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(DIR) Post #ASlyInb0mvnJR56Fyy by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T13:56:47Z
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !I still haven't made it to Black history yet. I'm still on white US history.Q: Why is it OK for Black folk to like the Black Panthers, but white folk can't like the klan? Black supremacy is just as bad as white supremacy! Why the double standard?A: Black folk know white US history, so they know that the Black Panthers were not Black supremacists.(At this point, half of the Black folk reading this just involuntary said "COINTELPRO!" out loud).#BlackMastodon
(DIR) Post #ASlyIoUfS0JWDh8hjU by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T13:57:57Z
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Most of what you know about the Black Panthers, is a lie. It is intentional disinformation, created and circulated by the FBI, with the assistance and complicity of newspapers and local police. This disinfo was spread as part of the FBI's counter intelligence program (COINTELPRO).This is not some unfounded conspiracy, this is documented and now admitted by the FBI.The Black Panthers were the good guys, and the FBI were the cartoonishly evil Bond villain bad guys. Seriously.
(DIR) Post #ASlyIqrQeLi1YrnuUK by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:00:00Z
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The Black Panthers wanted to reduce racism and increase collaboration between the races, and the FBI wanted to increase racism and reduce partnership between the races. 🙂🙃
(DIR) Post #ASlyIroz4vLcXZfTJg by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:00:59Z
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If you've been reading along this Black history month, you might agree that these things are good:* Reduce racism* Systemically prevent another Tyre Nichols* End false convictions* Feed all school kids nutritious breakfast and lunch* Affordable health care for all* Access to better education for all* Lower unemployment* Get poor Black, white, Latinx, indigenous, and Asian workers to work together to assert their rights* Safer infra and public transportation for all* Stop wage theft
(DIR) Post #ASlyItOpD9bxR1Rbou by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:04:13Z
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Regardless of your race or political philosophy, think about which of these above points you would disagree with. No, seriously. Read it again, and find one that doesn't make sense to you. It's okay if you don't agree with them all. 👍🏿Now look at the Black Panthers' 10 point plan from 1966:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-Point_Program_(Black_Panther_Party)Seriously, see how many of these points you disagree with. And it's honestly OK if you don't agree with them all!Notice the lack of Black supremacy or calls for pogroms.
(DIR) Post #ASlyItxD9J7J9fX4Pw by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:05:26Z
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The Black Panthers provided free breakfast for poor school kids. ♥️👍🏿 Today, the US has a Federal free lunch program. Black people that know white US history, know where that program started.The FBI felt so threatened by the Black Panthers' school lunch program, that they dedicated police resources to violently destroying it. Imagine. Trained FBI agents, instructing grown men to urinate on Black children's food.https://www.history.com/news/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party
(DIR) Post #ASlyIweB8WfvVVePfU by ML2@akkoma.sandhill.social
2023-02-17T14:08:37.355918Z
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@mekkaokereke Just an FYI: the link doesn't seem to be working for me, on any browser.
(DIR) Post #ASlyZwxnDIdJPYvxZY by ML2@akkoma.sandhill.social
2023-02-17T14:11:47.833003Z
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@mekkaokereke I was able to get an archive.today version of the page. If anyone is having issues, feel free to use this instead.https://archive.fo/nHQRv
(DIR) Post #ASlycSCi25fAsi6YqG by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:09:12Z
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The Black Panthers also provided free clinics and vaccination for kids. ♥️👍🏿“First you have free breakfasts, then you have free medical care, then you have free bus rides, and soon you have FREEDOM!” Fred Hampton.https://time.com/5937647/black-panther-medical-clinics-history-school-covid-19/How did the Black Panthers, with relatively zero funding, set up free health clinics for Black people, where the government of the richest nation on earth could not?These are uncomfortable questions, most easily answered by destroying those clinics.
