The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.
I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.
Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
The Black Panthers was what we would call today a criminal gang that was formed by Huey Newton. Now, interestingly enough, I knew Huey Newton before he formed the Black Panthers. He was a student of mine when I was a teacher, instructor at Oakland City College back in the very early 1960s.