ossonflag's initial post asked if this was a practice in the deep south during the civil rights era.

"Organizer Saul Alinski once had poor black folks eat beans, then attend an opera in Chicago to fart for economic justice."

That's hardly the deep south, is it?

I'd still be very surprised to hear about that sort of thing happening in the deep south. As I mentioned before, Black people were killed for less in that part of the country back then. And in the deep south, the Black activists were being organized by Martin Luther King, not Saul Alinski. You can bet your beano that Dr. King would have counseled against such tactics.