Despite the young lady’s comments at the end of the video provided below, many in the Black community are well aware that Black Panther Party’s founder, Huey Newton, was a brilliant Black man and was largely on the right track until his demons (drug use and internal anger) manifested themselves through enormous pressures brought on by our nation’s racist institutions of his time, as they simply overwhelmed him. Huey, in my opinion, was a brave American hero who, like so many icons before him, sought to free his people from the clutches of tyranny and brutality but instead met a demise that systematically destroyed him, one that was likely planned and carried out by the government that hated him, and a goon that ultimately ended his life. Here’s a 1988 video where Huey, along with two other Black intellectuals, addresses a largely White audience about the perilous effects of racism on Black culture in America.
This may also interest you: The biography of Fred Hampton, who was a leader in the Black Panther Party.
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