So Antifa Vs. Ku Klux Klan Vs. Black Live Matter Vs. Nazis Vs U.S.A. Vs. Hate ?

Thanks For Writing Us. I'm A Black Woman And I Love The Human Race! I love Diversity. We all are unique and wonderfully made. I Love You All ! I don’t agree with almost everything this guy says, but I just want to say I really appreciate your willingness to interview people like him. Silencing and censoring people leads to echo chambers and disenfranchisement. It’s important we are all at least willing to try to understand where people are coming from today. A racist is not someone who loves his own people, but someone who hates the other people. Someone who loves his own people is a father, an uncle, a teacher, or just a nice community member, or someone who gives a like to his favorite youtube channel at Soft White Underbelly.

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I'm a Caucasian woman working at a majority African-American elementary school and i love "my" babies...sweet, beautiful kiddos...that anyone could be so hate filled and judgmental is dumbfounding. Just love and do right because you can. We are surrounded by beautiful people. Live it. Love it.

Perfect example of confidence. You can deliver the most asinine bullsh*t, contradict yourself at every turn, with a completely straight face like you just nailed it. I am so disappointed there are people still thinking this way.

I’ve lived in Mississippi all my life. This is the FIRST time I’ve seen anyone affiliated with the klan in relation to the state of Mississippi.

As a black woman I sincerely see how one’s upbringing can detriment a sound mind. He’s a product of his environment , simply as I seen in our community. Regarding the Blacks’ , it’s a reason some are ignorant. Some our products of their environment as you. Our ancestors were oppressed
which was passed down to us. No excuse though. It’s compassion and understanding, key to meet common grounds on race division.

It’s good you let this guy speak. Freedom of speech is important so we can see who the dumbasses are and mock and then exclude them. Hopefully he wakes up one day and sees how he’s wasting his life.

I don’t judge people by their color of skin I judge people based on their character…. I grew up in a community where everyone for the most part got along and didn’t judge others based on their skin color. There are idiots in every single ethnicity, it’s not just one particular race. One love y’all.

Love how he said love sees no color gave me hope for this man he still has a part of him that isn’t racist I respect him for having intelligence in that perspective I’m saying this as a black woman.

The way he thinks his ways right in anyway is wild. I hope he find more love in his heart for everyone. But most importantly himself, he feels like a boy dressed up who never got to be cool. This gave him the opportunity to look cool even if he has to do something terrible. Its actually quite sad.

I cant even be upset that he’s racist, I'm genuinely just concerned how dumb he is. He contradicted himself this whole video. His ignorance is just mind blowing. Fascinating.

Wether somebody’s opinion is right or wrong, I do believe that listening to both sides of peoples beliefs is important and to listen to what they are saying. The world is a place where lots of different people exist and that what the earths community is about. Fantastic interview. (PSA, I don’t believe in his opinions.)

Unlike many here, I respect this man for standing for who he feels to be, regardless of how I feel about what he says. I see his bigger picture view of what he means by saying he isn’t a supremacist, however still can be in appreciation of his race. As long as he doesn’t interrupt other’s lives, who are You to condemn and judge him?! I’d say the same about someone with opposing views to his.

I’m biracial, my Mom is White and my Dad is Black. I’ve received racism from both sides equally. I’ve always either been too White for one side or too Black for the other. It caused me to have a lot of identity issues as a child and adolescent. I felt like I didn’t belong anywhere, cause neither side ever fully understood or accepted me in fact they never even tried. But in spite of all of that I’ve grown up to be a very loving and respectful person to everyone regardless of race, cause in my mind and my heart there’s only one race and that’s the Human race, so why we are the only species on this planet that hates and separates to the capacity in which we do blows my mind. I don’t care what color or tone your skin is , if you treat me good, I’ll treat you better, and it really is and should be as simple as that. We are all human and we all struggle and excel in one way or the other, we’re all individuals and that’s what makes us beautiful.

From the Right: Ku Klux Klan, Antifa and Black Lives Matter There seems to be a consistent thread of groups acting as the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party going back to the post-Civil War era when the Ku Klux Klan was formed in 1865. It was formed to resist the Republican Party's Reconstruction policies designed to establish political and economic equality for Black Americans.

By 1870 it had spread to almost every Southern state. It was the muscle of the Democrat Party, waging an underground campaign of intimidation and violence aimed at white and Black Republican leaders. It has a disgraceful history of intimidation, lynching's and violence throughout its history.

The Civil Rights movement in the '60s incited a surge in Klan growth but when four Klansman were arrested for the murder of Viola Gregg, a white civil rights worker in Alabama, the American public was repulsed. After that terrible occurrence the Klan has shrunk to a current estimate of 3,000 to 8,000 members.

After a century of Klan intimidation we have seen new groups emerge as anti-American and Marxist oriented. One of the two groups currently is Antifa and the other is Black Lives Matter.

Antifa is a leftist militant group and their goal is not fighting for freedom, but for a communist revolution. In case you've forgotten it was Joe Biden who praised Antifa when he kicked off his presidential bid in 2019. But after 100 nights of rioting in Portland, Oregon , including the murder of a Trump supporter by a member of Antifa, Joe Biden now condemns the violence of Antifa.

During the whole Democrat National Convention there was no mention of riots occurring any where in the USA. Apparently even Biden has limits of tolerance, especially when the nightly riots are causing his poll numbers to tank.

My favorite CNN riot moment was showing their reporter Omar Jimenez in front of a flaming building in Kenosha, Wisconsin, telling us that the protests in Kenosha were mostly peaceful. That's like describing the initial sinking of the Titanic , as still mostly floating.

I don't think Antifa is as much pro Biden as they are anti-Trump. Joe Meyers, a former Defense Intelligence Agency official and counterinsurgency expert stated, "President Trump's election and revitalization of America are a threat to Antifa's nihilist goals.” They are fomenting this violence to create havoc, despair and to target the Trump campaign for defeat in 2020. Antifa figures that they have a much better chance to flourish under a Biden administration than that of Trump's.

