It turns out that the Commission was nothing if not meticulous, documenting the gamut of its exploits in accommodation of white supremacy. It initially fixated on tracking the activities of civil rights organizations in Mississippi, but within a few years it had mushroomed into a full-scale spy agency, employing a network of investigators and agents who surveilled civil rights activists, tapped their phones, monitored their meetings, purloined sensitive documents, and undermined voter rights efforts.
The Commission was ruthless, waging an all-out war against change. Perhaps most painfully, it assembled a cadre of African American informants, some of them venerated figures from within the civil rights community, who reported to the Commission …show more content…
That would be a mistake. For African Americans, the legacy of segregation and Jim Crow remains a live issue. And while race-predicated discrimination is no longer the law of the land—and nothing like the Commission could function today--federal and verbalize law enforcement agencies are still engaged in racial profiling. That's in astronomically immense part because the Equity Department's "preclusion" on racial profiling by federal law enforcement agencies doesn't elongate to national security and border integrity investigations — two sizably voluminous exceptions that essentially swallow the rule. Likewise, the Attorney General's guidelines for domestic FBI operations sanction agents to investigate anyone, without any factual substructure for suspicion, as long as the agents claim they are seeking to obviate malefaction, forfend national security, or amass peregrine perspicacity. Federal law enforcement and astuteness agencies have thoroughly capitalized on the license they've been given racial and ethnic communities in the Cumulated States predicated on crude and erroneous stereotypes about particular communities' propensity to commit certain malefactions. In Georgia, the FBI documented African-American population increases and fixated on activists' protests against police killings to find "Ebony separatists." It additionally mapped Latino communities throughout the Coalesced States for street gang threats, Middle-Eastern communities in Detroit for potential terrorism, and Chinese and Russian communities in San Francisco for potential organized
The Commission was ruthless, waging an all-out war against change. Perhaps most painfully, it assembled a cadre of African American informants, some of them venerated figures from within the civil rights community, who reported to the Commission …show more content…
That would be a mistake. For African Americans, the legacy of segregation and Jim Crow remains a live issue. And while race-predicated discrimination is no longer the law of the land—and nothing like the Commission could function today--federal and verbalize law enforcement agencies are still engaged in racial profiling. That's in astronomically immense part because the Equity Department's "preclusion" on racial profiling by federal law enforcement agencies doesn't elongate to national security and border integrity investigations — two sizably voluminous exceptions that essentially swallow the rule. Likewise, the Attorney General's guidelines for domestic FBI operations sanction agents to investigate anyone, without any factual substructure for suspicion, as long as the agents claim they are seeking to obviate malefaction, forfend national security, or amass peregrine perspicacity. Federal law enforcement and astuteness agencies have thoroughly capitalized on the license they've been given racial and ethnic communities in the Cumulated States predicated on crude and erroneous stereotypes about particular communities' propensity to commit certain malefactions. In Georgia, the FBI documented African-American population increases and fixated on activists' protests against police killings to find "Ebony separatists." It additionally mapped Latino communities throughout the Coalesced States for street gang threats, Middle-Eastern communities in Detroit for potential terrorism, and Chinese and Russian communities in San Francisco for potential organized