Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
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This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century's most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world's attention for nearly 50 years. Stanley Nelson--USA--2015--120 mins.

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Although the Guardian pointed out the documentary should have included more “brutal details”, it did praise it as an excellent all-around primer to learning more about the BP. Why does this review matter so much? Because one has to ask, why it was on PBS and why a pro-capitalist newspaper would give a glowing review about a film made about dedicated communists? “Communists?” you say. Yes, communists. However, nowhere in the doc. do you learn the Black Panthers were dedicated revolutionaries and communists. While poor America, especially poor Black America was starving and destitute, the BP as dedicated communists organized many important social programs, such as the breakfast and lunch programs, as well as the daycare and after school programs. Programs that we today take for granted due to government co-optation. Not only is not enough time spent on the great contributions the BP instituted, but many of its leaders are depicted as uneducated thugs. Uneducated thugs don’t organize the way the BP did; Educated communists do. No where in the film do you learn leaders were college educated. Huey Newton for example had a Ph.D. J. Edgar Hoover didn’t care if a white or black group wanted to create lunch programs, but it did care if any group began taking about creating democracy and organizing the working class. It is no coincidence little time is spent on Huey Newton, its leader and too much on Eldridge Cleaver; Someone only a member a brief time and who really was a thug along with his wife, who was excused of being a FBI paid agent. Huey Newton didn’t die in a drug-related shoot-out as stated at the end. Huey Newton had no gun. In other words the doc. purposely misinformed its viewers about who Huey Newton was and the fact he was assassinated. The documentary has interesting interviews and footage, but one needs to understand that the film is meant to rewrite the history of the BP in order to misinform the youth.

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