12/20/2023 0 Comments Shadow of the panther book![]() ![]() PEARSON: Augwas the day that Huey Newton approached - he went to West Oakland. Huey Newton was very much a person like that but at the same time go down on the streets and get into a fight and beat up anybody practically that he would come across or engage in criminality with anyone he came across. It would almost be like Tupac Shakur, a person who was in the news for a while as engaging in all sorts of outrageous activities along with his rap, someone like Tupac who could quote the philosophers and writers from all over the world and also speak English properly. But the other side, he was an intellectual, something that I think you don't see, a kind of mix you don't see too often in African-American men anymore. The one side of him was a criminal, very criminal from the very beginning, petty criminal, and then he became much more serious later on. So I think that Huey Newton is definitely a person who had two sides, as I point out in the book. ![]() I think that the Black Panther Party is an organization that without question got its start kind of coming out of what had been started by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Newton was really the driving force, the real power behind everything. He and Bobby Seale actually founded the party, but Bobby Seale was more a public relations person along with Eldridge Cleaver. He founded the party in the fall of 1966. ![]() PEARSON: Huey Newton was the - he is called the co-founder who is actually the founder and driving force behind the Black Panther Party. ![]()
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