Due to the current success of the movie based on the comic book superhero , Black Panther:
Posted on 04/02/2018 2:39:47 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The Democratic National Committee’s Black Caucus chairwoman Virgie Rollins said Saturday that she used to be a member of the Black Panther Party.
DNC vice chairman Keith Ellison was listening and appeared to notice the Republican tracker who was secretly taping the conversation. About a minute after Rollins first mentioned the Black Panthers, Ellison seems to look directly at the tracker and began whispering with someone next to him, but before the video cut off, it captured Rollins’ comments.
"I’m a former Black Panther," Rollins said. "And when we talked about the movement, as a former Black Panther with Angela Davis and Kathleen Cleaver, it was important for us to make people understand that it was about the movement for us, educating us."
She touted the group’s community work, including teaching and helping to feed the poor. She also invoked Martin Luther King, Jr., even though the civil rights leader took issue with the Black Panthers’ movement.
"Mass incarceration did not just happen in Republican hands," she said, adding a range of other issues including police brutality and charter schools.
She told listeners that they need to help direct the party as they seek to win back Congress.
"We’ve got to be out here in masses in the midterms if we want to change this country because it’s all about changing the Congress now," she said.
"They [Democrats] cannot win without black folks and women, so it’s up to us," she added.
She said Democrats have to do more to put money toward grassroots organizers that can deliver more victories like Doug Jones’ in the Alabama Senate election.
"We’re going to do grassroots organizing in this election," Rollins closed. "That is so important."
"We’ve got to turn back to the revolution because it’s important," she said. "They depend on us."
This is not the first time Rollins has brought up her connection to the Black Panthers. In 2016, the Michigan Chronicle quoted her describing how she was "all into" the Black Panthers marching with guns when she was younger.
"There are nine girls and seven boys in my family. So we all learned how to shoot," she said. "And the Black Panthers were talking about walking down the street with a rifle? I’m getting all into this stuff! Cause you know it’s in the blood, and I’m the real McCoy."
Yippie....
So’s most of the CBC, so what ?
The Democratic National Committee’s Black Caucus chairwoman Virgie Rollins said Saturday that she used to be a member of the Black Panther Party.
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Awww. Isn’t that special. Did she want to kill white cracker babies too?
So much Sedition, so little prosecution.
Utter nonsense.
The Democratic National Committee’s Black Caucus chairwoman Virgie Rollins said Saturday that she used to be a member of the Black Panther Party.
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Where’s the equality here? Where is a radical white congressman who is the head of the White Caucus Committee who used to belong to the Ku Klux Klan?
The racist hypocrisy in the CBC is amazing.
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Angela Davis!
Cold blooded murderess.
Republicans have never "mass incarcerated" anyone....it's always been the Dimocrat Party.
Never heard of Robert Byrd?
Ain’t no big deal.
We had Soebarkah who “was” a moehammedan while in Indonesian schools, and a CIA Director who “was” a communist.
I just assumed they were all current members of Black Pampers.
Due to the current success of the movie based on the comic book superhero , Black Panther:
“DNC Black Caucus Chair: ‘I’m a Former Black Panther’ “
I’m a former mountain lion.
....and I’m the pop top that some guy
cut his foot on down in the keys...
Ah, the comment “If there were not double standards, liberals would have no standards at all” comes to mind.
And remember, there is no lower limit for liberal “standards”
Claiming to be apart of or once part of the Black Panthers would seemingly be like one claiming to be apart of or once part of the KKK, yes? /s
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