Ain't nothing changed

Then:

The FBI was obsessed with Martin Luther King, who they saw as the most powerful and popular leader of the the Civil Rights movement. In Racial Matters, Kenneth O'Reilly quoted a number of top FBI agents who said:

"Hoover dreamed of destroying Dr. King and replacing him with a "manageable black leader. And a few of the more confident FBI officials, William Sullivan included, tried to find one. In January 1964, when Sullivan proposed to remove King from his pedestal, he suggested that the Bureau replace King with the "right kind" of black leader." (142) In fact, in 1964, the FBI sent King a tape they had made of him having sex with women other than his wife and they threatened to release it to the public if he didn't resign his leadership of the movement. But the letter they sent with the tape blackmailing him when even further. The FBI wrote:

"King, look into your heart. You know you are a complete fraud and a great liability to all of us Negroes. White people in this country have enough frauds of their own but I am sure they don't have one at this times that is any where near your equal. You are no clergyman and you know it. I repeat you are a colossal fraud and an evil, vicious one at that."

and the letter went on to say:

"King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have 34 days in which to do...it. You are done. There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation."

Here the FBI was actually suggesting that King should commit suicide to save himself from these embarrassing public revelations.

Now:

By the end of the [2000 Republican National] convention, the future national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and secretary of state, Colin L. Powell, had emerged as black conservative stars, and a concerted effort by Republicans "to invent new black leaders" -- as former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) once put it -- was well underway.

[. . .] In 1983, when he was a young congressman during the Reagan administration, Gingrich sparked a controversy when he said: "It is in the interest of the Republican Party and Ronald Reagan to invent new black leaders, so to speak. People who have a belief in discipline, hard work and patriotism, the kind of people who applauded Reagan's actions in [invading] Grenada." The idea still applies, he said.

In a recent interview, Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) denounced Gingrich's statement as "patronizing and insulting to black people" then and now, and said such comments are "probably why Republicans get the bad results that they do" when they attempt to reach black voters.

Conservative het white men are just so damned helpful. I don't think there's a more helpful group of people on the face of the planet.

Oddly, after they help folks, they end up richer while the recipients of the help end up fucked and abandoned, but I'm sure this is all in the past, they're recognized the error of their ways, etc., etc. -- see that Chomsky piece I quoted a few days back.

Can only speak for myself here, obviously, but if you assholes really want to help?

Kill yourselves.

Thank you so very much.

The Mgt.