I wish I had a collection of links and whatnot to really direct people to the details of the issues, but ultimately I too feel pretty out of the loop and I am wondering how many on here have kept track of the history of these nascent left movements/orgs.

RIBPP just recently split off from NABPP over disagreements about broad strategy and personal disagreements with NABPP. This was done in part under the direction of Kevin Johnson, former NABPP member who disagreed with the chairman and another influential member, Tom Watts. Their 'policy-based' splits alleged by the RIBPP people was that the NABPP shuttered the United Panther Movement because it was existing beyond NABPP control.

However, at the same time, I see posts on the BHO website which alleges that Kevin Johnson doesn't even exist and is merely a pseudonym for Tom Watts. And BHO alleges that Tom Watts might have been a white supremacist controlling the NABPP with a puppet chairman? Though to be fair, I know little to nothing about Black Hammer beyond the fact it is a website saying it is an organization.

I will say as an indigenous person, that Tom alleges indigenous ancestry in a way that hits nearly all the red flags of someone pretending to be native, so I am distrustful of this alleged White Panther who is in the NABPP.

I can provide a bit more detail to anyone curious but largely I am just wondering... what the fuck is going on, which orgs are ops, is anyone on the internet even real and trying to build popular fronts against capitalism or to paraphrase Zhuangzi am I just a butterfly living in my own convoluted dreams of decolonial socialist actions in the imperial core?

:curious-marx:

If anyone can provide some details about these dynamics I would be greatly appreciative.

  • Nationalgoatism [any]
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    4 years ago

    I would definitely not trust anything BHO says. The idea that Kevin Johnson doesn't exist is comically absurd. As others have mentioned. Kevin Johnson does a very good job of laying out why the Ghazi is untrustworthy here http://rashidmod.com/?p=2797 Andi would encourage you to read Also this https://blackhammer.org/hammercity/ Is really special.

    • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah that allegation an entire person didn't exist, yet split with his actual person in Tom, yet BHO had published a letter from Kevin and his wife... was just crazy.

      But given how wild things have been the last little while, I felt like I couldn't automatically discount things being dramatically absurd just because it was unbelievable, given these are rather absurd and unbelievable times.

      And yeah that looks hilarious, building a utopia in Florida off of crowdfunding lolll... It would be more believable that someone starts a gofundme for us to cut Florida from the continent Bugs Bunny style than it would be to believe people want to decolonize/move to somewhere in Florida because of a gofundme.

      Thank you!