Chad O. Jackson, the filmmaker behind the hit documentary series "The MLK Project,” joined “1819 News: The Podcast” last week to discuss how groups like the recently indicted Southern Poverty Law Center use agitation and propaganda to push their radical agenda.
“They manufacture the crisis, provoke the reaction, then demand to write the law. From street protests to hate lists to DOJ talking points, agitprop is now domestic policy,” host Bryan Dawson said.
These tactics were on full display in the Alabama State House during the recent special session on congressional redistricting, when angry protesters and indignant Democrat lawmakers disrupted House proceedings and fought with state troopers.
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“You saw the lady that was causing the most commotion; she was a professional agitator. That's literally what she does,” Dawson said. “And she's like throwing herself on the ground and just like doing whatever she can to just draw the ire of the state troopers so that they can get another Bull Connor, firehose and German Shepherd video out of this.”
Jackson said the reaction was the goal, allowing the perpetrators to then claim victimhood.
“The issue was never the issue. The issue is always a revolution,” Jackson said. “[O]ne of Saul Alinsky’s slogans, one of the things that he says in ‘Rules for Radicals’: the reaction is more important than the issue, or the reaction is more important than the action.
“A reaction from especially individuals who will take justice into their own hands, take matters into their own hands, circumvent the law in order to get back at those leftists, to get back at those radicals,
he continued. "And to the extent that that happens, to the extent that somebody takes matters into their own hands, especially if you're a white man, the cameras then point toward you. You are made to look like a fascist, you are made to look like a white supremacist, you are made to look like XYZ, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and you become thus the poster child for everything that the radicals are saying is wrong with America, when their hidden hand was behind it all along. And so this is why it's important, especially as Christians, to operate with a degree of discernment.”
Jackson continued, “This is something that was adopted by black Marxists who pushed this narrative that the only way that colored people in America can get liberation is through race solidarity. How do you achieve race solidarity? People think that it looks like the Black Panthers picking up guns in the 1970s, marching through the streets with their black berets and their leather jackets. Again, these are the optics that we have been kind of conditioned to think of, such to where when we see a more legitimized or sophisticated version of that, we don't think those are the same thing. Redistricting maps to say, look, this is the black district, is a legal form of race solidarity.
“We're going to draw all these funny-looking lines on the map in order to get our race collectivism through legal means. And so by the time that racialized map sends a congressman to Washington, D.C., they are representing not the constituency, but this kind of race idea, this kind of racial revolution.”
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