James Farmer

 James Farmer

James Farmer was an individual who helped organize the Freedom Rides with SNCC. Initially, James Farmer was a leader of SNCC in the early 1960s. Farmer ascribed to the same principles as MLK of non-violence, civil disobedience, and equality. Farmer would provide leadership for the Freedom Rides that looked to desegregate interstate commerce using interstate buses.

Farmer knew that there were racist socialists who opposed desegregation and yet went on bus rides to different cities to end segregation. Farmer went with Civil Rights activists who did not use violence and instead protested peacefully. Farmer led SNCC and helped desegregate buses.

Farmer obtained resistance in Alabama when racist socialists gathered to prevent him and activists from desegregating southern states. In a specific event, Seigenthaler, was physicially assaulted and he described that there were racist socialists opposing interstate commerce in Montgomery to JFK. Farmer along with Caucasian and African Americans activists were able to travel to different cities despite intimidation, harassment, and envy.

MLK invited Farmer to a preaching service where MLK preached and prayed for the Freedom Riders. Despite opposition, RFK had sent marshalls to secure the area. JFK and RFK would create an injuction that desegregated interstate commerce in the 1960s. MLK had led local buses in some cities to be desegregated in the 1950s, yet travel buses from state to state were still segregated in the 1960s before the Freedom Rides and JFK and RFK's injuction to the Interstate Commerce Committee. Farmer was important because he kept to pacifism and was vital in desegregating interstate buses.

Departure From SNCC in Mid 1960s

In 1966, Farmer and Sherrod left leadership in SNCC as socialism and racism was attempting to foment violence and negativity. H. Rap Brown and Carmichael were vying for leadership of SNCC while calling for racism and violence. SNCC was being infiltrated in order to prevent them from remaining committed to non-violence. H. Rap Brown and Carmichael attempted to lead individuals to strife by calling for SNCC to only allow African American members and repudiate Caucasian members based on their skin color and ethnicity. H. Rap Brown called for the need to steal and destroy private property. Carmichael would be removed from leadership in SNCC and was called a CIA agent even by Black Panther members. SNCC attempted to merge with Black Panthers but the association only lasted two months.

Instead of Farmer staying with SNCC and socialism, he decided to not be a part of violence and negativity. Farmer was definitely not a socialist nor strife mongerer. Farmer left SNCC in the mid 1960s rather than propagate hate and racism.

Refusal of Literacy Program Grant

In 1965, the Johnson administration was giving grants to political action committees that looked to help the poor participate in local politics. Bureaucrats prevented JFK's Service Corps in the US that attempted to empower its citizens of modest resources by allowing them to obtain job skills and improve upon their circumstances similar to the Peace Corps. Individuals could create community projects to help their local community, practice genuine empathy, develop discipline, and participate in local politics. Racist bureaucrats said no in 1963 because that would improve the US (also envy against JFK) and then decided to create their counterfeit version in 1965 that gave free paychecks to socialist thugs to foment class and racial warfare. 

James Farmer asked and applied for a grant to help teach individuals how to read and improve upon their circumstances. This was either before or during the fight for Voter Registation Legislation that seeked to prevent racist Jim Crowe laws from preventing African-Americans from voting. (Literacy tests were designed to prevent African-Americans from voting. Civil Rights Activists taught African-Americans to read so that they could vote and were also persecuted by socialist racists. Farmer attempted to apply for a grant to help fellow African-Americans learn to read and vote, and was denied the grant. He was denied the grant by being falsely misled that he was going to get the grant while bureaucrats resisted offering him a grant. From August 1965 to December 1965, Farmer passed all stages of grant approval until Johnson said that the grant could not be offered. Farmer did not lie and stated that the grant was to help African Americans read and vote. Johnson declined to the grant offering. Bureaucrats kept making excuses and delaying the rejection of the grant (Probably to prevent the understanding that there was either envy or racism against Farmer while appearing to help African Americans and individuals with modest resources. Farmer did not want free paychecks to his bretheren and instead wanted to teach them literacy and voting rights to self empower them. (The grant denial was persecution for desegregating through the Freedom Rides in the early 1960s that led to buses, airplanes, and trains being desegregated in the South without violence.) Farmer decided to withdraw his application in July 1966 noting either bureaucratic red tape and/or envy. 

"While marauding gangs began demanding their paychecks and otherwise causing trouble, the embattled agency had to hire a local protective agency at a cost of $15,000 a week. By September 1965 Livingston Wingate [the director of the Harlem program] had overspent his budget by $400,000. The Office of Economic Opportunity not only bailed him out but gave him $400,000 more to keep Up-Lift afloat through November."- (page 259)

"That summer LeRoi Jones spent $100,000 and employed 242 people to stage plays nightly on the streets of Harlem... blending racism with marxism."

"[Kenneth Marshall commenting on Harlem's Community Action Programs from the Office of Economic Opportunity Grant] "None of it worked,' he said, 'and the $20 million that went into it has disappeared without a trace.'"- (page 260)

This was while thugs were getting free paychecks for making racist and socialist street plays in Harlem, and thugs were demanding/extorting more money in San Francisco after an agency reduced their grant seeing that it was leading to rioting. Despite the freebies and free checks for practicing socialism and racism, wickedness leads to destruction. We saw this when the Black Panthers declined in 1968 and its members had difficulties for practicing crime. Racist socialists also had substantial difficulties and hated other racist socialists. Wilfred Ussery was removed from his position and the political action programs were removed in 1974 by Congress despite being funded under Nixon during his presidency.

"Charles Sizemore [Chief Supervisor of a summer program in one of San Francisco's regions] had no sooner settled into the job in June 1967 than he learned of budget cuts requiring a reduction in the number of the youth supervisors on his payroll from 60 to 40. A few days later some thirty hoods, led by one of Sizemore's aides, marched to City Hall and confronted Mayor Shelley in his office. The hoods berated the mayor, interrupted him, and finally told him that if he did not come up with the money to restore the jobs by 5 P.M. 'this town's gonna blow'. Visibly shaken, the mayor produced $45,000 by the deadline. Sizemore was not particularly interested in lining up jobs for the two hundred kids in his program, keeping them busy instead with "cultural-enrichment classes" featuring black-power "luminaries" like Bobby Seale [a pupil of Huey Newton who told teenagers that stealing from Caucasians is practicing politics. Seale was a racist, marxist, probably jihadi muslim, and a thief.] A group of teenagers... looted two stores on Geary street and beat up a bartender. When Sizemore's budget ran out in August, some of his boys invaded a CAA board meeting and extorted another $30,000 from its frightened members to keep the program going. By then, community action had become an object of contempt in San Francisco, not least among the black militants who had so cynically exploited it.'"- (page 262)

The silver lining is that we know the times we are living in and that while Christianity is not an easy life, it is definitely never boring nor nihilistic nor parasitical nor fake.

The Unraveling of America described how covert socialism through bureaucrats led to aggression, hostilities, and misuse of tax payer funds in 1965. Not only was Johnson, Kissinger, and the CIA causing unneeded warfare in Vietnam and overspending, but the FBI and bureaucrats were also fomenting conflict and division in the US. McCarthy spoke truth and covert socialists were a part of the clergy, armed forces, and even bureaucracies. Nixon served in World War II yet was a communist FBI bureaucrat. We can choose to avoid socialism.