During the peak of the civil rights movement of the 1960’s little value was placed on African-American lives, when little value is placed on others perpetrators see no wrong in seeking to control or destroy.
We are not anti-white, we anti-oppression!
On October 15, 1966, in Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs. The Black Panthers would patrol black neighborhoods and protect black citizens from police brutality.
The Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, was based on ideas such as Black Nationalism and a staunch belief in the necessity of violence and armed self-defense in order to obtain freedom from white oppression – ideas which are strongly associated with Malcolm X’s life work.
Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton met at San Francisco School in California and met Bobby Seale at Merritt College in Oakland.
In the 1960’s at the peak of its movement the Black…
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