Cringe or Based?
>>18001988They saw themselves to be in a state of war with the police and U.S. federal government, which was probably an accurate assessment. They did envision a "rainbow coalition" of different peoples uniting in a revolution (including white working people) but a rebellion by a minority that comprises around 10-15% of the population is not going to work. The math just doesn't add up. Some of their members also had a bad habit of writing what they called "wolf tickets" which they couldn't cash. It meant spouting off about militant shit that they couldn't back up. They also did try to resist police invasions of their offices in the ghetto by force, which was a doomed strategy because the police were way more numerous and better armed than they were.But it was very much tied up in the belief that black America was under attack. Right after MLK was assassinated, Kathleen Cleaver went on a T.V. show aimed at black audiences with various black journalists and commenters, all of them older than her, and who were generally more on the moderate or conservative side, and they were all like Jesus fucking Christ are we going to have to go to war??? Oh lord. They were distraught but also worried and were trying to cope. But Cleaver was sharp and steely and was quoting Mao. I can see the appeal at that moment:https://youtu.be/vt-5Te9Q1n4I think another thing was desegregation, and black ghettos butted up to white ethnic neighborhoods in cities like Chicago, and the situation was becoming unglued and there was conflict, and the Black Panther Party put forward a program for black people to act in an organized and disciplined fashion. They'd wear those uniforms but it was something you could wear while walking down the street.
Communist mafia
>>18001988based (occupied government buildings in california at rifle point but also cringe (communists and at least partially black supremacist nation of islamist)
not sure, but the white people that worshipped them fall squarely under cringe
>>18002227Correct take.
>>18001988cringe. commies are always cringe
>>18001988Cringe, jew led movement.
Reminder that Ronald Reagan and the NRA supported California's strict gun control laws specifically to stop the Panthers from exercising their constitutional right to bear arms.
they were cringe like BLM but became based when they learned the errors of their ways and started wearing bow ties but now are cringe again because they are old boomers and no one cares anymore.
>>18002227Same with white people who admire Malcolm X, on both left and right.
>>18003545>constitutional right to bear arms.>we hate the government!>what? What do you mean you are taking my rights away noooooo
Leaning more to the cringe side, hate to say it. Their rhetoric was revolutionary to the point of alienating potential allies.
>>18002227Fair take
>>18003564>they were cringe like BLMThere were some people who showed up at BLM protests wearing Black Panther-style outfits but they were like fashion models or something. It was not the same thing. The 1950/60s version of BLM was more like Ella Baker and SNCC. What the BPP was doing was closer to intermittent urban warfare, closer to the IRA or something:https://youtu.be/V_ft5BlIdFM
>>18001988Conservative Take:>They're Black Nationalists so they're cringeLiberal Take>They're Ethnonationalists so they're cringeNeoLib Take>They're Black Nationalists instead of White Nationalists so they're basedActual Black take:>They're based and was unfairly criminalized by whitey and the Fedsor>They did more harm to racial tensions in the United States than good in the long run depending on who you ask
I'm sorry i ruined your black panther party
>>18001988very cringe
Based as hell. Dont think of them as just violent activists. They also started free breakfasts at schools and wanted to gather the oppressed people to stand together against the 1%. It was a class movement and it scared the feds so much they killed Fred Hampton.What was MLK doing before the feds shot him? That should tell you what they were scared of.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People%27s_Campaign
>>18005312>What was MLK doing before the feds shot himCommunist revolution?
