Is Violence the Answer?Essay title: Is Violence the Answer?Is Violence the Answer?Organized in the 1960s at the height of the American Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther Party emerged as a revolutionist group pioneering a strategy of militancy. The Partys aims were to eliminate the discrimination challenging African-Americans in America since the time of slavery, and to protect their communities from police brutality. Inspired by contemporary radical leaders such as Malcolm X, the party recognized that in order to restructure American society so that civil equality was obtainable by all people, a much stronger opposition was necessary. Party members felt the passive resistance adopted by their predecessors fighting for equality proved futile, and therefore the Party endorsed new tactics of self-defense and violent resistance to secure their political and social rights as American citizens. However, the promotion and employment of open violence fueled the government with legitimate reason to battle for the Partys eradication. Regardless of its success in instituting innovative community reforms in African-American neighborhoods, during its short existence the Black Panther Party was never able to achieve its fundamental goal of eliminating racial discrimination and ensuring civil equality for all when battling against an America averse to change.
The period ranging from approximately 1950s-1970s witnessed a rabid call for social change: in particular, the demand for civil equality. In 1966, frustrated by the lack of progress in the fight for equal rights for blacks, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Outraged by instances of police brutality and violence toward civil rights workers and even innocent citizens, the Party adopted a policy of self-defense and militancy recognizing that “All history has shown that this government will bring its police and military powers to bear on any group which truly seeks to free Afrikan people” (Acoli 2). This new strategy of “fighting back” differed dramatically from the
-reactionaries’ more optimistic pre-Civil War view, however, and for some reason the latter were compelled to abandon their pre-War views, and their economic policies of government assistance and public housing development went out the window. Some also had an inkling that this new, more expansive agenda would lead to the development of an all-black, all-white police force and their consequent political and racial subjugation of African people, or at least the establishment of an all-black police force, led by the Police Department of America. They therefore left their historical historical background behind, leaving a legacy of revolutionary action, and a path that would serve them well in their future years as police officers. This tradition of historical social activism has produced a new political movement, Black Power in America and the Black Lives Matter movement, and continues to shape our country after the civil-rights movement of 1963. This revolutionary history is based on a new and critical understanding of our criminal justice system and the criminal justice system of modern nation, and is the foundation for a new direction of our own: one that includes the formation of an independent and fully integrated criminal justice system based around the principles of “sustainability” and “resolve of criminal justice reform.” “Sustainability” encompasses justice by using justice as a tool. Asserting our human dignity and rights, we call for the abolition of a system that seeks to control the resources of society, and to control the behavior of social minorities and the majority alike. Our own system of capitalism will not be the equalizer and sustainer of the life and health to which the individual needs the best. On the other hand, we call for collective action and collaboration within this system, to establish a society in which justice for all and our civil rights for all become the focus and moral center of the entire country. It is on this basis that Black Power is born. Black Power is a movement born out of a need to liberate Afrikan people from the oppressant state (i.e., the police violence and oppression of the African American community), and to liberate the oppressed under the guise of defending African rights so African people can see that they no longer have to face the oppression and oppression of the government they have been told they were to serve. The Black Power movement has not just been based on black liberation, but also on our ability to bring liberation to this planet and that our future as citizens is in direct conflict with the state’s domination and exploitation. It is our commitment to the liberation of our planet, its people and our planet that is defining our future and is driving this movement forward, and its future together. Together, we must develop Black Power as a path for free liberation and not as an alternative to the oppressive and oppressive regime. The Black Liberation Organization and the Fight for Freedom to Restore Our Planet must continue to support
-reactionaries’ more optimistic pre-Civil War view, however, and for some reason the latter were compelled to abandon their pre-War views, and their economic policies of government assistance and public housing development went out the window. Some also had an inkling that this new, more expansive agenda would lead to the development of an all-black, all-white police force and their consequent political and racial subjugation of African people, or at least the establishment of an all-black police force, led by the Police Department of America. They therefore left their historical historical background behind, leaving a legacy of revolutionary action, and a path that would serve them well in their future years as police officers. This tradition of historical social activism has produced a new political movement, Black Power in America and the Black Lives Matter movement, and continues to shape our country after the civil-rights movement of 1963. This revolutionary history is based on a new and critical understanding of our criminal justice system and the criminal justice system of modern nation, and is the foundation for a new direction of our own: one that includes the formation of an independent and fully integrated criminal justice system based around the principles of “sustainability” and “resolve of criminal justice reform.” “Sustainability” encompasses justice by using justice as a tool. Asserting our human dignity and rights, we call for the abolition of a system that seeks to control the resources of society, and to control the behavior of social minorities and the majority alike. Our own system of capitalism will not be the equalizer and sustainer of the life and health to which the individual needs the best. On the other hand, we call for collective action and collaboration within this system, to establish a society in which justice for all and our civil rights for all become the focus and moral center of the entire country. It is on this basis that Black Power is born. Black Power is a movement born out of a need to liberate Afrikan people from the oppressant state (i.e., the police violence and oppression of the African American community), and to liberate the oppressed under the guise of defending African rights so African people can see that they no longer have to face the oppression and oppression of the government they have been told they were to serve. The Black Power movement has not just been based on black liberation, but also on our ability to bring liberation to this planet and that our future as citizens is in direct conflict with the state’s domination and exploitation. It is our commitment to the liberation of our planet, its people and our planet that is defining our future and is driving this movement forward, and its future together. Together, we must develop Black Power as a path for free liberation and not as an alternative to the oppressive and oppressive regime. The Black Liberation Organization and the Fight for Freedom to Restore Our Planet must continue to support
-reactionaries’ more optimistic pre-Civil War view, however, and for some reason the latter were compelled to abandon their pre-War views, and their economic policies of government assistance and public housing development went out the window. Some also had an inkling that this new, more expansive agenda would lead to the development of an all-black, all-white police force and their consequent political and racial subjugation of African people, or at least the establishment of an all-black police force, led by the Police Department of America. They therefore left their historical historical background behind, leaving a legacy of revolutionary action, and a path that would serve them well in their future years as police officers. This tradition of historical social activism has produced a new political movement, Black Power in America and the Black Lives Matter movement, and continues to shape our country after the civil-rights movement of 1963. This revolutionary history is based on a new and critical understanding of our criminal justice system and the criminal justice system of modern nation, and is the foundation for a new direction of our own: one that includes the formation of an independent and fully integrated criminal justice system based around the principles of “sustainability” and “resolve of criminal justice reform.” “Sustainability” encompasses justice by using justice as a tool. Asserting our human dignity and rights, we call for the abolition of a system that seeks to control the resources of society, and to control the behavior of social minorities and the majority alike. Our own system of capitalism will not be the equalizer and sustainer of the life and health to which the individual needs the best. On the other hand, we call for collective action and collaboration within this system, to establish a society in which justice for all and our civil rights for all become the focus and moral center of the entire country. It is on this basis that Black Power is born. Black Power is a movement born out of a need to liberate Afrikan people from the oppressant state (i.e., the police violence and oppression of the African American community), and to liberate the oppressed under the guise of defending African rights so African people can see that they no longer have to face the oppression and oppression of the government they have been told they were to serve. The Black Power movement has not just been based on black liberation, but also on our ability to bring liberation to this planet and that our future as citizens is in direct conflict with the state’s domination and exploitation. It is our commitment to the liberation of our planet, its people and our planet that is defining our future and is driving this movement forward, and its future together. Together, we must develop Black Power as a path for free liberation and not as an alternative to the oppressive and oppressive regime. The Black Liberation Organization and the Fight for Freedom to Restore Our Planet must continue to support