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Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by AfroBlue(m): 3:15am On Oct 09, 2011
[b]Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne








Former Black Panther Richie Williams celebrates the 40th anniversary of the founding of the organization's New York chapter.


NEW YORK – A former Black Panther Party leader who warred against the police and the establishment in the 1970s put Jay-Z, Diddy, Kanye West, Lil Wayne and other elite rappers on blast for being apolitical, high-priced slaves to capitalism and for blatantly flaunting their conspicuous consumption in people’s faces.
Richie Williams finds it deplorable that these admired hip-hop figures, whom he was willing to die for before they were even born, are jingling their fame and fortune in front of their admirers’ eyes while the country is in the throes of the most profound economic cataclysm in 80 years. When Williams was their age, he and his Black Panther Party comrades selflessly battled the police and the FBI for all blacks’ rights to seek prosperity, only for the rappers to turn out to be self-centered, narcissistic and politically-ignorant entertainers who devote little or no time and resources to further their community.
“I just want to say one thing: The Jay-Zs, the P. Diddys, the Kanye Wests, the Lil Waynes need to step up to the plate and make their voices heard and never mind all that bling-bling. Get out here with your people and take this [Occupy Wall Street protest] to the next level,” he said, pointing an accusatory finger for added emphasis.
“Never mind hanging out with the Nets, the Mets and the mayor [Michael Bloomberg],” he continues. “Tell the police commissioner about how horribly they are treating us, and talk about police brutality. Stop sucking up to [the establishment] and to the police commissioner. I won’t call the police what we used to call them. But bacon fat still sucks,” he finished, noting that it was common for black freedom fighters of the sixties to refer to law enforcement officers as “pigs.”
Williams, who served seven years during the Vietnam War and now has 10 grandchildren, still wants to be in the mix for positive change. And he admonishes all of us, quoting Bob Marley, “Don’t give up the fight.”
The art collector is also the author of From a Whisper to a Scream: Revisiting the Amerikkkan Holocaust. After he noted that the New York chapter of the Black Panther Party is celebrating their 40th anniversary throughout 2011, “Richie,” born Richard Cooper Williams, took time to touch upon other subjects during our brief encounter:
Do you believe that this movement today will lead to positive changes as protests turned the tide in the ’60s and ’70s?
Yes I do. I am not going to be a naysayer. I’m keeping my fingers crossed because we’ve got to change the structure of this country.
Does this remind you of the days of the Black Power and Peace movements? There are a lot of similarities. We’re in solidarity with the people here today. What’s happening here today is for the same reasons, the same causes that we fought for 40 years ago.
Do you believe that the police and Mayor Bloomberg are treating the protesters differently than they would if this place was filled with African Americans and other minorities? We took the brunt of the police force’s passion, if you will [back int he 70s]. This cause here today is for the same reasons, the same causes. But we were beaten down and brutalized. When the country saw the picture of the white girl being arrested, they said ‘let’s go down there because this is happening to our children’. But when it was happening to children, it was just us.
Not to sound racist, but this [movement of white uprising] is happening because it’s affecting white people. It’s affecting all of us, but this has been happening to black people since the beginning of this country. The ‘chickens are now coming home to roost’, as Malcolm said. A lot of white folk have spent what they have, are in debt and are in houses that are underwater with mortgages. And unfortunately, or fortunately, it took this to bring us all together.
What has this economic crisis done to America’s middle class? There is no more middle class. They have become, like Richard Pryor once said of the Vietnamese [during the Vietnam War], the white middle class have become the ‘new n——.’
How does hearing what many rappers talk about today make you feel? I came back [from the Vietnam War] and fought a civil war that the Frederick Douglasses and Harriett Tubmans set up for us. They made it possible for us and your father and mother, and it is a disgrace and we are doing their memories a disservice by not carrying on the groundwork that they laid for us.
Does seeing all of this unfold before you take you back to your Panther days? Yes. I’m 73 years old. I’m still a young man, in my spirit. And I wake up every day and I have not lost that fire in my belly. And I’m going out of here on fire.[/b]
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by cap28: 2:24pm On Oct 09, 2011
jay z is a former crack dealer who was elevated to his present position by the illuminati therefore it is highly unlikely that he will bite the fingers that have fed and are still feeding him

kanye west paid the price for speaking out against injustice with his outburst about george bush not caring about black people during the katrina situation - the price he paid was the mysterious death of his mother -therefore i cant see him ever speaking out against his paymasters ever again

