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I understand black Panthers or for blacks folks. But it's it also open to other folks like Hispanics?
There's a lot of vets that are Hispanic that could and would help, but again I understand if this is only a black folks only thing.
They have a sister group simply called The Panther Party which is open to anyone.
We need a new Rainbow Coalition. RIP Fred Hampton. There's a reason they were terrified of him.
The real Black Panthers? They would... probably still prefer it to be a sister org to focus on the African American community but they would very much be allies.
These Black Panthers? Who the hell knows?
Because the thing people forget is that the reason The Black Panthers were so effective wasn't because they were walking around locked and loaded. It was because of all the community outreach they did. So when the (white) cops and government came knocking? The neighborhoods locked arms because these were people who had been protecting them and who cared about them.
A big part of the reason why the Black Panthers were so successful was that they followed a consistent, liberating anti-imperialist ideology:
So, in the article it very specifically highlights their many community programs like the food program they're doing in several locations.
Considering that the federal government is shuttering things like SNAP, there is a vacuum for Rainbow Panthers to fill the void.
Hispanic protestors used to have the Young Lords and the Brown Berets, who the Panthers have partnered with in the past.
Both, as far as I know, are no longer active, but I'm sure there would be support for reviving them today.
Wow I did not know that. Thank you for providing some info about it.
There was also the White Panther Party back in the 60s-70's formed mostly of white college kids following the Panther model. Essentially a more explicitly revolutionary alternative to SNCC, which was itself highly influential in the anti-war movement at the time.
These days there are several Panther groups doing smaller scale community self defence and mutual aid across the country, many of them led by second and third generation Black Panthers.
Wasn't MC5 part of the White Panthers?
When people talk about "the boomers" as one big monolith, I have to chuckle because they are clearly overlooking things like this...
MC5 kickout the jams band? Did not know that.
I could be wrong, but I think there was also a white panthers party that they were part of.
The United Panther Party is another small modern Panther org. The UPP is mixed and Anarcho-Pantherist in political philosophy.