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Title: The Challenges of Crafting a Huey Newton Thesis and a Solution Worth Considering

Embarking on the journey of writing a thesis is no small feat, and when it comes to a topic as
intricate as the life and contributions of Huey Newton, the challenges can be even more daunting.
Crafting a thesis that does justice to such a complex figure requires in-depth research, critical
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Navigating Complexity:

Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was a multifaceted individual whose life and
legacy spanned various socio-political arenas. From his advocacy for civil rights to his involvement in
revolutionary activism, the depth of Newton's impact poses a unique challenge for thesis writers.
Grappling with the nuances of his ideologies, contributions, and the historical context in which he
operated requires meticulous research and a keen analytical eye.

Historical Context:

Thrusting oneself into the historical context surrounding Huey Newton's life adds another layer of
complexity to the thesis-writing process. Understanding the socio-political climate of the 1960s and
1970s, the Black Panther Party's formation, and the challenges faced by the African American
community during that era is crucial for presenting a comprehensive analysis. This historical depth
demands extensive research and a commitment to accuracy.

Cultural Sensitivity:

Given the sensitive nature of the topics associated with Huey Newton, it is imperative for thesis
writers to approach the subject with cultural sensitivity. Addressing race, activism, and the Black
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potential pitfalls.

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He became involved in politics while at college where he met Bobby Seale. They looked at toil,
working for your necessities, as something of a curse. The Watts Riots tore across the Southern
California area on a hot night in August 1. A voracious reader, he read the works of Karl Marx,
Malcolm X, Vladimir Lenin, etc. In 1989, he faced the charge of embezzling funds of a school setup
by the Black Panthers. Third, I address this same theme of politics as war as it gets taken up and
rearticulated by Foucault between 1971 and 1976, with an eye to the degree to which the
philosophies and struggles of the Black Panthers silently, yet profoundly, inform Foucault’s
genealogical work. If this is so, if the slave class can disappear and become something else. More
recently, the interdisciplinary field of Black Power studies has increased investigation into
Afrocentric pedagogy and Black politically-engaged education after World War II (Rickford, 2016).
But until we can achieve that total transformation, we must exist. We call this integrating theory
with practice, and this is what the Black Panther Party is all about. I argue that Foucault’s shift from
archaeological inquiry to genealogical critique is fundamentally motivated by his encounter with
American-style racism and class struggle, and by his engagement with the political philosophies and
documented struggles of the BPP. In spite of attending several public schools, he was never taught
anything of value which forced him to self-educate himself. See Full PDF Download PDF See Full
PDF Download PDF Related Papers Western Journal of Black Studies The Sociology, Pedagogy,
and Theology of Huey P. Where there were Black communities, there were Black militants, most
moved by the masterful oratory and martyrdom of Malcolm X. He grew up poor and often found
himself the victim of racial discrimination which disgusted him. While accepting the concept of the
Will to Power, the Black Panther Party democratized the concept by raising the famous slogan “All
Power to the People.” As Huey says. We are a collection of communities just as the Korean people,
the Vietnamese people, and the Chinese people arc a collection of communities?a dispersed
collection of communities because we have no superstructure of our own. They know that there is
only one world, but they are determined to follow the logic of their exploitation. Neither of these
attempts give full context to the historic contributions of the BPP nor correctly examine the driving
ideology of the party. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide 'Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. He grew up
poor and often found himself the victim of racial discrimination which disgusted him. In 1989,
Newton was killed by a drug-dealer Tyron Robinson in Oakland. Williams’ NAACP chapter in
Monroe, NC, and the Deacons for Defense, ideologically Newton explains that the Party wouldn’t
even exist without Malcolm X. I would much rather be driven out with a stick because if I am swept
out with the broom it will humiliate me and I will lose my self?respect. Huey delivered his message
to the people through his actions, down on the street. He was to respond to the criticism of non-
violence many times — like in his speech Where do We Go From Here, where he said. The United
