From the widely respected leftist biweekly national New York Review of Books:
"Was the Black Panther Party’s descent into criminal violence mainly the work of FBI agents provocateurs?
...I think not. Even though new information about FBI manipulation may eventually surface, there was already plenty of madness in the air by end of the 1960s. The trail of Black Panther extortion, beatings, murders, and other crimes—especially in Northern California—is so long as to be far beyond the FBI’s ability to create it. And by 1970, there were also too many white leftists who romanticized third-world revolutionaries, talked tough, wore military fatigues, and spoke a different language than the nonviolent one of the Free Speech Movement leaders of 1964–1965."
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/may/23/berkeley-what-we-didnt-know/
Apparently the writers and staff--presumably in their twenties and thirties--of newspapers such as The Stranger do not have anything but their own romanticized views of the decade of the Sixties.
What does a white girl like Jen Graves know about racism?
I would venture to say that a whole generation has a skewed perspective of the civil rights movement.
(And I personally lived it).
And very few people care enough to try to correct or revise the record with what they know or actually experienced.
Berkeley: What We Didn’t Know
MAY 23, 2013
Adam Hochschild
...I think not. Even though new information about FBI manipulation may eventually surface, there was already plenty of madness in the air by end of the 1960s. The trail of Black Panther extortion, beatings, murders, and other crimes—especially in Northern California—is so long as to be far beyond the FBI’s ability to create it. And by 1970, there were also too many white leftists who romanticized third-world revolutionaries, talked tough, wore military fatigues, and spoke a different language than the nonviolent one of the Free Speech Movement leaders of 1964–1965."
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/may/23/berkeley-what-we-didnt-know/
Apparently the writers and staff--presumably in their twenties and thirties--of newspapers such as The Stranger do not have anything but their own romanticized views of the decade of the Sixties.
What does a white girl like Jen Graves know about racism?
I would venture to say that a whole generation has a skewed perspective of the civil rights movement.
(And I personally lived it).
And very few people care enough to try to correct or revise the record with what they know or actually experienced.
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