1973 Lewis was listed as a sponsor of “A Call” for a founding conference of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, a CPUSA front group that grew out of the movement to free the incarcerated Marxist revolutionary and Black Panther ally Angela Davis.
In 1989 Lewis was a founding member of the Institute for Southern Studies, a North Carolina-based spinoff of the Institute for Policy Studies. Additional founders included Julian Bond, Marcus Raskin, and others.
In 1996, the Democratic Socialists of America Political Action Committee endorsed Lewis’s congressional campaign.
In August 2003 Lewis contributed an article to the CPUSA newspaper People’s Weekly World, titled “An Open letter to my Colleagues in Congress: Remembering the Legacy of Martin Luther King.”
In November 2007 Lewis was a special guest at the Democratic Socialists of America’s national conference in Atlanta, where he introduced Bernie Sanders to those in attendance.
On August 24, 2012, Lewis attended Women’s Action for New Directions‘ celebration of the 10th anniversary of its “Stand for Peace,” which had called for an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, reductions in U.S. military spending, and increased expenditures on social welfare programs and environmental initiatives. Several Democratic Socialists of America members were present at this anniversary event.
In 2013 Lewis received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Midwest Academy. In 2014 and 2015, he served on the Gala Host Committee at the Midwest Academy Awards Ceremonies.
In March 2015, Massachusetts CPUSA leader Gary Dotterman described Lewis as “my hero, my comrade, my inspiration and my friend.”
That's one hell of a lot of communist radicalism for Wikipedia to just sweep under the rug and not even mention.
Over 50 years of Comrade Lewis' dedication to the Marxist cause.
Amazing how when the Democrat/Left writes history, they just sweep away all those Soviet/Communist front group associations, and outright Stalinism, and all the subversive revolutionary stuff they openly orchestrated,
for decades. To rely just on leftist historians and the mainstream media, one would actually believe these two guys to be patron saints and great men of peace, instead of the America-hating Bolshevik revolutionaries they truly were.