(DIR) Post #ASlycSjK4pkcVrMbg0 by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:11:32Z
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To this day, if you find a white trades person over the age of 50, and ask them what "It's not race, it's class" means, many can tell you. If you ask them "Who is Fred Hampton" many can tell you. If you ask them what a "rainbow coalition" was, many can tell you.Why does an old, white, union steel worker in Detroit know who Fred Hampton is?I've pointed out many times, in many threads, that the trope that "poor white people support Trump more" is not supported by data. It's more disinformation
(DIR) Post #ASm2zjCZOw6i4mORBg by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:12:36Z
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83% of the US population lives in cities. Don't drive to some tiny town in Idaho and point to a poor racist white person. Most poor white people in this country live in places like Los Angeles, or Detroit or Houston, or Chicago or New York.Jan 6 was the perfect example of the rich, white, racist phenomenon. Stop blaming Trump on poor white people.https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/january-6-busts-key-myth-about-trump-supporters-rioters-ncna1287105
(DIR) Post #ASm2zjiTUJczfjJuuu by chartier@toot.cafe
2023-02-17T14:14:12Z
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@mekkaokereke Exactly. Poor white people weren't booking tickets to DC, renting hotels, and oh... taking all the time off work in order to commit insurrection.
(DIR) Post #ASm2zlrPW3xqK1W57g by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:15:38Z
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Since the '60s, it has been true that rich white people are *more* racist than poor white people.What happened in the 60s and 70s? What conversations intersected Black liberation with labor rights? What's the intersection between Detroit auto workers, Pittsburgh steelers workers, and Cali farm workers?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QqBr-A58YGoThe Black Panthers didn't start the labor movement, and they weren't the only anti-racists pushing for solidarity. But they left an indelible mark on working together.
(DIR) Post #ASm2zobZJQ4gpl7yLY by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:17:07Z
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That scene is from a great movie titled "Judah and the Black Messiah." This Black history month, don't watch Black trauma movies designed for the white eye. They all have a beautiful redemption arc for the white racist at the end. They reduce racism to individual barbaric racists while downplaying systemic racism.Don't Watch garbage like "Green Book." Watch this instead:https://youtu.be/sSjtGqRXQ9YWhy is the movie titled "Judah and the Black Messiah?" You need to know white US history to get it.
(DIR) Post #ASm2zrJxDMldFzuRo8 by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:18:38Z
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The Black Panthers were not Black supremacists, although there were Black supremacists in the 60s. There are still Black supremacists today! No one cares much, because they have no power, and Black people don't listen to them. They mostly just spout nonsense at you while you're waiting for the bus. 🤷🏿♂️The FBI did not care much about Black supremacists in the 60s either.What they feared most, was the rise of any "Black Messiah," who could lead Black people.https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/814
(DIR) Post #ASm2zu94iGqc17qIlc by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:20:17Z
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To prevent this "Black Messiah" from rising, the FBI established a whole division to spread lies to tarnish the reputation *any* charismatic Black civil rights leader. This is why what most Americans know about the Black Panthers is so wildly different from the truth.If the attempts to discredit the Black leader did not work, the FBI would create false arrests and false imprisonment. If that still did not work, assassination plans were drawn up.Being a good leader could be a capital offense.
(DIR) Post #ASm2zwzc7u3uqeRHw8 by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:22:36Z
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The reason so many Black people believe that the FBI assassinated MLK, is because they know white US history.They know that COINTELPRO assassinated smaller Black Messiahs for doing things like providing free lunch and clinics, and getting white steel workers to take down confederate flags. And they know that the FBI considered MLK to be the biggest Black Messiah.US high schools teach MLK's "I have a dream" speech, but not what the deputy director of the FBI said after seeing that speech...
(DIR) Post #ASm2zzdOIz4J2b45DM by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:26:14Z
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"Personally, I believe in the light of King's powerful demagogic speech yesterday he stands head and shoulders over all other Negroid leaders put together when it comes to influencing great masses of Negroes. We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro, and national security."FBI Deputy Director William Sullivan, after watching the "I have a Dream" speech.
