furtherance of establishing a separate black homeland or autonomous social institutions, communities, or governing organizations within the United States.�
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Poor writing aside, it is pretty clear that the Bureau views #BlackControlOfBlackLives to be a threat to them. It is interesting that the FBI Counterterrorism Division is taking this position, given that almost all of the so-called domestic terrorism actually committed in recent years has been done by white supremacists. According to an analysis by The Intercept, 268 right-wing extremists were prosecuted in federal courts since 9/11 for actions that appear to meet the legal definition of domestic terrorism, even though the Justice Department applied anti-terrorism laws against only 34 of them. An April 2019 federal government document shows that in 2018 there were 32 incidents officially classified as domestic terrorism and 25 of the 46 individuals involved in those incidents were identified as white supremacists. None of those individuals were classified as Black Identity Extremists (BIE)​i​. The original 2017 FBI report, which originated the BIE title lists six incidents of Black men responding angrily to our people being killed by cops, between 2014 and 2017. They include three Black men who attacked and, in two cases killed, police officers in New York, Baton Rouge, and Dallas. A man who shot at two police stations in Indiana in October 2016, and another who drove his car toward three police officers in Arizona in September 2016, are also listed in the report. None of these individuals were connected to any particular organization and promoted no ideology other than anger at their people being killed constantly by police officers. These incidents provide a very different picture than the dozens of white supremacist terrorists who commit mass shootings of innocent people every year. The disparity in treatment begs the question: Why do the shootings of a few police officers constitute a greater threat to the country than the shootings of hundreds of civilians, according to the FBI? The fundamental relationship between the New Afrikan people and the United States Empire has not changed since the traffic in Afrikans forced our Ancestors to the shores of North America over 400