COMMUNISM & THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
A friend dropped me a little video of someone dissin’ Jesus, & misappropriating scripture to do it. My friend, let’s call him “Danny”, asked me to please help him make sense of the video, from a scriptural & theological standpoint, as we’d had many such discussions over the years.
I watched the 20 minutes of nonsense, & explained to him that the man in the video was what was known as a Black Liberation Theologist, something he’d never heard of. He’s a comparatively young pup, me being Methuselah, myself & all.
I went on to explain that they had spun out of the Communist/Marxist ideology movement, the likes of The Weather Underground, & evolved into groups like The Black Panther Party, & now, Black Lives Matter.
He took offense at this. I laughed. He said the Black Panthers were the good guys. I laughed some more. You know…Methuselah.
Ten-Point Program (Black Panther Party)
1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black and oppressed communities.
We believe that Black and oppressed people will not be free until we are able to determine our destinies in our own communities ourselves, by fully controlling all the institutions which exist in our communities.
2. We want full employment for our people.
We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every person employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the American businessmen will not give full employment, then the technology and means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.
3. We want an end to the robbery by the capitalist of our Black and oppressed communities.
We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules were promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of Black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million Black people. Therefore, we feel this is a modest demand that we make.
4. We want decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings.
We believe that if the landlords will not give decent housing to our Black and oppressed communities, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that the people in our communities, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for the people.
5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society.
We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self. If you do not have knowledge of yourself and your position in the society and the world, then you will have little chance to know anything else.
6. We want completely free health care for all Black and oppressed people.
We believe that the government must provide, free of charge, for the people, health facilities which will not only treat our illnesses, most of which have come about as a result of our oppression, but which will also develop preventative medical programs to guarantee our future survival. We believe that mass health education and research programs must be developed to give all Black and oppressed people access to advanced scientific and medical information, so we may provide ourselves with proper medical attention and care.
7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people, other people of color, all oppressed people inside the United States.
We believe that the racist and fascist government of the United States uses its domestic enforcement agencies to carry out its program of oppression against Black people, other people of color and poor people inside the United States. We believe it is our right, therefore, to defend ourselves against such armed forces, and that all Black and oppressed people should be armed for self-defense of our homes and communities against these fascist police forces.
8. We want an immediate end to all wars of aggression.
We believe that the various conflicts which exist around the world stem directly from the aggressive desires of the U.S. ruling circle and government to force its domination upon the oppressed people of the world. We believe that if the U.S. government or its lackeys do not cease these aggressive wars that it is the right of the people to defend themselves by any means necessary against their aggressors.
9. We want freedom for all Black and poor oppressed people now held in U.S. federal, state, county, city and military prisons and jails. We want trials by a jury of peers for all persons charged with so-called crimes under the laws of this country.
We believe that the many Black and poor oppressed people now held in U.S. prisons and jails have not received fair and impartial trials under a racist and fascist judicial system and should be free from incarceration. We believe in the ultimate elimination of all wretched, inhuman penal institutions, because the masses of men and women imprisoned inside the United States or by the U.S. military are the victims of oppressive conditions which are the real cause of their imprisonment. We believe that when persons are brought to trial that they must be guaranteed, by the United States, juries of their peers, attorneys of their choice and freedom from imprisonment while awaiting trials.
10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and people’s community control of modern technology.
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
End.
Now tell me how all this free handout, government dependence is not Communism.
Now, go take a look at the Communist Party Manifesto, & tell me how they are different. Here's a hint:
What are the three main points in the Communist Manifesto?
"The three main ideas from The Communist Manifesto are class conflict, ephemeral capitalism, and inevitable revolution. Marx and Engel focused on class conflict as the driving force for their argument."
THE MARXIST ROOTS OF BLACK LIBERATION
BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENTS: THEN & NOW
⭐ THE ORIGINS OF CULTURAL MARXISM ⭐
At the end of the day, we, as Americans, are surrounded by Communism/Marxism without recognizing it. How are we supposed to fight against it, or resist it, if we don’t realize what it looks like?
Communism/Marxism is the birthplace of political correctness.
When I heard Donald Trump was running for President, I thought it was a joke. But, then I heard him say, “Political correctness has got to stop.”
We have to open this can of worms that is this Communist/Marxist platform, & ideology. Otherwise, they will continue to run roughshod over us with it in our ignorance.
As for my friend “Danny”, he never again commented on the Black Panthers to me, so I remain hopeful that some progress has been made. He's a good lad.