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WASHINGTON – In his speech to a Muslim Brotherhood group in Chicago Saturday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson painted a picture of his own family’s real-life struggle against racism, bigotry and discrimination, focusing on the life of his grandfather, Charles Spurgeon Johnson.
Johnson claimed his grandfather was grilled by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1949 about whether he was a member of the Communist Party. But that is in stark contrast with reality.
Charles Johnson was, at the time, serving as the first black president of Fisk University. He was asked to testify not about his own political affiliations, which were Republican and “conservative,” along the lines of George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington, but about those of one of his white mathematics professors at Fisk – one Lee Lorch.
Lorch was held in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer the question of his Communist Party affiliations and was summarily dismissed from Fisk by Jeh Johnson’s grandfather.
Interestingly, the congressional committee that instituted the inquiry was controlled by Democrats.
Jeh Johnson raised the story of his grandfather in a speech to the annual conference of the Islamic Society of North America, a group closely tied to support for Hamas and funded largely by Saudi Arabia. The group, as reported by WND Monday, has been listed by the federal government as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist-financing trial in U.S. history.
“I hear your stories of discrimination, vilification, and of the efforts to tar you with the broad brush of suspicion,” Johnson said. “I hear about the bullying and physical attacks that Muslims are experiencing nationwide. They are familiar to me. I recognize them. I look out on this room of American Muslims and I see myself. I see a similar struggle that my African American ancestors have fought to win acceptance in this country. Realize it or not, your story is the quintessential American story.”
He continued: “Your story is an American story, told over and over again, generation after generation, of waves of people who struggle for, seek, and will eventually win your share of the American dream. Know the history of this country and you will know that – whether it’s Catholic Americans, Jewish Americans, Mormon Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Japanese Americas, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, or Muslim Americans – this will be true.”
Johnson then talked about the experience of his grandfather.
“I have another story for you,” he said. “It’s about a man black named Charles S. Johnson, who lived in the segregated South years ago. Dr. Johnson was born in Virginia in 1893, the son of an emancipated slave. Dr. Johnson fought in combat in World War I, became a prominent sociologist and president of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a public champion for civil rights for the African American.”
“Despite his academic degrees, his honorary degrees, his reputation, and his many achievements,” Johnson continued, “in 1949 Dr. Johnson was called to testify in Congress before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Historians in this room know about the House Un-American Activities Committee. Part of its mission was to ferret out Communists in this country in the late 1940s and 1950s, during the Red scare, McCarthyism, and a great fear that Communists where hiding among us. Some of that suspicion was focused on African-Americans who dared publicly challenge the government to deliver equal protection of the laws for all people. Dr. Johnson appeared before this committee and had to deny he was a member of the Communist Party, and to defend the patriotism of all African-Americans.”
But that is not the case.
That wasn’t why Charles Johnson was questioned at all. In fact, he was questioned about one of his white professor’s Communist affiliations – Lee Lorch. Johnson dismissed Lorch from Fisk following his contempt of Congress charge.
In his speech, Jeh Johnson quoted from his grandfather, saying: “Of this he testified: ‘[It’s] like asking if Tennesseans, or Presbyterians, or foreign-born citizens, or American women, or persons with freckles, are loyal.’ As the prime example of the African American’s patriotism, he noted that ‘in time of war they have pleaded for combat service, for the supreme hazards of military service. . . They have offered and risked their lives freely for their country even while bitterly resenting, at times, the conditions under which they were permitted to die in honor.’”
By using the word “testified,” Jeh Johnson in connection with his fable about the House Committee on Un-American Activities, it was clear he was linking that statement with his testimony before the committee. But that is not the case. Johnson was not accused of being a Communist. Neither were any other black men or women by the committee. It was investigating a white professor or worked for Johnson.
Learn about the Democratic Party’s shocking control of the Ku Klux Klan and racism in America for over 100 years in Ben Kinchlow’s “Black Yellow-Dogs” and Dinesh D’Souza’s “Hillary’s America.”
“Charles Johnson died 60 years ago, in 1956, just as the civil rights movement he championed was about to take flight,” said Jeh Johnson. “At the time, Jim Crow still existed in the South. Charles Johnson knew nothing else in the South. But, one month before he died, Dr. Johnson wrote this about the segregated South, in which, at the time, we were not allowed to vote, or live with, travel with, eat with or marry anyone of the white race: It is expected that Negro Southerners, as a result of [our] limited status in the racial system, would be bitter or hostile. … Bitterness grows out of hopelessness, and there is no . . . hopelessness in the situation. … Faith in the ultimate strength of the democratic philosophy and code of the nation … has always been stronger than the impulse to despair.”
What Jeh Johnson neglected to say was that his party – the Democratic Party – was behind those Jim Crow policies of segregation and rights abuses.
Charles Johnson went on to lead the Urban League, which was founded by black Republicans, as almost all black southerners were through the middle of the 20th century. His life has often been starkly contrasted with a contemporary black leader W.E.B DuBois, a radical with Communist Party affiliations.
Only once in America history did the House Committee on Un-American Activities investigate a prominent black celebrity’s associations with Communism. That was actor-singer Paul Robeson. Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson famously testified against some of the shockingly anti-American comments that Robeson had made. In 1998, the Communist Party USA, having been funded and directed by the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War, finally admitted proudly that Robeson had indeed been a member of the party.
The strange story told by Jeh Johnson came up during a talk he gave to ISNA, one of the most active Muslim Brotherhood front groups in America, in which he promised that, thanks to the Obama administration, its struggle for full acceptance in America “is one you will win.”
As WND reported, in 1991, the Muslim Brotherhood, the super-umbrella network of Islamist ideology from which terror groups such as al-Qaida and Hamas arose, listed ISNA as one of its main fronts. Declassified FBI memos said ISNA is a component of the Muslim Brotherhood, which sees its “work in America as a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.”
In 2007, the U.S. government labeled ISNA a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism-financing trial involving the Holy Land Foundation funneling money to Hamas. The label was upheld in 2009 because of “ample” evidence linking ISNA to Hamas. Several years ago, ISNA’s Canadian affiliate lost its status as a charity because of its accounting discrepancies and links to Pakistani terrorists.
ISNA is known for its enforcement of Saudi-style Islam in mosques throughout the U.S. The Holy Land Foundation, to which ISNA was linked by the Justice Department, was found guilty in 2008 of raising money for the Hamas terrorist organization. Holy Land founders were given life sentences for “funneling” $12 million to Hamas.
Like ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood seeks to create an Islamic caliphate.
Learn about the Democratic Party’s shocking control of the Ku Klux Klan and racism in America for over 100 years in Ben Kinchlow’s “Black Yellow-Dogs” and Dinesh D’Souza’s “Hillary’s America.”
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