Daily Archives: April 30, 2018

Never thought I’d see --- the day that I’d pray --- for: Fake News; --- Never thought I’d see --- the day that I’d pray --- for: Alternative Facts --- from Boss Tweet – pray that --- scribblers screwed up tenses --- scribbling ‘bout a constant struggler – 3-time loser in capitalist Amerikkka: --- Disabled, Black and Woman – Panther to the core, --- Ida B-child soldier speaking, writing in real time – Mentoring men and women for battlefront lives --- worth living …

I have always said that if you want to understand the nature of a thing, you must research its origin. I would venture to say that the iconic freedom fighter and servant of the people Malcolm X was the first “Prison Panther,” although he was not known officially as such. However, when Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in 1966 at Merritt College in Oakland, California, the legacy of their hero, OUR HERO, Malcolm X was on their mind.

In 1968, Joe Debro was reporting on an Oakland we would recognize today, where white arrests were down and Black arrests up, where in the first four months of 1968, police murdered about a dozen Black and Brown youth allegedly fleeing the scene of a crime, where “almost every ghetto Negro has a police record.” This is Part 18 of the report titled “A Study of the Manpower Implications of Small Business Financing: A Survey of 149 Minority and 202 Anglo-Owned Small Businesses in Oakland, California.”