Re: Prof. McWhorter's comments at ~57:30 -The Panthers and Panther-adjacent groups in the 60's were met with (1) hard-edged police repression (yes, including the helicopter bombing in Philly and other methods that today look barbaric and totalitarian), and (2) cooptation by the elites into academia, etc. And even with both repressive and converting forces operating on them they still managed to do a LOT of damage. John's insistence that shrapnel bombs "don't happen here" is belied by the "Days of Rage" count of literally thousands of bombings and bomb threats during the 70's. And in the end a lot of what those radicals wanted wound up being the official curricula of education schools, history and -studies programs, and sociology programs.
Re: Prof. McWhorter's comments at ~57:30 -The Panthers and Panther-adjacent groups in the 60's were met with (1) hard-edged police repression (yes, including the helicopter bombing in Philly and other methods that today look barbaric and totalitarian), and (2) cooptation by the elites into academia, etc. And even with both repressive and converting forces operating on them they still managed to do a LOT of damage. John's insistence that shrapnel bombs "don't happen here" is belied by the "Days of Rage" count of literally thousands of bombings and bomb threats during the 70's. And in the end a lot of what those radicals wanted wound up being the official curricula of education schools, history and -studies programs, and sociology programs.