Striking photo essay about Oakland's Black Panther Party (1968)

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/22/striking-photo-essay-about-oak.html

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Is it shallow to say that they look amazing?

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They don’t look afraid. They don’t even look ashamed. No wonder racists remember them with terror, even to this day.

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Maybe it’s shallow, but I was going to say the same thing, “stylin’!”

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Roger That!

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The Black community was amazing… before it was crippled by the establishment intentionally flooding it with drugs and the passage of biases laws that targeted people based on race and status.

We’re still here, but I often weep for what we could have been…

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