p diddy - im sure the US govt have enough evidence on him to put him behind bars PERMANENTLY if he ever opens his mouth to criticise the US govt - in a nutshell these people can never and will never go against their masters - they are owned lock stock and barrell by the US establishement (the illuminati).
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by cap28: 2:28pm On Oct 09, 2011
african americans (the rich ones) have been bought and paid off by the US ruling class - the ones who refused the money are all dead - malcolm x, martin luther king, huey newton or are serving life imprisonment on trumped up charges  - h rap brown, mumia jamal

the paid off negroes continue to remain silent - andrew young, jesse jackson, al sharpton, the black carcass (caucass)
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by morpheus24: 6:11pm On Oct 10, 2011
I got pills for delusions of grandeur

Anyone want some!!!
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by zolzlolz(f): 8:46pm On Oct 10, 2011
cap28:

african americans (the rich ones) have been bought and paid off by the US ruling class - the ones who refused the money are all dead - malcolm x, martin luther king, huey newton
huey newton and his black panthers aint Poo. Huey preached socialism, but practised capitalism; instead of living in the poor ghetto among his people, he lived in an expensive san francisco penthouse paid by the party's funds which, by the way, were being funded by a white sympathiser who was effing Elaine Brown who was none other than one of many of newton's lovers. It's not enough that elaine was sharing newton with a hundred other women, THE MAN BEAT HER. So he pimped women, beat women, stole party funds, some which went to breakfast programs to feed hungry children, to feed his crack habit. I don't care about his 'I am we' bull the power went to his head completly. And I don't care if he was a genius, and had genuis problems.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by zolzlolz(f): 8:59pm On Oct 10, 2011
The black panthers were sexist colourist pigs (excuse the pungrin). The party only had one female leader, coincedentaly newton's lover elaine brown. However it was not to last for elaine, when newton came back from hiding he beat her out of power. Eldridge Cleaver, was one of those COONS who hated black women and had an unhealthy obsession with white women. He RAPED black girls for PRACTICE (omg shocked) to rape a white woman. His wife looked like one of them, and she was in power. Hell angela davis was light skinned and she was in power. See the pattern?
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by morpheus24: 9:20pm On Oct 10, 2011
zolzlolz:

The black panthers were sexist colourist pigs (excuse the pungrin). The party only had one female leader, coincedentaly newton's lover elaine brown. However it was not to last for elaine, when newton came back from hiding he beat her out of power. Eldridge Cleaver, was one of those COONS who hated black women and had an unhealthy obsession with white women. He violated black girls for PRACTICE (omg shocked) to violation a white woman. His wife looked like one of them, and she was in power. Hell angela davis was light skinned and she was in power. See the pattern?

And when I say all men are prone to the corruptions of power. An inherent human flaw, I get attacked by our black militant brothers here on Nairaland smiley
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by AfroBlue(m): 2:21am On Oct 11, 2011
Kanye West joins Occupy Wall Street demonstrators as celebrities weigh in with their support for growing protest movement
Singer becomes most high-profile name to join in U.S. economic protests
He follows actors such as Mark Ruffalo, Susan Sarandon and Penn Badgley
Russell Simmons and Reverend Al Sharpton also went to New York camp








The protests against the state of the U.S. political and economic systems have now spread to more than 25 cities - from Sacramento to Seattle, Anchorage to Atlanta and Mobile to Minneapolis.
Other famous names who visited the New York site on Monday included Russell Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam records, and civil rights campaigner the Reverend Al Sharpton.




Famous faces: Russell Simmons, left, co-founder of Def Jam records, speaks to a member of the media during the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, while actor Danny Glover, right, was at Occupy LA at the weekend

Famous name: Actor and activist Susan Sarandon visits the protest and the 'No Comment' protest art show in the former JP Morgan building across the street from the New York Stock Exchange on Monday
Michael Bloomberg said he will allow Occupy Wall Street protesters to stay indefinitely at their Manhattan village - but suggested some have only camped out there because of the warm weather.
The New York City Mayor said demonstrators will only be allowed to stay in Zuccotti Park as long as they obey the laws, after protester numbers swelled this weekend as the city enjoyed warm weather.

