Patrick Gaspard, a former Obama administration official and president of George Soros's Open Society Foundations, blasted former president Bill Clinton on Friday for condemning Stokely Carmichael, a racial separatist who called Hitler the only white man he could respect.
Gaspard slammed Clinton for referring to Carmichael unfavorably in a eulogy for the late civil-rights leader John Lewis.
"I didn't want to tweet this during the funeral for John Lewis, but who is Bill Clinton to show up at a black funeral to attack Stokely Carmichael? Stokely was ours," Gaspard said in a tweet.
As Lewis's successor leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, Carmichael pressed blacks to embrace direct confrontation rather than peaceful demonstration.
"Stokely had become a fierce anti-white black nationalist, and eventually expelled whites from the organization-even though many had sacrificed during Freedom Summer and after," Hudson Institute adjunct fellow Ron Radosh told the Washington Free Beacon.
Carmichael's philosophy became the core of the Black Power movement, and he worked to advocate for a pan-African socialist revolution as an American expatriate in Ghana and Guinea.
"Those of us who advocate Black Power are quite clear in our own minds that a 'non-violent' approach to civil rights is an approach that black people cannot afford and a luxury white people do not deserve," Carmichael said in his 1967 book Black Power: The Politics of Liberation.
Gaspard slammed Clinton for referring to Carmichael unfavorably in a eulogy for the late civil-rights leader John Lewis.
"I didn't want to tweet this during the funeral for John Lewis, but who is Bill Clinton to show up at a black funeral to attack Stokely Carmichael? Stokely was ours," Gaspard said in a tweet.
As Lewis's successor leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, Carmichael pressed blacks to embrace direct confrontation rather than peaceful demonstration.
"Stokely had become a fierce anti-white black nationalist, and eventually expelled whites from the organization-even though many had sacrificed during Freedom Summer and after," Hudson Institute adjunct fellow Ron Radosh told the Washington Free Beacon.
Carmichael's philosophy became the core of the Black Power movement, and he worked to advocate for a pan-African socialist revolution as an American expatriate in Ghana and Guinea.
"Those of us who advocate Black Power are quite clear in our own minds that a 'non-violent' approach to civil rights is an approach that black people cannot afford and a luxury white people do not deserve," Carmichael said in his 1967 book Black Power: The Politics of Liberation.
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