Don't forget that Fred Hampton got poor ass white folks from Appalachia to agree with him. And that was the part the US government didn't like. The real divide was always between the rich and everyone else. Everything those in power do is to distract US citizens from the class war.

another aspect to this also was that the YPO and BP reached out to each other and the YPO showed the respect to take down the confederate flags

Chicago politics has long had a layer of mediocre middlemen who kept jobs and contracts for themselves. Poor whites immigrating from Appalachia & the South for jobs were seen as "to be exploited".

EXACTLY!

This exact thought crosses my mind at least once a day