From Wikipedia
In April 1977 Panthers were key supporters of the 504 Sit-ins, the longest of which was the 25-day occupation of the San Francisco Federal Building by over 120 people with disabilities. Panthers provided daily home-cooked meals in support of the protest’s eventual success, which eventually led to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)thirteen years later.
They also were allied with groups of confederate rednecks with the understanding “we have incredibly different worldviews, but we’re both poor and it’s because of the rich folks in power”
The three-letter-agencies could not allow that kind of class consciousness so they assassinated Fred Hampton.
Almost like they were about inclusiveness
Fred was a big tent leftist for sure
Fun fact: these amazing people are the reason Democrats and many Republicans voted in favor of gun control laws in California. They were racists that feared armed minorities protesting for equity and nipped that in the bud.
Now it’s us Leftists holding our unarmed dicks in our hands while armed Christofascist Republicans are trying to take over the government, while we finger waggle at them and hope the racist cops are on our side since none of us have enough guns to counter their deterrence efforts.
Yep, Reagan signed the gun control laws as governor after Black Panthers visited the Sacramento capital with guns.
police reform would help everyone.
The only thing police “reform” has ever helped has been the police and the capitalists they protect.
This feeds my response to everyone who tried to pretend “All Lives Matter” or “Police shoot more white people than black people” was anything other than racist, bigoted obstructionism during 2020. There is no proposed police reform that I’m aware of which would only help black people. No matter the impetus, police reform would help everyone.
Same thing here. They didn’t help to effect social change that only helped black people, they helped to effect social change that helped us all.
And they did much more than that.
Sorry for the listicle but it’s a good one with decent detail.
Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party#Connections_to_the_Gay_Liberation_Movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party#Women_and_womanism
And best of all, they got Republicans and the NRA to support gun control! (pick your jaw up - it was for all the wrong reasons, of course)
https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act
Edit: When I share this kind of information, the fact that some people are bothered enough to downvote it makes me even happier that I shared it.
Every peaceful rights movement has a less-than-peaceful counterpart that’s willing to go just a little bit farther for rights.
Yet the peaceful ones are the only ones who get credit. Why do you think that is?
Look up COINTEL PRO before you accuse the black panthers of being problematic
I hope you didn’t think I was accusing the Black Panthers of anything!
I read your comment as insinuating only peaceful movements are successful, but I now realise there is another meaning to it.
