LIKE IT IS: BLACK SPY TELLS ALL
Fred Hampton and the Politics of Resistance
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54m
For seven years a man called Othello helped the FBI
destroy legitimate political dissent in the United States.
– ERNEST VOLKMAN / Penthouse 1 apr 1980
In 1975, Darthard Perry, a former FBI agent, went on record and explained the lengths that the government goes to examine and study African American culture. The man, a self-proclaimed “infiltrator,” speaks – seemingly with pride – on how he helped tear down Black organizations and how the culture was flipped back on the people. “You can take their culture and use it against them,” he says in the video. The video is marveling to watch, albeit disgusting. The agent was interviewed by the legendary journalist Gil Nobel on his PBS weekly program, Like It Is,
Gil pesented a documentary on the intentional destruction of Black America by the FBI using infiltration, counter-intelligence programs and drugs. From Marcus Garvey to Paul Robeson to Martin Luther King to Malcolm X to Fred Hampton, to the Black Panthers to heroin and crack, the FBI has worked to destroy.