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Rev. Johnson was, indeed, the motivating factor behind the November 1979 incident. Without Johnson, the shootings would never have happened.
I'm sure Rev. Johnson has rationalized his actions that day in his own mind, and sees himself as a savior, a reformer, a proponent for racial justice, etc. I hope he can live with himself after the grievous harm he's done to our city and it's citizens.
Those familiar with the details of that day in November, 1979 know that Johnson is the one person most responsible for the deaths of five communists in our city.
I've seen the T&R as nothing more than an attempt to rewrite history, and transfer the blame to anyone other than those directly responsible.

Doug,

You asked whether Nelson Johnson deserved the award from the Ford Foundation. I would say that all depends upon one's political inclinations. The Ford Foundation is a huge foundation with assest in the billions of dollars. Their style has been to fund radical leftist causes throughout the world, including within America. In fact, the Ford Foundation is the biggest funder of the far and radical left.

The Foundation has had a left-leaning orientation for years. During the Cold War, controversy arose over Ford’s funding of pro-Soviet and pro-Maoist organizations such as the Institute for Pacific Research.

Through significant contributions to groups such as Tides Foundation, The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, the Ploughshares Fund, American Friends Service Committee, and the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Ford Foundation has made significant grants of aid to organizations that have advocated against the interests of the United States in its War on Terror. The Foundation also makes, as a matter of course, grants to a number of organizations whose main stock-in-trade is leftist rhetoric.

The Ford Foundation, in 1968 single-handedly funded the creation of The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) and The Southwest Council Of La Raza, later renamed National Council Of La Raza. Both groups are radical mouthpieces for the "rights" of illegal immigrants (including the advocacy of college tuition for illegals at state universities), have managed to force bilingual education in many areas and remain wholly unrepresentative of the average Hispanic-American citizenry.

The Ford Foundation has issued grants to the ACLU, and to the American Friends Service Committee. Both grants were made specifically to finance “immigrants’ rights” initiatives and likely used to support lawsuits against the Federal government relating to the PATRIOT Act, and other steps taken after the September 11th attacks.

The Ford Foundation's values and ideals are reflected unmistakably in its funding priorities. These ideals include the emasculation of homeland security and anti-terrorism measures; the dissolution of American borders; the promotion of mass, unchecked immigration to the United States; the redistribution of wealth; the blaming of America for virtually every conceivable international dispute; the depiction of Israel as an oppressor state that routinely victimizes its Palestinian minority; the weakening of American military capabilities; and a devotion to the principle of preferences based on race, ethnicity, gender, and a host of other demographic attributes.

These are just a few items for consideration regarding the Ford Foundation, so does Nelson Johnson deserve the award?

Doug, et al.,

Is there nothing that you right wingers can find fault with? Seems like to me that according to this previous post, that dissent in America is "America-hating", and should be outlawed. That sounds like The Third Reich, not the USA. I challenge this previous writer to read our constitution and stop trying to subvert it.

Now, on to Re. Johnson. Apparently, if it was awarded, then he is deserving. I mean, Doug, you were hired, and according to the News and Record that means you are worthy to work there. I could call that into doubt- mainly because all you do is attack and stand behind the flag as if you are some uber-patriot. Are you deserving to be an editorial writer?

I think it's a reasonable question to ask. I mean, I've never heard you take an open-minded position, it's always something from the right.

Jim,

I have already read the constitution, and I am certainly not trying to subvert it. What are you specifically referring to in the constitution that I am trying to subvert? Freedom of speech? I support it, but you seem to feel that it is owned only by the left.

Now that we have cleared that up, what is it that I posted that is not accurate and is subversive to the constitution? Everything that I posted is documented fact. The Ford Foundation does fund and support far left and radical causes (see full list below). I have no problem with dissent in the public square, but the agenda of many of these organizations goes beyond simple dissent.

But, we can agree to disagree. I made no attack upon Nelson Johnson. I merely provided some clarification about who the Ford Foundation is so that the regular readers can answer Doug's question for themselves whether Nelson Johnson deserves the award. Given the Ford Foundation's objectives and goals as defined by their actions, I would judge that he did deserve their award, so I guess we are in agreement on that.

