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With all the attention Beyonce is putting on the Black Panthers. There seems to be a concerted effort to downplay the terror group's real activities and influence on today's current problem of rampant Black crime. Here's a pretty good article from this past summer lambasting a PC Liberal film that tries to whitewash the violent organization and cover up the crimes of many of its leaders.
Whitewashing the Black Panthers - The Daily Beast
Whitewashing the Black Panthers - The Daily Beast
But as with Ericka Huggins, there is much about Joseph that viewers aren’t told. The most important piece of neglected information is this: When the Panthers were a spent political force, Joseph joined up with the spinoff Black Guerrilla Army and was sentenced to 12½ years in prison for his part in the infamous 1981 Brinks armored car robbery, which resulted in the death of three innocents, including Waverly Brown, the first African-American to serve on the Nyack, New York, police force.
Because the murder of Alex Rackley wasn’t an aberration. And while the Feds undoubtedly abused their power in pursuit of the Panthers, their obsession with violent black nationalism wasn’t irrational. Too bad PBS viewers won’t understand why the “Gestapo pigs,” the shock troops of “fascist Amerikkka,” were so interested in disrupting the revolution Huggins, Seale, Cleaver, and Newton tried so desperately to foment.