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Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly Calls J. Edgar Hoover 'Racist,' Proposes Renaming FBI HQ
Newsweek ^ | 13 Mar 2021 | BY NATALIE COLAROSSI

Posted on 03/14/2021 6:23:26 PM PDT by blueplum

Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA) proposed stripping J. Edgar Hoover's name from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) headquarters building in Washington, D.C,, and called him a "maligned character" with a history of racism, homophobia and misogyny.

On Saturday, Connolly appeared in a video message on MSNBC's The Cross Connection advocating for the change after he introduced legislation to remove the former FBI director's name on February 25...

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; congress; connolly; fbi; gerry; gerryconnolly; jedgarhoover; virginia; wokeculture
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To: blueplum

George Floyd FBI HQ


21 posted on 03/14/2021 7:31:12 PM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: SubMareener

True that.


22 posted on 03/14/2021 7:31:34 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: SubMareener
One would think he would be considered a hero of LGBTQ!

I guess you have to come out of the closet publicly to get "woke" points....

Maybe they can do a seance with Edga and he can confess.
23 posted on 03/14/2021 7:40:59 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Husker24
They should just name it KGB headquarters.

Or name it for Lavrenty Beria.

24 posted on 03/14/2021 7:56:56 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: VanShuyten

Because Richard Russell was the MENTOR of LBJ— the “saviour” of the black democrat vote and 2 trillion in the “war on poverty” rat hole of poured federal money. BTW Russell said he would go to his grave sorry to have ever helped LBJ— apalled at his racist bigotry unbecoming to a true Southern democrat and progressive which Russel mostly was. Long time ago— and obviously forgotten in demonrat re-writing of their own party’s history.


25 posted on 03/14/2021 8:14:03 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: edwinland

Quite true— absolutely true. Bobby Kennedy— whom Hoffa (and certain named mafia- Traficante by his own lawyer Frank Ragano, after Santo died) always said “they should have whacked Bobby and left John alone”.

Bobby Kennedy’s animus against MLK is a real strange chapter— and all quite true. The real battle for the kennedys was trying to keep the control fdr and truman had over the South.

Agree— were able to keep Cape Canaveral as the land name— how about we re-title all you have stated. Idlewild was a great name for the airport. Weird times, huh?


26 posted on 03/14/2021 8:19:28 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: blueplum

FDR was a racist who imprisoned Japanese Americans BECAUSE of their race. His monument on the Mall should be dismantled . . . his legacy should be ridiculed.


27 posted on 03/14/2021 8:28:09 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: blueplum; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; piasa
Hoover's assistant William C. Sullivan, who was a CIA asset inside the FBI, spread the claim that Hoover was racist in order to deflect investigators from his own handling of the MLK investigation--Sullivan is the one who mailed King suggesting he should kill himself, and he was a candidate to become FBI Director at the same time Mark Felt was, and started manipulating the press the same way Felt did. The claim that Hoover was a blackmailed crossdresser has its roots in Robert Kennedy's conflict with Hoover--on this, see Burton Hersh's Bobby and J. Edgar--and was popularized by Anthony Summers, who relied on allegations from mobsters and Communists Hoover had prosecuted. Biographers as diverse as Hoover's assistant W. Raymond Wannall and Hoover critic Athan Theoharis (no fan of Hoover) have challenged Summers's uncritical reliance on these types of sources. Wannall's The Real J. Edgar Hoover gets into details on this and Sullivan's role.
28 posted on 03/14/2021 9:02:40 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: blueplum

These people are insane. What is causing it??? Insanity is not supposed to be contagious. 😐


29 posted on 03/14/2021 9:15:57 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: blueplum

I’m all for this. For truth in advertising, I suggest the Corrupt Lying Bastards building. Or perhaps the We Let the Boston Marathon Bombing Happen Because We’re Incompetent Boobs building. Or how about the We Framed Richard Jewel building.


30 posted on 03/14/2021 9:42:23 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: blueplum

Name it after Karl Marx


31 posted on 03/14/2021 10:11:50 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Husker24

When WILL the FBI ever release their tapes of MLK?

Journalists have said they contain thing that would tarnish Martin’s reputation. Violent assault on a woman is one thing.


32 posted on 03/14/2021 10:14:31 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: edwinland

The Kennedy brothers wanted to shut down the march on Washington. They bunkered down at the White House.


33 posted on 03/14/2021 10:16:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: blueplum

Connelly is the truest Fascist in Congress, even more so than Pelosi and Schumer. He is psycho-EVIL personified. I used to work on the Hill and he’s the worst “person” up there. Even Satan won’t let him in when he croaks.


34 posted on 03/15/2021 12:17:40 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: a fool in paradise

FBI tapes and other types of information are of two types.

The first concerns his ties (knowing or unknowingly) to the Communist Party USA and his personal aide Jack O’Dell as being a top covert CPUSA leader as well as the most probable KGB asset Moscow had in the SCLC.

O’Dell was identified as far back as 1956 in a House Committee on Un-American Activities hearing entitled “Communist Activities in the South”, as a covert CP leader and one tactical organizing document the New Orleans Police seized from his apartment was a Soviet organizing manual that only key KGB assets might have had.

O’Dell stayed with Jesse Jackson in his Operation Breadbasket (after he left the SCLC where O’Dell also worked), then in Op. PUSH, and finally the Rainbow Coalition.

O’Dell was also Jackson’s key contact man with the PLO and Syria (esp. in the returning of US downed pilot Goodman from Syria).

The other FBI material on King related to at least one serious sexual liaison that had very serious career implications should it have become “widely known”. There were other hints at sexual indiscretions that the FBI also knew about and might have been the basis of the letter sent to King strongly suggesting that he resign from the SCLC.

Word was that Att. Gen. General Robert Kennedy protected Dr. King and knew all about O’Dell and the other affairs.


35 posted on 03/15/2021 12:26:18 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
This is a clear-cut case of homophobia.

36 posted on 03/15/2021 4:15:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: blueplum

I can think of a few things to call it


37 posted on 03/15/2021 9:57:50 AM PDT by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: Husker24

Very late to this game but I just saw an interview with a former KGB spy, Jack Barsky.

He said the entire cross dressing story on Hoover was a disinformation propaganda lie by the KGB and he has read the top secret reports on it.

The problem is, and why our side is weakening without even knowing why, is we have been the target of subterfuge and espionage by communists since the 1930s. This went on for so long we now have a organic radical element of US origins that has recently been growing in leaps and bounds since the occupy wall street movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlBOC-bwS1w


38 posted on 12/28/2022 10:48:12 AM PST by Phoenix8
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