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Then And Now: The Black Panthers Movement

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The Black Panthers Then and Now There are many types of social groups that are considered a community, and one in particular is an activist type of community. One example of an influential type of activist community in the United States is the Black Panther Movement. The movement of the Black Panthers was started as an organization that had goals of creating awareness among the African American community and to try to help and protect them. Due to the power that this group had in America, many people feared them and had many wrong ideas about what they stood for, which eventually caused the fall of the Black Panthers. Although the Black Panther movement ended in the nineteen-eighties, there are some people who currently try to fill their role …show more content…

Stereotypes and wrong ideas about the party's agenda were started as many are based on a small amount of truth and then blew out of proportion. When the anti-female statement against the Black Panthers came out is was based on the fact that when the group started it was mostly male and advocated masculinity (Bloom & Martin, 2013). Other untrue ideas that spread about the party were that “they had a racist agenda and were basically the black version of the KKK” (Bloom & Martin, 2013). Unfortunately for the organization, this was not the actual facts but people had the wrong idea about the Panther's political ideas. In reality, the Black Panthers as a whole were working to help races and genders work together for the better of all involved (Bloom & Martin, …show more content…

Edgar Hoover caused disputes to happen between the groups within the Black Panther Party (Bloom & Martin, 2013). It was due to these inter party problems and lies that the influence the party once had socially and politically was lost and with the loss of their power, they ended not soon after. Unfortunately, the misconceptions that men like Hoover caused not only led to the end of the Black Panthers, but then caused the people who came after them to have a misunderstanding of what the party stood for. These wrong ideas caused new groups trying to mimic the original Panthers to base themselves on racist and hateful ideas (Tempest, 2002). This new group calling themselves the “New Black Panther Party” has adopted the lies told about the original Black Panthers, and this has caused original members and others to be upset by their racist agenda (Tempest, 2002).

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