• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Popular modern peaceful movements led by people such as Martin Luther King in the US and Ghandi in colonial India were parallel backed by violent groups such as the Black Panthers in the US and a bunch of small and very active violent groups in India.

    I’m not big on this area of history, but wasnt much of the “evil” of the black panther party just straight up propaganda from COINTELPRO and other federal programs designed to undermine and villify them via any means necessary to avoid having black people stand up for themselves, and having white people support them?

    And ignores a lot of the public good they did feeding the needy and trying to cop watch in the era when there were no tiny pocket sized high resolution cameras with which to catch the police misdeeds on?