Posted on 04/23/2016 12:38:28 PM PDT by artichokegrower
The Black Panther Party is approaching its 50th anniversary and a group of them gathered Friday for an anniversary celebration at the Oakland Museum of California.
The one-time radicals are somewhat mellower, but just as committed to social change. They have traveled a long, dedicated road from the turbulent 60s to still being alive in their 70s in a new millennium.
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On October 28, 1967, Oakland police officer John Frey was shot to death in an altercation with Huey P. Newton during a traffic stop. In the stop, Newton and backup officer Herbert Heanes also suffered gunshot wounds. Newton was convicted of voluntary manslaughter at trial, but the conviction was later overturned. In his book Shadow of the Panther, writer Hugh Pearson alleges that Newton, while intoxicated in the hours before he was shot and killed, claimed to have willfully killed John Frey
And then I guess Betty van Patter won't be attending:
Panther leader Elaine Brown hired Betty Van Patter in 1974 as a bookkeeper. Van Patter had previously served as a bookkeeper for Ramparts magazine, and was introduced to the Panther leadership by David Horowitz, who had been Ramparts editor and a major fundraiser and board member for the Panther school. Later that year, after a dispute with Brown over financial irregularities. Van Patter went missing on December 13, 1974. Some weeks later, her severely beaten corpse was found on a San Francisco Bay beach.
There was insufficient evidence for police to charge anyone with van Patter's murder, but the Black Panther Party leadership was "almost universally believed to be responsible".
Huey Newton later allegedly confessed to a friend that he had ordered Van Patter's murder, and that Van Patter had been tortured and raped before being killed.
Oakland. How appropriate !
Did they invite any pale faces to the festivities, even the ones who think they’re black? How about mulattoes, like the POTUS?
What have the Black Panthers done in a positive way that there should be a commemoration? What are their accomplishments that they can proudly proclaim?
Can’t believe we are told that this is cause for celebration, that the black panthers are still around after 50 years.
Indeed, what have they done, what positive accomplishment can they point to?
Is the black community in our country better off in any way due to the black panthers?
Geez...this country is toast.
violent black racists
Disgusting. They made Bezerkeley and Oakland Helll Holes in the 1960s.
I forgot what the panther whizz joke thing is all about.
The Bay Area communities that received the most blacks during WWII to work the various ship yards remain crime infested hellholes to this day.
Mikey Meshuge, a very talented, but banned/suspended Freeper, started the Panther Whizz meme.
They were great graphics, making fun of “black panther” causes.
Unfortunately, Mikey was so anti-Trump that he was banned. I’d love to see him back here and on the Make America Great Again bandwagon.
The Black KKKers.
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