Finally, we have Black Lives Matter. No sensible person disagrees with the statement “Black lives matter.” But this phrase is masking the real intentions of the group.

The founders of BLM were three radical Marxists : Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opel Tometi. Garza appears to be the most influential of the three and she attributes much of her beliefs to Deborah Chesimard , a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary who escaped from prison in 1979 while serving life for the murder of New Jersey State Trooper Warren Foerster. She escaped to Communist Cuba where Fidel Castro gladly gave her political asylum.

The group has received millions of dollars to do what? I see no evidence that they care about the number of Black infants killed due to the violence in many of our major cities. Nor do they seem to care about the deaths of primarily young Black men killed by other young Black men be it gang violence or drug related conflicts. If any readers of this column know of major expenditures of money spent by BLM to stop this carnage , I'd love to be informed. I would also like to know where the money being given to BLM is being spent.

It appears that historically the vast majority of the violence does not come from the Republican side of the aisle. It was a Bernie Sanders supporter who shot Republican Congressman Steve Scalise in 2017 as well as four others. U.S. Capitol Police on the site killed the shooter and saved many lives. Just recently a Trump supporter was killed in one of Portland, Oregon's nightly riots by an admitted Antifa supporter, Michael Forest Reinoehl, who later was killed by federal task force members as he pulled a gun on them.

Our nation endured the atrocities of the Klan for 100 years. Now we are facing more violence from Antifa and BLM. Neither group wants to make America better, they want to remake America using a Marxist model and President Trump stands in their way.

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Nana Akua Video Black Lives Matter Is A Scam Say Kanye West called the Black Lives Matter movement a “scam” after wearing a White Lives Matter shirt to his surprise Yeezy fashion show. “Everyone knows that Black Lives Matter was a scam now it’s over you’re welcome.

Why is America the greatest country in the world ? America is not the greatest country in the world anymore. He then gives a litany of factual reasons why. America lags other nations in the world in a large number of areas, from infant mortality and crime rates to median income and gross domestic product per capita. Politicians, doctors, public policymakers, economists and academics have tried to narrow these gaps for years. Did Obama really say, "they bring a knife we bring a gun" without getting impeached ? Yes, and even crazier, Teddy Roosevelt was never impeached for carrying a big a stick. Most people, even now, know the difference between literal and figurative speech. Largely Slave, they have been unsuccessful.

As protesters clash in occasionally violent street confrontations that spread via online video, provoking emotional conversations that could touch almost anyone on Facebook or Twitter, millions of Americans feel pressure to pick a side, to support or denounce a faction, knowing that whatever they say about white supremacists, antifa, or Black Lives Matter, they risk being criticized for failing to condemn violence on “their side,” or for suggesting a false equivalence between groups.

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Antifa and Black Lives Matter vs. KKK and Neo Nazis. A battle of false equivalence. Antifa and BLM's fringe members are the left's extremists: All Nazis and KKK members are extremists.

See the problem here? Not all BLM members are cop killing, white-hating individuals that the right has painted them to be. And Antifa have been proven to have been photoshopped into looking bad multiple times. Also, anyone can fake a bloody stab wound with red food coloring, cherry syrup and a knife or stabbing themselves(which recent Nazis on Twitter have been proven to do to frame peaceful protestors) . As for BLM being cop-killers. ever hear of hijack-activists? They have infiltrated every movement from BLM to social justice to Vietnam War protestors: people hijacking a movement in order to steal, kill and lulz under the guise of protesting. Often lone wolves or deliberately placed agitators to mess with peaceful protests that are most likely placed within a crowd in order to frame the protestors for what the protesters are doing themselves. A classic of the established socioeconomic right to keep their vast rotting piles of excessive cash that is holding up the economy by not being spent: Make the centrists lose faith in the side that benefits the left in order to make the right more reasonable...but wait...

Nazis and the KKK WERE NEVER REASONABLE. They are entirely composed of a rebellious fringe of salty war losers who refuse to give up their dreams, and when told that they lost in ANY form, they lie, cheat, steal, kill and lulz in order to defend their hatred under "freedom of speech". You have the freedom to mouth off to the government w/o them inflicting consequences on you. You do NOT have the freedom to advocate killing marginalized, exploited, oppressed people(and anyone else who isn't a clone of you). Nazis LOST. The Confederacy LOST. Nazis were never the norm, and the Confederacy were a bunch of salty white gentle-bros who wanted to keep slaves.

Notice the discrepancy here? Antifa's violent fringe(if it even exists) is a fringe in a borderline fringe. BLM just want less racism, not "Black Supremacy" (The racists said the same thing about Martin Luther King Junior). Anyone who kills cops, wounds Nazis or steals is disowned by both groups.

Nazis and the KKK act like a police brotherhood: They never condemn each other(even then, only in a patently false way), they never ostracize fringes in their group, and they NEVER win.

"B-B-B-But hypocrisy on the left!!" News flash: Everyone is a hypocrite. EVERYONE. In some way. That isn't a defense or an excuse: It's just hackneyed and tired.

And there are non-racist/bigoted cops. But they are a brotherhood, and thus are unwilling to change to evolve with the times. Likewise, The viral "Kill Donald Trump" graffiti pic is likely a hijack-activists, and even if it was honest, its likely it was a shock tactic: no one will do that: It'd just make him a martyr for hateful isms: No one wants to give him that.

In summary: If someone tells you that the extremists on the left are just as hateful as the right, remember: The left doesn't want to kill anyone who isn't their skin color, religion or gender/sexuality or political ideology(if anyone at all), and watch out for hijack-activists: They're pretty obvious when you look for them. There no hijack-activists at right-wing extremist protests, however, because the extreme left does not use such a tactic. Discuss.

