[lbo-talk] Black Panther Coloring Book

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 26 13:55:35 PDT 2010


The Black Panther Coloring Book was released in 1968 and follows the journey of black (or white, depending on how you color them) people from Africa to America, where they apparently all got huge knives and started killing cops. It sort of makes the Black Panthers look like crazy, irrational assholes, which was the point, because it was made by the FBI and sent to white families across the country.

It was a (somewhat effective) effort to discredit the Panthers as any sort of valid political movement and reinforce the opinion already held by a lot of white people at the time, that Huey P. Newton and his organization were psychotic militants who killed white people and cops indiscriminately. The art direction at the Federal Bureau of Investigation left something to be desired however. Let's have a look.

Read the rest at Vice Magazine: <http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2010/10/26/coloring-the-black-panthers/#ixzz13V5mr5uM>COLORING THE BLACK PANTHERS - Viceland Today



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