Seven Facts About
the Black Panther Party Amid Beyoncé Super Bowl Tribute
by Jerome Hudson 8 Feb 2016
The part-socialist, part-black nationalist Black
Panther Party is headline news again, thanks to Beyonce’s
Super Bowl 50 halftime show performance of her song “Formation,”–“a big
wet kiss to Black Lives Matter” that pays tribute to the 1960s
militant group.
In the fall of 1966, the Black Panther Party was founded by left-wing militants Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Newton, like Seale, had
several run-ins with police. He was convicted and sentenced to
30 years in prison for the shooting death of an Oakland police officer.
Publicity around his arrest and the popularity of “Free Newton” propaganda
provided the public pressure that led to his release.
Seale and seven others (now known as the Chicago Seven)
were arrested at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Seale was sentenced to four years in prison for contempt of court. He
now lives and works with young political activists in Oakland, California.
Below are seven facts about the Black Panther Party:
1. The Black Panther Party’s “Platform and Program”
called for guaranteed housing, income, and jobs for black people:
We want full employment for our people.
We believe that the federal government is responsible
and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe
that if the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then the
means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the
community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of
its people and give a high standard of living.
We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our
Black Community.
We believe that this racist government has robbed us
and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty
acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor
and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment as currency which
will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the
Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Germans murdered six
million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over
twenty million black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand
that we make.
We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human
beings.
We believe that if the white landlords will not give
decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be
made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build
and make decent housing for its people.
2. The Black Panther Party was against capitalism and
supported socialism:
“We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We
must destroy both racism and capitalism,” said
Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton.
“We do not fight racism with racism. We fight racism with
solidarity. We do not fight exploitative capitalism with Black capitalism. We
fight capitalism with basic socialism. And we do not fight imperialism with
more imperialism. We fight imperialism with proletarian
internationalism,” wrote
Black Panther Party founder Bobby Seale in his biography Seize the Time: The
Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton.
3. The Black Panther Party wanted “all black men to be
exempt from military service”:
We believe that Black people should not be forced to
fight in the military service to defend a racist government that does not
protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who,
like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of
America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist
police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary.
Rule number six of the “Rules of the Black Panther
Party” states, “No party member can join any other army force, other
than the Black Liberation Army.”
4. The Black Panther Party supported
the Second Amendment as a means to “end police brutality in our black
community”:
We believe we can end police brutality in our black
community by organizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to
defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The
Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear
arms. We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self
defense.
5. The Black Panther Party called for “freedom
for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.”
6. In its “Ten-Point
Program,” The Black Panther Party sought to overthrow the U.S.
government.
7. The Black Panther Party implored its members not to
“ill-treat”
those whom they “take
captive.”
Black Panther Party
Huey P. Newton was
a co-founder of the Black Panthers, and a member of the Phi Beta Sigma.
Note: John R. Lewis is a
member of the Phi Beta Sigma, and was a chairman for the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
H. Rap Brown was a
leader of the Black Panthers,
and a chairman for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Stokely
Carmichael was a leader of the Black Panthers, and a chairman for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Charles Sherrod
was a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee, and is married to Shirley Sherrod.
What the Media Won't Tell You: Shirley Sherrod's Racist
Remarks to the NAACP
Shirley Sherrod
is married to Charles Sherrod, and
was a Georgia director, Rural Development Program for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Daniel R.
Glickman was the secretary for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, and is a director, Congressional Program for the
Aspen Institute (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Walter Isaacson
is the president & CEO for
the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.
Ted
Turner is the founder of CNN,
and was married to Jane Fonda AKA Hanoi
Jane.
Jane Fonda AKA Hanoi Jane
Jane
Fonda AKA Hanoi Jane was married
to Ted Turner & Tom Hayden.
Tom
Hayden was married to Jane Fonda AKA
Hanoi Jane, and a defendant in the Chicago
Seven trial.
Condoleezza Rice is a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), Muammar Abu Minyar
Al-Qadhafi said he loved her & kept scrapbook of her photos, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Muammar
Abu Minyar Al-Qadhafi said he loved Condoleezza
Rice & kept scrapbook of her photos, and Mutassim Al-Qadhafi is his son.
Mutassim
Al-Qadhafi is Muammar Abu Minyar
Al-Qadhafi’s son, and was the host of the Mutassim Al-Qadhafi New Year's party – 2010.
Beyonce
performed at the Mutassim Al-Qadhafi New
Year's party – 2010.
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