Not really. In fact, the KKK was very active well into the 1970s & 80s. In parts of Alabama during the 1980s they even developed something similar to military camps. I actually saw them in Mississippi, while still a student, armed with military weapons. There was never anything like the war on the Black Movement, and especially the Black Panther Party, inflicted on the KKK by the US government. Nothing like the assassinations of Fred Hampton and Marx Clark. Indeed, it was the Black Panther Party, not the KKK, which J. Edgar Hoover publicly claimed to be the "greatest threat" to the internal security of the USA. He even regarded the Panthers as more dangerous than the Communists!
-Savant
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The Black Movement not only created a wave of popular Black insurgency, but inspired a wave of youth, Latino and Women liberationist insurgency as well. Much of the radical student activism had its roots in Civil Rghts insurgency. Mario Savio, one of the best known leaders of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, was initially part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. One year later he's involved in the student movement and using skills he learned in the Black Movement. Our movement, the activism of our 1960s forbears, sought ultimately not only OUR liberation, but ultimately the liberation of EVERYONE.
-Savant
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In fact, I know that Western racist imperialism is the underlying cause of the misery of Blacks in America, Africa and the world. And contrary to the claim that Black Americans never talk about Africans outside this forum a study of our history, especially the history of Black nationalism, show that many Black American have long talked and thought about the struggle of Africans and African Americans in relation to each other. Have you not read Malcolm X? Paul Robeson? W.W.B. Du Bois? CLR James? Why did one of the major Black nationalist movements of the 1920s call itself the AFRICAN BLOOD BROTHERHOOD? And what about Marcus Garvey whose movement was even larger in the 1920s than the movement led by Dr. King in the 1960? What was Du Bois talking about in his classic work called THE WORLD AND AFRICA? And keep in mind that your continued references to Africans as SAVAGES is a classic WHITE RACIST way of thinking about Africa and Africans. It's a throwback to the period of the slave trade, colonialism, and old Tarzan movies. Of course, those Africans who continuously refer to American Blacks as "lazy," "criminal " are also using white racist language --much of which is also a throwback to slavery as anyone can see if they read THE SLAVE COMMUNITY by John Blassingame or BLACK IMAGE IN THEWHITE MIND Geogge Frederickson---or simply by critically observing the white corporate media.
-Savant
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Keep in mind that negative stories one hears about Africans in the media--military coups, carnage in Rwanda and Congo, etc--are used to demonize Africans just as those negative stories you hear about Black Americans are used to demonize us. I'm pretty sure that Idi Amin didn't represent all Africans, but his example ws certainly used to demonize Africa and perpetuate the myth of African savagery, even though the butcheries in Yugoslavia was not used to demonize European. Only I have at least a clue as to what lies behind these stories. Fortunately, there are some African Americans and Africans as well who see through all this. Unfortunately, not many seem to be posting in this thread.
-Savant
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I was a small child at that time. But I had elders, including cousins who were only adolescents, who were down with the struggle. But it was from them that I was educated in ways even more enlightening than my education at university.
-Savant
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