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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...
...read this book for understanding: understanding of what Panthers stand for and what makes a Panther-but even more for understanding of what I could do to help stop the carnage and help the Panthers achieve some of the things they want: "Some land, some bread, some housing, some education, some clothing, some justice, and some peace," as Seale says...
...book is not very helpful in this respect; Seale does not ask anything specific of his readers. The book explains that the Panther rhetoric and style is geared toward organizing the black lumpenproletariat: "the brothers off the block-brothers who had been out there robbing banks, brothers who had been pimping, brothers who had been peddling dope, brothers who ain't gonna take no shit, brothers who had been fighting pigs...
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...
...this area-organizing the Panther recruits and educating them to execute Newton's program-that Bobby Scale is at his best. Newton laid down the strategy, and Seale at once grasped the tactical details necessary to keep it going. Probably the most interesting parts of the book deal with Seale's struggle to transform the hustlers who joined the Panthers for their snappy uniforms and reputation into a disciplined force. His successes and failures (and his total honesty about both) give the reader much more of a sense of what it means to be a Panther than the ideological explanations...