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They may let Huey out of jail soon. After all, he's innocent. People tell me that the American judicial system goes lumbering on, sometimes with a few hitches and inconveniences, but justice just the same. Except that the same day that Huey was shot, and 80-year-old Palo Alto black man, who was later proved to be guilty of no crime, was shot to death by a Palo Alto policeman...
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton-Minister of Defense now in prison for manslaughter-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense as students at Merritt College in Oakland. Since then Scale has been arrested four times-all four arrests on charges relating to his Black Panther activities on June 8, 1967, on charges of carrying a gun in a state building during a Panther demonstration at the California Statehouse in Sacramento against a proposed gun-control law being debated in the Legislature (he was later given three years probation): on Feb. 25, 1967, for conspiracy to commit murder (charges were...
...find this surprising. In his books, creation and destruction are rendered as one indistinguishable and irresistible life force. By extending this seemingly paradoxical vision into his political career, Mailer could claim to be a radical conservative−a candidate who could honestly run on a platform of "Free Huey Newton−end fluoridation." The ultimate contradiction implicit in Mailer's radical conservatism was his argument that New York City should become a separate state composed of totally autonomous neighborhoods. If a neighborhood voted for compulsory church attendance on Sunday, so be it. If the majority in another area wanted...
...book can help white readers understand some important elements in the history of the Panthers. It is most valuable for its portrait of Huey P. Newton and its explanation of the evolution of Party discipline...
...HUEY NEWTON was the founder of the Party. The Panther uniform, the black community patrols, the ten-point platform and program, the Panther ideology-all are products of what the Panthers call "the genius of Hucy P. Newton." And after reading Seale's book, it becomes obvious why the Panthers call him a genius. He emerges as a brilliant man, completely dedicated to the goals of the platform-a man who has met and groped with the fear of death, the desire for personal glory, the desire for power, and all other temptations of leadership...