Black Panthers (1968) part 4

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Uploaded by on May 31, 2008

Speech and Rally on Internal dissent against dominant American ideologies may be seen as having reached its zenith during the turbulent period when the rising civil rights movement, race riots in Watts, Detroit, Washington DC, Oakland, Wilmington, the 1968 Democratic Convention riots, voter registration riots all over America, racial lynchings and murders including those of Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Malcolm X, the freedom movements of the Black Panthers, Anti-War movement, white social unrest and the Free Speech Movement, Farm/Immigrant Workers Movement, Native American Freedom Movement, hippie/free love movement,Gray Panthers and the concepts of All power to the People,- Black power to Black people, Brown power to Brown people, Yellow power to Yellow people, Red power to Red people! and J. Edgar Hoover and the FBIs opposition to these movements saw radical expression bloom and new networks and alliances among these groups take root in the late 1960s. Efforts to control and disrupt such movements used mass and alternative media as part of a broad-based strategy of opposition to social change spearheaded by the federal government, in conjunction with local police and cooperative private media sources. Exploiting divisions between groups seeking common cause proved an effective technique, as Federal Bureau of Investigation COINTELPRO operations built on a history of communication-oriented action to thwart rising movements, in particular the Black Power surge that saw organizations such as the Black Panthers, SNCC, The Weather Underground, and the Nation of Islam achieve dramatic gains in a racially charged environment. This study examines the effort to limit the impact of such voices and considers some of the consequences of that campaign of discourse control. While substantial damage was inflected upon Black power organizations, the movements in which they participated spawned considerable cultural and political ferment, much of it inspired by reaction to official abuses.

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  • Conservative leftists vs pro revolutionary leftists. 

  • its not about killing nobody for no reason that isnt our nature.. what we want is freedom and equality the black panthers was tired of asking and seeing people who were anti violent get killed so they were prepared to retaliate if someone tried to kill or harm them when all they wanted was peace.

  • Kill Whitey isnt what its all about , I bet a white person put this up there. brothers like Huey P. Newton thought with critical thinking and intellegence. Its about freedom and every people has fought for it at sometime in history, even white people.

  • KILL WHITEY

    EVERYDAY

    ALL DAY

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