by KenRaySun
When the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was founded one of its main priorities was to slander, undermine, and destroy Black men whether in sports or politics.Some Black male athletes were targeted for so-called subversive activities, while some were targeted mainly because they were successful. Black male sports stars such as Jack Johnson, Jesse Owens, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Muhammad Ali, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos had FBI files.
Regarding heavy weight boxing champ Jack Johnson, the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation, which was the FBI before the FBI existed, used the ‘Mann Act’ to persecute Johnson. The Mann Act forbade the transport of women over state lines for "immoral purposes," and was often used to persecute Black men who engaged in relationships with white women.
In October 1919, a young J Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation’s general intelligence division, targeted Marcus Garvey for investigation and harassment because of his alleged association with radical elements that were agitating the Negro movement. Garvey was indicted on trumped up wire fraud charges, sentenced to prison, and deported.
Another prominent Black male intellectual activist during Garvey's period W.E.B. DuBois was targeted by the FBI. The FBI also targeted Black male writers like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright; targeted actors Paul Robeson and Harry Belafonte.
Throughout its history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has viewed Black self-determination as a top national security threat! One of the most notorious and repressive programs to neutralize Black male leaders and organizations was “COINTELPRO”, designed to disrupt and neutralize through criminalization and assassinations.
Many prominent Black male leaders and their organizations such as Dr. King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, and hundreds of others were targeted, repressed, and murdered by the COINTELPRO operations during the 1960’s and 70’s. In 2017 under then Black president Obama administration, the FBI had invented a new domestic terrorism program category it called the “Black Identity Extremism Movement” that targeted the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement.
COINTELPRO in the Hip-Hop Era
"The Houston police department, the IRS, the DEA and the FBI, all had James Prince and the rapper Scarface and really the whole 5th Ward of Houston, under surveillance, in their hearings. I’m sitting right there. They’re giving me paperwork. I’m actually able to see who the undercover agents were. They admit that they had close to 400 informants inside of the 5th Ward that were related to this investigation. So, I think eventually they arrested Scarface on some possession of marijuana charge. Does that really warrant 400 informants and FBI, DEA, the IRS?" - Cedric Muhammad
A 2004 Miami Herald story confirmed that a special unit within the New York City Police Department was created and devoted to place Black rappers under surveillances due to the defiance and rebelliousness of hip-hop culture and its potential to level-up; there were files on notable rappers like Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Cam'ron, Busta Rhymes, and many more.
Tupac Shakur, the famous rapper, was on the FBI’s file since he was a little boy, his family were Black Panther Party members and were targeted by NYPD Surveillance Unit and FBI COINTELPRO repression.
The FBI and the DEA targeted Black gangs like the Bloods, Crips, and others criminalizing them by the CIA saturating Black communities with ‘crack-cocaine’, the war on drugs resulting in Black male mass incarceration.
Yes, federal law enforcement continues to repress Black men through conspiracy charges and indictments we see it with Suge Knight, Young Thug, Puff Daddy, and now Little Durk. Yes, Black folks let us understand this too, the FEDS use employed Black male ‘agent provocateurs’ and ‘paid informants’ against Black male individuals, groups, and organizations they target.
An agent provocateur is a payroll FED person ‘infiltrator’ who infiltrates to entice criminal activities or falsely implicates those targeted in partaking in illegal acts to ‘ruin reputations or entice criminal prosecution against them’.
Informants are non-employee individuals generally ‘insiders’ who supply information to the FEDS on a confidential basis and receive compensation for their information; they receive reduced criminal charges or sentencing for their support.
Let me make this clear the FEDS don’t care nothing about the Black victims of Puff’s perversion, he was useful to them running around talking about "vote or die”, now he’s expendable to the white power structure and will be dealt with 'prosecuted' like Bill Cosby; Puff’s billion dollars don’t mean nothing to them!
Yes, the FEDS don’t care nothing about the deaths of Pac, Biggie, Young Dolph, King Vonn, Pop Smoke, PMB Rock, Nipsey Hussle, Takeoff, etc., they’re just collateral damage in the FEDS ongoing low-intensity criminalization war waged against Black Men.
Political commentator Cedric Muhammad published a series of Rap COINTELPRO articles where he stated:
“In the case of the Notorious BIG, ATF, New York City and Los Angeles undercover police officers and, I believe, the FBI were all following his car at the very moment he was shot. Lil' Cease of Junior Mafia has publicly acknowledged that he was shown photographs of himself, Puffy, Biggie, the car, by the FBI after the murder took place and the FBI questioned him about certain individuals who were being photographed. So, Voleta Wallace asked the question best, "Why, if the FBI was following my son the night he was murdered, why don't they know who is responsible for the murder?"
Yeah, the FEDS is the fire that heats the big Black Pot of ‘Black Oppression Soup’ that Black males find themselves in; they also mix the ‘ingredients’ of drugs, guns, and informants in the soup; they cook the soup up real hot and ‘serves’ it up with indictments, RICO conspiracy charges, warrants, and long-term prison sentences.
Then the media serves us this FEDS cooked up Black male criminal soup spectacle 'drama' on the mainstream news and then Black YouTubers regurgitate it with their spin on it for us to gossip and give our countless opinions on; this is a sick and tired recipe for Black male disaster, when are we going to wake-up?
