BTW what is the best biography of Huey out there?
One with no bias one way or the other that tells all aspects of his life?
One with no bias one way or the other that tells all aspects of his life?
Huey P. Newton
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Huey extorted from Pimps and drug dealers so lets put that into perspective. ON the other hand, when you extort criminals in your neighborhood you are actually becoming their partner so its not the correct political position to take if you want prostitution and drugs out of your neighborhood.
You must read will you die with me by FLores Forbes. Its an autobiography of a panther who was there in oakland with HUey during the height of things. Homie got locked up, did his time and all that. He's doing good now with a nice job and all that, I've bumped innthim a few times professionally. But the book gives you alot of details about shit they did and the life they lived during those times. Unfortunately for me, it let me also see Huey was deeply flawed and the panthers under his leadership did some real anti-revolutionary shit of which extortion is just one example.
All in all, they did something first and didn't have a blueprint, so they have an excuse, but the folks who come after them have no excuse, we have their example to learn from.
Give people props for their accomplishments, but don't idolize anyone. THese people are human beings with flaws just like you. Sometimes under immense pressure, these flaws are magnified greatly, remember theyre fighting the most powerful gov't in the world. Live, Learn and do better than those before you.
We stand on their shoulders, we should see further than them.
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Great Thread....Interesting
She didnt sleep with Gerrard....He had a chance, but he didnt push up, he was being a lame and a simp at the same time...
C/S...I even heard some people say that the black leaders of today are in connection with people that dont have us in their best interest. In fact, wasnt one of the goals of the Cointelpro to take out black leaders and replace them with their own?
She didnt sleep with Gerrard....He had a chance, but he didnt push up, he was being a lame and a simp at the same time...
C/S...I even heard some people say that the black leaders of today are in connection with people that dont have us in their best interest. In fact, wasnt one of the goals of the Cointelpro to take out black leaders and replace them with their own?
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There is no one book on the BPP for Self Defense that will cover it from the start to the finish. Also keep in mind that there are several book out there written by actual self admitted FBI informants. What I did was take several books and read them all at the same time. Looking for the parts where there is consistency. But there's a lot of books that are completely biased against the BPP so you have to be careful in your rsearch. ALWAYS know who the author is before taking them at their word.
There are books by cats like David Horowitz who was down with with Huey, but things went sideways at the point where shit between the Panthers and the police got really heavy. Newton wanted white so-called radicals to step up (like Eldridge Cleaver wrote about in Soul On Ice) but the only real radicals that stepped up were the Weather Men/People/Underground. The rest of them white cats left the Panthers basically standing alone in front of a firing squad. The logic was that if the white cats were there on the front line with them, the power structure would never pull the trigger and give in and things would get better for the people. So a book by a cat like Horowitz will be one sided about Newton because alot of white cats sold them out.
There are a few good books but I think every single one of them that I've read, including Huey Newton's own Revolutionary Suicide, has a few inconsistencies. Like the circumstances behind Bobby Seale leaving the Party in 1973. That's a real point of contention because it was at that point were the Party began to unravel a bit. Some authors say Huey did something real foul that made Bobby Seale leave. But at the heart of things there was always COINTELPRO as a motivating factor. The hierarchy knew the FBI was doing shady shit, but didn't know the full extent they would go to create dissent among the leadership. One book I never got to read was Jo Durden Smith's book, "Who Killed George Jackson?" I think there are a few loose ends covered in that book that can explain what happened between Huey Newton and Jackson (who created the Black Guerrilla Family that was ultimately responsible for the death of Newton)
J Edgar had all those leaders ready to kill each other. Newton, Seale, Cleaver, Carmichael, James Forman, Jackson, Rap Brown and even David Hilliard all their lives completely turned upside down by spies. And that's just in Oakland. Doesn't even get to NY, LA or Chicago
There are books by cats like David Horowitz who was down with with Huey, but things went sideways at the point where shit between the Panthers and the police got really heavy. Newton wanted white so-called radicals to step up (like Eldridge Cleaver wrote about in Soul On Ice) but the only real radicals that stepped up were the Weather Men/People/Underground. The rest of them white cats left the Panthers basically standing alone in front of a firing squad. The logic was that if the white cats were there on the front line with them, the power structure would never pull the trigger and give in and things would get better for the people. So a book by a cat like Horowitz will be one sided about Newton because alot of white cats sold them out.
There are a few good books but I think every single one of them that I've read, including Huey Newton's own Revolutionary Suicide, has a few inconsistencies. Like the circumstances behind Bobby Seale leaving the Party in 1973. That's a real point of contention because it was at that point were the Party began to unravel a bit. Some authors say Huey did something real foul that made Bobby Seale leave. But at the heart of things there was always COINTELPRO as a motivating factor. The hierarchy knew the FBI was doing shady shit, but didn't know the full extent they would go to create dissent among the leadership. One book I never got to read was Jo Durden Smith's book, "Who Killed George Jackson?" I think there are a few loose ends covered in that book that can explain what happened between Huey Newton and Jackson (who created the Black Guerrilla Family that was ultimately responsible for the death of Newton)
J Edgar had all those leaders ready to kill each other. Newton, Seale, Cleaver, Carmichael, James Forman, Jackson, Rap Brown and even David Hilliard all their lives completely turned upside down by spies. And that's just in Oakland. Doesn't even get to NY, LA or Chicago
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Thanks for this.you should read his book "revolutionary suicide".
it's a REALLY good book.
Another good read
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