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Think about the reverse though - the days where one could be branded as unpatriotic communist for reading Marx in the US are not a long time ago!
by makmanalp 11y ago
Think about the reverse though - the days where one could be branded as unpatriotic communist for reading Marx in the US are not a long time ago!
- e12e 11y agoIn the documentary "Black Power Mixtape" Kweli mentions that he's called in to chat with the FBI because he listened to Stokely Carmichael speeches: "Carmichael’s words continue to resonate 40 years later, says Kweli, who was stopped in an airport after 9/11, by “the FBI, the CIA, and the TSA,” because the government knew that he had been listening to Carmichael’s speeches. What these agencies and other authorities who remain fearful of black power miss, says Kweli, is that Carmichael, a “fiery speaker, “was “just a regular dude.” Exhibit A, for Kweli, is the interview with Mabel Carmichael, where the son respects his mother’s strength and dignity." http://www.popmatters.com/review/148310-the-black-power-mixtape-1967-1975/ http://www.popmatters.com/review/148310-the-black-power-mixt... (Highly recommend the movie, as a wonderful window into the recent past)