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[blackzeus]

She bad

they just dont make em like that anymore.

Just read her bio on Wiki, she used to be a stripper and a white dude turned her on to politics

Brown grew up in the ghetto of North Philadelphia, with a single, working mother and an absent father. Despite desperate poverty, Brown’s mother worked to provide for Elaine’s private schooling, music lessons, and nice clothing. As a young woman, Elaine had few African-American friends but spent most of her time with her white friends. After graduating from Philadelphia High School for Girls, she studied at Temple University for less than a semester. After withdrawing from Temple Brown moved to Los Angeles, California to try being a professional songwriter.[4]

Upon arriving in California with little money and few contacts, Brown got work as a cocktail waitress at the strip club The Pink p*ssycat. While working at the Pink p*ssycat she met Jay Kennedy, a married white fiction writer, and the two became lovers. Kennedy was the first person to politicize and radicalize Brown. Because of the thorough education on the Civil Rights Movement, Capitalism, and Communism, that Kennedy gave her, Brown became involved with the Black Liberation Movement. After living together for a brief time in the Hollywood Hills Hotel, the pair parted ways.[5] After this pivotal relationship, Brown's involvement in politics grew and she began working for the radical newspaper Harambee.[6] Soon after, Brown became the first representative of the Black Student Alliance to the Black Congress in California. In April 1968, after the assassination of Martin Luther King Junior, she attended her first meeting of the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party.[7]

^^look at her figure tho, she probably was bad back in the day

 

[WickedGames]

Ultimate makin white folk mad pic..peep the niqqa in the front row with the my nikka" look

Spoiler

Also

(Old soccer pic when racism was a big problem..Barnes is kicking off a banana that was thrown at him before he goes on to style on them kaks )

 

[iPod Raheem 2.0]

This was a GREAT Documentary. I def reccommend it.

Was just thinking about making a thread on that doc. One of the best Ive seen.

Let me know when you do. I'll be in that bytch with 5 stars and pos rep.

breh i cant find that doc on youtube

help

Netflix got it

 

[blackzeus]

She bad

they just dont make em like that anymore.

I take it back, at this b*tch, she ain't no hero:

In Brown's book [10], she references having met, fallen in love with and cohabitated with Jay Richard Kennedy (aka Jay Richard Solomonick) from 1965-1968. Kennedy was, she says, a white man who 'taught her how to appreciate her blackness' and that his love caused her to join 'The Movement'. She states that she knew and admired that fact that he had been an accomplished OSS officer (precursor to the CIA) and that the protagonist of the novel that Kennedy wrote (during their three year relationship), "The Chairman" was a CIA agent tasked with 'traveling to China to kill Chairman Mao Tse Tung, the then Chinese Communist leader. In his research, the late Philip H. Melanson, former Chancellor Professor of Policy Studies, and chair of the Political Science Department at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth made over 95 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. These requests, which resulted in the release of over 200,000 pages of federal government documents, revealed that Jay Richard Kennedy was in fact then CIA U.S. Domestic Security Branch Informant A.

Jay Richard Kennedy was the agency's KEY informant within Rev. Martin Luther King's inner circle. [11]. Historically, Jay Richard Kennedy was in fact from 1939-1942 an agent of the US Bureau of Narcotics assigned to Latin America. During WWII, Kennedy became an agent of the OSS. He later was in short order, manager for both Frank Sinatra and Harry Belafonte (who summarily fired him), a part owner of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, full owner of a prominent Wall Street brokerage that bore his name, a sitting member of the New York Stock Exchange, owner of an electronics firm in Canada specializing in radio proximity artillery fuses for the US military in Vietnam, and from the late 1960s, concurrently, head of the American Psychological Association.

