Zitat des Tages von Bobby Seale:
Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.
On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.
I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.
Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
I like Barack Obama.
The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.
They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.
