Hey, y'all. Othello is currently taking a break so I thought I'd jumpstart the new thread since nobody else was getting to it.
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Bonus discussion question:
Who are your favorite BIPOC or ethnic minority activists, organizers, labor union reps., leaders, etc. out there?
Emphasis on activists and organizers.
Can be such figures as Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, MLK, Jr., etc.
I want y'all to think about this one (but, like, it's not a prerequisite for joining this thread or making comments within it).
Take care and have fun!
When I first learned about Huey Newton, it was honestly from interviews and the POV of the Kleaver siblings.
They started a split in the BBP at one point and, eventually, the brother went to Africa while the sister went to some university afterward, but they kinda castigated Huey Newton in interviews (and of course, survived him by at least a decade so, of course, they could spin the narrative to their effect when all was said and done). Actually, so did Newton's friend Barry (? I forgot the first name) Seale after Huey Newton died.
It's honestly kinda sad. Newton is also seen as "capitulating" in his later years or having a "right-wing" turn compared to the initial years of the BPP.
Oh yeah, and "Revolutionary Intercommunalism," or whatever it's called, gets put up to a lot of scrutiny, even today (that's a concept that Huey Newton himself coined and came up with).
Bobby Seale?
Tbh Huey was more so advocating against alienating the masses by being overly militaristic and I think he was correct in that regard. Eldridge Cleaver was trying to lead a coup in exile and also advocating a adventurist deviation which I think time has proven incorrect.
Thank u I'll look that up
EXACTLY
I agree.