The little sympathy I had for him soon evaporated when the evidence of police corruption turned out to be "all the symbols they have on their helmets, they're illuminati, yeah?"
Nation of 5% and NOI openly teach the theory that white people are the rebelled slaves from a rogue islamic scientist, originally bred from albine apes in the Caucus Mountains.
(No no, keep reading)
This is a mythos that is convenient and astronomically absurd (and later revealed not a holy text but a stolen sci-fi story), but is used to explain away the question of why white supremacy happens and why racial stratification is so upheld by white society in the West: Vengeance.
If you look at the realities of people who become willingly racist in a lot of English speaking countries such as America, there is a vicious anger and hate of those who've they've colonized or enslaved 'coming back to claim what's they've obtained'. A culture that historically more and more we've learned that has been 'stolen' in so many ways and then rehistoricized to paint a portrait of so-called white superiority. What is it that so many racists fear? Their marginalization, their insignificance, their dependency on a perceived cultural capital they cannot restore and lash out at those who would DARE demoralize them so. And so they lash out in... Vengeance.
There's also something there clearly as a message of hubris in these ideologies of "Forgiveness and benevolence to them is something we should not do", which is an antithetical to colonization's encouragement for those who they would oppress to become forgiving Christians.
Sometimes, we use the parable to teach people. The illuminati mythos is popular and it's easy access for those who can't necessarily deal with an education system that wants to talk about power and systems of control for any reasons. It is easier and more illustrative to think of power groups as Evil Forces, like something from a comic or a movie, rather than constantly wrap one's mind of the ways you are an explicit tool in the push pull.
Identifying those who control you as evil through mythology is necessary when those who have the complex ideas don't necessarily speak to or for you, and especially when so many figures who get that right are revealed to be as implicit in social and political 'games' with you as a bargaining chip in the greater games and no input or authority over your life.
When you don't get help, you justify and grab what you can.