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In Feb 1965, MLK was in a Selma jail when Malcolm X rolled into town.
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White politicians panicked, they thought Malcolm was going to start a riot.

But Malcolm didn't come to start a fight. He sought out Coretta and explained his strategy:

“If the white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr. King.”

They were never enemies, They had different pathways to the same goal.

They were two Black men playing a role to pit a racist system against itself.

See exactly how Malcolm and Martin backed the government into a corner:
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In 1966, local black farmers in Alabama created their own political party
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The Alabama sheriff swore to attack any Black person who showed up for the convention at his courthouse.

The Justice Department sent a lawyer down to warn John Hulett and the farmers "not to start any trouble."

LCFO Chairman Chairman John Hulett replied 900 Black farmers are coming armed. If he attacks, we going to fire back.

Terrified, the feds forced the sheriff to stand down.

On May 3, 900 Black folks held their convention and officially launched the Lowndes County Freedom Organization.

The farmers won because white violence relies on one-way traffic and shatters the moment you send traffic back their way.

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In 1959, a mob dragged Mack Charles Parker from a Mississippi jail and murdered him. tinyurl.com/3h2m7su4

The FBI investigated, identified the killers, and handed the evidence to a local grand jury.

The grand jury looked at the FBI's evidence and returned ZERO indictments.

See, A grand jury is not a trial.

There is no defense attorney, no cross-examination, and no public record.

The prosecutor possesses absolute control over what the jurors hear or don’t hear.

They can indict a ham sandwich, or make a murder disappear.

This is the exact system created to wash away any accountability in the death of Nolan Wells

Read my Article: The Illusion of Justice
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“There ain't no jury in the State of Mississippi gonna convict a white man for killing a negro”

-Samuel Bowers

He said this after ordering the Klan to firebomb Vernon Dahmer’s home for helping Black folks vote.

Bowers walked free for 32 years.

60 years later, not a whole lot has changed.

If you would like to learn more I did a video on Nolan Wells:
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History will tell you Nat Turner story died at the gallows. https://youtu.be/-KoyN_u0_W8

They miss the part where he terrified the white establishment so much, they slaughtered 120 Black men, women, and children in retaliation.

They destroyed his body to erase any memory of hm

They boiled his flesh into grease, took pieces of him as souvenirs, and apparently even consumed parts of his body.

Centuries later, we still don't know exactly what happened to his remains.

This is the 190-year mystery of Nat Turner's missing body:

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In 1963, Ku Klux Klansmen blew up the 16th Street Baptist Church, murdering four little Black girls. tinyurl.com/4vruwuzn

Almost immediately, the FBI knew exactly who did it.

They knew who built the bomb, and who planted it.

But instead of making an arrest, J. Edgar Hoover closed the case

The federal government actively shielded child-murderers to cover their own asses.

All because the FBI had a paid informants embedded within the Klan, bringing them to justice me bidding to the public, that they were complicit in domestic terror

Read: Why the FBI Protected the Klan
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When the parades ended, America didn’t treat Jesse Owens like a hero. substack.com/home/post/p-214944293

They handed him a bill.

Just months after winning four gold medals in Berlin, the fastest man alive was locked in a desperate hustle to feed his family. He didn't get a shoe contract or a cereal endorsement.

Instead, he had to barnstorm across the country with an all-Black basketball team for a small cut of the gate. He tried to open a dry-cleaning business, but it went bankrupt.

Desperate for cash, he pumped gas, smiling for white customers who asked to see his gold medals while he washed their windshields.

He even stooped to racing against horses at county fairs for money.

And the exact same federal government that paraded his victories to the world as a symbol of democracy? They had the IRS to hunt him down for massive back taxes.

Once America extracted the glory, then sent Jesse Owens to collections

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Under Jim Crow, local white store owners held a monopoly. https://youtu.be/Fua36HgaZj8

They’d refuse to sell quality tools and firearms to Black folks, or they'd jack the prices up 300%. Argue about it, and you risked your life.

Then came the Sears catalog.

Folks realized they could bypass that local economy entirely just by mailing a money order up North. By federal law, the postman had to deliver your $2 shoes or your $12 shotgun, no questions asked.

Local merchants were so mad they threw literal catalog bonfires, but they couldn’t stop the mail.

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When Malcolm X called the 1963 March on Washington a "farce,"
His critics called him a bitter, but he wasn’t wrong. tinyurl.com/38jap2j7

The original plan wasn't for a peaceful rally.

Bayard Rustin and A. Phillip Randolph wanted to paralyze DC with sit-ins and blockades.

The Kennedy Administration freaked out when they heard this.

Soon they also realized they couldn't stop 250,000 Black citizens from showing up, they stole the movement.

They handed down non-negotiable rules:

No camping on the lawn. All protest signs must be pre-approved and Everyone out of the city by sundown.

They even wired a kill switch to the sound booth and forced John Lewis to rewrite his speech minutes before he took the stage.

And just in case anyone forgot their place, the Pentagon mobilized 19,000 federal troops outside the city limits.

The government was fully prepared to go to war if the crowd got too rowdy.

Read How the Feds turned a grassroots protest was turned into a photo op.
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There was no written law during Jim Crow that officially banned Black folks from eating vanilla ice cream. tinyurl.com/55duz762

But across much of the South, unwritten customs treated "pure white" vanilla as a privilege reserved for white patrons.

it was only sold to Black customers on holidays like the Fourth of July.

With segregated soda fountains refused service.

Black folks used native Southern pecans toasted in butter and folded into fresh churned cream and created Butter Pecan ice cream.

Butter Pecan isn't just your mothers favorite flavor, It's super Black

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