2 chapters across the catalog
Glenn Ford asserts that the FBI's spying on MLK began under Robert Kennedy's watch. He characterizes the March on Washington as a "managed protest" negotiated with the White House to keep the movement contained. Mo Facts compares Griffith J. Davis to photographer Gordon Parks, suggesting both were government-linked figures used to monitor and document radical Black leaders.
The analysis shifts to the cultural impact of Blaxploitation films like Shaft and Superfly, which presented drug dealers as independent entrepreneurs "sticking it to the man." The discussion highlights allegations that director Gordon Parks was a CIA operative who influenced the portrayal of black leadership. Connections are drawn to the film American Gangster and the historical reality of heroin trafficking during the Vietnam War era.
