Perhaps most people upon first reading about BlackFist activism during the 2016 campaign thought Russian meddlers, after all, it’s too whacky to be real unless it would have been a school to teach the knock-out game (which then ostensibly would have been interdicted), but many people were fooled by the Russian interlopers, even black activists who made music and attended events with “BlackFist,” reportedly not knowing that Russian operatives were behind it all.