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I've found blogging as an outlet for some of my thoughts that I usually can't get out in daily conversations. Small talk never grows to "large" talk it seems so this is a way to express myself somewhat or even to just say what's on my mind.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Thoughts on "Revolutionary Suicide"

This is an incredible book. Up until now I can honestly say I have had no education on the Black Panther Party (I'm beginning to know why). The creation of the BPP was such an important move for the Black community it's almost a shame that we don't receive any extensive lectures on the party and its founding. College has yet to produce a course to me that goes in depth about the BPP. It's beginning to frustrate me on why such influential and crucial elements of Black history are left out of curriculums. But I digress...

If one wanted to know if an attack on the Black community really exists or not, this book is a good choice for understanding the truth. Its evident to me that the Party's confrontational-style directly challenged the power structure that oppressed Black communities. The police for one in this book went through extra measures to see it that the Party was shut down. Directly challenging police brutality, as well as the police's ability to infringe on citizen's rights were eye opener's to me. Knowing the law key in one's ability  to be a citizen in the United States.

The obvious corruption in the Judicial system is something I want to look at more in close to. The prison system in America sticks out to me like a sore thumb. Something is wrong with it, I just don't have the intellectual arguments to say why...yet. After my next book, Che by Jon Lee Anderson, I will look into it.


There is an old African Saying, "I am we." If you met an African in ancient times and asked him who he was, he would reply, "I am we." This is revolutionary suicide: I, we, all of us are the one and the multitude.
-Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide 


~Rell