A history of radical Black self-care and the impact of the Black Panther Party
OPINION: If we still had the programs the Black Panthers initiated across the U.S. what could’ve been?
Ryan Pearson
Like many viewers, I was deeply impacted by
Shaka King’s
Fred Hampton (
Daniel Kaluuya) and his assassination by the FBI, which was successful because of the aid of an informant (
Lakeith Stanfield) who infiltrated the Chicago chapter of the organization that Hampton led.
While the racism, anti-Blackness, betrayal and violence against Black people was difficult to digest, the focus on Black liberation that the Black Panther party so mightily worked toward was inspirational and thought-evoking. What captured me most was the party’s dedication to self-care in the Black community. In today’s society, we often are sold this image of self-care as getting your favorite ice cream, bingeing Netflix on a Friday night, having a spa day, exercising, or getting a massage.
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access to education, which includes universal preschool as well as debt-free college, criminal justice reform, extraordinarily important to this former prosecutor, as well as fighting climate change. i want to bring you back live out here as you look at this square. this is the city of kamala harris birth. this is where she was born. this is where for many decades protest movements have been born, from the black panther movement to black lives matter. this is also where she started her prosecutorial career, standing and saying she s kamala harris for the people. fredricka, that s also going to be her campaign slogan. we re anticipating she ll begin speaking in about 30 minutes. she believes she ll separate herself from the pack by sharing her biography and saying she s best poised to take on trump. fred? and you mentioned behind you on the stage has been a local high school band. do you have any kind of clarity
her name is jonetta benton. she went on this rant. listen. what are you talking about, it was great? maybe he s talking about the 70s when we had a black panther movement. people were not being treated equally. maybe he s talking about the 90s when we had a police officer beating rodney king. in 2000, we still have the same issues. when my president says let s make america great again, when was he talking about? he must be talking about when it was great for europeans. america has never been great for minorities. and even now it makes me go hmmm, when i m trying to figure out when was it great. a lot of people, a lot of parents are up in arms about this. the school put out a second
ed: absolutely. you think that s a crazy story, what about this? a georgia teacher recorded in a 15 minute rant attacking president trump. so you have this sixth grader and she is in social studies class. thinking she is going to learn about american history. pete: you would think. ed: all of a sudden the teacher goes on this 15-minute rant about president trump. so the student decides to record it. abby: sixth grade student. take a listen. talking about it was great segregation in the 50 s. maybe he is talking about the 70 s. where we had the black panther movement because people were still not being treated equally. maybe he is talking about in the 90 s when we had police officers beat and rodney king in the street. then in the 2,000s and we still having the same issues. so when my president says let s make america great again, when was he talking about? he must be talking about when it was great for europe