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Russians Trolling Black Voters -Appropriating Words of Malcolm X
Just 18 days before the 2018 midterm election and Russian trolls (for lack of a better definition) have launched a vigorous attack on Black voters with an old Malcolm X Speech.
In the early 1960s Malcolm X broke down the Democratic Party as the northern wolves and the southern Dixiecrats. During this period of American history, Blacks were prohibited from voting in the Democratic Party Primaries in the South. These primaries were termed as the White Primary by southern Blacks. The White Primary determined the white Democrat who would represent the Democrats on the ballot in November. Blacks usually voted Republican during this period of time.
But during the presidential election of 1960, Robert Kennedy showed unusual kindness to Coretta Scott King when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been arrested on trumped up charges in Dekalb County, Georgia. The authorities secreted King out of Dekalb County and held him in the notorious state prison in Reidsville, Georgia.
Police chicanery like this was often a precursor to murdering a Black leader. As King’s followers scrambled for ways to gain the release of their leader, Bobby Kennedy made several telephones calls which caused the Georgia authorities to release Dr. King unharmed.
