Interested in the history and the social programs they created like free breakfast.

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      Yeah, just listen to the excerpts from Wake Up by RATM to hear the COINTELPRO tactics and how the feds wanted to eliminate “troublemakers”

      It wasnt women that took em down.

      Same goes for the Rainbow Coalition and Fred Hampton. Fuck everything about our fascist bootlicker gestapo forces

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      You been listening to Behind the Bastards four-parter on Clarence Thomas too? As Miles Gray observes, a lot of people with terrible opinions were able to move civil rights efforts forward into actual policy. (Thomas wasn’t one of those, but he dabbled in with black nationalism and misogyny in his early career.

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        I hadn’t but I have seen that podcast referenced quite a lot.