When you’re a ‘Baby Boomer’ and you remember the ‘Civil Rights Era’, you should be familiar with the ‘COINTELPRO’, counterintelligence program conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1956 to 1971 to discredit and neutralize organizations considered subversive to U.S. political stability. It was covert and often used extralegal means to criminalize various forms of political struggle and derail several social movements, such as those for civil rights and Puerto Rican independence.
It was under this domestic program that the FBI and the police agencies of many states and municipalities waged open warfare against minority groups organized to seek civil rights and civil liberties promised to all American citizens, not just White Americans of European heritage. The program successfully infiltrated many of these organizations, carried out a few assassinations, i.e.. Malcolm X (el Hajj Malik el-Shabazz), Fred Hampton, Dr. Martin Luther King. Later after the program was officially disbanded US intelligence agencies continued their efforts by supplying ‘crack-cocaine’ from South and Central America as well as the Caribbean.
Eventually, many activist who were not killed were discredited with drug addictions or other forms of substance abuse. The struggle for rights gave way to gang turf wars for who could control the flow of drugs into minority neighborhoods. In addition to drugs, minority neighborhoods were flooded with guns. Whites have always terrorized people of color. Whether they were the indigenous populations, or people kidnapped from their lands and enslaved, there were always terror mechanisms used to keep these populations under control. In the late 70’s and early 80’s it was drugs and various levels of criminality that were used to implement mass incarceration on mostly state and local levels.
In the early 80’s Ronald Reagan needed something to counter Jimmy Carter. who came off as a humble religious Christian. Unfortunately, he was a victim of the cynical racism of his time. While Carter made several moves to extend LBJ’s bold moves towards racial equality, Reagan seized upon the quiet racism of the White Christian Churches. Reagan created the myth of the ‘Black Welfare Queen’ collecting tens of thousands of dollars from the government largess, a fancy dresser all at the expense of the American taxpayer. He found a receptive ear in White Christian churches who heeded his call to become politically engaged under the leadership of people like Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, Pat Robertson and the like. Reagan and the Republican Party raised their profiles and they turned out their followings in support of the Republican Conservative anti-equal rights and anti-voting rights agenda.
All this history provides a foundation to where we are today. Looking White Christian Nationalism and religious based racism square in the face. Racism is immoral yet it has always been embraced to serve the interest of Europeans. I am convinced that you cannot succeed at the highest levels of capitalism being moral and ethical. Religion is a capitalistic business. I am not talking about appearances, I am speaking in the most literal fashion. The Church looked in the other direction at the behavior of Jesuit Priests they sent to the western hemisphere.
They embraced the role of the their faith in the implementation of slavery on several continents. They still do it today in many ways . The belief is that their concept of a supreme being condones their lack of true morality as long as their churches are obscenely profitable, it cares more about their privilege over other racial groups in the name of Christ, It cares about making money and flexing political power.
White Christian Nationalists openly tout their guns and desire for racial warfare in the streets. This is why the Evangelical Church can embrace DJT as anointed by their concept of god to bring their brand of authoritarianism to this evil globalist liberal idea of democracy. These folks don’t care who they have to challenge. So the FBI which engaged in police state terrorism against civil rights activists and groups are now being terrorized by MAGA -world thug Christian Nationalists who published the names of some of the agents who searched Mar-A-Lago along with the names of their family members and the schools their children attend.
Just remember, if DJT and these folks are not stopped, when they are done warring with those that crossed Trump, they will be free to incite the race war they have always wanted. I wonder whose side the FBI and ‘Blacks for Trump’ will take……🤔
https://www.businessinsider.com/breitbart-trump-aide-doxxing-mar-a-lago-raid-fbi-agents-2022-8#
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