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I understand the biblical reference and get all of that, but as I said before that type of infiltration, deception, corruption, and disregard for oppressed and marginalized people is not unique to the BPP or even the black freedom movement in general. It has occurred in all left social movements: women, black, the poor, labor, left political parties/campaigns, etc.
And there is a lot of academic research on the black freedom/black power movements from different perspectives including from people who were apart of it. You can also read the books of Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seal, H. Rap Brown, Elaine Brown, Eldridge Cleaver and associates like Stokley Carmichael and Angela Davis.
But yeah I suppose it is more of a story about William O'Neal and how they exploited him in his desperate condition. I'll have to rewatch it.
I think it can center around Hampton and his role in the Chicago BPP. A lot of the dialogue/scenes in the film focus more on the theatrics and rhetoric. They don't provide substance for Hampton and the Panthers' critique, beliefs, reasons, and solutions for creating a socialist black liberation movement. State repression of the Black Panther Party is more widely known and again to say the only current event about BLM is the repression by the Trump administration is to miss the larger point-- that a black movement exists again to deal with issues facing Black Americans. I think the latter should be more of the focus than the former. Not to mention repression of black movements in the United States has occurred under both Democrats and Republicans.
What do you mean by current events? Social movements on the left have always dealt with state repression, but there is more to it than simply that.
yeah I see what you mean but you could include both, right? I think it could be done. This is a great step forward though. I'm not dissing this movie by any means.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/whats-at-stake-in-the-fight-over-reopening-schools
But those aren't Democratic supporters. Those were done by anarchists and their black bloc tactic. So you're being disingenuous.
Edit: Obama accepted a Trump victory.
Hmmm . . . off the top of my head
Cronos (1993)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Martin (1978)
I remember liking The Old Man and the Sea. I haven't payed much attention to fictional writing in a long time. lol.
Romeo and Juliet
MacBeth
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Kite Runner
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
The Things They Carried
The Crucible
1984
Fahrenheit 451
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Great Gatsby
Lord of the Flies
Moby Dick
The Iliad/The Odyssey
Dante's Inferno
Beowulf
Yeah . . . looking back at it we read a lot of dog shit.
It's research that is 30-50 years old written at a time when stigma of homosexuality exist. Remember in the 80s when a virus could tell the difference between whether or not a human being fell under human constructs of homosexuality or heterosexuality. No you can't find any sources otherwise you wouldn't have to rely on a no-name website and organization to rationalize your hatred of gay people. You being ignorant of cultural, social, and historical context along with poorly identifying what is and is not a reputable source does not make it true. And yes being associated with an organization that believes hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, etc are divine punishment for letting LGBT people exist is telling of the type of person you are.
Lol. One article on the internet? Yikes you really do have a pea brain. I guess I'll have to inform you but that's clearly not an academic source. Not to mention you didn't look into that enough because the man was or is still a staff member of the Family Research Council-- a group that believes natural disasters are divine punishment from God because of tolerance of LGBT people. Let's not forget Josh Duggar, a child rapist of several little girls, was also staff there. Yikes!
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