But as the Occupy Wall Street protest continued in full strength in Manhattan today, the atmosphere in New York's financial district has become increasingly debauched.
Conspicuously living among the politically active in the makeshift village in Zuccotti Park are opportunistic junkies and homeless people - making the most of the free food on offer.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047634/Occupy-Wall-Street-Kanye-West-joins-demonstrators-celebrity-support-grows.html#ixzz1aQqPDv00
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by AfroBlue(m): 2:25am On Oct 11, 2011
[b]Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli knew it was hip to hop fence and join Occupy Wall Street activists BY Tracy Connor
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, October 10th 2011, 4:00 AM


Talib Kweli joined protesters and performed a song off a new unreleased solo album at Zuccotti Park.

Hip-hop star Talib Kweli says his first visit to Occupy Wall Street won't be his last.


The Brooklyn rapper loaned his lyrics to the cause last week when he performed a song off a new unreleased solo album at Zuccotti Park.


"I'm not aligned with everyone politically who is there," he told the Daily News. "But I was overwhelmed by seeing democracy in action.


"You have to see how dedicated these people are to creating social awareness and creating a platform for us to talk about issues , disparities in our country."


Kweli, 36, was on the road with Mos Def - his former partner in the acclaimed duo Black Star - when the activists began their sit-in against financial inequity.


He read about it on Twitter first, started hearing about other artists visiting the protesters and decided to go himself.


"Now this is the New York City I love," he tweeted as he pulled up last week.


Kweli grew up in Park Slope until he was 11 and then Flatbush. He went to Brooklyn Technical High School before his parents, both college professors, sent him to boarding school in Connecticut.


His brother, Jamal Greene, is a Harvard- and Yale-educated constitutional law professor at Columbia who clerked for a Supreme Court justice - after a stint as a Sports Illustrated reporter.


Kweli, who lives in Park Slope, said he hopes he can use his fame to bring more attention to the protesters.


He thought about making a video for the song he performed, "Distraction," but is worried it might look like he's using their cause to promote his work.


The song was written a year ago and contains references to corporate greed and the Arab Spring revolutions.


He said he'll be keeping tabs on the movement and sending out updates to his 370,000 Twitter followers. Another visit to Zuccotti Park seems likely.


"I'm positive I'll go back," he said.[/b]
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by cap28: 5:10pm On Oct 12, 2011
zolzlolz:

huey newton and his black panthers aint Poo. Huey preached socialism, but practised capitalism; instead of living in the poor ghetto among his people, he lived in an expensive san francisco penthouse paid by the party's funds which, by the way, were being funded by a white sympathiser who was effing Elaine Brown who was none other than one of many of newton's lovers. It's not enough that elaine was sharing newton with a hundred other women, THE MAN BEAT HER. So he pimped women, beat women, stole party funds, some which went to breakfast programs to feed hungry children, to feed his crack habit. I don't care about his 'I am we' bull the power went to his head completly. And I don't care if he was a genius, and had genuis problems.

hmmm interesting
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by zolzlolz(f): 9:21pm On Oct 12, 2011
^^^it's true
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by Nobody: 11:45am On Oct 13, 2011
zolzlolz:

huey newton and his black panthers aint Poo. Huey preached socialism, but practised capitalism; instead of living in the poor ghetto among his people, he lived in an expensive san francisco penthouse paid by the party's funds which, by the way, were being funded by a white sympathiser who was effing Elaine  Brown who was none other than one of many of newton's lovers. It's not enough that elaine was sharing newton with a hundred other women, THE MAN BEAT HER. So he pimped women, beat women, stole party funds, some which went to breakfast programs to feed hungry children, to feed his crack habit. I don't care about his 'I am we' bull the power went to his head completly. And I don't care if he was a genius, and had genuis problems.

Your critique of the panthers, here, is so one-dimensional that it could clearly only have been penned by an unrepentant feminist.
In your attempt to position well documented flaws as the sum total of what the organisation stood for, you end up coming across as a reactionary whose tools of analysis are far from developed.
The panthers never practiced socialism? Pray tell, how many organisations from the same historical period did? Precisely how would it have been possible to practice socialism on U.S soil at a time when the so-called cold war was at its zenith?

Yes, this organisation did not prioritise women’s rights in accordance with the vision it espoused.
But then, I do not need to tell you it was miles ahead of so many others, from the same period, given the prominent ascribed to some of its female members.

