33. Hoover was not just a repressive force, he was, by credible biographical accounts, self-repressed. Repression internal & external.
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34. I'll should say that popular accounts of Hoover as cross-dresser are based on untrustworthy sources.
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35. But discounting the outre crossing-dressing stories, there's plenty of reasons to think Hoover was deeply repressed gay man.
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36. Hoover's self-repression is politically interesting because it can be tied in with his racism and anti-radicalism.
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37. Black militancy, open gayness (and sexual openness), radicalism: for Hoover, all these had to be repressed.
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38. Read the poison pen letter Hoover's underling William Sullivan wrote to King: reeks of visceral disgust at sex: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html?_r=2&referrer= …
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39. In the imagination of White supremacy, blackness is linked to lewdness and a dangerous sexual openness.
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40. During various Red Scares, Hoover and others repeatedly linked communism with with homosexuality.
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41, In MLK, Hoover saw a person who brought together everything he hated: black militancy, sexual openness, political radicalism.
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42. Sexual repression was political for Hoover because it was the source of his power.
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43. Hoover could keep a lid on his sexual impulses. Other men (FDR, JFK, LBJ) couldn't. That gave Hoover leverage to blackmail them.
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44. Hoover must have been enraged by the fact that King wouldn't allow himself to be blackmailed (le mot juste) & defied Hoover.
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