With the advent of the movie of Judas and the Black Messiah (which was directed by Shaka King), many people still don't know the origin of the Black Panther Party. Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton created the Black Panther Party at Oakland, California in 1966. The BPP existed because of many reasons. Long before the 1960's, the 2nd great African American migration (which took place from ca. 1940 to 1970) caused tons of black people from the South to live in the West Coast, the Midwest, and the North. In Oakland, California, the working class populations, especially black people in particular, experienced police brutality, redlining, discrimination, racism, miseducation, and other forms of oppression. Seale and Newton became more revolutionary who desired self defense instead of embracing nonviolence as a sole way of life. This era saw the civil rights movement and the urban rebellions spanning from 1963 in Birmingham to 1968. Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton wanted a group to counteract police brutality and build up the community using survival based actions. They rejected capitalism as they believed in socialism. They were influenced by the views of Mao, Frantz Fanon, and other human beings. Tons of stories of black men and black women Black Panthers described how they heroically monitored the police, used transportation services to help people, and promoted medical clinics to give services to the people.
They promoted plans in their agenda statement that wanted to liberate black people as they viewed the black community in America as victims of a type of colonialism by the power structure. The Black Panthers were influenced by revolutionary black nationalism, Third World anti-imperialist movements, and community development programs. Their free breakfast program was highly successful in Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, and other locations across America. The FBI via J. Edgar Hoover declared war on the Panthers by using infiltration, disinformation, and other tactics. Hoover supported the COINTELPRO operation of infiltration and provocations to harm progressive, anti-war, and civil rights organizations. They even targeted peaceful, nonviolent groups like the SCLC. We know now that the FBI and the Chicago police murdered Mark Clark and Fred Hampton (the chairman of the Black Panthers in the state of Illinois. Fred Hampton appealed to the youth by his words to oppose poverty, racism, and police terrorism) on December 1969. The Chicago police fired 99 shots at the location, and Mark Clark only fired one shot out of a human reflect. We know how agents were used to divide Newton and Eldridge Cleaver. We realize that Cleaver later betrayed black revolutionaries by being a Reagan supporter and loving compromise. With FBI infiltration, some dissension, skepticism of the power of the working class (as the working class should be promoted along with the lumpen in causing real social change), the shift of some into electoralism (some Black Panthers ran for office in Oakland and other places of America), and evolving times, the Black Panthers ended by 1982. Yet, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense remains a strong example of an important part of the overall black freedom movement.
One Capitol police chief said that the extremists want to plan to attack and bomb the U.S. Capitol (and they want to murder as many members as possible) when Biden gives his first State of the Union address. Many GOP members oppose the 9/11 style commission to investigate the January 6, 2021 attack for political reasons. They omit that the biggest terrorist threat domestically in America is not BLM or left wing people. The big terrorist threat in America right now are white nationalists and far right extremists. The terrorists back in January 6 had a noose and murdered many human beings. The Capitol police chief wants enhanced security measures to remain in place. This is a new era that we live in. For long years and decades, people like me and others have warned that racist terrorists really want the multicultural, democracy America to end. It is our duty to promote democracy and use the government to promote the general welfare of the people, protect human rights, and ensure justice for all. Doing these actions epitomize treating your neighbor as yourself plainly speaking.
Now, Merrick Garland is experiencing his hearing to possibly be the new Attorney General of the United States of America. He gave an emotional testimony about his relatives experiencing anti-Semitism. He promised to serve the American people, not the President. Those, who support the immoral actions of Trump, like Lindsay Graham interviewed him. Also, other progressive Senators interviewed him. The issue is whether Garland will be forthright in addressing civil rights issues, criminal justice issues, and other political issues relevant to the people of America. Garland answered every question concisely, kept his composure, and was well received by members of both parties. It's the Senate's role to confirm propose cabinet members. Garland said that if he is the new Attorney General, he will do his diligently to fight far right extremists, prosecute those who broke federal statues, and enforce the law in an impartial fashion. He told the truth that far right extremism is more vicious now than during the time of the evil Oklahoma City bombing back in 1995. I was in the 6th grade when that bombing took place at Oklahoma City, and I knew of that day just like yesterday. Soon, the Senate will vote on Garland.
One of the big updates is how Malcolm X's family released a letter about Malcolm X's assassination. This letter came from a now dead police officer. His name is Raymond Wood, who was a black former undercover NYPD officer. His cousin is Reggie Wood. Wood joined with some of Malcolm X's daughters at a news conference at the location of the Audubon Ballroom. Wood said that he was pressured by his NYPD higher ups to lure 2 members of Malcolm, X's security detail to commit crimes. In that sense, they would be arrested days before Malcolm X's passing. This caused 2 men from the managing door security to be gone. The NYPD infiltrated the OAAU (Gene Roberts was a NYPD agent from the BOSSI program), and the FBI monitored Malcolm X illegally. Some believe that the NYPD and the FBI worked to have Malcolm X assassinated or allowed it to happen. We do know that the CIA monitored Malcolm X worldwide, and he was poisoned at Cairo mysteriously. Malcolm X was one of the most revolutionary black leaders in human history.
By Timothy
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