Probably, the best way to know and realize the
history, or research the authentic Black Panther Party SIXTIES protest
movement is to have your own autographed books. There are also posters,
photographs and/or copies [duplicates] of actual "Black Community News
Service" publications of the era. Eight years of a weekly published: THE
BLACK PANTHER, now memorabilia, or the BPP newspaper poster-cover pages,
authentically representing recent contemporary American history out of
African American struggle, as it happened. American as well as African
American history catalyzed out of the Black community's ages old struggle
for constitutional democratic civil-human rights. Sloganized with the synergism
of "All Power To All The People." Memorabilia which illuminates
how we were not subjects of history as some continue to attempt
to distort. But real AGENTS and EVOLVERS of such history.
This memorabilia allows one to get beyond all
the distortions and misrepresentations written and produced about Bobby
Seale's sixties Black Panther party. To see and realize the "in motion"
pragmatic ideological developments. The forty-odd multiple leadership chapters
and branches. The real tangible grass roots programs, largely initiated
by Bobby Seale, that unified people. The FBI-Police attacks and court room
battles across the U.S.A. How we won ninety-five percent of all our court
room battles. A mini civil war between the racist power structure and the
Black community's Black Panther Party with numerous dead and wounded on
both sides. The Political campaigns won and lost. How we weathered everything
the power structure threw at us. It allows ones notions and skimpy ideas
to rise to a higher level with new realizations. Realizations that better
correspond correctly to our BPP historical reality. Taking the positive
aspects by today's political reality standards and youthful people understanding
how they do not have to try and repeat what we evolved, but realizing that
the continuing all human liberation struggle is grounded in scientific,
factual polylectic reality. How a future world of cooperational humanism
is in fact an extension of the BPP's old Power To The People principals.
Bobby Seale, 4/30/96