It should also be noted that whatever violence that can be confirmed by Antifa in particular is a response to the threatening gestures and violence of the alt-right. If I threaten you or punch you and you respond by striking me, we are not on the same playing field. You can argue from a pacifistic perspective that responding with violence makes things worse or escalates the situation (Something I find true some of the time though not all the time. Antifa has been pretty effective in deterring Nazi protests), but even then that doesn't make it equal.

The enemy of my enemy certainly isn't my friend. Nazis are despicable and should be thoroughly discredited at every opportunity, but let's not pretend that Antifa have a monopoly on opposition to such forces and let's doubly not pretend that they don't have a big problem with a minority of violent idiot trankies amongst their numbers. I'd rather a nonviolent white supremacist than any shade of leftwing thug. The attempts in this thread to handwave away attacks on innocent people and their property could have sprung from the mouth of Alex Jones.

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Groups During the American Civil Rights Movement The Black Panthers
Founded in Oakland in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panthers gained national attention for their militancy, Maoism, uniforms, and willingness to bear arms near police. Yet critics tended to ignore the fact that the Panthers' carrying of guns was legal under California law, and to overlook their many non-controversial activities, including running medical clinics and free breakfast programs for the poor. The goal of ending police brutality was only one of a ten-point Panther program that emphasized social and economic justice. Like Malcolm X, the Panthers would not renounce the use of force in self-defense, and they inevitably courted violence. Branded "the greatest threat" to America's internal security by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the Panthers found themselves under assault by the FBI and police. Tensions culminated in a December 4, 1969, raid that left Chicago Panthers leader Fred Hampton and a colleague dead. The government eventually settled a civil rights lawsuit stemming from the incident for $1.85 million dollars.

Chicago Housing Activists
Chicago white racists were notorious for bombing Black homes on the "wrong side" of the city's racial boundaries. They attacked hundreds of homes to keep African American homeowners in the ghetto. Some 15 years after the Chicago Freedom Movement of 1966, public housing remained a serious problem for the city's African American community. In one case, 14,000 people lived in a single block. Although 85% of the inhabitants were Black, management was mostly white people. Chicago's African American activists aimed to change that. Two of the key leaders were Lutrelle Palmer, reporter, radio host, and founder of Chicago Black United Communities; and Marion Stamps, director of the Chicago Housing Tenants Organization and a resident of the infamous Cabrini-Green development, who ran for alderman in an effort to spotlight housing issues.

Citizen’s Council
In reaction to Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court decision that declared segregation illegal in 1954, some Southerners formed local Citizens' Councils. Many white community leaders in the South — doctors, lawyers, bankers and politicians — joined the group, leading their opponents to call them a "white-collar Klan" who used their legal and economic power to suppress Black people in their communities. The editor of the organization's newspaper said, "The strategy of the Citizens' Council during the year following the U.S. Supreme Court decision was to delay, to delay, to delay...", trying to indefinitely postpone racial integration in public facilities including schools. The Council also worked to keep Black people from voting, arguing that poorly educated voters could be easily manipulated by corrupt influences.

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded in 1942 by the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation to address civil rights issues. During World War II, many African Americans served their country honorably in the military, despite still facing racial barriers at home. In 1942, the organization held America's first organized sit-in in Chicago. Initially based in the North, CORE broadened its reach in 1961 by sending racially mixed groups of passengers on Freedom Rides to desegregate interstate buses. Three of its members — Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney — were murdered in Mississippi during voter registration efforts in 1964's Freedom Summer. Speaking at Chaney's funeral, CORE's Mississippi head David Dennis said, "He's got his freedom, and we're still fighting for ours."

The FBI and the Civil Rights Movement
The Bureau of Investigations was established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907, and renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in 1935. J. Edgar Hoover directed the agency from 1924 until his death in 1972. The FBI historically kept a close eye on Black leaders, like Marcus Garvey, but that reached a new level in 1967 when Hoover instigated COINTELPRO, a counter intelligence program directed, in Hoover's words, "to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of Black nationalist, hate-type organizations and groupings." COINTELPRO harassed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, as well as the more militant Black Panthers. The FBI also infiltrated white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan.

Fisk University
Nashville's Fisk University was founded in 1866, after the Civil War, to provide an education for recently freed slaves. Nearly a hundred years later, Fisk hosted workshops on nonviolent demonstration, and students like Diane Nash used what they learned to lead sit-ins early in 1960 aimed at desegregating the lunch counters of the city's department stores. The students faced arrest and violent attacks from segregationists, but kept up their protest until the counters were integrated in May of that year.

Howard University Student Protesters
Long recognized as one of the nation's preeminent Black institutions, Howard University had graduated civil rights leaders like Thurgood Marshall Charles Houston, Gloria Richardson, Andrew Young, Amiri Baraka, and Stokely Carmichael. By the mid-1960s, however, student leaders chafed at mandatory ROTC programs and administrators they felt were merely seeking to produce graduates acceptable to white America. The winning of the "Miss Homecoming" title by Afro-wearing Robin Gregory in 1966 kicked off a new wave of student activism. Demonstrators blocked the head of the Selective Service System from speaking, and when campus administrators cracked down on dissent and ignored student demands, protesters took over the administration building in March 1968, forcing administrators to meet several of their demands and treat them with a newfound respect. The protest at Howard University sped up the spread of the Black Student Union and Black Studies movements nationwide.

The Klu Klux Klan
At the end of the American Civil War, Confederate veterans formed the Ku Klux Klan to resist Reconstruction. The group incited riots and assaulted and murdered Black people and Republicans (the party of Lincoln, and of emancipation) to intimidate voters and influence elections.

"The Invisible Empire of the South" waned with the end of Reconstruction but was newly incarnated in the 20th century reaching an estimated peak membership of millions in the 1920s. The Klan's activities increased again in the 1950s and 1960s in opposition to the civil rights movement. In line with their founding ambitions, the Ku Klux Klan attacked and killed both Black and white people who were seeking to enfranchise the African American population. A related movement, the white Citizens' Councils, known as the "uptown Klan," espoused similarly racist views but claimed they did not sanction violence.

The Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of courageous Black students who integrated the Arkansas capital city's Central High School in September 1957. They were: Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls. Initially thwarted by violent white mobs and National Guard troops who refused to help, the students eventually entered school after President Dwight Eisenhower ordered paratroopers to protect them. Brown was expelled in February 1958 after verbally responding to a racial slur, but the other eight stayed, and on May 29, Green became the first of the group — and the first African American — to graduate from Central High.

The Nation of Islam and Elijah Muhammad (1897 — 1975)
A traveling silk salesman named W. D. Fard founded the Nation of Islam (NOI) in Detroit in 1930. A variant of traditional Islam, the NOI taught that God was Black and white people were a race of devils whose dominion over the earth would soon end. Fard disappeared in 1934 and leadership passed to Georgia native Elijah Muhammad. The NOI began a period of explosive growth in the 1950s, attracting thousands with a doctrine of Black pride, separation, and self-sufficiency. With Malcolm X as its chief spokesman, the NOI created its own school, restaurants, and a newspaper. But soon tensions between the two men surfaced. Boxer Muhammad Ali joined the NOI in 1964, while Malcolm X left to form his own organization. He was assassinated in 1965 by members of the NOI, an event for which Elijah Muhammad would always deny any responsibility.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 in response not only to widespread lynchings of Black people in the South but also a dramatic 1908 lynching in the Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln's hometown of Springfield, Illinois in the North. During the 1920s the NAACP developed as a mass organization, becoming the largest American civil rights group with numerous grassroots branches.

Over the years, the NAACP focused on desegregating schools and universities through the court system, winning the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954 and helping James Meredith integrate the University of Mississippi in 1962. Its members (including Rosa Parks) also challenged segregation in public accommodations, lobbied for civil rights legislation in Congress, and promoted voter registration throughout the South. For their activities, several NAACP members paid the ultimate price, including the organization's Mississippi field representative, Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in 1963.

Local NAACP leaders included pioneering figures ranging from Daisy Bates in Little Rock, Arkansas and Robert F. Williams in Monroe, North Carolina to Fred Hampton in Chicago, Illinois, Father James Groppi in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Ruth Batson in Boston, Massachusetts. The Youth Councils of the NAACP played a major role in the student wing of the freedom movement.

National Welfare Rights Organization
The National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) was the brainchild of Syracuse University professor George Wiley, a Congress of Racial Equality member who left academia in 1964. In 1965 he formed the Poverty/Rights Action Center, which would evolve into the NWRO two years later. The NWRO advocated for improvements in the lives of welfare recipients, including dignified treatment and payments sufficient to maintain a decent quality of life. Johnnie Tillmon served as chair; she was a community and labor organizer before suffering disabilities from a life of hard labor. Alongside Beulah Sanders and thousands of other organizers, Wiley and Tillmon spread their gospel of welfare rights across the country. The NWRO grew to 30,000 members and could count more than 100,000 in their local campaigns and more than 300 local affiliates. The NWRO joined with the SCLC in 1968's Poor People's Campaign and nearly reached agreement on welfare reform with the Nixon administration, only to see the deal collapse over the issue of guaranteed incomes for recipients. The NWRO disbanded in the mid-1970s, but local affiliates continued its work.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an organization of African American ministers, formed in January 1957, shortly after the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. With Martin Luther King, Jr. as its president, the SCLC promoted nonviolent protest and spearheaded civil rights campaigns in Southern towns like Birmingham and Selma. In 1966 the SCLC turned its focus to Northern ghettos with the Chicago Freedom Movement, and after King's 1968 assassination it conducted a Poor People's Campaign of civil disobedience, the centerpiece of which was a tent encampment called Resurrection City in Washington, D.C. Upon King's death, Reverend Ralph Abernathy took over leadership of the SCLC.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Students involved in nonviolent civil rights sit-ins formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. SNCC focused more on grassroots organizing than another civil rights organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Among its activities SNCC formed a musical group, the Freedom Singers, that helped inspire and raise funds for the movement (one of its members, Bernice Johnson Reagon, would later found the group Sweet Honey in the Rock).

In addition to participating in protests, SNCC members registered Black voters in the rural South, including the 1964 "Freedom Summer" campaign in Mississippi. That year SNCC formed the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to challenge the state's all-white delegation at the party's Atlantic City convention. SNCC member and MFDP founder Unita Blackwell was arrested some 70 times during the voter registration effort. Later in life, she would become mayor of Mayersville, Mississippi, and address the 1984 Democratic Convention.

SNCC also helped organize the Lowndes County Freedom Organization in Alabama. That group later inspired the Black Panther Party. And SNCC's Stokely Carmichael, Willie Ricks, Ruby Doris Robinson, Cleveland Sellers and H. Rap Brown launched the "Black Power" slogan, paving the way for a new phase of the freedom movement.

Poor People's Campaign/Resurrection City (1968)
The last great initiative of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Sothern Christian Leadership Conference, the Poor People's Campaign attempted to broaden the civil rights movement to include economic justice for disadvantaged people of all races. Conceived in November 1967, it began after King's assassination in April 1968. The centerpiece of the campaign was mass civil disobedience in Washington by an army of protesters including National Welfare Rights Organization members, and in mid-May they set up an encampment on the Mall dubbed "Resurrection City." Staging a series of sit-ins and demonstrations at various government agencies, the nearly 7,000 protesters brought their concerns to the nation's attention, but conflicts in the camp, terrible weather, and the assassination of Robert Kennedy all conspired to sap strength from the campaign, and Resurrection City was shut down a month after it opened.

Black Power
Black Power began as revolutionary movement in the 1960s and 1970s. It emphasized racial pride, economic empowerment, and the creation of political and cultural institutions. During this era, there was a rise in the demand for Black history courses, a greater embrace of African culture, and a spread of raw artistic expression displaying the realities of African Americans.