States as an empire necessarily controls the whole world either directly or indirectly. By exploring
this charismatic leader, Jeffries's book makes a valuable contribution to the scant literature on
Newton, while also exposing the core tenets and evolving philosophies of the Black Panther Party. I
conclude by raising some ethical and political questions pertaining to the criteria of truthful speech in
scholarly discourse. Figuring I might get busted at any time and wanting to be ready when it
happened, I bought some books on criminal law and burglary and felony and looked up as much as
possible.
It only takes ten hours to get from here to Vietnam. After two more trials, the case against him had
been dropped. Tonight I hope I can have some form of agreement or synthesis with those who have
criticized the Black Panther Party. I find that Newton’s project was a blueprint for an utopian
(re)articulation of the social order that gestured toward a global, Habermasian-like notion of radical
democracy. Their symbol was a black panther because this animal never attacks first, but if attacked
it kills its enemy. As these events happened, a new invention called television carried these images
into millions of Black homes across America. Moreover, illiterates must develop original ways of
seeing and interpreting and categorizing the world. His family, like tens of thousands of others,
formed the last legs of the Great Migration, of Black flight from the Apartheid South to the North
and the West. While multiple historical studies detail the pedagogical contours of the school and its
community engagement, very few elicit the voices of former students. But if we get the relatives,
parents, and friends to the prisons they can expose the treachery of the fascists. I'm a human being,
first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”. The
charges were dropped six years later, and Newton took a plea deal. But “empire” means that the
ruling circle who lives in the empire (the imperialists) control other nations. A set of social conditions
existing there at that time was responsible for the development of a small industrial base. Sometimes
they talk of overthrowing racist state and local governments and they talk about guerrilla warfare. A
community by way of definition is a comprehensive collection of institutions that serve the people
who live there. At the same time, Martin Luther King was persistently struggling against the laws of
his country. So when the United States, or North America, became an empire it changed the whole
composition of the world. The duo formed the Black Panther party with a view to protect the black
community from racial attacks and police brutality. He read the teachings of Malcolm X, Mao
Zedong and many others. Where was the stuff about the pigs, they seemed to ask, as we studied
with not only Mao and Marx but Aristotle and Plato. Everything’s been collected but it’s used
exclusively in the interest of the ruling circle. He fled the country and went to Cuba to lay low for 3
years. How so? Illiterates, as we’ve suggested, devote a significant amount of mental energy to
memorize important data, especially to avoid the shame of discovery. One of the characteristics or
properties of this method is disinterest. However, we would do well to remember Huey’s words,
“The only time an action is revolutionary is when the people relate to it in a revolutionary way.”.
Newton: Critical Reflections on Education in His Writings and Speeches The Pedagogy of Huey P.
We, the people, are threatened with genocide because racism and fascism are rampant in this country
and throughout the world. Questions were raised on whether it was merely a tactic or a principle,
whether it applied to personal or political interactions, whether violence was a necessary part of
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First on the agenda for the Panthers, was to make sure the police were doing their job to the best if
their ability, and nothing more. While accepting the concept of the Will to Power, the Black Panther
Party democratized the concept by raising the famous slogan “All Power to the People.” As Huey
says. And at this very time, an idol of the Afro-American youth, black Muslim Malcolm X, is killed
by the white racist. The Black Panthers became a target of the FBI’s insidious COINTELPRO
program, which sought to break apart many of the powerful civil rights and Black activist
movements of the 1960s and 1970s. By the same token, once it was discovered that Huey was
illiterate, he used considerable mental energy to learn, to essentially teach himself that hidden art. In
1967, Newton was arrested and accused of the murder of a policeman, and went to jail for 22
months. Newton, with bobby seale, founded the black panther party for self defense. This article
argues that, although those problems existed, gender dynamics were not uniform across chapters.
When transformation takes place, when structural change takes place, the result is usually cultural
lag. Unlike many of the other social and political organizers of the time, they took a more militant