Here's a more complete list of organizations funded by the Ford Foundation: Tides Foundation; the Tides Center; People for the American Way (PFAW); the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense & Education Fund (NAACP-LDEF); the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU); the American Friends Service Committee; the National Council of La Raza; the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF); the United States Student Association; the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR); the National Lawyers Guild (NLG); Fenton Communications; the United Nations World Conference Against Racism; the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights; LAW; Ittijah; MIFTAH; the New Israel Fund; the Alliance for Justice; the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund; the National Organization for Women; Save The Children Fund; the Union of Concerned Scientists; the Union for Palestinian Medical Relief Committee; the Rainforest Action Network; Public Citizen; the Earth Action Network; the Environmental Working Group; the Environmental Defense Fund; the Earth Island Institute; Friends of the Earth; Human Rights Watch; Human Rights First; the Cornell University Peace Studies Program; the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; the Institute for Public Accuracy; the Migration Policy Institute; the Brookings Institution; the Ms. Foundation for Women; the International Federation of Human Rights; the National Immigration Forum; Physicians for Human Rights; Physicians for Social Responsibility; the William J. Brennan Center for Justice; the Center for Community Change; the Neighborhood Funders Group; the Council on Foundations; the International Crisis Group; the World Wildlife Fund/Conservation Foundation; the National Wildlife Federation; the Urban Institute; the Trust for Public Land; the Political Research Associates; Oxfam International; the Pacifica Foundation; the National Womens Law Center; National Public Radio (NPR); the National Immigration Law Center; the American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education; the National Alliance for Choice in Giving; the Feminist Majority Foundation; the Immigrant Workers Citizenship Project; Democracy Now Productions; the Center for Women's Policy Studies; the USAction Education Fund; the Rockefeller Family Fund; the Proteus Fund; the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP); the Ploughshares Fund; Oxfam America; the Palestinian American Research Center; the Institute for Social Justice; EcoTrust; the Worldwatch Institute; the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; the Womens Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) for Human Rights; the Drug Policy Alliance; the Womens Environment and Development Organization (WEDO); the Constitutional Rights Foundation; the Democracy Matters Institute; the Consortium for Haitian Empowerment; the Womens Action for New Directions (WAND) Education Fund; the World Resources Institute; the Alan Guttmacher Institute; the Women of Color Resource Center; the Center for Reproductive Rights; the Center for New Creation (to eliminate third world debt); Womens Link Worldwide; the Advocacy Institute; the Advancement Project; the Womens Foundation; the Woodstock Institute; the World Conference on Religion and Peace; the World Order Models Project; the Voices for Illinois Children; the Vera Institute of Justice; the United Nations; the Twenty-First Century Foundation; the Third Sector New England; the Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing; Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN); the Positive Futures Network; PolicyLink; Planned Parenthood; Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health; the North Carolina Justice and Community Development Center; the New America Foundation; the Native American Rights Fund; National Partnership for Women and Families; National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice; the Center for the Advancement of Women; the National Council of Negro Women; the International Forum on Globalization; the National Center for Lesbian Rights; the National Center for Human Rights Education (for SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective); the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center; the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force; the National Center for Fair and Open Testing (equal outcome, not equal opportunity); the Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights; the Center for Voting and Democracy; the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center; the Center of Concern; the Maine Center for Economic Policy; InterAction: American Council for Voluntary International Action; Global Rights; the Global Peace Congress; the Fund for Peace; Focus: the First Nations Development Institute; Hope; Erase Racism; the Environmental Health Coalition; the Environmental Law Institute; the Environmental Grantmakers Association; Earth House; EarthRights International; Earth Day Network; Consumers Union of the United States; the Consumer Federation of America; the Center for a New American Dream; the National Consumer Law Center; Commonweal; the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (social justice); the Center for Young Womens Development; Great Leap; Groundspring.org; the Center for Public Policy Priorities; the Center for Public Integrity; the Center for Law and Social Policy; the Center for Environmental Economic Development; Akila Worksongs (for academic equity between races); the Carter Center; the Border Network for Human Rights (for illegal alien organizing); the International Peace Academy; the Aspen Institute; the Arise Citizens Policy Project; the Alliance of Forest Workers and Harvesters; Witness, Inc.; the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission; the Western Prison Project; West Harlem Environmental Action; We the People Media; Harvard University (black studies); Wayne State University (ethnic, black and poverty studies); University of Wisconsin (black and poverty studies); Clark Atlanta University (Environmental Justice Resource Center); the University of Virginia (black studies); the University of Texas (for the [Mexican] Border Philanthropy Project); the University of Southern California (Center for Urban Education); the University of North Carolina (black studies); the University of Notre Dame (Hispanic studies); the University of Minnesota (Institute of Race and Poverty); the University of Michigan (for the Environmental Justice Initiative); the University of Massachusetts (for the Center for Inclusive Teaching); the University of Maryland-College Park (for the Consortium for Gender Race and Ethnicity, African-American Studies Program and Women's Studies Program); Barnard