(DIR) Post #ASm302TZjw01r1Umpc by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:31:50Z
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The Black Panthers were revolutionary, but not because they had Black leather jackets and berets and shotguns. They were revolutionary because they were armed with breakfast, and vaccines, and the truth.They weren't revolutionary because they wanted to "kill white people." They didn't want to kill white people, not even the racist ones. They wanted white people, even the racist ones, to see that racism is a tool used to oppress all people.
(DIR) Post #ASm305HdInEGYqvn8K by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T14:38:30Z
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Be deeply suspicious, of anyone that doesn't want you to know the truth about Black civil rights leaders.Hiding the truth from you is an attempt to control not just Black people, but to control you as well.If the Black Panthers were truly so terrible, we should be able to see the truth of their actions and their impacts, and judge for ourselves.After reading this thread, you should understand why there seemed to be so few "Barack Obamas" in the 60s. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ueMNqdB1QIE&t=10m45s
(DIR) Post #ASm4TBkISE6GxJmQwy by mkb@mastodon.social
2023-02-17T15:13:17Z
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@mekkaokereke From what little I know, persecution by the FBI pushed the Panthers toward more militancy. Looking at footage of one of the Black Panther kids breakfast programs I was stuck by a counterfactual:Imagine all the good they could have accomplished—for the benefit of everybody—if FBI had not gone to war with them.
(DIR) Post #ASmPFZEgQ66unBL6nY by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T16:46:57Z
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🤔I realize I'm still being too subtle.If Obama had given this same speech in 1964, about the same number of poor white people would have been inspired (or infuriated), as happened when he gave the speech in 2004, or if he gave it in 2024. That hasn't changed.But the *system* of US policing in 1964, through the FBI and local police forces, would have set in motion a concerted and intentional plan to destroy his life. If that failed, they would have tried to falsely imprison him, or worse.
(DIR) Post #ASmPFZleRWTwRQlRBY by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T16:51:54Z
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The *people* aren't significantly less racist than they were in the 60s. What's changed is that a few of the *systemic leverage points* have shifted in favor of justice and equity.It's not all good news. Other important systemic leverage points have shifted away from justice and equity, and towards cruelty and fascism.We can improve the US and the world more for all of us, by focusing on these leverage points and making sure that all the important ones land on the side of justice and equity.
(DIR) Post #ASmlpc1XjHQIr7mn5s by kumicota@weeaboo.space
2023-02-17T23:23:39.278979Z
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@mekkaokereke > Get poor Black, white, Latinx, indigenous, and Asian workers to work together to assert their rights.I want gringx to stop americanizing my language and stop using Latinx, there's no need for a slur like that, when there's Latin
(DIR) Post #ASmm6izR5DAJNpxac4 by dj@rojogato.com
2023-02-17T23:26:45.127402Z
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@kumicota @mekkaokereke Ponga ese negro en su puesto
(DIR) Post #ASmmUSZRmT0tPV7cTA by kumicota@weeaboo.space
2023-02-17T23:31:00.372997Z
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@dj @mekkaokereke Quiero mucho, prefiero que me llamen Mono do que lo maldiciendo Latinx
(DIR) Post #ASmzN7uTUuy6i0n6Qa by LaureM@federate.social
2023-02-18T01:44:01Z
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@mekkaokereke I’m with you and feeding the kids was good but really these programs have been around in regions and states for a long time.
(DIR) Post #ASn0cUtyOdrQJaRw8W by ML2@akkoma.sandhill.social
2023-02-18T02:09:21.392879Z
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@LaureM Federal school breakfasts began in 1966, according to this article, and while Wikipedia doesn’t mention anything about the Black Panthers in that article, it is exactly the time the Black Panthers were active.So in short, what @mekkaokereke is saying checks out as being consistent, and given that the reporting on this is pretty extensive, I’m quite sure it’s correct as well.
