The Black Panthers Analysis

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Moral panic can be defined in many different ways. One way where “Moral panic” can be better understood is by defining it as a concept as panic, fear, morals and/or “a state intervention greatly exceed the objectives threat posed to society by a particular individual or group” (Bonn Scott, Psychology today). It can also be defining as ideology of what’s wrong and and right beliefs. Like discussed in class, moral panics can be presented in both ideology and social justice. Although Professor Palakoff explained ideology and social justice, idealogy plays a bigger role to the understanding of the film “The black panthers”. Ideology is a hierarchy in other words the dominate culture, where white privileges are encouraging, material becomes an …show more content…
the black panthers were not a threat to anyone in society besides the white dominant culture. Instead the back panthers brought a sense of importance and safety back to their community, which is honestly what brought a threat to white dominant culture. The white culture in other words the cops, law enforcements and government were used to having people in color on the floor. They expect people of color to rely on them, to bow to them and do whatever they are told. After the black panthers became more famous and more known, people of color started to rely more on the black panthers and that’s what brought anger to the white culture. They wanted to feel power, and dominate and it was clear that the black panthers were taking over that feeling. Albert Memmi sets a perfect argument to better understand why the white dominant culture felt like the black panthers were a threat. Memmi explains on “assigning value to differences” where he explains the second form of racism which is placing a value on the differences, where explicitly and implicitly is defined as two values to prove two things, one the interiority of the victim and the superiority of the racist. Memmi explains that “inferiority of black roles means superiority of the whites and in other situations it can mean inferiority if the colonized vividly demonstrates the superiority of the colonizer” (Memmi, 2006), in other words the racist will do anything to make themselves look better than the victims. Which is in the film “passion on” we see how the plan to take the leader away and incarcerate him for something he did not know was some sort of victory for them. The white culture needed to feel like they dominate again, like people of color were back on the floor. Which is exactly what happened, they send Debura to 25 to life in jail without a fair trial and made sure the media was well aware of what going on. Just like

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