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Cheese Sandwich

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6. That's interesting.

Reply to Old Union Guy (Reply #5)

Sat May 21, 2016, 02:32 AM

May 2016

I was thinking OK now the big money is stepping in to co-opt the legacy of BPP, and probably whitewash their history in the process. BPP was a revolutionary, Marxist-Leninst, organization. Not something these banks and wall street landlords would be comfortable sponsoring. Unless they are just trying to buy this history so they can erase it. And to strip all the threatening parts out. Which is what it seems to be. Which relates to what you said.

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Black Panthers and black liberation, sponsored by .... Wells Fargo [View all] Cheese Sandwich May 2016 OP

Whisky Tango Foxtrot! RoccoR5955 May 2016 #1

Oh is that this week. I usually end up seeing some of that on the internet. Cheese Sandwich May 2016 #2

Between 2000 & 2008, Wells Fargo issued 55,000 predatory loans to POC in Cook County, IL alone Cheese Sandwich May 2016 #3

This is intersectional incrementalism or TBF May 2016 #4

Divide and conquer. Old Union Guy May 2016 #5

That's interesting. Cheese Sandwich May 2016 #6

You go into more detail, but that's basically it. n/t Old Union Guy May 2016 #7