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1StrongBlackMan

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5. Funny you should use the term ...

Reply to happyfunball (Reply #4)

Thu Dec 5, 2013, 07:57 PM

Dec 2013

"whitewashed" in reference to history ... when that is exactly what you are doing, i.e., presenting MLK (and the BPP), as fighting your (presumably) fight, rather than the fight that they claimed to be fighting.

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How the FBI Conspired to Destroy the Black Panther Party [View all] marmar Dec 2013 OP

COINTELPRO was nasty stuff. And only a few years later Reagan was playing similar games, struggle4progress Dec 2013 #1

It is important to remember that the destruction had less to do with race... happyfunball Dec 2013 #2

Maybe you should study the civil rights movement ... 1StrongBlackMan Dec 2013 #3

I'm not by any means saying the civil rights movement had an easy time of it happyfunball Dec 2013 #4

Funny you should use the term ... 1StrongBlackMan Dec 2013 #5