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On a whim, I decided to attend a lecture yesterday with Emory Douglas at The Museum of Contemporary Art.
A graphic artist and member of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Douglas' political posters imprinted the covers of the BPP newspaper during it's run, leaving deep impressions on those who saw them. His lecture was fascinating, eye opening and included impromptu side commentating by none other than Bobby Seale himself.
Unjust is the negative perspective Americans have been marketed which deflects focus from the positive impact The Black Panthers have had on the community and the nation: working with local grocers to feed children impacted by poverty, transportation for the elderly, youth dances to keep kids off the streets, and supporting of other causes such as the boycott of lettuce being farmed with now illegal chemicals/pesticides.
They promoted forward-thinking concepts such as community policing rather than recruiting officers from outside neighborhoods, with no concept or empathy for the conditions and issues of those sectors.
They protested against funding of police helicopters for the patrol of problem areas in San Francisco and asked why that money not be invested into those very communities to rehabilitate them.
For all their hard work and waging of a justified revolution for black America to rise up against suppression, J. Edgar Hoover deemed them a threat to national security; "He was correct in a sense. The Panthers' message was a direct and serious threat to the capitalist status quo. The danger was not that the group would manage an armed coup and take over the government. Empowering people to stop facilitating their own oppression was far more frightening". *
Some members still face trials at 70 + years old for conspiracy and murder. Most of their arrests are allegedly the result of being framed by Federal level agents. (See The San Francisco 8).
* More from Colette Gaiter:
http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2004/65/gaiter.html
For more images and info on 'The San Francisco 8 '
http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/index.html
A graphic artist and member of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Douglas' political posters imprinted the covers of the BPP newspaper during it's run, leaving deep impressions on those who saw them. His lecture was fascinating, eye opening and included impromptu side commentating by none other than Bobby Seale himself.
Unjust is the negative perspective Americans have been marketed which deflects focus from the positive impact The Black Panthers have had on the community and the nation: working with local grocers to feed children impacted by poverty, transportation for the elderly, youth dances to keep kids off the streets, and supporting of other causes such as the boycott of lettuce being farmed with now illegal chemicals/pesticides.
They promoted forward-thinking concepts such as community policing rather than recruiting officers from outside neighborhoods, with no concept or empathy for the conditions and issues of those sectors.
They protested against funding of police helicopters for the patrol of problem areas in San Francisco and asked why that money not be invested into those very communities to rehabilitate them.
For all their hard work and waging of a justified revolution for black America to rise up against suppression, J. Edgar Hoover deemed them a threat to national security; "He was correct in a sense. The Panthers' message was a direct and serious threat to the capitalist status quo. The danger was not that the group would manage an armed coup and take over the government. Empowering people to stop facilitating their own oppression was far more frightening". *
Some members still face trials at 70 + years old for conspiracy and murder. Most of their arrests are allegedly the result of being framed by Federal level agents. (See The San Francisco 8).
* More from Colette Gaiter:
http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2004/65/gaiter.html
For more images and info on 'The San Francisco 8 '
http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/index.html
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