On June 28th, 2001, William Cooper said “Something terrible is going to happen in this country. And whatever is going to happen they’re going to blame on Osama bin Laden. Don’t you even believe it.”
Behold a Pale Horse, published in 1991, is something of a publishing miracle. With an initial press run of 3,500 (500 hardcover, 3,000 paperback), by the end of 2017, the book was closing in on 300,000 copies sold. It’s one of the most shoplifted book in the history of Barnes & Noble.
I also initially published my book, Putting It All Together, in 1991, several months before Behold a Pale Horse. During this time, I met the late Steve Cokely, an African-American independent researcher–street speaker who occasionally referenced Cooper. In the middle of a presentation on topics like Cointelpro, Cokely would pick up a copy of Behold a Pale Horse and say, “Let’s see what the white boy has to say about this.”I paid Steve to speak at the Harriet Tubman school in Harlem. I give him a Navy Federal Credit Union check as payment and later heard that his talks included how I was a government agent because I paid him with a NFCU check. That was one of the experiences that led me away from continuing given such talks and actively selling my book. I didn’t want to end up like Steve Cokely or William Cooper. Instead, I when to grad school at the NYU Stern School of Business and didn’t fit in there and ended up becoming a New York City high school teacher for a time. I taught at Morris High School in the South Bronx and George Washington High School in Washington Heights. I was also the head coach of the track and field team and the cross-country team at Spring Valley High School in Rockland County.
In 1990 and 1991, 5,077 people were murdered in New York, by far the highest two-year total in city history.
Like I’m y’all man who be exposing shit, heh
Like ah, William Cooper
Who told you the Pale Horse is the future
~ Nas
Milton William “Bill” Cooper (1943–2001), while largely unknown in the mainstream media, was the most important “conspiracy” writer and thinker of his time. Chances are individuals like Alex Jones, QAnon, and even Donald Trump would not have manifested the way they have without the influence of Bill Cooper and his book Behold a Pale Horse, which, 27 years after it was first published in 1991, remains important in many American circles.
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