College (black and ethnic studies); New School University (third world debt relief and women's studies); the University of Kansas (School of Social Welfare); the University of Illinois at Chicago (for integrating diversity into its research, teaching and living environment); Fordham University (for Media Diversity); the University of Hawaii (for Urban and interdisciplinary studies); the University of Chicago (to develop skills for promoting equitable social change and strengthen models of student activism); the University of California-Santa Barbara (Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research to launch New Racial Studies project to examine issues of race and social justice in post-civil rights, post-colonial era); the University of Alaska (American Indian and ethnic studies); Cornell University (Africana studies); Tufts University (peace studies - Humanitarian and War Project); Temple University (labor and poverty studies); Teachers College Columbia University (to study Brown vs. Board of Ed.); Swarthmore College (Islamic studies); Spelman College (Women's Research and Resource Center); Smith College (for feminist studies); Simmons College (Center for Gender in Organizations); Santa Clara University (urban studies - social justice); San Jose State University Foundation (Asian and ethnic studies); San Francisco State University (National Sexuality Resource Center); Rutgers University (interdisciplinary studies); City University of New York (Hispanic, black, women's and queer studies); Princeton University (diversity studies); Pace University (black and women's studies); Arizona State University (to study affirmative action and diversity in wake of Grutter v. Bollinger); Ohio State University (to study affirmative action and diversity in wake of Grutter v. Bollinger); Oberlin College (Islamic studies); Brown University (Teaching and Research on Women-women's studies; War and Peace Project); Northwestern University (Institute for Policy Research - urban studies); New York University (for civil rights advocacy, black and women's studies); Duke University (Center for Study of Muslim Networks); Hamilton College (multicultural studies); Boston University (Islamic studies; peace and security studies; Healing Landscape Project-to integrate study of religiously-grounded healing systems of African diaspora communities into curriculum and clinical practice); Boston College (affirmative action studies; encourage corporate social responsibility); Marymount Manhattan College (women's studies, human rights, civil rights); Johns Hopkins University (for the Institute for Policy Studies); Emory University (Islamic and black studies); Colorado State University (environmental advocacy); Columbia University (to study Brown v. Board of Ed.; black studies; Center for International Conflict Resolution; War and Peace Studies; Human Rights Justice Project; Law and Policy Project; International Working Group on Sexuality and Social Policy; Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health-changing patterns of masculinity and male sexuality among urban ethnic minority youth; Women's Health and Human Rights Advocacy Project-reproductive rights and sexuality education; poverty studies); the Watershed Research and Training Center; Public Broadcasting Service (PBS); the Virginia Organizing Project; Urban Strategies; the Urban Justice Center; the United Nations Foundation; the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) (to address the problems of gender and HIV/AIDS in Arab countries); the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (black and women's studies in black colleges); the Third Wave Foundation; TCC Group (to promote diversity in newsrooms); Sustainable Northwest; the Surfrider Foundation; the Sundance Institute; Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE); the Strategic Assessments Initiative; the Southern Organizing Cooperative; the Society of Environmental Journalists; the Social Science Research Council; the Social Investment Forum Foundation; Smart Growth America; Sisterlove; Rural Action; Rock the Vote Education Fund; the Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women (RAINBO); the Research Triangle Institute; the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Educational Fund; Refugees International; the Rebecca Project for Human Rights (for Treatment Not Jails Initiative); the Rainforest Alliance; Public Radio International (PRI); Public Interest Projects; the Public Citizen Foundation; the Public Agenda Foundation; the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love; the Project on Ethnic Relations; the Project for Public Spaces; Progressive, Inc. (to syndicate opinion columns by social justice scholars, experts and community activists); the Progressive Jewish Alliance; the Credit Union Executives Society (awards for those who give credit to the underserved); Corporate Voices for Working Families (serving the underserved); the Pride Foundation (LGBT); the Poverty and Race Research Action Council; the Population Council; the Pension Rights Center; Atlatl; the Housing Assistance Council; the Peaceworks Network Foundation; the Peace Development Fund; Partners for Livable Communities; Parents for Public Schools; the Pacific Institute for Womens Health; the Organization for a New Equality; the North Carolina Minority Support Center; the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers; the Nine to Five Working Women Education Fund; New York Lawyers for the Public Interest; the New Mexico Environmental Law Center; the New Jersey Work Environment Council (WEC); the Nelson Mandela Childrens Fund USA; the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project; the Near East Foundation; Nautilus of America; the Native Networking Policy Center (to ensure equitable and affordable access to and culturally appropriate use of telecommunications and information technology throughout Indian country); Native Action; the National Voting Rights Institute; the National Urban Fellows; the National Organizers Alliance; the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health; the National Housing Law Project; the National Hispanic Media Coalition; the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation; the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC); the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association; the National Economic Development and Law Center; the National Alliance for Fair Employment; the Movement Strategy Center; the Middle East Center for Culture and Development; the Media Alliance; the Media Access Project (MAP); the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC); the Local Initiative Support, Training and Education Network (LISTEN); Link Media; the Lexington Institute (Cuban social policies); Let's Breakthrough (illegal