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Topic subjectTrue. But I thought painting them as flawed was important
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12975272, True. But I thought painting them as flawed was important
Posted by BigReg, Wed Feb-17-16 01:25 PM
because the narrative I had in my head (and what's been taught to me) was that they were awesome, US government destroyed them, and that's it. Similar to the way we treat other past black leaders as deities I think its important to paint them as human, flaws and all...because there are lessons to be learned.

>They paint him in a way that you almost forget the government
>was behind all of that mess that broke it up. AND they don't
>get into just how far the infiltration went. Did it involve
>drugs too?