stance to the plight of black communities in America. He had strained relations with the Black
Guerilla Family (BGF) and was shot to death by a BGF member in 1989. Perhaps this accounted for
his self- consciousness, his wariness of speaking in public. The wind is rising and the rivers flowing,
times are getting hard and we can’t go home again. Here in the United States Black people,
Africans, were raped from the mother country, and consequently we have literally lost most of our
African values. For example, to protest a gun bill in 1967, members of the Panthers entered the
California Legislature armed. (Newton actually wasn't present at the demonstration.) The action was
a shocking one that made news across the country, and Newton emerged as a leading figure in the
black militant movement. They had many reasons to believe that the Oakland police were too violent
towards the black community, so the Panthers policed the police, and practiced their rights to bear
arms, which they rightfully did so. I’d think he’d be the most popular professor on campus. With no
black community that had the same mindset as those two, they decided to form an organization. The
ruling circle no longer even acknowledges wars; they call them “police actions.” They call the riots of
the Vietnamese people “domestic disturbance.” What I am saying is that the ruling circle must realize
and accept the consequences of what they have done. Newton was successful in creating an
organization unique in the history of afro-americans. Huey tells an arresting tale of how his secret
was uncovered. Huey Percy Newton was a revolutionary political activist who co-founded the Black
Panther Party along with Bobby Seale. Newton’s family settled in the San Francisco Bay area and
lived primarily in the city of Oakland in California. He was good friends with the eminent biologist
Robert Trivers. We analyzed what happened in the Soviet Union in 1917. Newton’s ignoble death on
a street corner by a crack dealer. Kant called his process of reasoning pure reason because it did not
depend on the external world. They were both searching for an alternative to the social and
economic arrangements of the west. The local police laid siege on that community and that house,
and they used the same weapons they use in Vietnam (as a matter of fact, two tanks rolled up).
Assess The Sociological Explanations For The Growth Of New.
We use cookies to create the best experience for you. In describing his thinking at the time, Elaine
Brown, his lover and political comrade, quoted him as saying: Every blood on that street was a
potential threat, unless I knew he was a friend. The Panthers founded the Oakland Community
School, which helped around 150 poor children receive quality education. He was the there are many
references to huey newton in popular music, including changes by tupac shakur. While the members
of the organizations could turn into real monsters performing acts of violence against the white
people, Newton did not support them in acting too violently because he was caring about the image
of the Black Panthers. You’re a dispersed collection of communities.” Because the Black Panther
Party is not embarrassed to change or admit error, tonight I would like to accept the criticism and say
that those critics were absolutely right. Born february 17, 1942 huey was a black american who was
a revolutionary and political activist in the early 1960's who fought for the rights of black americans
in america. Hughey This article provides a critical decoding of black masculine representations in the
Black Panther Party newspaper—The Black Panther. A voracious reader, he read the works of Karl
Marx, Malcolm X, Vladimir Lenin, etc. While traditional Marxists ridiculed Newton’s ideas, the
Soviet Union shuttered its doors on Dec. The child is father of the man.” Lessons learned in
beardless youth became the matrix of the man he became. We must unite as one community and then
transform the world into a place where people will be happy, wars will end, the state itself will no
longer exist, and we will have communism. I do not remember our ever constituting any value that
said that a revolutionary must say offensive things towards homosexuals, or that a revolutionary
should make sure that women do not speak out about their own particular kind of oppression. In fact
they did not know all of the world, therefore some nations still existed independent of it. Newton:
Critical Reflections on Education in His Writings and Speeches The Pedagogy of Huey P. The petty
crimes of Newton seemed petty indeed against such a backdrop of violence and terror, and the little
guy who once looked at. That is, they have taken away the goods of the people of the world,
transported them to America and used them as their very own. Both sides of the debate ultimately
desired peace but differed on the question of means and ends. However, pundits offered little on
Newton as freedom fighter or as theoretician and activist. Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist
