HUSTLERS CAN BE BRILLIANT, TOO check out the the brother . Jeff Fort was born in Mississippi in 1947. Upon moving to a poor neighborhood in Chicago, Fort dropped out of school after fourth grade, functionally illiterate. At 13, he became involved in a gang that started out fighting off the racist white boys in his community. Fort soon became recognized as the leader of the gang. Under his leadership, the gang adopted Islamic influence and was renamed the Black P. Stone Nation. By 1965, Fort was controlling a coalition of 21 gangs whom he had united under his flag. Soon after, Fort was able to secure the Nation a federal grant of $1 million for a highly organized grassroots learning program. In 1969, even President Nixon referred to the Black P. Stone Nation as a community group, and invited Fort to his inauguration. Of course, the Black P. Stone Nation wasn’t all good works. In fact, they controlled a large amount of the drug trade throughout the Chicago area. In 1972, Fort was sent to prison, where he joined the Moorish Science Temple of America. While in prison, Fort renamed the gang the El Rukns and reinvented the gang as a religious movement. This allowed Fort to continue to run the gang from jail, conduct meetings with gang leaders under the guise of religious services, and send orders and messages without surveillance. From prison, Fort continued to control his operations by word of mouth and phone using code. Once out on parole, Fort bought up large areas in the city, expanded his empire, and furthered his political ties. But in 1982, Fort was sent back to prison, sentenced to 13 years for participating in a drug conspiracy. Undaunted, Fort used his Muslim connections to get in touch with Libyan president Moammar Gadhafi…from prison. The formerly illiterate Fort was now on the phone speaking fluent Arabic with foreign officials. Fort was accused of making deals with Gadhafi to attack the U.S. on behalf of Libya. Under Fort’s orders, several El Rukn members were said to have been smuggled to Libya to enroll in terrorist training, and Fort was negotiating the purchase of a rocket launcher. Dozens of El Rukn members were convicted in the conspiracy, though no actual terrorist acts were committed. Fort was sentenced to an additional 80 years, in order to ensure he could not be released again. He was shipped to the ADX Florence Supermax prison where he remains today under strict supervision. Fearing that the brilliant Fort could somehow STILL control his gang even under these conditions, prison authorities put him under a “no human contact” order. Jeff Fort is just one example of how brilliant Black people can be, no matter how little school they attended, or what kind of background they come from. Jeff Fort is an example of the intelligence and ability used in a way that hurt his people, while Malcolm X represents the other possibility (See "True Freedom"). * *
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:29:39 +0000
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