The term "Black Power" has various origins. Its roots can be traced to author Richard Wright’s non-fiction work Black Power, published in 1954. In 1965, the Lowndes County [Alabama] Freedom Organization (LCFO) used the slogan “Black Power for Black People” for its political candidates. The next year saw Black Power enter the mainstream. During the Meredith March against Fear in Mississippi, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Chairman Stokely Carmichael rallied marchers by chanting “we want Black Power.”

This portal highlights records of Federal agencies and collections that related to the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The selected records contain information on various organizations, including the Nation of Islam (NOI), Deacons for Defense and Justice, and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). It also includes records on several individuals, including Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Elaine Brown, Angela Davis, Fred Hampton, Amiri Baraka, and Shirley Chisholm. This portal is not meant to be exhaustive, but to provide guidance to researchers interested in the Black Power Movement and its relation to the Federal government.

The records in this guide were created by Federal agencies, therefore, the topics included had some sort of interaction with the United States Government. This subject guide includes textual and electronic records, photographs, moving images, audio recordings, and artifacts. Records can be found at the National Archives at College Park, as well as various presidential libraries and regional archives throughout the country.

ISIS and the Nation of Islam? A crowd of Black Muslims applaud during Elijah Muhammad’s annual Saviors’ Day message in Chicago in 1974.

In respond to my recently posting a story on Facebook about an ISIS supporter in Phoenix (apparently an African-American male who had converted to Islam) who was searching for a midnight mass he could attack over Christmas, a friend asked me the following question.

“Is there a concern that black Americans, who feel marginalized in society, will be a segment of the population ISIS may try to manipulate and recruit? The Nation of Islam is still very active in the US, estimates of around 20,000 or more followers. And while I can distinguish between the Nation and ISIS, I am concerned that in our current political and social climate more African American males will be led to believe they are not valued in Western society. We have the case you have posted here, I think there was a potential plot in Miami a few months ago. I just worry if we do not address the appeal of ISIS to a disenfranchised group of vulnerable Americans, we may see more and more cases of this.”

There are many issues to consider here and I admit plainly that I am no expert on the Nation of Islam, how it indoctrinates its adherents, and the impact of black militancy or black nationalism ideology in the production of terrorists. As a result, let me address some of these points in more general terms and then tentatively theorize a bit about the details.

First, ISIS and other groups promoting extremist forms of Islam have demonstrated the ability to appeal broadly to people of all social groups, economic classes, races, and ethnicities around the globe. They have recruited anywhere around 30,000 foreign fighters to swell their ranks in Syria and Iraq over the last few years as they have fought to establish their “caliphate.” But those are just the numbers that gave up their lives at home, including thousands living in the western world, to go and join them on the ground in Syria or Iraq. A much larger support network of sympathizers made their ability to join ISIS possible and disturbingly high numbers of Muslims have expressed either relative indifference or outright support for ISIS in a number of Muslim countries around the world. Indeed, there are estimates that, at one point, ISIS’s propaganda reached 100 million people around the globe each day and there is no question that the group has armed supporters, sometimes numbering in the thousands (Libya, Nigeria, Egypt, etc…), in at least 20 countries, carrying out attacks against their many perceived enemies.

In the case of the United States, at one point there were over 1000 investigations of ISIS sympathizers or activity by law enforcement agencies in all 50 states. Moreover, hundreds of ISIS supporters living in the U.S. have fled to join ISIS or were arrested for trying. Because the dynamics of leaving the U.S., or other countries, is often illegal and expensive, making it complicated to travel to Iraq or Syria, ISIS has shifted tactics in calling for its supporters to commit acts of terrorism in their home countries, rather than risk being arrested for traveling to the areas they control in Syria and Iraq. As a result, there have been around 100 ISIS related arrests across the U.S. over the last few years as well as a number of terrorists attacks carried out in the name of ISIS. The most notable of these is an attack on a gay bar in Orlando that resulted in 49 deaths, but others include the notorious attack in San Bernardino and, more recently, the stabbing of eleven people at Ohio State University by an ISIS supporter. Also, as in the case of the Phoenix man I mentioned at the top, there have been scores of Americans planning terror attacks that, fortunately, were arrested in the planning stages.

In response to my friend’s question, I wondered how many of the U.S. ISIS supporters (either those planning or carrying out attacks) might have connections to the Nation of Islam or similar groups that promote black militancy or nationalism. I don’t think there is anyway to know a precise or certain number. While one can establish if an attack is religiously motivated by the rhetoric used by the attacker (e.g. the shout “Allahu Akbar” during the attack and previously pledged their allegiance to ISIS), delineating to what degree such a supporter may have also been inspired or influenced by militant black ideology, if at all, often requires a lot more access to information than we usually get in reporting by mainstream news outlets.

For example, in the article I posted at the top of this thread, which inspired my friend’s question about the Nation of Islam, it nowhere mentions that the man arrested for plotting to attack a midnight mass in Phoenix was connected with the Nation of Islam or black nationalism. My friend, and I in my initial response, just assumed it based on some clues in the article. For example, he is black with an anglicized name originally, later adopting an Arab name; he wanted to attack Jews when the Nation of Islam is notoriously anti-Semitic; he hates the U.S. government, etc…, but these are not solely the traits of those associated with the Nation of Islam, but also usually apply to Islamic extremists more generally, whether here in the U.S. or overseas. Since nowhere does the article explicitly connect the suspect to the Nation of Islam (specifically) or even black nationalism (more broadly). It is for these reasons that it is not always possible to state with certainty which ISIS supporters are also influenced by extreme black militancy or nationalism, which makes it a bit tougher to measure the extent of the problem and delineate between black nationalist motives and Islamist motives, as they typically overlap and share much in common ideologically.

Yet there are divisions between the Nation of Islam and the traditional schools of Islam. The Prophet Muhammad obviously did not found Islam with modern black nationalist goals in mind, and so for the Nation of Islam to make it the center piece of their ideology often results in more traditional Muslims questioning the authenticity of the Nation of Islam as genuinely Islamic. The Nation of Islam’s teaching, for example, that white people were invented to be a race of “white devils” over 6000 years ago by a mad scientist named Yakub, is often viewed with ridicule by traditional Sunni and Shia Muslims, particularly millions of white Muslims, I suppose.