That Huey’s personal contradictions strayed into crack addiction which culminated in his demise is fact beyond contention, but so also is the role played by organisation he led – albeit for a few critical years – in raising the spectre of debate about the struggle for equity in America, while at once promoting black consciousness.

It would have been one thing if you had focused on the worst excesses of the panther within a context of sustained assault, which the organisation came under from various Government security agencies led by the FBI, and the attendant consequences which invariably followed: internal strife, betrayal, self-destruction, …etc.
What you set out to do instead reflects intellectual laziness of the worst kind.

I am talking about the kind which only sees MLK as a hedonistic philanderer or Malcolm in his various stages of personal development: love-vendor; supposed-Same-sex; Black Muslim; Muslim; Pan Africanist.

Is it not true to say the struggle for women’s rights is still widely regarded a burning issue, even today?
Is it also not true to say some of the women who signed up to the panthers back then were themselves resistant to the type of transformation being promoted (at least in words) by the organisation, by virtue of having been socialised to expect men to play a leading role?

Listen, my response here is not intended as a spirited defence of the BPP’s chequered past, but rather an enjoinment to situate events in an appropriate context.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by zolzlolz(f): 9:14pm On Oct 13, 2011
Why do I sense a 'product of his time' attitude from you? 'oh, it's not really his fault, most men behaved that why during that time'. This attitude could justify white attitudes toward blacks. But of course white behaviour during the 60s has never been acceptable because they denied the rights of HUMAN BEINGS!! If this is not acceptable to blacks, why is Newton's extreme violence towards BLACK WOMEN, WHO ALONG BLACK MEN SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES FOR THE PARTY accepted among blacks. The panther's wouldn't have achieved what they did without the contributions of the women. Yet on top of the racism they faced, they had to face rabid sexist attitudes from their colleagues. Yet you answer Newton's sexism with a certain complacency. Well I REFUSE to be complacent. Newton should have adopted a forced conscience toward women, just as white people had to adopt a forced conscience. Believe or not women are human beings too. Not maids, cooks or whores. They do not deserve a 'product of his time' attitude.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by Nobody: 11:41pm On Oct 13, 2011
Thanks for your response.

I did say my earlier post should not be regarded as a spirited defence of Huey or even the panthers’ excesses, but I understand how you might have missed this, having long adopted an unyielding stance that is itself full of contradictions.

It is notable, for instance, that you appear to see nothing wrong with the cess pool of misogyny which characterises much of contemporary hip hop music, judging by your responses so far - even as you focus exclusively on Huey.
Lose no sleep over it; for you would not be the first African feminist who adulates the Jay-Z’s, Diddys, Waynes of this world, while condemning brothers who for a time walked a more righteous path in pursuit of nobler goals.

You argue that “Newton should have adopted a forced conscience toward women”, which he did at various stages of during his life when he was not strung up on crack or in prison,  but yet fail to recognise the onus was/is equally on the female members of that (or any) organisation to advance their own cause also.
Power concedes nothing without a fight; this is why organisations like the ANC, which have stood the test of time warts et al, have a dedicated women’s wing.

Was Elaine Brown whom you mentioned complicit in promoting Huey’s avarice? I think so.
She makes this very point herself when she describes much of the confusion about gender roles borne by female members during her period of stewardship.

Listen, I consider the sanctity of women’s rights non-negotiable.
There however need to be some perspective when pondering the struggles of the past.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by martinosi: 9:18am On Oct 14, 2011
cap28:

jay z is a former crack dealer who was elevated to his present position by the illuminati therefore it is highly unlikely that he will bite the fingers that have fed and are still feeding him

kanye west paid the price for speaking out against injustice with his outburst about george bush not caring about black people during the katrina situation - the price he paid was the mysterious death of his mother -therefore i cant see him ever speaking out against his paymasters ever again

p diddy - im sure the US govt have enough evidence on him to put him behind bars PERMANENTLY if he ever opens his mouth to criticise the US govt - in a nutshell these people can never and will never go against their masters - they are owned lock stock and barrell by the US establishement (the illuminati).


SO TRUE!!!
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by zolzlolz(f): 12:42pm On Oct 14, 2011
eGuerrilla:

It is notable, for instance, that you appear to see nothing wrong with the cess pool of misogyny which characterises much of contemporary hip hop music, judging by your responses so far - even as you focus exclusively on Huey.
Lose no sleep over it; for you would not be the first African feminist who adulates the Jay-Z’s, Diddys, Waynes of this world, while condemning brothers who for a time walked a more righteous path in pursuit of nobler goals.

