Scholars have characterized the Black Panther Party as the most influential black power organization of the late 1960s, and "the strongest link between the domestic Black Liberation Struggle and global opponents of American imperialism". Support further declined over reports of the party's alleged criminal activities, such as drug dealing and extortion. Party membership peaked in 1970 and gradually declined over the next decade, due to vilification by the mainstream press and in-fighting largely fomented by COINTELPRO. Government persecution initially contributed to the party's growth among African Americans and the political left, who both valued the party as a powerful force against de facto segregation and the US military draft during the Vietnam War. The party suffered many internal conflicts, resulting in the murders of Alex Rackley and Betty Van Patter.
Huey Newton allegedly killed officer John Frey in 1967, and Eldridge Cleaver (Minister of Information) led an ambush in 1968 of Oakland police officers, in which two officers were wounded and Panther treasurer Bobby Hutton was killed. Black Panther Party members were involved in many fatal firefights with police. The FBI was involved in the 1969 assassinations of Fred Hampton, and Mark Clark, who were killed in a raid by the Chicago Police Department. Edgar Hoover, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), described the party as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country." The FBI sabotaged the party with an illegal and covert counterintelligence program ( COINTELPRO) of surveillance, infiltration, perjury, police harassment, all designed to undermine and criminalize the party. The Black Panther Party advocated for class struggle, claiming to represent the proletarian vanguard.
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From 1969 onward, the party created social programs, including the Free Breakfast for Children Programs, education programs, and community health clinics. Upon its inception, the party's core practice was its open carry patrols ("copwatching") designed to challenge the excessive force and misconduct of the Oakland Police Department. They were also active in many prisons and had international chapters in Britain and Algeria. The party was active in the United States between 19, with chapters in many major American cities, including San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Philadelphia. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California. And no, Maggot was wrong in “The Dirty Dozen,” when he replied “But I’m His instrument.The Black Panther Party ( BPP), originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxist-Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. That goes back to what Paul said in his letter to the Romans. Therefore, I must react, lash out, because God may or may not react. I’ll go out and do something terrible to somebody.”) The need to commit a violent act to assuage the fear that one’s faith is weak. If one feels the need to commit violence because something offends him, then his faith is weak. Paul put it, “For all have sinned.” Sometimes I feel defensiveness about ones faith is, in itself, a lack of or weakness in faith. We’ve had Crusades, Holocausts, Pogroms, Ethnic Cleansing, Jihad and so on, and so on. The followers of the God who says “Thou Shalt Not Kill,” spend an awful lot of time and energy killing in His name. Then we get into those so stupid or ignorant, they aren’t even sure who they are fighting - like the senseless attack on a Sikh community in Wisconsin, even though the Sikh are a Vedic religion (sharing a common origin with Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism). In Judaism, Ultra-Orthodox fights Orthodox, who fights Conservative, who fights Reformed. Shia fights Sunni, who fights Druze, and they all fight Kurds. Protestant fights Catholic, who fights Orthodox. That goes for those inside a school of faith as well as outside. Christian fights Jew, who fights Muslim, who fights Baha‘i,’ who really doesn’t fight back. The good Lord knows all sides have done a pretty good job of trying to offend the other. Same goes for Jesus, Moses, Buddah, Zoroaster, etc. It’s not like he went down to Olan Mills and had a portrait done. Those paintings going around of a blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus probably aren’t too accurate. There is one problem to that prohibition - no one knows what Mohammed looks or sounds like. One of the biggest sins in Islam is just to depict the prophet Mohammed.
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