This paternalistic use of “outside agitator” is doing some impossibly heavy lifting to mask your terror of black people.

That Langston Hughes quote about “beware the day they change their mind”; the spook of the outside agitator serves to refuse/rebuke the possibility of the arrival of that day.

You’re literally the “everything is fine” dog sitting at your table while the world is set fire around you. Fine by me if it’s fine by you lol

“Outside agitator” is also historically antisemitic: it suggested naïve, pliable blacks were being led astray into disruptive communistic thought and behaviors under the influence of anti-capitalist Jewish Bolshevism. So there’s that to beware of, too.