There are other problems orthodox Muslims have with the Nation of Islam. The NOI was originally founded in the 1930s by Wallace D. Fard, who appears to have been from Pakistan. Fard preached that African-Americans belonged to “the Tribe of Shabazz from the Lost Nation of Asia,” who by then had been enslaved in North America for more than three centuries. Fard mixed the belief systems of Islam with Black Nationalism and argued that African-Americans should prepare for a race war and argued that Christianity was an inferior religion for slave owners, apparently unaware of the the much larger and longer historical involvement of Muslim states and powers during the so-called Arab (and later Ottoman) Slave Trade, lasting from the 7th to 19th centuries.

Indeed, ISIS is currently justifying its enslavement of Yazidis and others by pointing to the Qur’an and earlier traditions in Islam that encouraged the enslavement of one’s enemies and some at Al-Azhar University, perhaps the most prestigious institution of Sunni learning in the world, have expressed support for the idea.

In 1934 Fard reportedly disappeared, with his followers coming to believe he was an incarnation of Allah, and his birthday is now celebrated by some black Muslims as “Saviours’ Day” on February 26 each year. Viewing Fard as an incarnation of Allah is far from acceptable for most traditional Sunni Muslims, who would see it as a form of blasphemy.

Moreover, if Muhammad and early Muslims were ever partial to any race or ethnicity, it was Arabs, not sub-Saharan Africans. Qur’ans translated into any language other than Arabic are not considered true Qur’ans, but only translations of the sacred text, which must be in Arabic. During the early Arab Conquest of the 7th and 8th centuries, when perhaps 2/3 of the Christian world was conquered and the entirety of the Persian Empire, a serious debate took place over whether or not non-Arabs could even become Muslims, as the Arab origins of Islam seemed so integral to the faith.

As for my friend’s original question, as a result of our “current political and social climate” (a reference to the recent Trump election, I think) will more “African-American males be led to believe they are not valued in Western society” and, consequently, will we see more and more cases of black Americans embracing ISIS and terrorism?

It’s obviously a political charged question on a number of fronts. To begin with, it suggests that blacks are worried about a Trump presidency and its effect on the current social climate. But keep in mind that some (but not all) American blacks fear the election of any Republican, regardless of who they might be. The political left took the opportunity to paint the last two Republican presidential candidates, John McCain and Mitt Romney, as “racist.” In hindsight, some on the left have regretted the use of such rhetoric now that Trump has been elected, whom they see as far worse on racial matters than McCain or Romney, as the seemingly careless use of charges of racism have apparently deadened their effectiveness. For some on the left, concerned about this very issue, it is a bit like the story of the boy who cried wolf. The boy made up stories about the presence of a wolf and when it finally happened that a real wolf appeared, nobody believed him. Even African-Americans as well, seem not to have been overly concerned by the candidacy of Trump as he did better among black voters in the 2016 election than past Republican presidential candidates. Obama had a 91 point advantage among blacks in the 2008 election, an 87 point advantage in the 2012 election, and Hillary Clinton had an 80% advantage against Trump. So American blacks overwhelmingly support the Democratic candidate or party, but many commentators have noticed that in the recent election Trump’s support among blacks went up comparatively.

Moreover, while the Nation of Islam’s 20,000 or so supporters are very vocal and catch a lot of media attention, they are not a significant portion of the black population in the U.S. Blacks represent around 13% of the U.S. population. In a nation of 320 million, that would come out to a bit under 42 million people. If the Nation of Islam has only 20,000 or so members, then the Nation of Islam has a membership of far less than 1% of the black U.S. population. Moreover, most American blacks are overwhelmingly Christians, deeply religious in many quarters, while fewer than 1% consider themselves Muslim, and an even smaller sub-set belong to the Nation of Islam version of Islam.

But let’s assume that my friend was not referring to the Trump election, which may be the case, and instead was referring to the apparent deterioration of race relations in the U.S. in recent years (e.g. Ferguson, violent protests over police shootings, rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, targeted assassinations of police officers (white or otherwise) by black extremists, polls demonstrating that Americans see race relations at a low point, etc…). In that case, obviously the extreme and irresponsible rhetoric from some could contribute to violence. Indeed, there are some indications that it might already have done so, as a number of police officers have been slain simply for the fact that they are police officers, or in some cases simply because they were (more specifically) white police officers. Moreover, Islamic extremists, including ISIS, have seized on such efforts to try to win recruits and sympathizers to their side from the black community in the U.S., and in the case of the Phoenix suspect it seems ISIS’s propaganda clearly struck a cord, as he is reported to have posted on his Google Plus account in October, “We need to get down with this ISIS shit.” But based on his background, as provided in the story, it does not seem that ISIS was the cause of his violence or anger, but rather his embrace of ISIS’ ideology was a symptom of his pre-existing anger that had been in development long before he ever became familiar with ISIS.

But another aspect of my friend’s question used terms like “marginalized,” “disenfranchised,” and “vulnerable” to describe American blacks, suggesting (I assume) that the various types of hardships they suffer in modern U.S. society risks turning some of them into ISIS supporting terrorists. I have often felt uncomfortable about assigning terrorist acts to such causes, as such arguments only seem to go so far. There are millions of extremely poor Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, and others, often disenfranchised, vulnerable, and marginalized in the countries they live in, who do not engage in terrorism on anywhere near the same scale as we see among Muslims. As Theodore Dalrymple wrote in the wake of terror attacks in Paris and Brussels, “After all, impoverished and unemployed Christian Congolese, of whom there are many in Belgium, are not blowing themselves up in the airport and the metro.”

