Since the Black community is composed basically of activists, observation of or participation in activity are the principle ways the community learns. There are three ways one can learn: through study, observation, and experience.
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It is not necessary to organize thirty million Black people in primary groups of two’s and three’s, but it is important for the party to show the people how to stage a revolution. When the masses hear that a Gestapo policeman has been executed while sipping coffee at a counter, and the revolutionary executioners fled without being traced, the masses will see the validity of this kind of resistance. When the vanguard group destroys the machinery of the oppressor by dealing with him in small groups of three and four, and then escapes the might of the oppressor, the masses will be impressed and more likely to adhere to this correct strategy. When the people learn that it is no longer advantageous for them to resist by going into the streets in large numbers, and when they see the advantage in the activities of the guerrilla warfare method, they will quickly follow this example.īut first, they must respect the party which is transmitting this message. It must teach by words and action the correct strategic methods of prolonged resistance. The primary job of the party is to provide leadership for the people.
In the same way, the actions of the party will be imitated by the people-if the people respect these activities. The identity of the first man who threw a Molotov cocktail is not known by the masses, yet they respect and imitate his action. Although this manner of resistance is sporadic, short-lived, and costly, it has been transmitted across the country to all the ghettos of the Black nation. When the brothers in East Oakland, having learned their resistance fighting from Watts, amassed the people in the streets, threw bricks and Molotov cocktails to destroy property and create disruption, they were herded into a small area by the Gestapo police and immediately contained by the brutal violence of the oppressor’s storm troops. The Black masses are handling the resistance incorrectly. These titles include seminal works of black radicalism, from WEB Du Bois to Manning Marable
We present this piece in celebration of Black History Month and the launch of our Radical Thinkers set 13. A succinct statement on the inner-workings and outward purpose of the Black Panther Party, Newton’s words still resonate today. Newton puts forth both the importance of the Party’s relationship with the wider Black community, and that of internal relations, he compels for a united party against the oppressions faced, and still faced today, by the Black community.
To spread the movement through the thirty million strong Black community in America, the Party must teach by experience.
He is adamant that the function of the Party is, through demonstration, to teach an adoptable method of resistance. In this speech Newton compels the party to ‘show the people how to stage a revolution’. Newton and Bobby Seale's founding of the Black Panther Party on October 15 th, we present Newton’s ‘The Correct Handling of a Revolution ’ from 1967. To celebrate both Black History Month and the 50th anniversary of Huey P.
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