Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali are great examples showing that you don’t need to be elected officials in the two party system to be politically prominent and affect change in America. In some cases, it was their lack of institutional participation that gave them their strength and their audiences’ respect. And they weren’t white or Christian either. When you’re 1% in a rigged system, you can’t vote your way out of the framework that has been given to you. So build your own.

Here is Nixon grovelling to the CIA, trying to ask who shot JFK, because he knows that the secrecy of the agency, and its destruction of documents, will cause problems for future presidents and the CIA itself. You can hear Nixon trying to persuade the CIA humbly (even though he is the president), to apparently no effect — at least not on tape. https://youtu.be/hpo9wIyHKtg?si=SI1sFtZRgL3Plej1 Then, when Nixon was asked about the JFK assassination and its conspiracy theories, he tiptoes around the topic, and says he doesn’t question the official narrative because “nothing’s going to happen as a result” and “I don’t see a useful purpose to getting into that” https://youtu.be/hwEmJizrg3o?si=swzKjcP1O9IU1hUr

As I once saw Tareq Suweidan say “I’m dressed like this because I’m Kuwaiti! Just because you’re Muslim, doesn’t mean you have to eat rice ………. With your hands!”