MY PANTHERS ARE BETTER THAN YOURS

Recently, I stumbled upon a newspaper headline to the effect that the ruling remnant of the Black Panthers Party of the unruly 60's were denouncing a group organized under the title, The New Black Panther Party. I immediately recognized the potential for a circus center-ring attraction.

Imagine the "old guard" Black Panthers decked out in their refurbished duds confronting the the young lions of The New Black Panther Party. Who dares enter the cage to crack the whip with these angry cats snarling?

It takes a good imagination. Bobby Seale, I believe, is an elected representative and member of the Black Caucus. In socialist America the old Black Panthers are establishment types. The widow of Huey Newton helps run a foundation which does at least some work in the African American 'hoods. "Trying" and rhetoric keep the old memories from death by burial under the relentless accumulation of dust that is modern life's emblem. It takes on a somber, aged, traditional character - unable to live and unwilling to die.

Additionally, there may be some money that comes now and then to the Keepers of the Legend. The old boys get together sometimes to talk about their "legacy" over drinks.

Imagine then the unwanted character of surprise that seized them when members of The New Black Panther Party ["NBPP"] started showing their stuff and being "bad." Further, the NBPP appeared to be related somehow to the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan. Hence, the old guard had to wonder if they were hostile to the Jewish community, which had been so understanding and supportive of the original Black Panther Party. This new group of "Black Panthers" might just be a different kind of cat.

While the old Black Panthers used to follow police cars patrolling their 'hoods, brandishing their guns and pointedly talking about "offing the pig," the stately remnant now speaks about their "love" for their people and desire to help the 'hoods. Get it? They got bad press! That's all. They were part of the emerging socialist international, supported by foundations, such as (probably) the Ford Foundation. Hell! Eldredge Cleever was so avantgarde that he tried to re-invent the "codpiece" for modern pants. If that's not Establishment, what is?

However, the NBPP didn't seem to catch the Black Panthers' groove. These name-stealers wanted to create a separate black nation called "New Africa." They were nationalists, doncha know? So yesterday! The old guard chuckled: "They'll never get Ford money."

Recently, at the elections of November members of the NBPP were occasionally present outside voting locations, dressed in their uniforms and carrying weapons. They were accused of trying to intimidate voters. They have intentionally set out to be confrontational toward "enemies of the Black people."

Do the old Black Panther Party remnant misread the times? Consider:

"In June, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told a St. Andrews high school graduating class, 'Two of my favorite political philosophers are Mao Tse-Tung and Mother Teresa.' Similarly, manufacturing czar Ron Bloom informed the 2008 Union League Club, 'We know that the free market is nonsense. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun.'" [American Free Press, Staff Report, page 6, Nov. 30, 2009]

I bring this up because the thinking of the NBPP seems to be much more - for real - akin to the Mao dictum than the stylish posing of the original Black Panthers. Since the latter were relentlessly outgunned by the police, their power can only come through "pet-ship" on the part of the real "power elite" of America, who thought them cute and useful to frighten old white women (reliable voters) and who also controlled the police.

Whether or not the NBPP is annexed eventually by the "power elite" and converted into a street drama scene at the Smithsonian may well depend upon their acceptance of Jews as the world's messiah.