Why Jay Z and co. could have walked a righteous path in pursuit of nobler goals, before they were under assault by 'the Man' who fed their inner demon. But what do I do when I see their behaviour? I don't support them. I don't waste time whining about them. If I don't feel comfortable with their messages, I vote with my purse.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by zolzlolz(f): 12:56pm On Oct 14, 2011
Therefore why do I have to support Huey Newton and the male leaders of the Black Panthers when they themselves perpetuated mysogynist behaviour towards women. Simply put, Newton is not and doesn't have to be my hero. I find Malcolm X to be quite remarkable in some respects, but he is not and doesn't have to be my hero. Just as I don't constantly praise the French revolution. I appreciate the message, but did France bestow any messages of 'liberty, equality and fraternity' on her colonies? I agree with you that women should take it upon themselves to form their own organisations. Black men simply don't understand the trials and tribulations of Black women. So as Stokely Carmichael said, black women need to form organisations which will advance THEIR interests. To coalesce with black men at this point in time is just like a black organisation trying to coalesce with arrogant, patronising Whites.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by Nobody: 6:29pm On Oct 14, 2011
I am glad to know you are prepared to make a small concession, by accepting our women-folk are equally duty bound to create outlets of organised expression for themselves.

Since it remains obvious, however, that  in spite of the conscientious efforts being made in some quarters till this very day, the BPP for you started and ended with Huey, I am not entirely sure you would ever accept objective reasoning.

You know, the funny thing is, to some women Kwame Toure whom you mentioned, generally accepted as a more disciplined figure –especially during the fleeting period he was considered titular head of the BPP – was also drawn from the same errant mould. The reason for this would, of course, be found in the excerpt copied in below…a fact which leaves one contemplating whether it can ever be right to consider the sum of a man’s life only in terms of the discrete stages of evolution which form its constituent parts.

Secondly, she comes to the realization that unlike in America where she had been a celebrity, America's many attractions are not found in Guinea. She nevertheless, considers Guinea her home since “what is there  are  my  roots,  and  I  have  found  that  these  roots  cannot  be transplanted”. Thirdly, her settlement in Guinea soon leads to the break-up of her marriage to Carmichael after celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary in 1978: “There comes another woman, a Guinean woman. Stokely does not just have an affair with her”, he brings her “to his wife's
house” (204). They eventually divorce
.”  --- The Miriam Makeba Story

Again, I reason that history has, rightly, been kinder to these brothers and sisters who strove to make a difference.
Only the uninformed sets out to reduce the BPP’s contribution to Huey’s crack phase or the well-documented misogyny of some of its members.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by Nobody: 10:47pm On Oct 14, 2011
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there is no escaping! tongue tongue grin

@ TOPIC:
[size=18pt]BIG UPS TO MR. WILLIAMS!![/size]


Do you  believe that the police and Mayor Bloomberg are treating the protesters differently than they would if this place was filled with African Americans and other minorities?

[b]We took the brunt of the police force’s passion, if you will [back int he 70s]. This cause here today is for the same reasons, the same causes. But we were beaten down and brutalized. When the country saw the picture of the white girl being arrested, they said ‘let’s go down there because this is happening to our children’. But when it was happening to children, it was just us
.
Not to sound racist, but this [movement of white uprising] is happening because it’s affecting white people. It’s affecting all of us, but this has been happening to black people since the beginning of this country. The ‘chickens are now coming home to roost’, as Malcolm said
.

A lot of white folk have spent what they have, are in debt and are in houses that are underwater with mortgages. And unfortunately, or fortunately, it took this to bring us all together.
What has this economic crisis done to America’s middle class? There is no more middle class. They have become, like Richard Pryor once said of the Vietnamese [during the Vietnam War], the white middle class have become the ‘new n——.’

