I recently found Hatari Acid Rain hot sauce. After eating 3 drops on a wing I had to wash out my eyes!!
Posted on 07/19/2005 2:55:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Former Black Panthers are hoping the phrase "Burn Baby Burn" will help their nonprofit organization market a new product - hot sauce.
The Huey P. Newton Foundation, named for the co-founder of the 1960s militant group, is seeking to trademark the phrase that for many brings to mind the racially charged 1965 Watts Riots in Los Angeles that left more than 30 people dead, at least 1,000 wounded and hundreds of buildings in ashes.
The new line of hot sauce, called "Burn Baby Burn: A Taste of the Sixties Revolutionary Hot Sauce," is aimed at "anyone who wants to have an extra savory boost to their food," executive director and original Black Panther David Hilliard told The Associated Press.
"The hot sauce is another way to raise money and bring attention to the Huey Newton Foundation," Hilliard said. "We're trying to turn the tide of violence and educate young people through our work."
The foundation also plans to produce its own salsa, as well as a clothing line called "Spirit of the Sixties."
The Oakland-based group applied for the trademark last year with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The nonprofit was started in 1993 by Hilliard and Newton's widow, Fredrika, to foster "progressive social change."
Hilliard said the group hopes to start selling the spicy condiment later this year to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1966 founding of the Black Panther Party.
"We're taking those sixties slogans, and we're commodifying them," Hilliard said. "If people are concerned that's a sellout, that's their opinion. We're not selling anything out. We're trying to use our own expertise to support our programs."
Newton was shot to death in Oakland by a drug dealer in 1989.
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I think I'll wait for the "Honkey Mayonnaise."
What an absurd farce.The so-called "vanguard of the revolution"selling hot sauce using a cynical phrase the most greedy capitalist pig would be ashamed to use!
They're still around?
Hadn't heard from them in a long time.
Trying to make some money to torment others?
WE WANT FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR PEOPLE.Suggested Slogan: Full of gas, Since 1965
We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every person employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the American businessmen will not give full employment, then the technology and 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.
I am a complete hot sauce fanatic. I've got so much capsaicin in my blood that holes get burned into floors (a'la "Alien") whenever I get a cut.
That said, there's no way I'll help fund that outfit, even if their stuff is the hottest around.
That's just wrong.
Pepto to the people, baby!
If it not hot enough to kill them is not hot.
Burn baby Burn...Spirit of the Sixties? The first thing I thought of was Disco Inferno from the 70's. They should stick to being has-been commies
Imagine if the other leftists, the Klan, whent and marketed the same.
"We're taking those sixties slogans, and we're commodifying them," Hilliard said. "If people are concerned that's a sellout, that's their opinion. We're not selling anything out. We're trying to use our own expertise to support our programs."
I'm going to go way out on a limb here and welcome them to productive society. Here's to hoping for a huge success, that will begin to repudiate the destructive, racist nonsense that the Black Panthers have helped perpetuate for nearly forty years.
Imagine all the other products they could branch into...
"Black Power" Chocolate Bars...
"I Have A Dream" Sleep Aids...
"By Any Means Necessary" Laxatives...
"The Bitch Set Me Up" Male Member Enhancement Drugs...
I wonder if Howard Dean is going to start pushing "DNC Jerk Sauce"
I wonder how people will respond to my new "Whip Balm" lotion or "Lynch Lemonade".
As always, turn it around and you can see the racism.
I recently found Hatari Acid Rain hot sauce. After eating 3 drops on a wing I had to wash out my eyes!!
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