Bad job Clint. We can't really expect anything less than a Hollywood whitewash when FBI consultants have been used to define reality....
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Black Agenda Report
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by editor and columnist Jared Ball
Clint Eastwood’s new
movie is an attempt to sanitize J. Edgar Hoover’s dirty war to keep
white men “atop the social pyramid.” It is also an apartheid film. “We
get nothing of his concern over The Black Panther Party, or the
surveillance and deportation of people like Claudia Jones and C.L.R.
James, or culpability in the killings of say, Malcolm X and Fred Hampton
(to name but a few).” It makes the case for a justifiable police state,
in which “Hoover is cast positively as a much needed and tough
organizer of law enforcement, a protege of Attorney General Palmer's
raids against the violent radical terrorists of their day. [...]
“Hoover returns
even in death to remind the liberal, the affluent, the White that their
place atop the social pyramid is legitimate and must be protected by
any means necessary.”
J. Edgar,
the new film by Clint Eastwood, is a real horror film, it is an act of
violence, an act of terrorism. The film's careful construction of FBI
founding father J. Edgar Hoover as a flawed but justifiable hero rather
than an individual villain performing the tasks of a villainous
institution has hit theaters with the precision timing of a predator
drone strike and with similar political design. As old antagonisms
produce new and threatening responses, as new generations emerge taking
their turn asking serious questions about the planet, equality, justice
and self-determination, be they occupiers or decolonizers, Hoover
returns even in death to remind the liberal, the affluent, the White
that their place atop the social pyramid is legitimate and must be
protected by any means necessary. And no matter what they say they love
him for it."
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