9. Then there was the fact that, because he was cool with the Black Power leaders & the nonviolent resistance advocates, his apartment was basically the spot where civil rights leaders settled their beefs.
7. Or when a white woman kissed him on the cheek at the Selma-to-Montgomery March which made white people so mad that networks stopped the broadcast which made Black people so mad the networks continued which made white people so mad the KKK murdered a white woman & a black guy
6. Belafonte was so paranoid about being spied on & mistrusting women that he went to therapy. He eventually hired his therapists husband, who managed Frank Sinatra, as his manager. His paranoia eventually made him fire them both
5. There was that time Harry Belafonte got the Smothers Brothers kicked off TV
3. Harry Belafonte was the one who bailed out MLK in Birmingham when he was wrote the infamous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” condemning white moderates. He also funded the Freedom Rides.
2. Belafonte never took credit for the idea alone, but he helped push the idea of sending white kids down to Mississippi for Freedom Summer & the Freedom Rides, which he helped fund.
One of those was John C Raines, a white minister who was a Freedom Rider & at Freedom Summer
Raines was just an advocate for peace…
Until he was arrested on the Freedom Rides.
Then, a white kid just like him was murdered during Freedom Summer. Then, Viola Luizzo happened. Then White terrorists in Selma killed James Reeb, a MINISTER like Raines.
He was radicalized
On March 8, 1971, while Belafonte was watching the Ali Frazier fight, Raines & his friends broke into the FBI office in Media PA and stole a bunch of fines.
The files they stole were the first solid evidence of COINTELPRO
It’s how we know about Gary Rowe
Rowe was a Klansman and a paid FBI informant who probably participated in the 16th St Baptist bombing, the attack on the Freedom Riders, the murder of Viola Luizzo among other things
It’s how we know the FBI was spying on King, the black Panthers & the civil rights movement
It’s how we know the FBI she willed Fred Hampton & Marcus Garvey & every significant Black movement that ever existed
How did they do it?
Well, someone infiltrated the inner circle of civil rights leaders from every generation and was reporting it back to the CIA AND the FBI
Then there was a woman who could get regular citizens to tell her their biggest secrets.
How?
Well it turns out:
1. The therapist and her husband WERE spies!!!
Jay Richard Kennedy was one of the “main sources” for the FBI (until he started a cult). It’s CRAZY
If you have a Facebook account go to the “Events” section, and search for “Stop the Violence” events in your area
If you aren’t on FB, you can do it on @eventbrite too.
Now, do the same for “Black Lives Matter” or “police brutality”
Shocking isn’t it?
It doesn’t matter where you live, I can almost GUARANTEE YOU that the effort to stop what white people call “Black on Black crime” outweighs the efforts to stop police brutality.
When I first heard this, I felt the same way, until I learned what the "classical education model" actually means.
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Because I was homeschooled for the first part of my education, I'm really just learning how schools teach things. When I heard the phrase "classical education," I knew what it meant
My mom was big on the classics. I've written many times how she loved the Socratic Method:
This is part of classical education. It focuses on the tradition of western education, philosophy, science, etc. as a tool for teaching students.
For instance, because 60% of English words have Latin & Greek Origin...
The Critical Race Theory version of the Easter Story
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When the children of Israel escaped slavery, according to their history books, God gave Moses a book of laws, including a process to make amends for their sins.
For instance, if you know something is wrong and you don't speak up, or do something about it, you are a sinner.
Luckily, there was a cure for that.
They could bring one of their female goat or sheep to a priest for a sacrifice. Back then, lamb meat was very expensive and it NEVER went on sale. And because female livestock make other livestock, sin was VERY costly.
Kelly Clarkson seems the kind of person who’d stand in line behind you at Starbucks and she’d hear your order & say “OMG, that’s my exact order!” and start up a long conversation about her brand new puppy and you’d just tell her you were mailing some stuff for your aunt Earline…
Then you’d run into her 4 years later after you missed your flight and she says “OMG I’m heading there now!” & offer you a ride on her private jet and she’d ask how Aunt Earline is doing & introduce you to the crew as “her good friend Mike” and then you’d never see her again
And then one day you’re at your Aunt Earline’s house watching TV and you tell your aunt Earline “I think I know that lady” and your aunt says: “Nigga, stop lying, you don’t know no goddamned Kelly Clarkson” and you watch for a few more minutes and you say:
For generations, the emperor’s leadership went unchallenged because everyone knew the emperor was the wisest strongest warrior in the empire.
How did they know?
The emperor’s clothes.
The didn’t have to pass an emperor SAT test. There was no single elimination emperor tournament. But the emperor ONLY wore purple.
The original emperor had a fleet of ships that harvested sea snails that produce purple dye. But the snails went extinct.
This basically made purple clothe rare & expensive. You had to INHERIT purple or either have enough to buy it
But in empire schools, the history textbooks only had pictures of people wearing purple. To get a good job or attend a formal event, you had to wear a a dash of purple.
Have I ever told you how I got my driver's license?
I've written about this before but I've never told it here.
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Because of her vision, my mom didn't drive. I graduated from HS early, and when I left for college, I didn't know how to drive.
When I pledged Omega Psi Phi (IYKYK) the bruhs drove me
I was accepted to grad school but, to pay for it, I applied for this experimental program.
Applicants had to create a curriculum for a class & course of study. My class was called "Race as an Economic Construct." I was the only Black applicant & the program director was a Black woman. She suggested I take an obscure class that might help me get selected.