The Black Panthers Party Rise and Local Influence
It was the 1960’s in America and racial segregation was unbearable. Black people were being terrorize, brutalize and murder by the police in their communities. There were high depression levels of unemployment in the Black community, people of color lived in poverty where 40% of men that lived in the ghetto were paid less than 60 dollars per week. Making it impossible to support their families or bring up their children in dignity. Health care was expensive and people of color had less job opportunities and those who did not have a job could not afford health care. Lastly, education for people of color was not encouraged the government wanted to maintain Black people ignorant to have them under …show more content…
Everyone began to realize that this was not the way things were supposed to be. Radical change was about to take place. An organization was emerging and it was going to become a fundamental asset in the Black Power Movement and have an important part in the Civil Right Movement.
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland California in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Initially this party purpose was to patrol and protect the communities from police brutality. The Panthers eventually developed into a Marxist revolutionary group they encouraged militant self-defense for Black communities as a way to fight against the United States government. They believed that the lack of unemployment, police brutality, no affordable health programs and oppression of the black people were conditions created by the …show more content…
157) In this point the Black Panther Party talks about slavery and how our own government had made money from actively repressing the communities of people of color. How people should demand that our racist government gives us the money they offered to give us 100 years ago, as a compensation for slave labor and mass murder of Black people. So the people of color can use that money in ways that their communities can benefit. They conclude by stating that our government is responsible for murder of 50 million Black people. Even though the government will want to give the people of color compensation the money is not worth anything compared to the many lives that lost. In the book, Killing rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks says that, “All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.” (Hooks, 1995, p.19) People need to start speaking up because if they do not the white supremacy that dictates our everyday life will begin to think that is it acceptable to discriminate the people of
It was the 1960’s in America and racial segregation was unbearable. Black people were being terrorize, brutalize and murder by the police in their communities. There were high depression levels of unemployment in the Black community, people of color lived in poverty where 40% of men that lived in the ghetto were paid less than 60 dollars per week. Making it impossible to support their families or bring up their children in dignity. Health care was expensive and people of color had less job opportunities and those who did not have a job could not afford health care. Lastly, education for people of color was not encouraged the government wanted to maintain Black people ignorant to have them under …show more content…
Everyone began to realize that this was not the way things were supposed to be. Radical change was about to take place. An organization was emerging and it was going to become a fundamental asset in the Black Power Movement and have an important part in the Civil Right Movement.
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland California in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Initially this party purpose was to patrol and protect the communities from police brutality. The Panthers eventually developed into a Marxist revolutionary group they encouraged militant self-defense for Black communities as a way to fight against the United States government. They believed that the lack of unemployment, police brutality, no affordable health programs and oppression of the black people were conditions created by the …show more content…
157) In this point the Black Panther Party talks about slavery and how our own government had made money from actively repressing the communities of people of color. How people should demand that our racist government gives us the money they offered to give us 100 years ago, as a compensation for slave labor and mass murder of Black people. So the people of color can use that money in ways that their communities can benefit. They conclude by stating that our government is responsible for murder of 50 million Black people. Even though the government will want to give the people of color compensation the money is not worth anything compared to the many lives that lost. In the book, Killing rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks says that, “All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.” (Hooks, 1995, p.19) People need to start speaking up because if they do not the white supremacy that dictates our everyday life will begin to think that is it acceptable to discriminate the people of