THE US Organization and the Black Panther Party have some similarities as being nationalists, but they adopted different principles and beliefs. The Us Organization are Cultural Nationalist who promote black cultural identity, that originally focused on Malcolm X ideals but later focused on African culture. The Black Panther Party are Revolutionary Nationalist who core practice was its armed citizens' patrols to monitor the behavior of police officers and challenge police brutality and then later focused on community social programs. Both groups were attacked by the FBI’s COINTELPRO program and pitted against each other to create friction in both organizations. The Black Panthers made an important contribution to the African American tradition …show more content…
these are needed to build a healthy environment and build up the moral in the community, while also encouraging African Americans to understand what it mean and to be African American. The set of principles which we put forth is the Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles): Umoja (Unity)To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race ; Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves; Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together; Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together; Nia (Purpose) To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness; Kuumba (Creativity) To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it and Imani (Faith) To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our …show more content…
The Panthers referred to the US Organization as the United slaves as a reference to the name shows how disgruntled the relationship they had, the US Organization actually stands for black people the pronounced us as opposed to the white oppressors. The Panthers are heroic victims and the US Organization irredeemable villains escaping each encounter unharmed the fact is that us suffered in this tragic conflict which was intensified by police provocation and violence participation. The Black Panther Party's core practice was its armed citizens' patrols to monitor the behavior of police officers and challenge police brutality. They had a Ten-Point program that was divided into "What We Want" and "What We Believe.Huey said, "We need a program. We have to have a program for the people. A program that relates to the people. A program that the people can understand. A program that the people can read and see, and which expresses their desires and needs at the same time. It's got to relate to the philosophical meaning of where in the world we are going, but the philosophical meaning will also have to relate to something specific. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community.We want full employment for our people.We want an end to the robbery by the
The Party’s fight for redistribution of wealth and the establishment of social, political and social equality across gender and color barriers made it one of the first organizations in U.S. history to militantly struggle for working class liberation and ethnic minorities (Baggins, Brian). The Black Panther Party set up a ten-point program much like Malcolm X’s Nation of Islam that called for American society to realize political, economic and social equal opportunity based on the principles of socialism, all of which was summarized by the final point: "We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace" (Newton, Huey P). The Black Panther Party wanted to achieve these goals through militant force. In the words of Che Guevara, “Words are beautiful, but action is supre...
The Black Panther Party’s initial success came about without having to address these roots, but, as the Party expanded and wished to move ahead, the Party’s shifts in policy can be directly attributed to the wishes and needs of the community. Murch profiles the Oakland Community School and the People’s Free Food Program, which were social institutions created by the Black Panther Party to address the needs of the community; though these approaches were used to bring about more members and to garner support, these tactics worked because of their correlation to the needs of Oakland’s African American community.
Guns in hand, more than two dozen Black Panthers promenaded into the California State Legislature to rebel against a gun-control bill. This excessive stunt increased the recognition of the Black Panther Political Party making them the new leaders and image of the Black Power Movement and from this they have gained many supporters, worldwide, for their ideology of black nationalism (Joseph 210). In the midst of a non-violent movement, the panthers propagated their aggressive rhetoric in order to shed light on the stagnant pace of the civil rights movement and the continued mistreatment of blacks by whites. By using rhetoric, the Black Panther Party strongly encouraged self-defense for African American if need be. Together the men and women of the party took dynamic actions to combat racial discrimination. Although both genders collaborated on diminishing racial inequalities, another inequality unfolded within the party (“The Black Panthers”). One of the visions for the Black Panther was to protect all oppressed minorities, but ironically the oppressed a minority which were African American women. Because of sexism within the Black Panther Party, the infrastructure has been damaged due to the recurring conflict between both genders.
In the text, “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans,” the authors mention that the Black Panthers were more focused on black men then woman, who they saw as inferior and wanted men “who can control”. On the other hand in “ A Huey P. Newton Story”, the Black Panthers are described as a party based on a group or a whole not one gender over the other; however, it does emphasize that the leaders were male. No matter one’s observation of the attitudes of the party in “The Ten Point Plan”, there is no separation by gender when it explains the wants of the party but only a whole community. The message of sticking together is very clear throughout the plan as words such as, “We” and “people” are used in almost every point to exaggerate the idea that the plan will only work if everyone is
The dominant culture perceived the Black Panther Party to be a threat, prevented their success whenever possible, and greatly contributed to their ultimate demise. In 1968 FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover proclaimed: “The Black Panther Party is the single greatest threat to the internal security of the United States” (156). The Party’s founder, Huey Newton, came to represent “the symbol of change for Americans, (by) questioning everything scared to the American way of life” (237).
