HISTORY N100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Legcuffs, Prenatal Care, Talib Kweli
18 Aug 2016
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The war on drugs, mass incarceration, and racial injustice. Cia involvement with bin laden: us was funding a group that was against the soviets, but this group starting supporting. Al queda, the taliban, and osama bin laden. Won"t fight the war on terror because must win the fight at home (relates to muhammad ali with the vietnam war) Government and corporate alliances: dick cheney & halliburton. Government surveillance programs which targeted african american activists. House un-american activities committee: supposed to target communists, but used to target civil rights activists. Fbi/cia targeted malcolm x, mlk jr, rosa parks, black panther party, etc . Counter intelligence program: made to disrupt activities of the us communist party, during 1960s expanded to include civil rights/ socialist organizations, black. Allegedly stole a book bag, family couldn"t afford bail or an attorney so he was incarcerated in.
