Black Lives Matter. Still

[anon29537550]

I think the description of Newt Gingrich as a “conservative intellectual heavyweight” says everything we need to know about the state of conservatism in our nation.

[anon61221983]

He has a phd in history, and still advocates for this kind of lost cause bullshit. He should know better. He’s a disgrace to GA.

[Wanderfound]

@anon61221983

He has a phd in history, and still advocates for this kind of lost cause bullshit. He should know better.

Because as long as they are distorting the past
It means they have the intention of doing it again

[anon61221983]

Damn…

Breaking: Something Bad Is Happening in Virginia [Updated]

[anon67050589]

Nicely done!

[Brainspore]

This may be the most savage burn in the history of Twitter.

Dave Zirin (EdgeofSports)

[anon15383236]

[DonatellaNobody]

This is the “casual murder” @anon61221983’s link is talking about.

Even though actual slavery is no longer legal in the US, we have built our entire society around it. That’s not going away any time soon.

[KathyPartdeux]

@anon61221983

He has a phd in history, and still advocates for this kind of lost cause bullshit. He should know better. He’s a disgrace to GA.

That’s not fair; he’s a disgrace to everyone.

[anon61221983]

That’s true… but he embarrassed the ATL first… But then again, his district has always been an embarrassment to the Atlanta area, being the home of white flight.

[anon61221983]

Black Ex Felons Will Bear the Brunt of Florida’s New ‘Poll Tax’ Law, A New...

New poll tax to go along with the new Jim Crow…

[Wanderfound]

@Wanderfound

How would you react if they were doing this to your kids? For how long could you tolerate this?

https://theblackdetour.com/black-family-files-lawsuit-after-police-shot-raid/

[anon29537550]

I am at a loss…
“Complying with the police while black?”
“Sleeping in your own bed while black?”
“Being an innocent kid while black?”

How about changing the focus from “while black” to just “human being” and expect the cops to treat us all as such? What? Oh yeah, because “keeping them in their place” is an unspoken part of the job. Fuck.

[DonatellaNobody]

He had his hands up, in bed, and they shot him.

They blew his kneecap out. You can’t tell me the gun went off accidentally, or they didn’t aim. Bullshit. They knew exactly what they were doing.

That kid will limp for the rest of his life now.

[Melizmatic]

@KathyPartdeux

Benjamin Banneker

The science building at my alma mater was named after him; brilliant man.

[anon61221983]

He was. I’ve had a couple of folks pick him as their historical figure in my US history class. He was fascinating.

[Melizmatic]

Project 1619 Podcast:

‎1619 on Apple Podcasts

[anon29537550]

Black homeowner with a gun not shot by police! This is real news!

'Most humiliating experience of my life:' Black North Carolina man after...

I guess this is progress? Just perp walked in his underwear past his neighbors houses. Much better.

[Wanderfound]

Preventing the rise of a 'messiah'

Forty years ago today, a bullet severed the spine of a man whom many the world over thought of as a prince. We have all seen the picture of the hotel balcony where that prince stood, and fell, surrounded by his entourage, all pointing - presumably, in the direction from which the bullet came.

All but one.

One man was not standing, not pointing, but kneeling by Martin Luther King’s body, presumably checking to see if - or that - he was dead. That man, Merrell McCullough, was an undercover police officer who had infiltrated King’s circle. According to Time magazine, he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, at least as far back as 1974.

What interest could an intelligence agency have in a man who plainly believed only in peace? In August 1967, four months after King called the US government the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world today,” three months after 30 members of the Black Panther party marched, armed, into the California state capitol and onto the front pages of newspapers worldwide, J Edgar Hoover, the head of America’s domestic law enforcement agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, issued the following directive: “The purpose of this new counterintelligence endeavour is to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralise the activities of black-nationalist, hate-type organisations and groupings, their leadership, spokesmen, membership and supporters.”

By “hate-type organisations”, Hoover explained that he meant “such groups as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, [King’s] Southern Christian Leadership Conference … the Congress of Racial Equality and the Nation of Islam”, the group Malcolm X belonged to until shortly before his 1965 murder. In February 1968, there was a massive demonstration in support of the then-imprisoned leader of the Black Panthers, and Stokely Carmichael and H Rap Brown merged SNCC with the Panthers. Hoover issued another directive: “Prevent the rise of a ‘messiah’ who could unify and electrify the militant black nationalist movement. Malcolm X might have been such a ‘messiah’… . Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, and [Nation of Islam leader] Elijah Muhammed [sic] all aspire to this position … . King could be a very real contender for this position should he abandon his supposed ‘obedience’ to ‘white, liberal doctrines’ (nonviolence).”

According to another declassified FBI memo, shortly afterward the FBI proposed having “a carbon copy of [an] informant report reportedly written by Carmichael to the CIA carefully deposited in the automobile of a close black nationalist friend. … It is hoped that when the informant report is read it will help promote distrust between Carmichael and the black community.” FBI agents called Carmichael’s mother, falsely telling her that Black Panthers were out to kill her son. Soon after, Carmichael left the country.

While the guns that killed Malcolm X were held by black hands, we now know that his bodyguard the day he was shot was an undercover police agent, who later infiltrated the New York chapter of the Black Panther party and charged many of its leaders with various crimes. (The “Panther 21” were acquitted of all terrorism charges, but during their two-year incarceration the chapter fell apart.)

Panther bodyguards had a habit of not doing a very good job. The 21-year-old leader of the Panthers’ Chicago chapter, Fred Hampton, was murdered by Chicago police after they raided his home at 4:45 the morning of December 4, 1969. Police fired a hundred rounds into the building, most directed toward Hampton’s bedroom. Hampton’s personal bodyguard, William O’Neal, had drawn a floor plan of the house for the authorities. “It is felt,” an FBI agent wrote to Hoover after the killing, “that this information is of considerable value in consideration of a special payment for informant requested in re Chicago letter.” (O’Neal was paid $300 by the FBI after the Hampton murder. In 1982, the city of Chicago paid the families of the survivors of the raid and its two victims $1.85m.)

[Melz2]

Galveston Asks Texas AG to Block Release of Officers' Body Cam Footage From...