The more I think about Bill Clinton's remarks about ancestor Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and the Black Power Movement at John Lewis' funeral, the angrier I get. J. Edgar Hoover/Cointelpro targeted Ture. Lied on him. Tried to destroy him.
With his statement, Clinton not only criticized Ture, he openly criticized the Black Power Movement and celebrated the dismantling of and attempted destruction of it in favor of a more palatable form of Black rebellion.
So not only did Clinton suggest that Lewis was a good Negro getting in good trouble, his statement was in support of the violent, white supremacist state tactics used by the FBI to infiltrate a movement.
Then he gave a knowing nod like, “Y’all decent Black folks know what I’m talking about. Amen?”

Seriously. Stop giving this man the mic.
"If Stokely Carmichael now says that nonviolence is irrelevant, it is because he, as a dedicated veteran of many battles, has seen with his own eyes the most brutal white violence against Negroes and white civil rights workers, and he has seen it go unpunished.” — MLK
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