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Happy Black History YEAR!

Greatness.

loving how my old history teacher talked about them like a terrorist group

boost me up

Wow okay so for those skimming, there’s a memo up there from THE DIRECTOR OF THE FBI that sets a mission to LIE about the good things the Black Panthers were doing, spread rumors of them being terrorists, and terrorize the communities supporting them.

If you think the Black Panthers were terrorists and you’ve never heard of the community-building, it’s because there was a literal government conspiracy to make you and people 45 years ago think that way.

i’m reblogging again (bolding mine), because people need to fucking know this. especially white americans. 

TRUTH. My dad was a BP and this is a common misconception.

i’m dedicating the second chapter of my dissertation to my homegirl’s kid, little camilo, two years old & she asks him, “who are the black panthers?” & he says, “they’re the people’s police! they’re our only hope, mom!” :)

Strangely enough, I got the idea that the Panthers were people to look up to from somewhere, probably my very lefty mother.  And we lived across the San Francisco Bay, where the Panthers were in strength!  I used to read the Party newspaper when I could get it … .  I knew as a white person I was the enemy after black peoples’ years of persecution, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t slip a quarter in the donation jars when I had one.  As far as I was concerned, they had a right to be pissed.  I remember what happened during the Watts riots—we listened to those on the radio, and we saw the soldiers being brought in to a local park in case the blacks of San Francisco’s Hunts Point slum decided to riot in solidarity.  I didn’t want anyone else getting hurt, not soldiers, not poor people.  And there was all the news from the South earlier in the decade.  I was too young to understand the ins and outs for some of it, but I knew Ugly when I saw it.

Later there was the treatment of Huey Newton during the trial of the Chicago 7—separate and unequal—and the murder of Fred Hampton by police, for which no one was ever charged.  Anyone with a pair of eyes could see what was going on, and too many mouths in power stayed shut.  And in the meantime kids were getting fed, and getting a decent education, and they could take pride in being Black.

Angela Davis is still on of my heroes.

(via funeral-gnome)