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HOOVER’S BIGGEST FEAR WAS BLACK UNITY 🤨
LET THAT SINK IN 🤔
Black people were a favorite target of Hoover’s FBI. Most famous is his crusade to destroy Dr. Martin Luther King, but his efforts went much further back, beginning with his – eventually successful – campaign to bring down Marcus Garvey.
In addition to his “ordinary” day-to-day bigotry, as the legal scholar Randall Kennedy has said, Hoover “viewed protest against white domination as tending toward treason.”
This view of the world led Hoover, the most famous and powerful law enforcement official in American history, to align himself with all of the forces of racial oppression, mostly but not entirely in the segregationist South.
And, while Hoover is most known for his high profile anti-black efforts – Garvey, Dr. King and the Black Panthers – he may have done his greatest damage not through action, but through inaction. And not with high profile targets, but by refusing to protect the basic human rights of “ordinary” black citizens.
Read the article here... https://stjohnsource.com/2017/02/12/j-edgar-hoover-racism-and-power/
LET THAT SINK IN 🤔
Black people were a favorite target of Hoover’s FBI. Most famous is his crusade to destroy Dr. Martin Luther King, but his efforts went much further back, beginning with his – eventually successful – campaign to bring down Marcus Garvey.
In addition to his “ordinary” day-to-day bigotry, as the legal scholar Randall Kennedy has said, Hoover “viewed protest against white domination as tending toward treason.”
This view of the world led Hoover, the most famous and powerful law enforcement official in American history, to align himself with all of the forces of racial oppression, mostly but not entirely in the segregationist South.
And, while Hoover is most known for his high profile anti-black efforts – Garvey, Dr. King and the Black Panthers – he may have done his greatest damage not through action, but through inaction. And not with high profile targets, but by refusing to protect the basic human rights of “ordinary” black citizens.
Read the article here... https://stjohnsource.com/2017/02/12/j-edgar-hoover-racism-and-power/