aliens' rights); Legal Momentum; the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund; the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Kensington Welfare Rights Union; the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana; Justice Now; the Just Transition Alliance; the Jobs with Justice Education Fund; the Jewish Fund for Justice; the International Rivers Network (International Committee on Dams, Rivers and People); the International Projects Assistance Services (IPAS); the International Food Policy Research Institute; the Institute for Food and Development Policy; the Food Alliance; the International Center for Transitional Justice; the International Center for Research on Women; the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law; the International Association for Feminist Economics; the Interfaith Education Fund; the Interfaith Alliance Foundation; the Interaction Institute for Social Change; the Institute of International Education (women's studies, civil rights); the Institute for Womens Policy Research; the Institute for War and Peace Reporting; the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy; the Innovative Housing Institute; the Indian Law Resource Center; Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice; Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action; the Independent Television Service (for the Diversity Development Fund for emerging minority producers); the Independent Press Association (for the Ethnic Media Project); In the Life Media (LGBT); the Immigration and Refugee Services of America; the Humanitarian Project (social justice); the Human Family Educational and Cultural Institute; the HIV Law Project; the Hispanic Federation of New York City; the Hip Hop Theater Junction; the Henry L. Stimson Center; Help USA; the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights (Enlaces America); Health and Gender; Hands Along the Nile Development Services (HANDS) (civil rights advocacy); Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT) (social justice); the Grand Central Neighborhood Social Services Corporation (homeless); Good Jobs First; the Global Greengrants Fund; the Global Fund for Women; the Global Environmental Resources; the Girls Vacation Fund; the Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues; Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice; Funders Concerned About AIDS; the FSC Global Fund; Friends of the Khalidi Library (Islamic Law); Freedom Inc.; Free Press; FrameWorks Institute (institutional racism); the Forestry Action Committee of the Illinois Valley Basin Interest Group; Forest Ethics; the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center; the First Peoples Fund; Firelight Media (documentary film on United Nations World Conference Against Racism); Filmmakers Collaborative (civil rights); the Farm Labor Research Project (illegal aliens and anti-racism); Family Promise (social justice); Excelencia in Education; EVT Educational Productions (black studies); Equal Rights Advocates; Equal Justice Works; the Equal Justice Society; Epidavros Project (illegal aliens); EngenderHealth; the Energy Programs Consortium; the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC); the Educational Video Center (to study Brown v. Board of Ed.); Editorial Projects in Education (to study Brown v. Board of Ed.); the Economic Policy Institute; DC Voice; DataCenter (social justice); the Conservation Fund; the Community Resource Group (illegal aliens); Communities for a Better Environment; the Communications Consortium Media Center (women's rights); Common Cause Education Fund; Common Assets Defense Fund (environmental activism); the Committee to Protect Journalists; Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agricolas (CATA) (Hispanic environmental justice); the Coalition for Women's Economic Development and Global Equality; the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation; Choice USA; the Central American and Caribbean Research Council; the Center for Law in the Public Interest; the Center for Investigative Reporting (social justice); the Center for International Media Action (civil liberties); the Center for Health and Social Policy; the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE); the Center for Economic and Social Rights; the Center for Economic and Policy Research; the Center for Defense Information; the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (social justice); the Center for Civic Participation; the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (civil rights, discrimination); the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; the Campaign for Fiscal Equity; the Californians for Justice Education Fund; California Tomorrow; the Black AIDS Institute; Beyond the Dream, LLC (multiculturalism); the Bay Area Institute; the Baltimore Regional Initiative Developing Genuine Equality (BRIDGE); the Avery Institute for Social Change; the Association for Advancing Women's Equality; Asians and Pacific Islanders for Reproductive Health; the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund; Ashoka: Innovators for the Public; Arts of Peace; the Arms Control Association; Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS); the Applied Research Center (for study of sexuality and gender as they affect communities of color); American Prospect; the American Lands Alliance; the American Land Institute; American Forests; American Documentary (illegal aliens, civil rights); the American Council on Education (for conference of women of color); the American Council of Learned Societies (to promote Vietnamese cultural and ethnic awareness); America Abroad Media (multiculturalism); the Amazon Alliance for Indigenous and Traditional Peoples of the Amazon Basin; Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) (environmental justice); the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability; the Alliance for Metropolitan Stability (race and class within communities of color); the Alaska Native Heritage Center (ethnic studies); the American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba; Aid to Artisans (Pan-African); the African Population and Health Research Center; African American Women Evolving; the African Marketplace (for Hip-Hop Summit); the Africa-America Institute; the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute; Advocates for Youth; the Academy for Educational Development (peace and social justice); A Territory Resource (social justice and civil rights advocacy); the Palestinian Counseling Center; the Tamer Institute for Community Education for Palestinians Living in the West Bank; the Arab Image Foundation in Lebanon; the Arab Studies Society; the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizen's Rights; and the Citizens Commission on Civil Rights.

