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Discussion 12 (3)

Discussion 12 (3)

Q • What aspects of the Black Panther Party's political ideology left it vulnerable to FBI interference? • Given that much of what the FBI did under COINTELPRO is now essentially legal, what lessons should political organizations today take from the Black Panther Party?

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Black Panther was the party that was started with the idea that Black people should not be treated brutally by the police and that Blacks need to be equally treated in the society that lives in. In the course of time, they started to take actions in violence way. These socialist messages and focus of the party in the matter of Black Nationalist mad the party target of the secret FBI counterintelligence ("Black Panthers", 2019). They did not accept the dominating and ignorance from the majority group and made the move to bring a revolution for the Black community in the country that was dominated with Whites.