Word: panther
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHILE WEVE been rapping for three years. the Angels of God with their silver badges, as Billy Graham calls them, have been doing their damage to us." Messiah Hewit, Minister of Education for the Black Panther Party, and now acting Chairman, spoke Monday night at Boston College. "The duty of a revolutionary is to be an example, and right now being an example means that you're either in jail, in exile, or dead...
Twenty-eight Panthers murdered in the past two years. Murdered, shot, assassinated. You find the word. With only couple of exceptions, as Messiah says, all of the Panther leadership is either in jail, in exile, or dead. There have been rumors of orders from The Man, from the Attorney General, from the Justice Department with the blindfold, from John Mitchell, or maybe from his wife. Rumors of a seven month old order to local police authorities to exterminate the Panthers. Rumors...
ANYBODY WHO'S lived in a ghetto will tell you that what's happening to the Panthers is what's happening to black people all over the country. You turn a corner a little too fast and you feel a bullet in your back. And it's been happening to the Panthers since they started. The day they didn't send Hucy to the chair, two cops, armed, on duty, in a marked police car, drove by the Oakland Panther office and fired fifteen shells into the building. No one was hurt and so the cops were told to watch...
Messiah said that he had a hard time talking to people who were complicit by their silence. The murders of the Illinois Panther chairman and Minister of Defense should be on the conscience of American Justice and its Department and its Secretary. If they had consciences. As it is, they should be on ours...
Hampton, Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was one of two members killed in a pre-dawn police raid on their West side apartment on Friday...