Leta McCullough Seletzky's memoir details the divided loyalties of her father, an undercover agent for the Memphis Police who witnessed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.
and picked up James Bevel. [Then they all] went over to the Lorraine Motel, which was one of the bases of operation for the SCLC while they were in Memphis, supporting the strike.
My dad and his cousin Eugene were riding in the car one morning, listening to the radio, as they always did. And then a recruiting ad for the Memphis Police Department came on. And so Eugene said, “Hey, Mack, weren’t you police in the military? You got to go apply for that.” And my dad said, “You know, they aren’t hiring Negroes.” And Eugene said, “You don’t know that. You ought to just go try.” And so he went down there to apply because he didn’t want to disappoint Eugene.
If there’s a concern in law enforcement, that the Invaders might be doing things to cause disorder in the streets, then I will have no problem listening in to find that out. I just don’t think that he had the perspective to see the implications of what he was getting into. And I think there’s a lot of naivete to his decision.
I think that it is an expression of our society’s tendency to pin blame on Black people, to be disproportionately critical and punitive of Black people, you know? Not to say that these officers don’t deserve every bit of accountability. But that does not mean that white people shouldn't face the same accountability. Right? That’s the problem.
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