The Cafe' [Think Tank]

Black people of America your romanticized and cozy relationship with the Democrats party!  COINTELPRO  - FBI Program established under J. Edgar Hoover Under Director J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program) was aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political groups within the United States. In the 1960's, COINTELPRO's targets frequently included civil rights activists, both those who espoused non-violence, like Martin Luther King, and those that Hoover referred to as "black nationalist hate groups," like the Black Panthers. This document outlines the program's goals in attempting to limit the effectiveness of such groups. In practice, the FBI used infiltration, legal harassment, disinformation and sometimes extra-legal intimidation and violence against King, the Panthers, and other black activist groups in its attempt to discredit and disrupt them. What's with all this black history on Facebook? Is this black history m

In 1969,  Hillary Rodham  wrote a 92-page senior  thesis  for  Wellesley College  about the views advocated by  community organizer   Saul Alinsky , titled  "There Is Only the Fight . . . ": An Analysis of the Alinsky Model . While the work by Rodham as a college student was the subject of much speculation in articles and biographies of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 1990s, access to the thesis was limited by the college, at the request of the  Clinton White House , during her time as  First Lady of the United States Rodham researched the thesis by interviewing Alinsky and others, and by conducting visits to low-income areas of Chicago (nearby to her hometown,   Park Ridge, Illinois ) and observing   Community Action Programs   in those areas.   Her thesis adviser was Wellesley professor of political science   Alan Schechter . The thesis was sympathetic to Alinsky's critiques of government antipoverty programs, but criticized Alinsky's methods as largely ineffective, a