Curiously, about the time that Brown met Kennedy he was also reporting directly to the then CIA Domestic Security Branch on what were called 'Civil Rights Matters'. In fact, on 8 June 1965, Jay Richard Kennedy reported to the Chief of the CIA Security Research Section (SRS) that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was "a Maoist". Kennedy further reported that "Martin Luther King, Jr. is moving in a way that is indicative that he is being controlled by Peking Line Communists." Additionally, On 11 May 1965, Kennedy reported, "Martin Luther King MUST be removed from the leadership of the Negro movement, and his removal must come from within not from without. (Kennedy) feels that somewhere in the Negro movement, at the top, there must be a Negro leader who is "clean' who could step into the vacuum if Martin Luther King were either exposed or assassinated." It was the studied opinion of both Dr. Philip Melanson, Dr. William F. Pepper (a close friend of the King family) that Jay Kennedy deliberately set in motion certain intelligence events that culminated in the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, three years after Kennedy's paranoid conclusions were handed to the SRS section of CIA[12], [13], [14]. Ironically, shortly before Kennedy's 1991 death, he confessed to having 'provided certain information regarding Dr. King and Civil Rights to CIA' , in the seminal documentary " 'Who Killed Martin Luther King?' " by French filmmaker Michel Parbot.

Writer David Horowitz has accused Brown of ordering the murder of Betty Van Patter, a former Black Panther Party accountant and mother of three, in 1973.[18] Horowitz alleges that Van Patter intended to go public with illegalities she had uncovered in the Black Panthers account books, and that Brown had Van Patter murdered because these allegations would have hindered Brown's city council bid.[19][20] Brown's 1992 book A Taste of Power claimed that Van Patter had a criminal past and had been convicted of drug trafficking. After protests by the Van Patter family, these claims were removed from subsequent editions of the book as they turned out to be a fabrication by Elaine Brown.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

I take it back, at this b*tch, she ain't no hero:

dirty bytch

 

[Patriarch]

breh i cant find that doc on youtube

help

yea , I saw it on Netflix , wish I knew where else to find it.

I take it back, at this b*tch, she ain't no hero:

I ordered her book , got a hardcover for like 5 bucks. Read a brief overview , and some shyt about her always wanting to be white smh. Shes a dirty bytch lol. Ill read it though just for the heck of it. Still cant get over the fact she used to strip

 

[lachreyatarbabypits]

Ultimate makin white folk mad pic..peep the niqqa in the front row with the my nikka" look

Spoiler

Also

(Old soccer pic when racism was a big problem..Barnes is kicking off a banana that was thrown at him before he goes on to style on them kaks )

at the one black guy grinning.

 

[Danie84]

Saw this man on 60 Minutes last night. Such an inspiration.

Freeman Hrabowski (Mathematician and President of the UMBC)

At 12, he marched in the Children's March. Hosed down, spat on, and thrown in jail for five days.

At 15, he went to college and studied Math, where he began a career of higher education.

 

[Patriarch]

Claudia Jones
(black nationalist and communist. Claudia was deported from the U.S. for communist activities , and is now buried to the left of her hero Karl Marx. )

 

[Thebadguy]

Happy Juneteenth.

 

[shoo_laced]

Sidney Poitier

Marion Motley

Louis Armstrong

Muddy Waters

 

[Nintendough]

Ernie Isley is one of the greatest guitar players ever. He deserves much more credit than he gets.

 

[DalMem]

3 Black Brothers came together and decided their own destiny without the CACS having any input. They made the CACS owned NBA mad and succeed.

 

[emoney]

3 Black Brothers came together and decided their own destiny without the CACS having any input. They made the CACS owned NBA mad and succeed.

yea I'm definitely gonna dedicate a post IF they win on thursday nite

CAC's are

 

[emoney]

The Mau Mau Uprising (also known as the Mau Mau Revolt, Mau Mau Rebellion and the Kenya Emergency) was a military conflict that took place in Kenya between 1952 and 1960. It involved a Kikuyu-dominated anti-colonial group called Mau Mau and elements of the British Army, auxiliaries and anti-Mau Mau Kikuyu.[1][7]

The movement was unable to capture widespread public support.[8] The capture of rebel leader Dedan Kimathi on 21 October 1956 signalled the ultimate defeat of the Mau Mau uprising, and essentially ended the British military campaign.[9]

It has been argued that the conflict help set the stage for Kenyan independence in December 1963.[10] It created a rift between the European colonial community in Kenya and the Home Office in London,[2] but also resulted in violent divisions within the Kikuyu community.