No fan, thanks for all the Ford info.

So, Jim, if Harriet Miers is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, you would agree she's deserving? You really are an open-minded guy.

Doug,

Judging by your blog entries I would say that we are both about the same amount of openminded when it comes to political ideology.

If Harry gets confirmed, then yes, she was deserving. I may not agree with her blind devotion of the President, but if the senators think she deserves the job, then so be it.

I do have the right to oppose it before it happens and the right to disagree with her after she is annointed.

Doug,

Pretty impressive list of funding by the Ford Foundation isn't it? Did you see any of your favorite causes there? I bet not, but Nelson JOhnson should feel right at home with them.

Doug, I would suggest that you stop the battle of wits with Jim. It's not fair to duel with an unarmed man.

Jim, are you a mind reader? Do you have a crystal ball? How can you make an absurd assumption that Ms. Meirs has "blind devotion" to someone? What if I claim that you have "blind devotion" to Lenin or Marx, since I probably know as much about you as you know about Ms. Meirs?
You're full of leftist, elitist crap.

Thanks, no fan, but I don't out of my way looking for a battle of wits. I can run out of ammunition too quickly.

You're right -- I did not see any of my favorite causes listed. But I am still a fan of Ford.

Phil Ford.

nofan, Interesting, the list contains many of the same groups that are either founded by George Soro or are also funded by him. None which are impressively pro anthing the US stands for.
It is unfortunate that the TRUTH did not evolve from the T&R but then did anyone expect anything except the outcome that occured. the Rev Johnson and his group suceeded in rewriting history to suit their agenda. He, the KKK, the CWP , all that were directly involved should be in jail instead of collecting accolades from their supporters.

I am surprised that Jim did not jump on the band wagon for Ms. Meirs, since Harry Reid came out in support early on for her. But then it seems Jim wiil be for him unless he is against him and then if he changes his mind he will be for him before he was against him. Ya reckon!

I don't know a lot about Mr. Johnson, but I wonder if the Ford Foundation's left-leaning list is an attempt to balance the first Mr. Ford's Nazi sympathy and the brutal way in which he treated his employees during the birth of the labor movement and up through the 1930s?

Just a thought.

Jeff

A brief set of links on the Ford brothers political leanings at the time.

This speaks for itself.

Jeff Sykes,

Huh ? What the heck are you talking about. Do you want to bring up the Crusades ?

No Fan.. I knew the yahoos at the Ford Foundation were fools, but I had no idea of the magnitude of their lunacy. Thanks for the info

Marion:

Not sure what you are missing. The Ford Foundation, for Henry and Edsell Ford, was created by gifts from the two brothers. Edsell died early and Henry lived to regret his Nazi sympathies, which severly tainted his legacy.

I apologize for being a student of history. Sorry if it is too much for you to grasp. I was just making an observation. If the crusades become relevant, we can discuss that as well.

Cheers.

Jeff.

Man would my professors be mad at me.

Edesl was Henry's son. Henry berated him mercilessly for years, as is well documented, and died four years after his son.

My main point was in response to the litany of leftist groups cited by no fan. It's hard to understand why a foundation begun by two rightist would fund such groups.

I hope Dean Wormer doesn't kick me out of Faber.

This award is described by one word: DISGRACEFUL.

There are thousands of people in Greensboro and the USA more deserving of recognition. What about them?

Mr Johnson wanted money now he has it.