Saturday, December 26, 2009

We Celebrate this Kwanzaa with a Remembrance of our Martyrs

As we begin this last Kwanzaa of the aught decade, we would like to strike up a chord of umoja (unity) with the lighting of the first candle, and how better to do that than to have the solid revolutionaries gather around in memorial of the martyrs of our yesteryear.

This year, we remember the killings of Los Angeles Black Panthers Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter, 26, and John Huggins, 21, on January 17th, 1969. These first two Black Panther Party members to have been slain were gunned down by the goons of the Us Organization, a patriarchalist and narrow nationalist rival that was founded by Ron Karenga. The Federal Bureau of Investigation graciously excited the sectarian dispute by Us and the BPP through infiltrators and fake messages between the groups.

It is particularly troubling that the New Black Panther Party, which most of the former leaders of the original BPP have disavowed, has dropped Marxism and socialism in favor of the cultural nationalism and principles of the very Ron Karenga who had Carter and Huggins killed.

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