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BOBBY SEALE and Hucy Newton started the Black Panther Party on the streets of Oakland, following the cops around with M-Frifles and watching as they patrolled the black ghetto there. The Panther community patrol was an outstanding success: Oakland's police force, known as one of the worst in the West, was tamed temporarily by the sight of angry, armed blacks observing them with the expressed intention of preventing murder, beatings, and illegal harassment of black people...
...Hney Newton, the Minister of Defense, is in jail-receiving monotonously regular rejections to his requests for parole-and many people think he is dead. Bobby Scale, the Panther Chairman, is in jail, too-and if the State of Connecticut has its way, he may soon really be dead. He wrote most of Seize the Time in jail...
...police and the people who rely on them could not tolerate this surveillance for long, and today the image of the Panthers has changed: where once we saw Huey Newton emerging from his heat-up 1956 Ford, jacking a round into the firing chamber of his rifle and facing down the cops, we now see the Panthers as experimental subjects strapped to an operating table and screaming in rage as clumsy butchers hack at them without anaesthetic...
...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...