Shameless Bootlickers Cry “Outside Agitators”

September 15, 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

 

When people took to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, last month to demand justice after the police murder of Michael Brown, the “peacekeepers” – including people like St. Louis alderman Antonio French and Malik Shabazz and his group of so-called “New Black Panthers” – told people to go home and “calm down,” and attacked people for getting “too angry or confrontational” with the cops.

And then the bootlickers came up with something they thought was REALLY clever: They attacked people from out of town as “outside agitators.” Of course the ruling class media put these fools all over the news with this bullshit.

Actually, though, these bootlickers aren’t all that clever. They STOLE the “outside agitators” bit. They’re just copying and pasting from the KKK, the FBI, the white supremacist “White Citizens Councils,” and other racist haters who ran this back in the ’60s. “Outside agitators” is what the KKK and FBI called the heroic volunteers – Black and white – who came to the South to rush to the front lines of the struggle for freedom.

Back then there were conservative forces in the civil rights movement who echoed that “outside agitator” crap – for a time. Most of them either had a change of heart or had sense enough to shut up.

Today’s bootlickers are less clever. And more shameless.

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