[QUOTE]I came back [from the Vietnam War] and fought a civil war that the Frederick Douglasses and Harriett Tubmans set up for us. They made it possible for us and your father and mother, and it is a disgrace and we are doing their memories a disservice by not carrying on the groundwork that they laid for us.[/quote]

TRUE WORDS!
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by Nobody: 10:59pm On Oct 14, 2011
[size=18pt]zolzlolz[/size] you said: BPs "aint poo". Sis don't blame the actions of a few on the entire movement. Each 'capeter' is viewed as a tribe so to speak and like all groups you have division based on ideology. Not all panthers liked Huey's lifestyle much less agreed with him. In fact some of the Panther's sworn enemies were former Panthers who have branched off into their own groups. Huey was not only in a sense a hypocrite but he was also a notorious user and abuser of drugs. We forget such people of importance are PEOPLE, and because they are human some of our "warriors" get weak. A lot of people around him were using him and using the movement in vain and he couldn't take it. he was a weak man. But for every Huey P. Newton or Eldridge Cleaver, you had other strong Panther such as Assata Shakur or Angela Davis (not naming women intentionally lol) who really believed in and to this day live by the movement.

"Do as I say, not as I do".
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by Nobody: 11:07pm On Oct 14, 2011
MsDarkSkin:

[size=18pt]zolzlolz[/size] you said: BPs "aint poo". Sis don't blame the actions of a few on the entire movement. Each 'capeter' is viewed as a tribe so to speak and like all groups you have division based on ideology. Not all panthers liked Huey's lifestyle much less agreed with him. In fact some of the Panther's sworn enemies were former Panthers who have branched off into their own groups. Huey was not only in a sense a hypocrite but he was also a notorious user and abuser of drugs. We forget such people of importance are PEOPLE, and because they are human some of our "warriors" get weak. A lot of people around him were using him and using the movement in vain and he couldn't take it. he was a weak man. But for every Huey P. Newton or Eldridge Cleaver, you had other strong Panther such as Assata Shakur or Angela Davis (not naming women intentionally lol) who really believed in and to this day live by the movement.

"Do as I say, not as I do".

Thanks for bringing reason and a sense of proportion to bear.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by zolzlolz(f): 4:13pm On Oct 15, 2011
MsDarkSkin:

[size=18pt]zolzlolz[/size] you said: BPs "aint poo". Sis don't blame the actions of a few on the entire movement.
Sis, he wasn't just anyone, he was a leader.
MsDarkSkin:

[size=18pt]zolzlolz[/size]Huey was not only in a sense a hypocrite but he was also a notorious user and abuser of drugs. We forget such people of importance are PEOPLE, and because they are human some of our "warriors" get weak.
I understand this, however there was a whole community at stake.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by zolzlolz(f): 4:32pm On Oct 15, 2011
I am going to concede my opinion on his drug use and his theft of party funds as a result of his drug use. Drug addiction can make you do things beyond your control, I was very judgemental. Especially if Huey's drug use had something to do with COINTELPRO (sp?), then Huey had no chance, because Hoover was really gunning for him. That makes me really angry. But I don't like the Black Panther leaders. My views on them are still going to be largely subjective unfortunately, although I really respect how the party tried to uplift the community. I don't like Gandhi, but his I acknowledge his philosophies. I really think that black women should start their own organisations. Because the whole world and its mother hates us. Especially today, the treatment of black women in Africa especially is apalling.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by zolzlolz(f): 4:37pm On Oct 15, 2011
eGuerrilla:

Secondly, she comes to the realization that unlike in America where she had been a celebrity, America's many attractions are not found in Guinea. She nevertheless, considers Guinea her home since “what is there  are  my  roots,  and  I  have  found  that  these  roots  cannot  be transplanted”. Thirdly, her settlement in Guinea soon leads to the break-up of her marriage to Carmichael after celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary in 1978: “There comes another woman, a Guinean woman. Stokely does not just have an affair with her”, he brings her “to his wife's
house” (204). They eventually divorce
.”  --- The Miriam Makeba story
wow i didn't know this. Like Newton, I loved Stokely Carmichael. Now I'm so disappointed (sad face).
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by Nobody: 2:26am On Oct 16, 2011
eGuerrilla:

Thanks for bringing reason and a sense of proportion to bear.

wink wink

zolzlolz:

I am going to concede my opinion on his drug use and his theft of party funds as a result of his drug use. Drug addiction can make you do things beyond your control, I was very judgemental. Especially if Huey's drug use had something to do with COINTELPRO (sp?), then Huey had no chance, because Hoover was really gunning for him. That makes me really angry. But I don't like the Black Panther leaders. My views on them are still going to be largely subjective unfortunately, although I really respect how the party tried to uplift the community. I don't like Gandhi, but his I acknowledge his philosophies. I really think that black women should start their own organisations. Because the whole world and its mother hates us. Especially today, the treatment of black women in Africa especially is apalling.

