“MLK’s Communist Ties” - How Stanley Levison CREATED Martin Luther King
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Who was Stanley Levison and what was his role in the Communist Party?
Here's another fun story that your researchers can bring up easily. Do you know the name Stanley Levison? No. So Stanley Levison was, until 1956, I think he was not, it was not an official title, but he was basically the CFO of the Communist Party USA. He was the, kind of ran its financial operations. And in 56, or 55 really, he realizes that the writing is on the wall for being a minion of Stalin. It's like McCarthyism has happened. It's like, you know, it's just Hungary has happened. Like, it's just not it's it's not it's not the vibe. It's not the thing. So Levison does this interesting thing where he does he decides to revive a cause of the Communist Party from the 1930s. And he finds a black minister with a somewhat dodgy PhD and creates a movement and an organization and writes all of his speeches and manages his whole organization.
Absolutely. This organization is called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The preacher is Martin Luther King. And the funniest thing, here's a fun thing that you can do with Wikipedia. If you go to, you know, Stanley Levison's page, you will see that it says that Stanley Levison was influential in creating the SCLC. Go to the SCLC's page. No mention. Nothing. He's not on the page. He's not on the page.
And so, like, this is the... That's what was instrumental in all the activities at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization established by Dr. King and other Southern black preachers to further the cause of civil rights.
He had initially been introduced... Go to the SCLC page?
Go to the SCLC... Search for Levison?
Why not? Man, you know, like, you've seen the Truman Show. You're like, why does that car come around every hour, you know?
But what does this mean to a guy like you? How do you process this information? It makes complete sense.
Did they use MLK to... No, it's just that it's like, you know... When you see an organization, a government, a non-government, you can never be sure that it is what it says it is. Even now, it's like we accept all these lies without question. We see a politician reading a speech and we're like, well, we didn't know he didn't really write that speech. Maybe he helped edit it a little bit, maybe he marked it up, but he's reading someone else's speech.
You're saying I Have a Dream was written by him?
No, no, no, no. He didn't write his own speeches. This is common. This is well-known history.
So I Have a Dream's speech wasn't written by Martin Luther King?
No, he didn't write his own speeches. He might have written a letter from a Birmingham jail because he was actually in the Birmingham jail, but I'm not completely confident of that. If he wrote a letter from a Birmingham jail, he was plagiarizing his own speechwriters.
And Stanley was one of the speechwriters? Yes. Go back, Rob, on the previous... Go back one page on the, oh, right there. Martin Luther King, I have a dream speech, but it was a collaborative effort on key contributions from his lawyer and speechwriters, Clarence B. Jones, businessman Stanley Levison.
How did Stanley Levison influence Martin Luther King and the SCLC?
Businessman Stanley Levison.
Yeah, businessman, not communist, and other advisors who drafted, provided input.
I think Jones is also a communist. Clarence is also a communist? Well, you know, I don't know.
I just want to read you one more thing, because while you were speaking, I read this one part. Go back on the previous page. Go to the RFK site. It's like five sentences from the bottom. In 1963, following the revelation of Dr. King's circle, that Attorney General Bobby R.F. Kennedy and then John F. Kennedy had pressured Dr. King in person to break with Levinson and Jack O'Dell. Also communist. Also communist? Yeah. But Levinson continued to advise Dr. King privately until Dr. King's assassination in April of 68. And afterwards, Levinson continued to work with Dr. King's wife, Coretta Scott King, the Poor People's Campaign in D.C. that took place from May 12th to November 12th.
Of course, he's actually the CEO, right? And, like, he's actually the CEO, right?
So MLK's communist ties to Levinson.
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