![]() ![]() This introduction to the Black Panther Party was very enlightening and leaves me wanting to pursue more information about the topic. ![]() There is strong irony in how quickly California passed gun control legislation when Black Panthers showed up at the state capital with guns and how little action we have taken in the last year despite armed White militants parading and protesting. Indeed, it's amazing how little progress has been made on some of them, such as police brutality, and how that leads directly to the protests we saw last year. Most of them are rightly still debated today. My passing impression of the Black Panther Party reduces them to violent militants, so I was surprised to find that their initial 1966 Ten-Point Program of wants and beliefs is actually a very reasonable starting point for discussion of Black Americans' issues and civil rights. It's a graphic novel that relies heavily on giant blocks of text, but still reads fairly quickly due to the subject matter. A fairly engrossing history about a very complicated group of people. ![]()
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