[lbo-talk] Black Panther Coloring Book

[Carrol Cox]

I don't think there is any real disagreement between shrill and me. Minor
differences would be easily ironed out in extensive conversation. I didn't
try to offer any comprehensive an detailed presentation of the Panthers but
merely to establish a _core_ perspective on them.  I'm sorty I never saw
that film he describes; it sounds pretty wonderful.

Carrol

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On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> The guns are a mere    distraction from serious political discussion.
>
> Carrol
>

Hi Carrol -

I generally agree with you but it was also true the the image of Black
Panther as armed revolutionary was cultivated by the left at that
time.

For instance, have you seen the 1969 film, "Amerika" by Newsreel?  It
ties the Panther's struggle to armed anti-colonial struggles world
wide.   (Although for me at least, one of the most interesting scenes
of the film was that of a community meeting in Chicago's Uptown
convened by the Panthers to engage white working class kids from the
neighborhood.)

I've also interviewed a number of people active in the Puerto Rican
independence movement who worked with the BP in the late sixties.
Armed resistance was at least part of the rhetoric then - although
typically in the context of self-defense.  I don't doubt that people
in Black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Chicago had good reason to
feel that were under siege.

 - shrill

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