(5) Vaught, Seneca. The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge … Accessed April 18, 2017.
We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. Black Panther Party. Especially since they wanted change and that change is still desired today.
The first is titled, “What We Want Now!” Here, Newton and Seale break down the 10 things the Black Panther Party requests from the United States government, which includes — among other things — jobs, exemption from military service and the freeing of all black men held in jails and prisons. The two created the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in 1966, and set up the 10-Point Program as the backbone of the organization. We believe that if the White American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.We believe that this racist government has robbed us, and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. In addition, the group inspired other minority groups worldwide to pursue their own causes. (4) “March 1972 Platform.” History of the Black Panther Party. He got into trouble a lot growing up, but despite this, he eventually grew to take his education very seriously. The Black Panther Party was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. The Black Panther Party was an African American revolutionary organization that was formed in 1966 and reached its heyday a few years later.
Britannica Premium: Serving the evolving needs of knowledge seekers. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else.We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist government that does not protect us.
“Tupac’s Law: Incarceration, T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E., and the Crisis of Black Masculinity.” (6) “Code of THUG LIFE -.” Mutulu Shakur. February 25, 2016. Their goals were to do the same things to White people as they did to them. The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group.
(2) Among the major changes to the platform include the removal of the demand calling for the exemption of black men from military service, which was replaced by the demand for free healthcare, which is listed below: (4)The new 10-Point Program also combined the bulletpoints that called for the freedom of black people from incarceration and the trial by jury of “peers for all persons.”Another new point that was instituted was the one listed below, which was likely influenced by the United States’ participation in the Vietnam War:In 1992, rapper Tupac Shakur, whose mother — Afeni Shakur — was a member of the Black Panther Party, helped create the T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary.We believe that all Black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial.We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that Black people will receive fair trials. Forty acres and two mules were promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of Black people.
Associate Professor of Education and Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis. And, much like he did in his music, Tupac called on the same philosophies that made up the 10-Point Program — most notably a disdain for the American government and the police — when creating the guidelines, which are listed below: (5)In your post, I found your background of Huey Newton to be very interesting.
(2) Anderson, Joshua. Robert Williams fled to Cuba due to false criminal charges about 13 years before Newton.I found your post really interesting because I wrote about Prisons within Black Power and I never connected it with the Black Panthers’ Ten Point Plan.
Its initial purpose was to patrol black neighborhoods to protect residents from The Panthers’ campaign for African American equality had a lasting impact on black empowerment, and its influence continues to be felt in such current social movements as Black Lives Matter. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like Black people, are being victimized by the White racist government of America. Both were active in Black politics for several years before they came together to form the Panthers. Each one of the statements were put in place for all of the Black Panther Party members to live by and actively practice every day. Accessed April 18, 2017. The civil rights movement had ignited Black America: Seale and Newton were no exception. On October 15, 1966, Newton & Bobby Seale drafted the Ten-Point Program [or Ten-Point Party Platform]. Get 30% your subscription today. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. (1)The second section is, “What We Believe.” The components of this section are included after each “What We Want Now!” statement, and further explain what the party wants and why it wants it.
The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million Black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make.We believe that if the White Landlords will not give decent housing to our Black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people.We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self.