The Panthers used to ride around and follow the police.
So the cops would pull over some sorry black person, and get ready to rough him up, but then there were the Panthers right behind them. Watching, armed to the teeth, and citing legal statutes. It’s inspirational.
Bring it back.
Bring this back.
For real.
That’s why the FBI broke them up, isn’t it ?
That among other community initiatives. They had weapons training, self defense, their free breakfast program and ran a newspaper. They raised money to pay for bail and legal funding for people. And they used to notify the community of their rights and encourage people to know the laws and protest the one which were unjust. That type of shit irked the local police and damned sure struck a nerve with the FBI. They were taking back the streets and providing the protection the police were never interested in bringing to their neighborhoods from the very start. So it’s always fuck the FBI for me.
Also let’s be starkly clear about this: under COINTELPRO the FBI raided the homes of Black Panthers and outright murdered them. They conspired with local police forces to harass, assault, and concoct false evidence against anybody affiliated with the BPP. And they didn’t keep their operations confined to the black community directly. When a white woman working in civil rights was killed by the KKK (they were aiming at her black passenger) the FBI excused the KKK by claiming that she was a communist and slept with black men. They refused to accept the reports of white agents who said that the BPP were no threat and demanded that the agents falsify information to paint the BPP as violent domestic terrorists. The FBI was determined to quash revolutionary black movements that were chiefly devoted to community protection and development and they stopped at nothing in their attempts to reach this goal.
One thing we don’t talk about even in our own retellings and reclaimings of BPP history is that a large part of the reason the government worked to break them up wasn’t because of armed action, but because they provided so many necessary social services and programs: free breakfast for children, walking the elderly to and from banks safely to cash their social security checks, free medical centers, door-to-door sickle cell testing, blood drives, raising money for bail, clothing donations, legal aide, busing people to and from prisons to visit, commissary for prisoners. Not only did they fight back against state violence in their confrontations with police, but also by resisting the forced conditions of poverty, criminality and scarcity created by the state to further destroy their communities. J. Edgar Hoover genuinely wrote in an FBI memo that:
“The Breakfast for Children Program B represents the best and most influential activity going for the BPP and, as such, is potentially the greatest threat to efforts by authorities B to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for.”
When I need a good example of the antiblackness that is fundamental to this country’s history and how it persists even now, I remember that the BPP were viewed as a threat to national security, not because they were armed, but because they wouldn’t allow black children to die from starvation and malnutrition.
Anonymous asked: personally i find it hilarious that they basically gave what amounted to a steamroller momentum then set up shop in it's path. hindsight's 20/20.
Yeah, poor planning and management on their part, but on the bright side many of the people responsible for the flubs have already stepped down. That being said, I’m still upset about Trump actually getting the presidency, and do hope that something can be done about his projected plans, whether it’s the electoral college vote being superseded by the popular, or the idea that Trump was trolling his followers and will actually be relatively progressive.
You can take a little bit of solace in knowing that when he met Obama, he realized just how in over his head he is
Anonymous asked: What is this new FORCIBLY REMOVED meme please explain is it homestuck?
its not and idk its origins either but i think it should be on knowyourmeme by now if youre curious?
It’s origin is an extension of harambe. It started with the basic formula and ended with dicks: out
Then people commented that if their dicks were out they would be removed so they rebloged with “I am forcefully removed from (place)”
From there people started presenting situations in which you would not be removed for having your dick out in public such as in an orgy or art class as a model for a nude.
From there it evolved even further, incorporating more memes.
