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In reply to the discussion: The story behind the JFK facepalm picture [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)28. Zero wrong with being a leftist; a lot wrong with assassinations.
And notice how being a leftist gets equated with being a communist, as though there were nothing between rightists and Communist dictators.
The ambassador was informing the president of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, an African leader considered a trouble-maker and a leftist 'by many Americans. But Kennedy's attitude towards black Africa was that many who were considered leftists were in fact nationalists and patriots, anti-West because of years of colonialisation, and lured to the siren call of communism against their will.
(Yes, I know that is not the reaction I am supposed to have to the photog's explanation.)
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He was a force for a brief and intense period of time...lots of kids were named after him.
MADem
Mar 2015
#1
This is very revealing. We think we live in a democracy, then we find out, no we do not.
Enthusiast
Mar 2015
#3
No! According to the neoliberal DU Right Wing, President Maduro of Venezuela must go,
Zorra
Mar 2015
#15
layer after layer of otherwise unknown (to most Americans)actions/effects of U.S. policies
2banon
Mar 2015
#16
Jim DiEugenio has done an amazing amount of serious research and writing on JFK. (as has others)
2banon
Mar 2015
#32
Midnight in the Congo: The Assassination of Lumumba and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld
MinM
Mar 2015
#13
My father had a high position in the African Affairs section of JFK's State Dept...
First Speaker
Mar 2015
#23
G. Mennen Williams former Michigan Governor, New Deal Democrat, helped build the Mackinac Bridge...
Octafish
Mar 2015
#25