(DIR) Post #ASo7AUjUKEYwWG6ElM by ChrisBoese@newsie.social
2023-02-18T03:22:43Z
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@ML2 @LaureM @mekkaokereke Look into Florence Mattison of Conway, Arkansas, namesake of Florence Mattison Elementary. I took this portrait which hangs in the school. She supposedly started the first free school lunch program in the US. Gov Bill Clinton used to visit her for advice on education policies.
(DIR) Post #ASo7AVKM7A3MMbLgEC by LaureM@federate.social
2023-02-18T04:46:42Z
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@ChrisBoese @ML2 @mekkaokereke Carl Perkins #Appalachia became a teacher in the two-room school…he commuted by horseback.He wrote and sponsored the Adult Basic Ed Act in 1961 for rural areas… he later successfully added it to a piece of anti-poverty legislationPerkins was a prime mover in the nation's child nutrition programs and sponsored the School Lunch Amendments of 1968, 1970, 1975 and 1978… He often said "a hungry child cannot learn."https://amp.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article44407401.html
(DIR) Post #ASo7AVu9y2h29e6H2G by LaureM@federate.social
2023-02-18T04:55:21Z
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@ChrisBoese @ML2 @mekkaokereke “in 1966…School breakfast programming started small…with a two-year pilot program conceived and championed by Kentucky Rep Carl Perkins. According to the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Perkins was initially concerned with the plight of children in rural areas, who got up early to work the fields with their parents and arrived to school hungry after long bus rides…the program expanded and was made permanent…in 1975.”
(DIR) Post #ASo7AWOIA0nPf6CL0C by LaureM@federate.social
2023-02-18T04:58:08Z
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@ChrisBoese @ML2 @mekkaokereke the reality is many grassroots groups were addressing these issues and Carl Perkins was a primary driver in government
(DIR) Post #ASo7AX5tXtfrqKb9xw by LaureM@federate.social
2023-02-18T05:38:45Z
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@ChrisBoese @ML2 @mekkaokereke but it does show how the Panthers were on the vanguard and I definitely agree about how the fbi tarnished the history
(DIR) Post #ASojo7nco4CjEbMIhk by ChristiJunior@detroitriotcity.com
2023-02-18T22:10:25.671873Z
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@mekkaokereke For the record, the KKK was fully justified in fighting against the oppression and disenfranchisement of White Southerners called "Reconstruction". White Southerners managing to overcome Reconstruction and take back control of their states was the greatest victory for Freedom in US history since the War of Independence.
(DIR) Post #ASojtQ7U7SyxVBAnCK by ChristiJunior@detroitriotcity.com
2023-02-18T22:11:24.596838Z
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@mekkaokereke >the FBI ARE the cartoonishly evil Bond villain bad guys. Seriously.Fixed that for you.
(DIR) Post #ASok6DmhIE8R0dYP20 by Aviva_Gary@noc.social
2023-02-17T22:11:33Z
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@mekkaokereke Truth... and amazing thread... I am a youngish person and I had no idea about most of this...The history was just gone.
(DIR) Post #ASok6EHBSsWOXBokYC by ChristiJunior@detroitriotcity.com
2023-02-18T22:13:43.226332Z
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@Aviva_Gary @mekkaokereke "I know nothing about any of this, but I'm just gonna assume that this random negro I came across online is 100% right."Don't you feel any shame at all?
(DIR) Post #ASok9FSfVxov4xd3ui by IsraelDelendaEst@poa.st
2023-02-18T22:14:15.889049Z
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@kumicota @mekkaokereke Quiet down, mestinx.
(DIR) Post #ASokBfhkuh133BqEFs by andrew@masto.trivial.business
2023-02-17T21:08:06Z
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@mekkaokereke @marcprecipice This is a great thread. Thank you for it.
