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Just a guess, but because of systematic racism, many black people live in impoverished areas which means the schools have a lot less funding.
No, it's from the Moorish Science Temple: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/moorish-sovereign-citizens
IDK, I grew up in rural poor white areas, but this wasn't ever really a thing. I'm wondering if there's some cultural overlap I'm unaware of, or maybe regional ones.
I think sovereign citizens are a fairly recent thing?
They've been around at for at least 20 years. I remember seeing some stuff around 9/11 era
Yeah, but not as prevalent as it is now.
Correct. Time moves forward.
Well, that's technically a matter of perspective.
Regardless, not all things increase in prevalence as the years roll by.
The Internet has let these crazies spread like no other thing.
There are definitely regional groups of sov cits. They aren't necessarily organized groups, but the scams are typically perpetrated by "gurus" who sell documents and things to their believers, which resulted in certain regional twists on sov cit rhetoric.
This legal opinion documents a number of the gurus in Canada and their lines of argument.
https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abqb/doc/2012/2012abqb571/2012abqb571.html
The cultural overlap is they are often victims of systemic racism and you are not.
This is correct. Some of the sov cits themes and beliefs have origins in other movements but the proliferation of these beliefs was the result of mail order scams that targeted people who didn't know better who had been charged with crimes.