JFK and Bobby were for civil rights, but when he was president things were even worse for African Americans than now, despite Trump rolling back DEI etc.
JFK and Bobby were also bugging and placing agent provacateurs in the civil rights movement
Hoover was a crimina,l and he was keeping both brothers in check because he had JFK affairs info. RFK did agree to wiretapping King. It was Hoover's suggestion. Hoover hated MLK because he thought King was a communist.
You are confusing actions initiated by FBI and CIA with JFK.
JFK's affairs didn't interfere with his ability to govern and, as far as we know, were consensual.
47, the adjudicated rapist and self-admitted sexual assaulter, doesn't wait for consent. He admitted he just starts kissing them or otherwise assaulting them.
Hoover had an incredible amount of power because he had been keeping blackmail type info on everyone. It's called informal power. Even though he reported to RFK, both brothers knew Hoover could expose information they didn't want exposed.
Power in relationships is often complicated not simple.
Well, you brought up accountable. JFK was one of the last Presidents to actually take responsibility for what anyone in his administration did even if it wasn't his fault. Bay of Pigs fiasco for instance. Total CIA instigation because they wanted to overthrow Castro. Kennedy did not.
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Of course, the speech writers were better back then; any vulgarity was kept in private; and we weren't lurching towards neo-fascism.
JFK battled racism in South. He was for civil rights.
JFK and Bobby were also bugging and placing agent provacateurs in the civil rights movement
Kruschev turned back. JFK was posturing WWIII
You are confusing actions initiated by FBI and CIA with JFK.
47, the adjudicated rapist and self-admitted sexual assaulter, doesn't wait for consent. He admitted he just starts kissing them or otherwise assaulting them.
Power in relationships is often complicated not simple.
We were built on genocide and slavery, Jim Crow, race massacres, internment of asians
We supported fascism in South America and bomb other countries who oppose us
This is closest we've ever been to fascism at home
It's scary but I'm optimistic we will overcome