Sunday, February 27th 2005
Black Panther Petting Zoo
A new exhibit at the Berkeley Public Libary attempts to show the warm and fuzzy side of the Black Panthers:
Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover once called the Black Panthers the “greatest threat to the internal security of the country.”
But a collection of black-and-white photographs on display at the Berkeley Public Library shows a softer and more philanthropic side of the militant organization that came of age in the 1960s and 1970s.
In tandem with Black History Month and next year’s 40th anniversary of the Black Panthers, “Serving the People: Body & Soul” will run through March 19 at the main library in downtown Berkeley.
Next month, I assume they’ll be presenting the softer side of the KKK.
“When people see these photographs, they say, ‘I didn’t know the Black Panther Party was doing these things in the community,’” said Billy X. Jennings, the party historian who set up the photo exhibition.
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Jennings said the party did good for the community that was not widely publicized.By the end of 1969, the group’s free breakfast program for schoolchildren was feeding thousands of youngsters nationwide before they went to class each day.
The group also registered thousands of people to vote, distributed free bags of groceries to thousands more and ran urban medical clinics, Jennings said.
“This is something we are not given a lot of credit for,” said Jennings, who was Newton’s personal assistant and Seale’s campaign manager.
Well since you were such nice guys giving out free food to the kids, we’ll overlook your violent revolutionary Marxist ideology.
Wow. We Berkeley folk sure run out of ideas fast.
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?ArchiveDate=04-15-03&storyID=16474
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/oldpaper/article.cfm?ArchiveDate=10-07-00&storyID=1586
Comment by B.A.D. — 2/27/2005 @ 9:08 pm
THE SOFTER SIDE OF THE BLACK PANTHERS
A new exhibit at the Berkeley Public Library shows the positive side of the Black Panthers: BERKELEY — Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover once called the Black Panthers the “greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” But…
Trackback by Michelle Malkin — 2/28/2005 @ 4:52 am
Oh, that underrepresented bitch! She just yanked my links!
Comment by B.A.D. — 2/28/2005 @ 7:29 am
yeah, Hamas is using the same PR… “we operate clinics, and provide food, and blow up innocent people with homocide bombs.”
Comment by jeff — 2/28/2005 @ 3:44 pm