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Anyone wanna join???
I know it's not really existent anymore, but their message of social activism, not taking %$$# from unjust powers, equality, and keeping the hood cleanmessage still lives on. Anyway here's the sig for any of you who wanna be a part of this
(For those of you who don't know much about them, here)
I know it's not really existent anymore, but their message of social activism, not taking %$$# from unjust powers, equality, and keeping the hood cleanmessage still lives on. Anyway here's the sig for any of you who wanna be a part of this
(For those of you who don't know much about them, here)
[table][tr][td][/td] [/tr][tr][td][/td] [/tr][tr][th=""]Black Panther Party[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Years active[/td] [td]1966-c.1976[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Political Ideology[/td] [td]Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Internationalism
Black Nationalism[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Political Position[/td] [td]Far left[/td] [/tr][tr][td]International Affiliation[/td] [td]None[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Preceded by[/td] [td]None[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Succeeded by[/td] [td]None[/td] [/tr][tr][td]
[/td] [/tr][tr][td]Colors[/td] [td]Black[/td] [/tr][/table]
The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African-American organization established to promote Black Power, and by extension self-defense for blacks. It was active in the United States from the mid-1960s into the 1970s. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international fame through their deep involvement in the Black Power movement and in American politics of the 1960s and 70s. The Black Power Movement is considered to be one of the most significant social, political and cultural movements in U.S. history. "The movement [had] provocative rhetoric, militant posture, and cultural and political flourishes permanently altered the contours of American Identity."[sup][1][/sup] In September 1968, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover described the Black Panthers as, "The greatest threat to the internal security of the country."[sup][2][/sup]
Founded in Oakland, California, by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton on October 15, 1966, the organization initially set forth a doctrine calling for the protection of African American neighborhoods from police brutality, in the interest of African-American justice.[sup][3][/sup] Its objectives and philosophy changed radically during the party's existence. While the organization's leaders passionately espoused socialist and communist doctrines, the Party's black nationalist reputation attracted an ideologically diverse membership.[sup][4][/sup] Ideological consensus within the party was difficult to achieve. Some members openly disagreed with the views of the leaders.
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[/h3] [h3]The Ten Point Program[/h3]
The Ten Point Program was as follows:
all taken from wikipedia.
- We want power to determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities' education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.
- We want completely free health care for all black and oppressed people.
- We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people, other people of color, and all oppressed people inside the United States.
- We want an immediate end to all wars of aggression.
- We want full employment for our people.
- We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our Black Community.
- We want decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings.
- We want decent education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society.
- We want freedom for all black and oppressed people now held in U. S. Federal, state, county, city and military prisons and jails. We want trials by a jury of peers for all persons charged with so-called crimes under the laws of this country.
- We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and people's community control of modern technology.[sup][19][/sup][sup][2
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