Posted on 10/23/2021 6:25:54 AM PDT by artichokegrower
It was the first time in decades that she´d seen his glow.
At the California foundry that fired a bust of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Percy Newton, his widow supervised as a bronze caster put finishing touches on what is to become the first permanent public art piece honoring the party in the city of its founding.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Since the left seemed to be ok with destroying any statue they don’t like I guess they would be ok if someone destroyed this statue. ‘/s
I always get Huey Newton and Huey Lewis confused.
Patrick Bateman likes Huey Lewis…
....well......is that The News......??
In 1977, Jones journeyed to Cuba following a letter of introduction from Willie Brown asking Fidel Castro to treat the preacher’s trip as a state visit. There, he held a summit not with Castro but with an exiled Huey Newton, who fled from charges in the United States involving the murder of a teenage girl and the pistol whipping of an older tailor, both of whom made the same mistake: they called Huey “baby.”In Cuba, Jones and Newton discussed “revolutionary suicide” and much else. Jones made certain to publicize the trip to his largely black congregation, which at times included Newton’s relatives.
Can’t wait for the statue to be defaced.
“They” deface what they want.
So let it be done to their ...heh...heroes.
And we can watch their shocked faces when they get the oft-used one finger reply.
LOL, me too!
I clicked on this link expecting it to be about the musician.
Then I googled to see if there actually exists a statue of Huey Lewis. I couldn't find one and that's just wrong!
“ always get Huey Newton and Huey Lewis confused.”
One would kill you and your family the other one would not
"It was May 2, 1967, and the Black Panthers’ invasion of the California statehouse launched the modern gun-rights movement."
Debut of murder Huey Newton bust spotlights an influential figure in the hate American movement.
LOL me too!
Next statue coming up...Jeffrey Dahmer....
Huey Newton was trash
I guess Stokely Carmichael will get the next bust.
Both POS.
On August 6, 1974, Kathleen Smith, a 17-year-old Oakland native working as a underage sex worker was shot she died three months later. According to the prosecutor handling the case, Newton shot Smith after a casual exchange on the street during which she referred to him as “Baby”, a childhood nickname he hated.
Where’s the Me Too movement?
Huey Newton?! Didn’t he front a band back in the 80s? Oh no, he was just a thug in the 70s....
Jeez, gushing a little bit there Daily Mail?!
Didn’t Newton become a Republican in the eighties before he died?
In Cuba, Jones and Newton discussed “revolutionary suicide” and much else. Jones made certain to publicize the trip to his largely black congregation, which at times included Newton’s relatives.
Birds of a feather.... or megalomaniacs of the same ideology.
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