(DIR) Post #ASokBsIi57hq7HDuWO by ChristiJunior@detroitriotcity.com
2023-02-18T22:14:40.793352Z
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@andrew @mekkaokereke @marcprecipice I mean, some of the replies by racist White people are pretty good :putin_grin:
(DIR) Post #ASokHLFvr1ubMpWyky by ConorMahood@mastodon.ie
2023-02-17T17:18:10Z
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@mekkaokereke thank you for these threads.I'm just a clueless Irish guy who spent the first 20 years of his life on an island that was approximately 100% white.But I've learned a little about the shameful history of racism of my country folk over the years, and I've grown out of believing I get a pass when people talk about racist white behaviour just because I'm Irish.But it's not just books and movies, it's threads like this that I'm learning from, all the time.
(DIR) Post #ASokHLk4300ysHd2iu by greenhombre@mstdn.social
2023-02-17T17:25:46Z
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@ConorMahood @mekkaokereke Great comment, Connor. I'm Irish-descent in California. We came here as poor immigrants and became the police force in San Francisco, that granted us "honorary whiteness." One of the first acts of the newly empowered Irish was to support the racist, Chinese Exclusion Act. It's a vile and shameful moment in the history of the Irish Diaspora. https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/chinese-exclusion-act
(DIR) Post #ASokHMEuCKgWPw3fnM by ConorMahood@mastodon.ie
2023-02-17T18:12:40Z
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@greenhombre @mekkaokereke Hey coincidence, funny enough I'm watching Warrior at the moment and it talks specifically about Irish in America supporting the Exclusion Act.Irish people tend to believe we are somehow predisposed against racism but the truth hurts.
(DIR) Post #ASokHMj2OImtvO9jlI by ChristiJunior@detroitriotcity.com
2023-02-18T22:15:42.299066Z
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@ConorMahood @greenhombre @mekkaokereke "Racism" is nothing but normal and healthy in-group preference, White people need to become more racist, not less.
(DIR) Post #ASokLCAtYmtOMQ0paS by http_error_418@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T17:42:51Z
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@greenhombre @ConorMahood @mekkaokereke whiteness and colonialism creates a racial dividing line whenever it is convenient for those in power and abandons it without remorse as soon as it is more expedient to include one group in order to suppress another that is considered a bigger threat
(DIR) Post #ASokLCpJ8XDcNkv6Zs by http_error_418@hachyderm.io
2023-02-17T17:43:29Z
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@greenhombre @ConorMahood @mekkaokereke not so long ago plenty of stores and pubs in this country had signs saying "no Irish, no blacks, no dogs", and hoo boy wouldn't people love you to believe that because those signs are gone, racism is fixed.
(DIR) Post #ASokLDKVGYAjwVW1Ca by ChristiJunior@detroitriotcity.com
2023-02-18T22:16:24.991482Z
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@http_error_418 @greenhombre @ConorMahood @mekkaokereke How exactly have White people benefited from increased exposure to niggers?
(DIR) Post #ASokLK46DwD4petW6a by AidanTTIerian@poa.st
2023-02-18T22:16:27.228898Z
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@mekkaokereke “Justice and equity” meaning “kill all White people.”
(DIR) Post #ASokOBr9CVc8F2Cgd6 by MeBigbrain@poa.st
2023-02-18T22:16:58.283330Z
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@Aviva_Gary @mekkaokereke You're replying to a troll account. All evidence contradicts what he says.
(DIR) Post #ASoksRBskhIAUJKDlQ by AidanTTIerian@poa.st
2023-02-18T22:22:26.362471Z
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@mekkaokereke No, an honest look at history says that MLK was a tool for the powerful, who had decided on crushing Whites through wildly unpopular laws like the “Civil Rights” Act well before MLK’s little riots. They later decided that he would serve the anti-White Jewish cause better as a martyr, before stories of his rapes, dead hookers, and stolen speeches couldn’t be swept under the rug any longer.