[ETL]

IIRC, he became disillusioned with all that crap as he got older.....

Probably when he became a dope addict

"Chronically out of money, Newton spent his last days stalking dope, either cadging it or, when that failed, "jacking" the small-time dealers awed by his reputation.

"Don't you know who I am? I'm Huey P. Newton of the Black Panther Party!"

He talked constantly about death, which he called the "Big Boss.”[72]

On August 22, 1989, a destitute, perpetually stoned Newton was murdered by a black drug dealer whom he had failed to pay.

As his body was laid to rest amid eulogies by Elaine Brown, Bobby Seale, and others who had conspired with Newton and learned to fear him, the 2,000 or so Bay Area radicals and Oakland blacks who had come to mourn him shouted, "Huey Is Free!"[73]"--from the discoverthenetworks link I posted earlier

[AppyPappy]

I’m surprised the story hasn’t changed.
A guy on the street told me that Malcolm X was killed by white FBI agents. He wasn’t having the truth that day. I just smiled.