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On March 25, 1931, two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, claimed they had been raped by nine black teenagers along the railroad from Chattanooga to Memphis. They lied. They recanted yet the 9 boys were convicted anyway due to an angry mob.
“In both cases, the Scottsboro boys and George Floyd, you had crimes against not just race but humanity. Both became episodes for exploitation by revolutionary ideologues with wider purposes and agendas.”
“The case of the Scottsboro boys was nationally known as a serious miscarriage of justice. The boys literally fought for their lives against a system rigged against them. Decent Americans were outraged. People with cooler heads needed to step in to calm the situation.”
This however did not occur. The Scottsboro case became further out of hand. It attracted some of the worst elements of the Marxist Left. American communists saw an opportunity to involve themselves to further their cause. “They attempted to hijack the case and the cause.”
Really, this was no surprise. Communists have long been adept at agitating, instigating, and organizing. They are trained in the art. As skilled propagandists, they conceive and coordinate tight campaigns that work wondrously in enlisting liberals in particular.
They are really good at raising lots of hell without a lot of members, at fomenting chaos and discord and getting people in the streets.
In the case of Scottsboro, the goal was not only to attract black Americans to the Communist Party and liberals, various fellow travelers, and social-justice warriors but above all to portray the United States as an inherently racist nation.
They wanted to ingrain in everyone’s minds that cases like Scottsboro are the systemic norm.
How fruitful was the Scottsboro campaign?
It succeeded in drawing some black Americans into the Communist Party, albeit only some.
How fruitful was the Scottsboro campaign?
It succeeded in drawing some black Americans into the Communist Party, albeit only some.
A December 1954, congressional report examined the effort. Titled “The American Negro in the Communist Party,” the report delineated decades of attempts by the Soviet Comintern and Communist Party USA (CPUSA) to try to recruit African Americans.
Crazy as it now sounds, the Comintern and CPUSA actually envisioned a segregated Soviet–American “Negro republic” under Kremlin command in the American South.
In 1922, the Comintern approved a fat $300,000 subsidy to the American Communist Party for purposes of propaganda among black Americans.
In 1925, the Comintern selected a small group of 12 black American communists to come to Moscow for training. The most well-known was Lovett Fort-Whiteman, described by Time magazine as the “Reddest” among them, and who a decade later died in the Soviet Gulag. Hmmmm....
Congress found that communists had failed miserably to attract black Americans. The report found no evidence that Communist Party USA and its Moscow masters had generated a mass swell of black Americans.
It is not the quantity of recruits that necessarily counts, but the quality. And some of those that the Scottsboro campaign attracted were nothing short of sensational successes with results that would pay off in unimaginable ways down the road.
For instance, it was that particular recruitment tool, CPUSA’s cynical Scottsboro campaign, that began drawing into the Communist Party a young journalist and editor in Atlanta named Frank Marshall Davis.
Who is Frank Marshall Davis?
Well in the 1970’s he became the mentor to a “Hawaiian” adolescent named Barack Obama. Yes, Barack Obama. Davis was first drawn into the Communist Party orbit by a campaign to recruit African Americans via a racial wedge issue.
Well in the 1970’s he became the mentor to a “Hawaiian” adolescent named Barack Obama. Yes, Barack Obama. Davis was first drawn into the Communist Party orbit by a campaign to recruit African Americans via a racial wedge issue.
But Obama drew the country closer and didn’t divide us to further his Marxist agenda....Right...
“Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things,” wrote Marx and Engels at the close of the Communist Manifesto.”
“They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.”
“Radicals are cynically exploiting a genuine injustice like the George Floyd killing for a larger ideological purpose. So many of the oblivious (and often good-hearted) foot soldiers who join them don’t realize the degree to which they’re being enlisted and exploited.”
Black Lives Matter is hardly the only such organization. Everyone points to Antifa. But Antifa is a new kid on the block. One of the worst exploiters and agitators is Revolutionary Communist Party USA.
“Revcom”, which has long had a specialty of racial agitation. It’s seizure of the George Floyd outrage is obvious right now at its website.
Be careful and vigilant in finding groups to express your outrage and a desire for intelligent reform. Don’t rally to the wrong guys. Be smart. If you want to protest the George Floyd killing, there are a thousand ways to do so without supporting Marxist revolutionaries.
