anarchist23 wrote:If it were the Black Panthers who were busted this would of been big news. Infact they were granted bail, which is hard to believe.
First, it cannot be underlined enough that the New Black Panther Party has nothing to do with the Black Panthers.
SPLC wrote:Members of the original Black Panther Party, which has no connection to the NBPP, have heavily criticized the New Black Panther Party. An open letter from the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, which is run by members of the original Black Panther Party, decries the NBPP for being a hateful and unconstructive group. Bobby Seale, a famous founding member of the original Panthers, calls the organization "a black racist hate group."
The Panthers were Maoists that were far better versed in creating public engagement and organization. Which is why the FBI deemed it necessary to kill the leadership. The NBPP are rightwing bozos that wanted to stack a school board and figured out that if they looked intimidating white people would give them a lot of attention.
The Panthers, I think, had a much better solution for a lot of these issues. Put up a plan that engages people to think about the hypocrisy. One of the points that strikes me upon reflection is their assertion that blacks can, under the US constitution, only be tried by black juries since it mentions, "a jury of your peers," and historically there have been organized attempts to stack, limit, and seperate blacks from whites by the government which constitutes a reasonably valid argument that blacks and whites are not the same "peers." Though it's not my area, I suspect a lot of the argument was to make a provocative demand in order to make people address systematic issues more than actually hoping that black people would only have black juries from then on out.
Further, policing the police was a solid tactic. Have armed volunteers follow the police around and make sure that everything goes well. Now, with instant technology, the need to arm is less--but I do think it goes back to the first point in that white people tend to think white people should be armed; but quickly back peddle when blacks start to arm.
After all, the Black Panthers arming meant that the NRA demanded more gun legislation, that Ronnie Reagan needed to sign a bill about limiting access to guns.Finally, be suspicious of all calls for Race War, as it's largely a meme that reactionaries love to masturbate to more than anything legitimate.
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