FBI Racially Profiling 'Black Identity Extremists'

[TexasTowelie]

As white supremacists were preparing for the "Unite the Right" demonstration in Charlottesville, which resulted in the murder of Heather Heyer in August 2017, the FBI's counterterrorism division produced an intelligence assessment warning of a very different—though actually non-existent—threat: "Black Identity Extremists." The report appeared to be the first time the term had been used to identify a movement, according to Foreign Policy, which broke the story.

"But former government officials and legal experts said no such movement exists, and some expressed concern that the term is part of a politically motivated effort to find an equivalent threat to white supremacists," Foreign Policy reported.

"It's classic Hoover-style labeling with little bit of maliciousness and euphemism wrapped up together," said William Maxwell, a Washington University professor working on a book about FBI monitoring of black writers. "The language—black identity extremist—strikes me as weird and really a continuation of the worst of Hoover's past."

"The corporate media [has] covered the FBI report on 'black identity extremists' in narrow or misleading ways," Project Censored noted, citing examples from the New York Times, Fox News and NBC News. "Coverage like this both draws focus away from the active white supremacist movement and feeds the hate and fear on which such a movement thrives."

https://www.sfreporter.com/news/coverstories/2018/10/17/the-real-fight-against-fake-news/
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[laserhaas]

1. FBI began white, stayed white,

And was sued over being white (Mormon'ly) so.

Before these 2 decades, the Los Angeles Wilshire Blvd FBI office settled the racial bias lawsuit; and the head of it resigned to take over security of Mormon Church.

But it hasn't stopped.

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/25/us/black-fbi-agent-s-ordeal-meanness-that-never-let-up.html

Then, again, in 2009,


https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104074962
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They just get spanked, a bit; but continue on.

[brer cat]

2. Oh, look...over there...

a scary black man! Works every time.

I guess it is no surprise that the FBI is giving trump and the white supremacists cover, but the media should be calling them out.