[lbo-talk] Boots Riley on Occupy vs Decolonize

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I mentioned this before, but one of the greatest surprises of my life was walking into the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland (seats about 1000) for a Black Panther documentary and finding that every member of the audience was asian. WTF I thought. Turns out the film was mostly about Richard Aoki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Aoki

an asian man, radicalized by internment during WWII, and the Panthers' defense minister. Fantastic film; fantastic story.

Joanna

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CB:    Yes, though in this period the Civil Rights activists as in
SNCC were racially integrated first. Also, the Panthers did have some
of the decolonize rhetoric and I don't know how the _Black_ Panthers
could be considered to firmly reject Black Identity Politics.  They
told the White Panthers in the Detroit-Ann Arbor area to form the
White Panthers.In other words, the Black Panthers weren't racially
integrated , so that is some Black Identity Politics. The Panthers
were friendlier with white radical allies than say the Nation of
Islam. They weren't nationalists, however they did consider Malcolm X
one of their inspirations.

All Power to the People !
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