The main arguments of ‘Seize the time: the story of black panther’ is mainly against oppression and the party’s fight for equality. The author argues against the Fascist Power Structure that was designed to oppress colored people and poor Caucasian people. The role of the Black Panther Party was to focus on the Power Structure defined in 3 levels of oppression avaricious business men, demagogic politicians and fascist police forces. The US government, CIA, FBI, deemed the Black Panthers a Black Extremist Organization advocated the use of violence and guerrilla tactics to overthrow the US government. Therefore, the Black Panther Party tried to reach millions of people to organize resistance to fascism and to receive service from basic community
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This is because the government was afraid that the Black panther would expose the power structure for its continued oppression of the people. Therefore, he would question agents and provocateurs on how they could be fighting for the free world when 40 to 50 million of Americans lived in subsistence levels. The author uses radian Black Panthers offices illegal arrests including his own in 1969 to attempt to ‘railroad’ the party members and also to deplete the funds of the party. Things really sparked when Eldridge Cleaver fled the country to Algeria which made him opened an international chapter that forged relationships with North Korea, Vietnamese, Chinese and African liberation groups. The parties foundational work centered on “survival programs” for not just black communities but poor communities including free breakfast, health clinics and liberation schools. He also stresses the importance of youth participation and the importance of seizing the time. “Over half of the American people are under twenty-five, and a larger percentage is under thirty. Therefore, the youth are a vast reservoir of revolutionary
This is because the government was afraid that the Black panther would expose the power structure for its continued oppression of the people. Therefore, he would question agents and provocateurs on how they could be fighting for the free world when 40 to 50 million of Americans lived in subsistence levels. The author uses radian Black Panthers offices illegal arrests including his own in 1969 to attempt to ‘railroad’ the party members and also to deplete the funds of the party. Things really sparked when Eldridge Cleaver fled the country to Algeria which made him opened an international chapter that forged relationships with North Korea, Vietnamese, Chinese and African liberation groups. The parties foundational work centered on “survival programs” for not just black communities but poor communities including free breakfast, health clinics and liberation schools. He also stresses the importance of youth participation and the importance of seizing the time. “Over half of the American people are under twenty-five, and a larger percentage is under thirty. Therefore, the youth are a vast reservoir of revolutionary