To be clear, I am referring to scale. There are acts of terrorism by Christians, Hindus, and others that one can point to, but they are far less common and nowhere on the same worldwide scale as one sees with acts of terror carried out by Muslims. Systematic studies, such as the Global Terrorism Index, which indexes thousands of attacks each year, have shown that other groups (even when all combined) pale in comparison to Muslims in the commission of worldwide acts of terrorism or violent religious extremism. If poverty, disenfranchisement, or vulnerability were the criteria by which one could determine who will become a terrorist, then many Christian minorities living in the Middle East and North Africa, for example, should daily be carrying out bombings and attacks against the Muslim majorities that often discriminate against them (or even persecutes them) in a far more significant way than American blacks are impacted in the United States. Instead, it seems to be the opposite, as anyone following the news on such a topic will note that Middle Eastern Christians are overwhelmingly the victims of terrorism by the majority rather than the ones committing the acts of terror. So there are important additional dynamics that need to go into the mix beyond marginalization, which in itself it not enough.

But back to my friend’s question; Will American blacks be more susceptible to the propaganda of ISIS for the reasons considered above? I wonder if the question itself could not be interpreted as a bit patronizing? If I were black and a white liberal were asking if I feel more susceptible to the lure or ISIS propaganda, I might find it annoying. As the Washington Post columnist and speech writer Michael Gearson has argued, such otherwise good willed comments may reflect “The soft bigotry of low expectations.” I’d imagine this would be the case if I were to ask the same question of the black Marines I once served with, who love their country and became Marines (in particular) to defend it precisely against ISIS and groups like them. I think they would definitely be annoyed, or even offended. But my friend’s question was only asked in the wake of the arrest of an apparent black militant convert to Islam who claimed to have been inspired by ISIS, so it is a real issue and a fair question and, knowing my friend as I do, I know there was not any ill intent in asking it. Indeed, it is important not to shy away from such questions.

My response?

I can’t predict the future. Historians are notoriously bad fortune tellers. But if I were to speculate, I doubt there will be any significant impact on the degree of violence by extreme black militants during the Trump era. Such violence, in the wake of the killing of so many police officers, for example, already seems to be high, as Trump enters office. The currently existing high level of violence is not because of Trump, but rather due to a number of other complex social factors and incidents that have taken place over the last few years. Trump could make it worse, of course, depending on what he does once in office, but he has proven to be unpredictable, already seeming to reverse course on a number of issues that he campaigned on (see examples here, here, and here). So Trump the campaigner very well may be quite different than Trump the president. Moreover, as suggested by black voting patterns in the recent election, blacks in general do not seem to have been overly concerned about Trump’s candidacy.

There will undoubtedly be more terrorist attacks in the United States in the next four to eight years, regardless of who is president. It is also certainly possible that some of them will be carried out by black militants who embrace a Nation of Islam style worldview and perhaps can be triggered by ISIS style propaganda, but whether or not the level of this particular type of ideologically inspired violence will increase beyond its current levels is ultimately anyone’s guess.

Farrakhan: Al Qaeda, ISIS Are ‘Evil Devil’ America’s ‘Illegitimate Children’ Sunday at the Hilton in Rosemont, IL, Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan blamed the United States for ISIS and al Qaeda, calling them “illegitimate children of U.S. foreign policy.”

Farrakhan said, “Some of you are afraid of the Sharia. And the enemy is looking for a moderate Muslim…No. You either are a Muslim or you’re not. There is no such thing as a moderate Muslim.”

He continued, “ISIS and al Qaeda are the illegitimate children of U.S. foreign policy. Osama bin Laden is a good man. When Russia moved into Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden and the mujaheddin went to fight to get the invader out of Afghanistan. America liked that, ‘my enemy, you fighting my enemy you my friend.’ But I’ll put friend in quotes because America is a friend to nobody.”

“They bombed so heavy in Afghanistan till Rumsfeld was laughing on television, saying there was nothing else left to bomb. These are murders. This is Shaytan [Devil in Islam]. Open your eyes and see that the devil is real. Then he lies now and takes our young boys—black, brown, red, yellow and poor white—and sends us over there to die and we come back maimed and broken—mentally and spiritually. So al Qaeda now is angry with America. ‘So whatever we can destroy of America we’ll do it,’ that’s al Qaeda. That’s America’s illegitimate child.”

“America goes into every nation. She is in Iran fermenting disturbance. She is in Syria, so when the Syrian people rose up—they got legitimate grievances maybe against Assad, but that’s an internal thing. They should solve it. But no. America sends weapons and then all of a sudden now thousands upon thousands Syrians are dead and now they are fleeing Syria. Who created the refugee problem? It got so bad that yesterday morning I saw a Syrian woman with her baby in her arms lay her head down on a railroad track to allow a train to decapitate her and kill her offspring. And as I looked at the little boy, three-years-old, washed up on the shore, I said this is a problem created by American foreign policy.”

“Justice is not only the law that distinguishes between right and wrong, justice is the weapon that God will use in the day of judgement. What makes justice a weapon? As man soweth the same shall he also reap. And when you think of all the evil that has been poured out by America, can she take it when those chickens — as bother Malcolm said —come home to roost?” he added.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/groups

The Islamic State (Terrorist Organization)

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-114shrg22714/html/CHRG-114shrg22714.htm

ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), also known as ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), is a Sunni jihadist group with a particularly violent ideology that calls itself a caliphate and claims religious authority over all Muslims. It was inspired by al Qaida but later publicly expelled from it. RAND terrorism experts have analyzed the group's financing, management, and organization; its savvy use of social media for recruitment and fundraising; and the instability that spawned the group as a regional problem in the Middle East.

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/timeline-the-rise-spread-and-fall-the-islamic-state

Since its founding in 1930, the Nation of Islam (NOI) has been notorious for its antisemitism, homophobia, and anti-white bigotry. The extreme rhetoric and activities of its leaders have earned the NOI a prominent position in the ranks of organized hate.

