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Now lets go back, all of this was occurring in the same cities as the black panther party. The black panther party began during the civil right movement.,we can assume. Imagine living in at the time San francisco living in a neighborhood of police brutality, on top of that more african americans are coming into san francisco trying to find work, a house, and a safe future. And even on top of that the civil rights act is being fought for and soon enacted.
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Please look at it from a black persons perspective. Thinking about the rules of the black panther party, the party seems amazing. It secures a job, being paid. You have a sense of need since you’re protecting your community. Plus the ideals that they stand for seemed logical under those circumstances.
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So let me ask you a question, would you join the black panther party under these terms and ideals, PLUS being a black person in that time?
A side tangent
Black liberation army
The black liberation Army was an underground black power organization that operated in the United States from 1970 to 1981
This Army included an ex founder of the black panther party, Eldridge Cleaver.
One of their goals was to “take up arms for the liberation and self-determination of black people in the United states”
They carried out bombings, robberies, and prison breaks. They didn;t have a set of rules, in comparison to black panther party, and openly accepted ex black panther party members.
The black liberation army saw their acts as “revolutionary violence” against the state as a necessary response to what their members deemed an Imperialist nation fixed on exclusivity and racism.
The black liberation army become more prominent when the black panther party began to decline.
The decline began when people began to take notice in the black panther party. People of the black panther party were getting arrested with longer sentences and key members had died.
Conclusion
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