LOL @ don't like Ghandi grin grin

Hoover was and even in his death, a scumbag.  tongue

UGH! I in fact despise him more than Hitler lol. At least Hitler made his intentions known. Hoover played on the emotions and sufferings of blacks and then when he had some in his grasps (the same former panthers and panther enemies from the start) he armed them with weapons. He then organized failed and successful assassinations of panther members. He even had some of those very men he supplied with weapons jailed or killed to conceal his and the See Eye Aye's (purposely spelled like that, don't want the black suits on my door steps!  grin) involvement in the instigation and crimes. B@stard.  tongue

I agree about the women's movement. I do not share any kinship or ideas of the present women's movement because the majority of it's members and sympathizers appeal to the wants and needs of white women. I think black women need to do some "million WOman" marching of our own. I had this very conversation with my mom exactly one week ago.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by zolzlolz(f): 7:21am On Oct 16, 2011
MsDarkSkin:

wink wink

LOL @ don't like Ghandi grin grin

I don't know if you mocking me, but you should probably read up on Gandhi's views on us black Africans. If you put a white face face on Gandhi's views you and your bff would've been foaming at the mouth the black berets would be donned and 'fight the power' would be playing in the background. I will only like a person who respects me, don't know how you feel about it. Just because it is mandatory to quote him, and have his poster in your bedroom wall doesn't mean I should like him. I think the only reason Black people like him is because of how he inspired King
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by zolzlolz(f): 7:25am On Oct 16, 2011
I have a feeling you weren't mocking. I hadn't seen the winking smiley, but you never know.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by MandingoII(m): 2:53am On Oct 19, 2011
B. i. t. c. h. es are still talking about being 2nd class citizens in the 1960's shocked

Get over it already. there were NO WOMEN'S RIGHTS back then.

you bum beyotches kill me with this old untimely a. rse argument.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by zolzlolz(f): 12:32pm On Oct 20, 2011
N. i. g. g. a. s are still talking about being 2nd class citizen in the 1960's. shocked

Get over it already. they were NO BLACK PEOPLE'S RIGHTS back then.

you bum niggas kill me with this old untimely a. rse argument.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by Nobody: 11:41am On Oct 24, 2011
50 Cent’s Eye-Popping Rant about Corporate Greed and World Hunger
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The rapper 50 Cent seems angry about corporate greed.  He is speaking up via social media about how corporate greed feeds into world hunger, as billionaires put money in their bank accounts that could be used to keep starving children alive.

Way to go Fifty – now we might buy your next album.

The world is so f***** up

People don’t seem to care anymore

People seem to have distanced themselves from other people’s problems, they have been programmed not to care!
Politicians are corrupt…So many companies are corrupt and taking excessive profits in certain sectors…….and we keep allowing this s*** to happen

There are 1 billion plus people living in extreme poverty. You know what that is? You don’t know if your getting your next meal, no shelter, no medical. You have no chance of hustling your way out of it!
We have been programmed to not give a s*** about these people!

Well I have woken up and Im not turning a blind eye anymore!

Im not playing the game anymore. Our Company CEO’s and politicians want us to keep our heads down and not ask questions. Not demand the truth they don’t want us to care, they have trained us to turn a blind eye!
Because they control us and profit from us this way! to push back at them questions and threatens their lifestyles.

Children are dying everyday from hunger. Its f***** up, its wrong and I am angry
Im not going to shut up or give up – f*** the system, its wrong.
wake up we are being used!

Innocent children are dying each day…. we need to shout out to companies, politicians that we aren’t playing their games anymore

We are waking up to their lies and deceitful dealings

Im angry, Im going to make a difference and no one is going to stop me
Join me if your tired of being used and manipulated
Make this world fair for everyone
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by igbo2011(m): 2:37pm On Oct 24, 2011
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MandingoII:

B. i. t. c. h. es are still talking about being 2nd class citizens in the 1960's shocked

Get over it already. there were NO WOMEN'S RIGHTS back then.

you bum beyotches kill me with this old untimely a. rse argument.

There was a women's right.s in the 1960's it is called the 2nd wave feminst movement in America. It was so women wanted to be more independent.
Re: Black Panther Blasts Diddy, Jay & Wayne by Nobody: 3:09pm On Jan 16, 2012
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