Cover photo from poster hanging in Black Panthers office with bullet hole from police
There’s reactionary suicide, when you can’t take the pressure from outside forces so you end it all. Then there’s revolutionary suicide, when you refuse to accept the pressure from outside forces and in order to end it’s injustice, you are willing to end it all.
Cultivating this as his ethos, Huey P. Newton gives us insight into the birth of the real Black Panthers, media conception be damned. He touches on working with White radicals (but oftentimes clashing with their inherent drug use and in/effectiveness, the Black Panthers had a zero tolerance drug policy), adamantly adhering to the letter of the law (and yes, this includes bearing arms, he would keep law books on his person), betrayal… Read more