Since its founding in 1930, the Nation of Islam (NOI) has grown into one of the wealthiest and best-known Black nationalist organizations in the United States, offering numerous programs and events designed to uplift Black Americans. However, these efforts to support and empower Black communities in the United States are overshadowed by the organization’s lengthy record of antisemitism, homophobia, and connections to prominent white supremacists. The NOI often reframes the serious issues facing the Black community, such as economic inequality and police brutality, to fit within their antisemitic ideology, blaming Jews rather than the systemic racism infecting American institutions.

The seeds of antisemitism are deeply rooted in the founding of NOI. Early on Elijah Muhammad preached about greedy Jews and advanced the longstanding antisemitic trope that Jews turned Jesus Christ in to the authorities. During the early 1980s, Louis Farrakhan called Hitler “a very great man” and Judaism a “dirty religion.” (Some say he called it a “gutter religion.”) He has frequently reiterated the “dirty religion” theme along with references to the “so-called Jew” (arguing that the “true” Jews were black North Africans) and constant accusations of secret Jewish control of financial and political institutions. Farrakhan has also blamed Israel and Jews for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

One of the most baseless attacks came in the form of three-volume publication titled The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews. The first volume seeks to prove Jewish people initiated the transatlantic slave trade by highlighting isolated examples of Jewish merchants’ involvement. Subsequent volumes expand on this widely debunked claim, insisting Jews continue to exploit and control Black people and even ludicrously credit Jews with creating of the Second Ku Klux Klan.

The NOI also pushes conspiracy theories about Jews collaborating with the U.S. government to de-populate the Black community to justify their homophobic beliefs. Farrakhan has claimed homosexuality is the result of a chemical reaction and has convinced his followers that widespread homosexuality is part of a secret agenda being pushed by government scientists. Farrakhan’s belief is that by turning the black population gay, the government is trying to target and chemically castrate Black men. He has also asserted that homosexuality is “created by Satan and his manipulation of biology and chemistry.”

In addition to the organization’s notorious antisemitism and homophobia, the NOI preaches a theology of innate black superiority over whites. They believe whites are a biologically inferior, satanic race of “blue eyed devils” and oppose racial integration. Today the NOI continues to support a separate state for Black Americans.

The NOI’s beliefs and religious practices diverge significantly from traditional Islamic theology. Its belief in racial superiority clashes with the mainstream Islamic principle that all are equal under God and its teachings regarding God, Prophet Muhammad, and the afterlife are seen by some as heretical. As a result, mainstream Islamic groups reject the group and do not consider its members to be Muslims.

The deeply antisemitic, homophobic and bigoted rhetoric of its leaders, including top minister Louis Farrakhan, have earned the NOI a prominent position in the ranks of organized hate.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS
“Those of you that say that you are Jews, I will not even give you the honor of calling you a Jew. You’re not a Jew. You’re so-called. You’re Satan. And it’s my job now to pull the cover off of Satan.”
– Louis Farrakhan, The Criterion speech, July 4, 2020

“Pedophilia and sexual perversion institutionalized in Hollywood and the entertainment industries can be traced to Talmudic principles and Jewish influence. Now Jewish influence – satanic influence under the name of Jew...The wicked practices that govern their industries are largely justified and influenced by such Talmudic principles. The pervasive rape culture, Hollywood’s casting couch, sex trafficking and prostitution, the age-old buck breaking process that emasculates Black men and corrupts Black women.”
– Louis Farrakhan, Saviours’ Day speech, Feb. 17, 2019

“These same Jews that are attacking the Minister are the blood relatives of the slave ship owners.”
– Nuri Muhammad, “Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy the Black Family,” November 2018

“Also pushing the federal government are the wicked members of the Jewish community, who have opposed every good deed and all of the good works of a good man.”
– Richard B. Muhammad, “Straight Words,” Final Call, Volume 37 Number 35, Aug. 14, 2018

“These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. … It’s the wicked Jews, the false Jews, that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It’s the wicked Jews, false Jews, that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!”
Louis Farrakhan, Saviours’ Day speech, Feb. 26, 2006

“Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. … Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.”
Speech by NOI national official Khalid Muhammad, Nov. 29, 1993

“Jews have been conclusively linked to the greatest criminal endeavor ever undertaken against an entire race of people the black African Holocaust. The effects of this unspeakable tragedy are still being felt among the peoples of the world at this very hour.”
Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews (NOI book), 1991

“The Jews don’t like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that’s a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He wasn’t a great man for me as a black person, but he was a great German. Now, I’m not proud of Hitler’s evils against Jewish people, but that’s a matter of record. He raised Germany up from nothing. Well, in a sense you could say there’s a similarity in that we are raising our people up from nothing.”
Louis Farrakhan, radio interview, March 11, 1984

“Integration is against the Desire and Will of God Who Wants and must Do that which is written He Will Come and Do: Restore the earth to its rightful owner (Black Man).”
Elijah Muhammad, “Our Saviour Has Arrived,” 1974

BACKGROUND
The Nation of Islam (NOI) was founded in 1930 by Wallace Fard Muhammad in Detroit, Michigan. Fard claimed that he was Allah (God), and his mission was to restore Black people to their original faith. Following Fard’s mysterious disappearance in 1934, Elijah Muhammad took over as the leader of the NOI.

In his new role, Elijah Muhammed helped cement the NOI’s ideology. He taught his followers that over 6,000 years ago, the black race lived in a paradise on earth that was destroyed by the evil wizard Yacub, who created the white “devil.” Elijah Muhammad also worked to expand the organization’s power and influence by creating a paramilitary wing, increasing recruitment efforts, purchasing farmland in Michigan, and founding businesses and educational ventures in several states.

The NOI’s influence and notoriety grew throughout the 1950s and 1960s. The advent of the civil rights movement and the violent reactions it provoked converged to make NOI’s message resonate with many in the Black community. The NOI preached that Black elevation could come only through a radical separation from the structures of white oppression and depicted white people as the “blue eyed devil.” In contrast with other civil rights leaders who advocated for nonviolent resistance, NOI leaders embraced militancy and advocated for self-defense.

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