Brown v. Board of Ed: Key Cold War weapon. People are feigning surprise at the fact that Russians targeted African Americans to try and suppress voting for Democrat candidates in 2016.

People are feigning surprise at the fact that Russians targeted African Americans to try and suppress voting for Democrat candidates in 2016. This is not new. Americans refuse to face our own history. As a member of the Army's "Counter Intelligence Corp" during the early years of WWII my Dad was an undercover agent in both the "Black Dragon's" and the "Socialist Workers Party" where Soviets and Japanese were trying to weed away Black support from the war effort as a result of America's continuing racism. A brief by the US Attorney General in the 1954 Brown v Board of Education case specifically addressed the Soviets attempts to suppress Black support for the American system: Americans stubbornly and lazily refuse to learn basic American history. Most colleges refuse to teach it.

"The brief, submitted by Attorney General James P. McGranery, said, “The United States is trying to prove to the people of the world of every nationality, race, and color, that a free democracy is the most civilized and most secure form of government yet devised by man…. The existence of discrimination against minority groups in the United States has an adverse effect upon our relations with other countries. Racial discrimination furnishes grist for the Communist propaganda mills.” It also featured an excerpt from a letter by Secretary of State Dean Acheson, described as “an authoritative statement of the effects of racial discrimination in the United States upon the conduct of foreign relations.”

Brown v. Board of Ed: Key Cold War weapon