Black Panther Party
Black Panther Party
Black Panther Party was conceived in the late 1960s to liberate the black people who were oppressed. With their slogan ” POWER OF THE PEOPLE.”, (Jones, 2017). They demanded freedom, employment to the blacks, comfortable housing, education that was viable and promoted the American culture, black men be spared from military duties, the release of black people jailed with no due course and a government that provided equally to its citizen regardless of ethnicity or race.
Their quest to emancipate black people predisposes some semblance of racism. They considered it had participation from purely the black people at its start. This alone painted it as a racist revolution and, to some extent, left out other marginalized communities like Chinese, Vietnamese, Indians and even Arabs. While charting the way out to end racism, promote equity and equality in all the societal strata, the Black Panther Party, paused some philosophical irony. Critics could hurl moral stones to the heart of this war against discrimination and impunity with simple rhetoric questions. How can you fight racism, and yet your group has only blacks?
The revolutionary was aiming to fight for human rights. Their demands just meant to ring an alarming bell that there were people who were not taken care of. People are ignored by their own because they are not white. People were denied their human rights and treated as outcasts in their own houses. Since the white had the upper hand in the government, the blacks had no say, and the set rules offered no room for expression from the blacks. The pioneers were on an excellent course dousing the draconian way of doing things that made the blacks inferior, only to be seen but not heard.
The war was enormous and vast. It called for collaborations from within and without. The party was open, and it allowed alliances from other sedimented communities that had the same cry like Peace and Freedom Party. The party opened doors for like-minded people ready to soldier and fight for the rights of the less fortunate in society (Abu-Jamal, 2019). Since it was a capitalist society, many people flocked to the movement to denounce the ideologies of capitalism and cooperate socialism and communalism that integrated the people.
In conclusion, the Black Panther Party boosted racial solidarity and did not instigate racism. The principles that laid its foundation were to see that people were treated with equality, especially the marginalized. The pioneers also allowed alliances from other groups and people with like minds to be embedded in one umbrella in the quest for justice.
References
Jones, C. E., & Jones, C. E. (Eds.). (2017). The black panther party (reconsidered). Black Classic Press.
Abu-Jamal, M. (2019). We want freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party. South End Press.
Self, R. O. (2016). The Black Panther Party and the long civil rights era. In In Search of the Black Panther Party (pp. 15-56). Duke University Press.