Prevent the Rise of a Messiah

The FBI was terrified that Fred Hampton would rise to become a national figure, Michael argues. He cites a memo from Herbert Hoover himself discussing the goals of the co-intel program. It included as their number two goal and I'm going to quote directly from the FBI here. Everybody. Malcolm X might have been such a Messiah who could unify and electrify the militant black nationalist movement. Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Elijah Muhammad all aspire to this position.