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- Hey, hey, hey.
Welcome back to "The God's Honest Truth."
Tonight we're putting the FBI under investigation
for doing what it was designed to do--
protect white supremacy and police everyone else.
Recently the current FBI director Christopher A. Wray
said that he wants to put an end to the bullshit.
So where should he start?
Well, as my therapist says, let's unpack this.
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Wray! Wray! You can start
by taking that racist bigoted prick's name
off the front of your headquarters.
That's right? (cheering and applause)
You know who I'm talking about-- J. Edgar Hoover.
Okay, because you shouldn't be celebrated for being
the H-N-K-I-C--
head nigger killer in charge, okay?
If you're not that familiar with this dude's game profile,
then let me catch you up to speed.
His fighting style included black male espionage,
okay, black male assassination, oh, and good old blackmail.
He was one of the FBI's founders and the Bureau's director
from 1935 to 1972.
During his reign, he implemented several devastating
discriminatory initiatives, including but not limited to
the counterintelligence program, better known as COINTELPRO,
which was a series of illegal projects
that encouraged government officials to infiltrate
and dismantle many a civil rights movement.
This allegedly half-black man weaponized the FBI
to spy on and stalk many prominent African Americans
because, in his words, he wanted to stop
the rise of a black messiah, mm.
A sidebar, if y'all are afraid of a black messiah,
boy, y'all in for a rude awakening
when Jesus comes back, okay?
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In 1920, Hoover went prime time
when he deported black shipping icon
Marcus "Black Star" Garvey,
seen here looking like the real-life kind of Wakanda.
Garvey made Hoover's shit list when he... (gasps)
...dared to ship products from black businesses
to black people,
who would even sabotage Garvey's steamship corporation,
the Black Star Line,
which is what NASA would have been called
if they let Mos Def and Talib Kweli run it, okay?
Oh, y'all hip-hop, that's good.
He even-- he even directed his operatives to-- get this--
throw junk in the fuel tanks of Marcus Garvey's ships.
But somehow, racist white supremacists
have convinced themselves that we're the savages, okay?
Sadly Marcus Garvey would become the prototype
for how Hoover decapitated black leadership
and black progress in America.
So, after almost 40 years of undermining black activists
and community organizers and having so many
black leaders' blood on his hands,
why the hell is his name still on the FBI building?
- Right. - Right.
- Probably because his ideologies
are still in the building.
And don't tell me it's because he was their first director.
If this country cared about the people who were first,
we wouldn't have 600,000 Native Americans
living on a shared 40 acres of land, okay?
(applause) Shit.
Hmm, hmm.
If America cared about firsts,
then Soulja Boy would be a lock for everybody's top five.
Okay?
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Now, J. Edgar Hoover allegedly--
and I gotta say "allegedly" for legal purposes--
also had a bunch of black American patriots killed.
"The Washington Post" reported that the family of Malcolm X
supposedly received a letter back in 2011
from a dying NYPD officer named Raymond A. Wood,
who admits in great detail that the FBI along with the NYPD
were complicit in the assassination of Brother Malcolm.
The FBI also surveilled and harassed Dr. Martin Luther King.
They sent an anonymous letter
encouraging King to kill himself
or have his "affairs" leaked to the public.
- So what? He had hos.
(laughter)
- I mean, that's one way to put it.
Uh, the FBI even sent out a memo saying,
"It's clear that MLK is the most dangerous Negro in America.
And we have to use every resource to destroy him."
And we all know how that turned out.
Black Panthers Bunchy Carter and John Huggins
were reportedly killed by an FBI Catholic civilian
Claude Hubert.
Following the killings, FBI agents openly bragged
in a memo about influencing their deaths
like they were young street rappers.
That's right.
FBI agents bragged about smoking
on that Carter and Huggins pack. (scattered laughter)
And of course-- y'all shouldn't laugh at that--
and of course, there's Chairman Fred Hampton
and Mark Clark.
These 21- and 22-year-old Black Panther leaders
were gunned down in an FBI-coordinated reign
while they were sleeping.
(sighs) Hoover, like most white supremacists had
a damn allergic reaction to black equality,
which kept him constantly stamping out black progress
like it was one long game of Whac-A-Nigger.
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(laughter and groaning)
It seems to me J. Edgar Hoover was nothing more
than Thanos for exceptional Negroes.
So why is he celebrated?
Even as he intentionally infiltrated and sabotaged
black civil rights groups,
Hoover still received national honors
like the State Department's Distinguished Service Award.
Because here in America,
we treat our black heroes like villains
and our white villains like heroes.
But... (applause)
It's a fact.
But black people aren't the only ones
who should be invested in erasing this man's ideology
from the FBI.
He was an equal opportunity bigot.
He was an enthusiastic player in the lavender scare.
And no, lavender scare is not a new disk track
by Canadian dictator Aubrey Graham,
released during "Scary Hours."
Okay?
It was an actual purge of all government workers
in the 1950s who identified as gay.
And an agent did not have to come to work
dressed like Lil Nas X at an awards show
to be considered suspect.
According to Politico,
Agent Charles Bohlen was harassed and fired
for-- wait for it-- licking his presumably dry lips.
(audience reacts)
Yes.
J. Edgar also wouldn't hire women as federal agents.
That's right, the FBI was anti-woman in the workplace
way before ESPN made it cool, okay?
(audience groaning)
Listen, I know it's a lot, right?
I got so much to say about J. Edgar Hoover,
but you know what I've been wondering this whole time
I've been talking? - (woman) What?
- What does Ja Rule think?
(laughter)
No, no, no, seriously.
What does Ja Rule think?
- (sniffs)
What's in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet.
Shakespeare once said, "Love all, trust a few.
Do wrong to none."
Well, Shakespeare never crossed swords with J. Edgar Hoover
and the FBI, now did he?
So what resides in a name?
What does it evoke in the soul upon its utterance
for those of the diaspora, anguish, anxiety, and angst,
a triple alliteration of malarkey and murder?
And if one can alter the name of that American football club
from the District of Columbia
for its offense to one group or persons,
cannot the same be done for another?
For a sister? For a brother?
For I asked before, what's in a name?
That's what Ja thinks.
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