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Racism In The Panther Party

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From the perspective of the Panther Party, the utilization of systemic racism in America, allows those in power (“White pigs”) to place those with ethnic differences (Blacks) in a perpetual state of oppression. Thus, It is true what Feagin states in his text, Racist America, that systemic racism involves the unjustly gained economic and political power of whites, and white- racist ideologies, attitudes, and institutions that are created to preserve White advantages and power (Feagin, 2000, p. 16). So in this light, one can accurately say that the Panthers saw America as a “total racist polity” in which every aspect of life is shaped to some degree by racist truths. With that being said, the Panthers viewed America in the following ways: As a polity that suppresses the political, social, and economic rights of its citizens, (Blacks) as a polity …show more content…

And the police are not in our community to promote our welfare, for our security, but they are there to contain us, and brutalize, and murder us. They have orders to do so. Just as the soldiers in Vietnam are ordered to destroy the Vietnamese people, the police in our community couldn't possible be there to protect our property, because we don't own no property. They couldn't possibly be there for the due process of law for the suferees, because the police themselves do not have the due process of law. It is apparent that the police are not there for our communities, but they are there for white business owners, and to see to it that the white, status quo is kept in tact” (Malcolm x network, 2007). In a world where capitalist pigs benefit daily from exploiting defenseless Black proletariats, there should be no surprises when one inquires about how the Panthers went about in resisting American

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In his book titled American Babylon: Race and Struggle for Postwar Oakland, Historian Robert Self places the actions of two groups together in Post-World War II, Oakland, California: a movement centered on black power that stressed community defense and empowerment in ending Jim Crow laws, which notably included the group known as the Black Panthers, and another movement that was primarily white property owners intent on creating a secure economic environment. Both of these two groups, with their own political agendas, argues Self, were instrumental in the development and growth of the political culture not just in the postwar suburbs of Oakland, but in the entire state of California. Charting the rise of these two groups as well as how their

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“...Much of the recent crime increase threatens the vitality of America’s cities–and thousands of lives–it is not, in itself, the greatest danger in today’s war on cops. The greatest danger lies, rather, in the delegitimation of law and order itself’ (Mac Donald). In the book “The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe,” published in the year of 2016, author Heather Mac Donald provides credible evidence to expand on her viewpoint of our country’s current criminal crisis. In addition to “The War on Cops, Mac Donald has written two other books. Her works “Are Cops Racist?”

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COINTELPRO would create black propaganda to make the public believe that they were in fact a threat, they would use infiltrators within the party to commit crimes and blame the Black Panthers to ruin their image, and they would falsify letters written to jurors and other Black Panthers. It was the police who ultimately arrested hundreds of the party’s members, and killed almost 30 members including most of the party’s leaders by 1970. This year marked the dismantle of the Black Panther Party. Many sources will be used in this investigation from hidden files revealed about COINTELPRO to an actual work written by the party’s co-founder Bobby

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No second chance by Harlan Coben is a book about Dr. Marc Seidman who has been shot twice, his wife has been murdered, and his six-month-old daughter has been kidnapped. When he gets the ransom note-he knows he has only one chance to get this right. But there is nowhere he can turn and no one he can trust. There will always be bad but, it’s up to us to see the good even if we are surrounded by bad.

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When the narrator was in Harlem, the narrator garners a better articulation of himself. The Brotherhood, which is a fictional version of many civil rights groups that sought to achieve social and economic equality, held many acts and speeches. The narrator was at one point the leader of the Harlem division, which shows a similarity to Nation of Islam. The narrator was peaceful, like Martin Luther King, but his competing ally, Ras the Destroyer was more aggressive, like Malcolm X. He believed that they had to “fight for the liberty of the black people” (Ellison 375) and that the power must be placed back into the hand of black folk in order for them to form their own identity. Ras evened envisioned the identity when he highlights “black intelligence” (Ellison 375).

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On May 2, 1967, Huey P. Newton, the minister of defense of the Black Panthers, said that “the time has come for black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late” (Document F). The group had changed to a violent point of view after they saw nothing was happening when they were

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In contrary to peaceful protest and marches led by Martin Luther King there were other leaders who had more radical approaches to protest. Amongst these radical leaders are Malcolm X, Robert Williams, and the Black Panthers. The Black Panthers, a group created by in 1966, by Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale protected black communities patrolling areas with loaded firearms, monitoring police activities involving blacks. Since they were known for carrying loaded firearms FBI Director J Edgar Hoover considered the Black Panthers “the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States” (To Determine the Destiny of Our Black Community). The Black Panthers created the Ten-Point Program.

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During the 1960s and 70s, America became a nation of issues and controversy. In fact, various groups of people attempted to identify the root problems within American society and the role of citizens in resolving them. During this time, the most prominent groups, still in existence today, were the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Black Panther Party, and the United Farm Workers. In the following documents, there were numerous issues within American society that were discussed, however, one of the most common problems were centered around freedom. In addition, another reason for change comprised of self-reliance.

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The American Revolution, was an inspiration to black people and they’d hoped the words and rules of the Patriots go for them as well. But that wasn’t the case. When all of the Armies had gone away from the land, we were a country of farmers founded by notions of freedom. We had over 700,000 slaves working in the US at its birth.

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Huey Newton and Bobby Seale wanted people to join the Black Panthers not only for them to be able to carry firearms in the streets but also to help the community and help educate and bring about the 4 desires of the Black Panthers of quality in education, housing, employment and Civil Rights (A)(H). The Black Panthers had a 10 point Plan to achieve these desires and it included ending all police brutality and ending all wars of aggression. They dint use violence because they wanted too, they used it to end conflicts and to protect themselves. They used violent and promoted the use of violent to help communities such as the Watts community which has been attacked by the police and had to result to violence as nonviolence didn’t stop the brutality(A)(D). The Police treated the member of the Black Panther in a horrible manner.

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The Panthers were fighting for equal housing, jobs, employment, education, and an end of police brutality across the nation on blacks and their support of civil rights movement and equality for all blacks. Newton and Seale devised a 10 point plan to empower blacks focusing on their rights as citizens with some of their views being unrealistic ie: having blacks released from prison and protesting the Vietnam War and the killing of

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Cozette Fortune Professor Collingwood POSC 171 23 November 2015 The Black Panthers The Black Panther Party was originally created in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby G. Seale in 1966. Newton and Seale attended community college at Merritt and they acquired their exposure to politics by being active in various political organizations. The pair soon realized that the organizations on campus were not enough.

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The Panthers would take anyone that would help them. Newton and Seale wanted to not just protest Black rights, but also wanted to get involved and help black families in poverty. They started a free breakfast program, and had a school for inattentive kids. “In addition to challenging police brutality, the Black Panther Party launched more than 35 Survival Programs and provided community help, such as education, tuberculosis testing,

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The black panthers put a lot of their dedication into police brutality since police officers used their powers against blacks on a daily. Freedom to all black men in prisons and jails because majority of the blacks put into jails had unfair trials and are innocent of their accusations. The next point is the black people to be tried with a jury of their race for the sake of equality and fairness. The last point in the ten point program is the need for land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. The need for all of these points shows the dedication of the black panther party.

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