Ep. 13: Witch hunts (yes, still), part 4.a - Getting the band back together

H-Hey guys 😅 I know, I know…it has been a REALLY long time, and on top of that I keep finding more things to add to 'The Many Faces of Patriarchy' witch hunt series that I've been working on here most recently (possibly to some of your dismays)! I hope you all don't mind my side quests..after all, colonialism, authoritarianism, misogyny…they all come from the same place. I just can't stop seeing how MUCH history rhymes.

Last episode, we left off at the lavender scare, with promises for this episode to deliver the so-called "black scare"…to which I am delivering (a part of, as you can see by the 4.a, because I plan to get 4.b out within the week-I PROMISE! It's already nearly done!).

In this episode, we begin by tying the present political violence of America to it's past, which includes the June 2025 assination of democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman. We then enter into the main part of the episode: the creation of the Counter Intelligence Program. We find that Hoover is up to his old tricks again, including surveillance & illegal operations..but this time he kicks it up a notch, with help from his FBI. Yep, he's getting the band back together, meaning he is widening his sights to include groups considered “other” from parts 1, 2, and 3 of this series.

That's right, Hoover's COINTELPRO begins by aiming to further oppress so-called communists & socialists (surprise!), people of color, feminists, Native Americans, AND MORE. Basically, anyone demanding equal rights.This episode will mainly focus on cointelpro's attack on Martin Luther King Jr.

So let's take a little trip into the past, so we can better connect the reasons of how tf we got where we are today. I guess some people think it's boring to learn from history's most horrendous mistakes…

socials:

www.instagram.com/g.i.t.s.podcast

www.tiktok.com/@greatinthesackpodcast

www.tiktok.com/@neurodivergentfeminist

www.bsky.app/profile/greatinthesackpod.bsky.social

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Panther-Party

https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=3632

https://www.history.com/articles/martin-luther-king-jr-fbi-j-edgar-hoover-communism

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/federal-bureau-investigation-fbi

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fifth%20column#:~:text=lum%5C%20%E2%80%A2%20noun-,:%20a%20group%20of%20secret%20sympathizers%20or%20supporters%20of%20an%20enemy,unjustly%20blacklisted%20as%20Communist%20sympathizers

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/06/17/the-timeline-of-events-leading-up-to-and-following-boelters-attacks

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/politics/charlie-kirk-shooting-firings-celebration.html

https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=lacs_fac_scholar