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MLK/FBI is available on-demand now. It's excellent.
Sam Pollard shows, through the FBI's own records, how hard it tried to subvert King, and how it regarded him as dangerous to America. https://theundefeated.com/features/mlk-fbi-looks-at-j-edgar-hoovers-crusade-to-undermine-martin-luther-king-jr/
Sam Pollard shows, through the FBI's own records, how hard it tried to subvert King, and how it regarded him as dangerous to America. https://theundefeated.com/features/mlk-fbi-looks-at-j-edgar-hoovers-crusade-to-undermine-martin-luther-king-jr/
Now, consider this episode of Reveal, in which @BennieGThompson reveals that the FBI, even when commanded by law, refuses to provide information to homeland oversight committee on the threat of white supremacist domestic terrorism https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLnJldmVhbHJhZGlvLm9yZy9yZXZlYWxwb2RjYXN0&ep=14&episode=cHJ4XzE0OV9jZTNiNDg2My00OTA5LTRkMmQtYTBjNS1hZWIxMDg3NmRkOWU
Furthermore, the FBI is STILL lumping so-called "black identity extremists" (basically BLM) with neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, white nationalists, and others who stormed the Capitol under a banner of "racially motivated extremism."
Same false equivalencies, different decade.
Same false equivalencies, different decade.
This is the agency that's supposedly protecting the entire U.S., refusing oversight from a Black congressman from Mississippi, oversight that has been mandated *by federal law*
There's just always another layer to demonstrate how fundamentally unsafe we all are, and remain, from the threat of white supremacy. Always.
