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Black Panther Party back in the day.........
boycriedwolf619:
Could someone hit me up wit some info about what were they about. Cuz my homie trying to say that basically they were the black KKK which I dont think is true because I believe they stood for alot of posivtive things in which the KKK did not stand for. Do you think that the Black Panther party was rascist?
ωεεźγ ғ:
no, they fought fo the right fo blacks but you had to be black to get in
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: boycriedwolf619 on September 27, 2005, 07:34:39 PM ---Could someone hit me up wit some info about what were they about. Cuz my homie trying to say that basically they were the black KKK which I dont think is true because I believe they stood for alot of posivtive things in which the KKK did not stand for. Do you think that the Black Panther party was rascist?
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They were nothing like the KKK, nor were they a "civil rights" group. Because they believed that the prevailing morals and rights of the system were wrong, and they advocated a complete overthrow of the system. They were a socialist organization and they wanted an end to capatalism. They had support from foriegn socialist and communist governments. Some of their members like Eldridge Cleaver and Assata Shakur(?) exiled America and were given refuge by communist governments.
Many of their themes were taken from Malcolm X, although Malcolm himself was not a member, their motto was armed self defense. They believed that since the police department couldn't provide adequate defense and security for black people, they had to create their own police, and often they would 'police the police' and follow around cop cars and video tape them brutalizing and abusing black folks... the black panther party got into shootouts with the cops, there was one historic shootout in particular that involved their leader Huey Newton and also Eldridge Cleaver and one other member.
Also, on one occasion, H. 'Rap' Browne (before he converted to Islam and became Imam Jamil Al Amin) and other Black Panthers went into Reagans governers mansion all armed with guns, and at the time it was legal to carry weapons in California so they couldn't do anything to them, and it scared the crap out of a lot of white folks.
...anyway, that's some basic things, if you want more information about their goals and the mindset behind the Black Panther Party of the 60's then you should read Eldridge Cleaver's "Soul On Ice" (and the sequal "Soul On Fire") or H. Rap Browne's "Die Nigger Die", these are classic books from those times.
7even:
Yea. I think they were racist. Just like Malcolm X, the NOI and the KKK.
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: 7even the Opinion Maker on September 28, 2005, 06:23:08 AM ---Yea. I think they were racist. Just like Malcolm X, the NOI and the KKK.
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Malcolm X a racist? Are these the words of a racist?
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Malcolm X Letter From His Pilgrimage To Mekkah... in which he denounces all the tenets of racism.
Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this Ancient Holy Land, the home of Abraham, Muhammad and all the other Prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors.
I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca. I have made my seven circuits around the Ka'ba, led by a young Mutawaf named Muhammad. I drank water from the well of the Zam Zam. I ran seven times back and forth between the hills of Mt. Al-Safa and Al-Marwah. I have prayed in the ancient city of Mina, and I have prayed on Mt. Arafat.
There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and non-white.
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white'--but the 'white' attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all colors together, irrespective of their color.
You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to re-arrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.
During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed (or on the same rug)--while praying to the same God--with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the actions in the deeds of the 'white' Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan, and Ghana.
We were truly all the same (brothers)--because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.
I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man--and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their 'differences' in color.
With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called 'Christian' white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster--the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves.
Each hour here in the Holy Land enables me to have greater spiritual insights into what is happening in America between black and white. The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities--he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites. But as racism leads America up the suicide path, I do believe, from the experiences that I have had with them, that the whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the walls and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth--the only way left to America to ward off the disaster that racism inevitably must lead to.
Never have I been so highly honored. Never have I been made to feel more humble and unworthy. Who would believe the blessings that have been heaped upon an American Negro? A few nights ago, a man who would be called in America a 'white' man, a United Nations diplomat, an ambassador, a companion of kings, gave me his hotel suite, his bed. ... Never would I have even thought of dreaming that I would ever be a recipient of such honors--honors that in America would be bestowed upon a King--not a Negro.
All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all the Worlds.
Sincerely,
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
(Malcolm X)
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