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in October 1966, in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Armed with sincerity, the words of revolutionaries such as Mao Tse-Tung and Malcolm X, law books, and rifles, the Black Panther Party fed the hungry, protected the weak from racist police, and presented a Ten Point Platform and Program of Black political and social activism. Its "survival programs"-such as food giveaways, free health clinics and free breakfast programs for children-were popular fixtures in Black neighborhoods in the early 1970s, but for the white power structure and the vast majority of the white public, the Panthers represented only anti-government militancy; a view which engendered the wrath of the police and FBI and led to the murder of several Party members by law enforcement.
The Black Panther had a huge background of history, goals, and beliefs. Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, Ca 1966, founded the Panthers. They were originally as an African American self defense force and were highly influenced by Malcolm X’s ideas. They were named after Lowndes County Freedom Organization or LCFO. The Panthers had many goals like; giving back to the ghetto, protecting blacks from police brutality, and to help blacks get freedom and jobs. They also had many beliefs like; Malcolm X was a great person, and they believed that gun use was ok if necessary, or if people were oppressing the poor.
These movements have many similarities in the goals that they wanted to achieve, however they have some differences as well. In the document written by the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, they voiced their demands ...
The Black Panther Party was started in Oakland, California in 1966, when “Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton took up arms and declared themselves apart of a global revolution against American imperialism” (Bloom). They wanted to empower the black people to stand up for themselves and defend themselves against the police and their unjust ways. The police were the oppressor’s that kept blacks down and kept blacks from gaining any self-rights. In the book “The Forbidden History of the Black Panther Party”, Bloom quoted from Huey P. Newton stating that “Because Black people desire their own destiny; they are constantly inflicted with brutality from the occupying army, em...
The "Ideology of the Black Panther Party" and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" are similar and very different at the same time. One of the biggest points that both documents get across is the fact that both hoped to achieve the same goal. They both wanted to contribute to the overall Civil Rights Movement and convince the nation that the African Americans should have equal rights. They were both enraged by the Freedom Riders who were attacked and they were tired of waiting for their human rights. They both created a persuasive tone that conveyed their claim of wanting equal rights to mostly the white moderates since they were the majority of the voters and the ones who can cause the most change by law.
Organization like the Black Panther Party were rooted in mostly urban communities. The organization did have chapters in many black communities but not in all black communities (Shabazz One).Unlike the Black Panther Party the Black Churches were located throughout the United States. They were in rural areas and suburban areas. Each of those churches had various sized followings. If all of those churches united together and focused on fixing the problem of self-determination, that problem would get the amount of equality supporters and representation throughout the United States it needed to be solved. The church acted as the communicator to the communities to the communities scattered throughout the United States. From the church walls leaders would emerge, and guide the national community formed to the victory of self-determination for the black race in
The Black Panther Party, which was co-founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966, was a political party that pushed to overcome social oppression. After the assassination of Black activist Malcom X, the Panthers decided they had enough of seeing their race be denied the freedom they deserved. Members of the Black Panthers were tired of a society that continued to consider them “niggers.” They were tired of not having the chance to get out of poverty and live comfortably. They were tired of not getting a quality education that public schools in America should’ve been providing them. They were tired of being beaten, harassed, and unruly discriminated against by police solely because of the color of their skin. They wanted to live in the beautiful nation that America appeared to be for Whites. They wanted freedom and equality for African-Americans.
According to the book, Introduction to Black Studies, by Maulana Karenga, various core principles make of the basis of African-American Studies. Some of the core principles consist of 1)history, 2)religion, 3)sociology, 4)politics, and 5)economics. The core principles serve as the thematic "glue" which holds the core subjects together. The principles assist with the expression of the African-American Studies discipline (Karenga, 27).
The Black Panther Party were an African American organization that formed in 1966 to try to end racism and inequality for all black people. They were a help at the time and supported civil rights for African Americans, but used more violence to support their cause. They fought for freedom for all discriminated black people. Then later on, new Black Panther Party’s formed to support their original cause.
...on to create equality was too ideological. The members of the Black Panther knew that their goals were impossible to reach. There is a movement called the “New Black Panther Party” that deals with the issues that the Black Panthers never completed. Possibly, if the Black Panthers had tried more to fit into the community and had been less radical, their party may have lasted longer which would have led to greater effectiveness.