On this day in 1966, in the wake of spontaneous riots against police brutality, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California. It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality. It was part of the Black Power movement, which broke from the integrationist goals and nonviolent protest tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The BPP name was inspired by the use of the black panther as a symbol that had recently been used by the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, an independent Black political party in Alabama.
The party was active in the United States between 1966 and 1982, with chapters in many major American cities, including San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Philadelphia. They were also active in many prisons and had international chapters in the United Kingdom and Algeria. Upon its inception, the party's core practice was its open carry patrols ("copwatching") designed to challenge the excessive force and misconduct of the Oakland Police Department. From 1969 onward, the party created social programs, including the Free Breakfast for Children Programs, education programs, and community health clinics. The Black Panther Party advocated for class struggle, claiming to represent the proletarian vanguard.
In 1969, J. Edgar Hoover, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), described the party as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country." The FBI sabotaged the party with an illegal and covert counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) of surveillance, infiltration, perjury, police harassment, all designed to undermine and criminalize the party. The FBI was involved in the 1969 assassinations of Fred Hampton, and Mark Clark, who were killed in a raid by the Chicago Police Department.
Influences
The BPP’s philosophy was influenced by the speeches of Malcolm X, the teachings of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung of the Communist Party of China, and the anti-colonialist book The Wretched of the Earth (Les Damnés de la Terre, 1961) by the Martiniquan psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. The BPP’s practice of armed self-defense was influenced by African American activist Robert Williams, who advocated this practice against anti-black aggression by the Ku Klux Klan in his book Negroes with Guns (1962). Newton and Seale canvassed their community asking residents about issues of concern. They compiled the responses and created the Ten Point Platform and Program that served as the foundation of the Black Panther Party.
An interview with Huey P. Newton (1968)
(1966) THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY TEN-POINT PROGRAM
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Hate that shit so much
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The only way to win to is be worse. Only do this with people you don't like. Actually probably never do this. I used to go around praising Obama for killing so many of them because I hate that group of people for reasons. a terrible plan but more efficient than trying to reason with random liberals. The opposite is true. Complain about how the ussr sent a women in space decades before the US. Praise the US for using sexist nazis. Liberals cannot defend such an attack.
It's pretty jokerfying to check out a random non-leftist comment section and find that the only anti-Israel voices are actual anti-semites
One thing I was genuinely surprised by is that random DeSantis supporter who won't vote for him now because of Israel's bombing of Palestine, and it seemingly having nothing to do with anti-semitism. Like I'm making assumptions, but angry conservatives aren't exactly good at stopping themselves from shouting about Judeobolshevism or globohomo or whatever they think Israel is.
I blame psyops. Who knows if it is so. I still blame them.
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Palestine really is the whole struggle for liberation around the world slammed in to a region the size of new jersey. For the Hegemon it is a laboratory for refining the tools of oppression, but the oppressed also learn, developing ever more sophisticated and elegant weapons with which to cut at the heel of the giant. One day it will topple.
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Jesus, already more Palestinian children have been killed than the number of children killed in the Ukraine war so far.
How does anyone who has... man fuck this shit that state is a crime against language and peace.
from direction of Israel
Hmmmm I wonder who could have done this? 🤔
My dog slept though the night with no seizures! She woke up happy, inquisitive, gentle and mischievous like her old self
I'm so happy this medication seems to be working
There's a bit too much history happening currently for my taste. I would like a little bit less history, please
Too many. I gotta move next year and animals make it way hard
BBC reporter doing the "journalists are so oppressed, someone threw paint on our building for merely telling the truth 😞" bit when journalists are actually dying in Gaza.
woah there, "dying" is way too emotional a word, I think the sentence they use is "Journalists in Gaza have transitioned away from a state of being alive in response to an air-launched kinetic piece of equipment dropped from high altitudes by so-far-unknown forces"
don't forget that a bunch of innocent civilians were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorist militants in an unprovoked atrocity!
"from the direction of Israel" - REAL statements made by REAL journalists
Someone? as in active voice? sounds non-objective to me, your building got splashed by red paint
That's how I role. I just behave like I have authority and people mistake it for having it.
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folks, what emotion does this convey
i'm leaning towards fear or concern
Cool beans! Cat's just going to need a bit of time to adapt it's new for them too. Sure it will be fine once they get to know you.
Just got back from the doctor, turns out I got a brutalist cement block where my brain should be.
u jelly, tankies?
My last week on Reddit summarized:
"Why don't you condemn Hamas for killing children?" "Why don't you condemn Hamas for killing children?" "Israel has every right to kill children."
here’s why it’s actually good and normal that Israel is harvesting sperm from fallen IDF soldiers
Jizzrael