The Black Panther Party was an organization started in 1966 with the revolutionary ideology of Black Nationalism, socialism, and armed defense due to police brutality. Before this reading, I thought the Black Panther Party was a terror group of racist, anti-white black people. After the reading, I understood that contrast to the myth; the Black Panther Party was an organization aimed at serving the people in education, healthcare, and ensuring security in black communities. The government controls the narrative regarding the Black Panther through the FBI and the media channels such as newspapers.
The FBI associated the black panthers with criminal activities such as drug dealing and harassment of white members. The FBI considered the Black Panther dangerous and collaborated with the local police departments to suppress the activities of the Black Panther. Disparately, the Black Panther Party was committed to lifting the living standard in black communities. The U.S society is capitalist, with the majority of the blacks living in the lower and middle classes and most white Americans living in the middle and upper classes. As part of their revolutionary movement, the Black Panthers developed more than thirty-five survival programs in society.
People protest to express their dissatisfaction with the social, political, and political aspects. People should be allowed to protest following the constitutional manifestation of the right to freedom of assembly and freedom of association. There is a double-standardization between black and white protesters due to negative racial stereotypes and white privilege. Black men are stereotyped to be dangerous criminals overwhelmed by ignorance and anger. Their counterparts, white Americans, have inherent advantages in society due to their skin color. The racial inequality displayed in American society is similar to people in Peru making water claims in the Water Guardians of Peru. Political policing is used to suppress constitutional protests of a particular group in the society that the government or a particular leader finds threatening.