It’s useless to inquire whether the organizers of Black Lives Matter
have learned the lessons of the Black Panthers, the explosive and
extraordinary activist movement that shook the American establishment to
its core in the late 1960s and was promptly destroyed. It’s especially
useless, no doubt, for a white dude writing an article on the Internet
to ask that question, and I claim no special insight into BLM’s
collective understanding or interpretation of that not-so-distant
history. But the larger point is that no one has learned the lessons of
the Panthers, because half a century after their startling emergence
from the streets of Oakland, California, we still have no idea what
those lessons were.
Read the rest of the story HERE:
At www.salon.com
At www.salon.com
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