Source: New York Post
A veteran civil rights activist warned Thursday that the Southern Poverty Law Center’s indictment for its alleged informant scheme that secretly bankrolled leaders and members of hate groups is merely “the tip of the iceberg. ” Bob Woodson, an 89-year-old civil rights champion who faced jail time for his advocacy in the Jim Crow South, condemned the SPLC and admitted he wasn’t “surprised at all” that the nonprofit allegedly funneled more than $3 million to “field sources” to infiltrate extremists groups between between 2014 and 2023. “This is just a more obvious expression of the contradiction of people who say they are fighting for civil rights, and as a consequence, they are corrupt,” Woodson charged on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show.