dispels myths about Newton's life, but the book is primarily an in-depth examination of Newton's
ideas. They also had access to the properties necessary for carrying out a socialist revolution. They
know that there is only one world, but they are determined to follow the logic of their exploitation. I
conclude by raising some ethical and political questions pertaining to the criteria of truthful speech in
scholarly discourse. Sometimes when people meet they argue and misunderstand each other because
they think they are having a contradiction when they are only being contrary. A community by way
of definition is a comprehensive collection of institutions that serve the people who live there. Where
was the stuff about the pigs, they seemed to ask, as we studied with not only Mao and Marx but
Aristotle and Plato. He even showed an understanding of the transgender struggle by saying (of gays
in general) that “ we must understand it in its purest form: that is, a person should have the freedom
to use his body in whatever way he wants.”. To succeed as a thief, Newton studied the California
crimes code. With Beyonce’s controversial performance at the Super Bowl and the digital and
physical release of Stanley Nelson’s somewhat controversial documentary “Black Panthers: Vanguard
of the Revolution” the day before the birthday of co-founder Huey P. Where there were Black
communities, there were Black militants, most moved by the masterful oratory and martyrdom of
Malcolm X. Source: storage.ning.com This article is part of a series about.
The party's treasurer, Bobby Hutton, was killed while still a teenager during one of these conflicts in
1968. He apologized for his followers yet could not bear responsibility for all of their public actions.
Newton was not an atheist, as he embraced church later in his life. In 1967, Newton was arrested
and accused of the murder of a policeman, and went to jail for 22 months. He grew up in Oakland
where he experienced rampant racial discrimination. These plans were laid out in the Panther Party’s
“ Ten-Point Program. ”. As a matter of fact, Lenin saw a time in which man could stand in onc place,
push buttons and move mountains. Third, I address this same theme of politics as war as it gets
taken up and rearticulated by Foucault between 1971 and 1976, with an eye to the degree to which
the philosophies and struggles of the Black Panthers silently, yet profoundly, inform Foucault’s
genealogical work. Liberals romanticize his black revolutionary rhetoric and idealize his message. In
Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist, Judson L. While traditional Marxists ridiculed Newton’s
ideas, the Soviet Union shuttered its doors on Dec. I would much rather be driven out with a stick
because if I am swept out with the broom it will humiliate me and I will lose my self?respect. Both
sides of the debate ultimately desired peace but differed on the question of means and ends. Perhaps
we still hold on to some surviving Africanisms, but by and large you can see the transformation
which was achieved by time and the highly technological society whose tremendous mass media
functions as an indoctrination center. For King, the highest expression of love was agape which went
beyond romantic love or friendship. This movement was very prominent during the 1960-70s. As a
matter of fact, we have drawn a line of demarcation and we will no longer tolerate fascism,
aggression, brutality, and murder of any kind. He was not a historical materialist, but a dialectical
materialist, and therefore very interested in the ever?changing status of things. What is needed is a
realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and that love without power is
sentimental and anemic. He became involved in politics while at college where he met Bobby Seale.
The child is father of the man.” Lessons learned in beardless youth became the matrix of the man he
became. In 1989, Newton was killed by a drug-dealer Tyron Robinson in Oakland. We also have
community health programs. We have a busing program. Before the year was out, over 7. By 1. 96. 1,
“Freedom Rides” rolled through Southern states in protest to racial segregation, resulting in vicious
violence by white racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. By 1. 96. 3, four Black girls were bombed in
a Baptist church, in Birmingham (called. He later married Frederika in 1984 with whom he lived till
his death. So how do we define certain progressive countries such as the People’s Republic of China.
He was the there are many references to huey newton in popular music, including changes by tupac
shakur. The Black Panthers, led by Newton initiated a number of social programs for the betterment
of the black community. That is, they have taken away the goods of the people of the world,
transported them to America and used them as their very own. I'm a human being, first and
foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”. A popular
“Free Huey” campaign calling for the release of the leader became the phrase of the day and helped
lead to his release.

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