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I guess this is NEW news to a younger generation, but we, who grew up in the 60's and 70's knew this back then, even if the documents weren't out in the open. The Black Panthers were known to want to foment revolution, and we knew they were allied with the communist sympathizers in the anti-Vietnam War movement. They were also the darlings of the elites in Manhattan, who were trying to show how they were 'oh, so enlightened' and not prejudiced against black people.

For a great take on that, read Tom Wolfe's book "Radical Chic, and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers"Catchers". It is two essays, the second of which does a great job of describing exactly what a 'community organizer' does.

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I guess this is NEW news to a younger generation, but we, who grew up in the 60's and 70's knew this back then, even if the documents weren't out in the open.

By "we, who grew up in the 60's and 70's", you can't be saying that the majority of folks around at the time 'knew' most of this? Perhaps, you meant those few such as yourself who, through various means, actively sought the info out on your own? Because as you even stated yourself, the docs weren't out in the open. And surely the MSM, even then, didn't go into these sorts of 'details' (esp the communist angle). I'm sure there are many 60-70's generation people here who didn't know a lot of this.

In fact, even now (2008), none of the popular conservative commentators ever really get in to the communist connections. Sean Hannity, for example, hasn't once, referred to Bill Ayers or the Weather Underground as being communist in their ideology. He refers to them only as "domestic terrorists". Same is true for Rev Wright and Black Liberation Theology (except for that one special Friday night airing of Hannity's America which I excerpted in the main post at the top).