Most of what you know about the Black Panthers, is a lie. It is intentional disinformation, created and circulated by the FBI, with the assistance and complicity of newspapers and local police. This disinfo was spread as part of the FBI's counter intelligence program (COINTELPRO).

This is not some unfounded conspiracy, this is documented and now admitted by the FBI.

The Black Panthers were the good guys, and the FBI were the cartoonishly evil Bond villain bad guys. Seriously.

If you've been reading along this Black history month, you might agree that these things are good:

* Reduce racism
* Systemically prevent another Tyre Nichols
* End false convictions
* Feed all school kids nutritious breakfast and lunch
* Affordable health care for all
* Access to better education for all
* Lower unemployment
* Get poor Black, white, Latinx, indigenous, and Asian workers to work together to assert their rights
* Safer infra and public transportation for all
* Stop wage theft

Regardless of your race or political philosophy, think about which of these above points you would disagree with. No, seriously. Read it again, and find one that doesn't make sense to you. It's okay if you don't agree with them all. 👍🏿

Now look at the Black Panthers' 10 point plan from 1966:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-Point_Program_(Black_Panther_Party)

Seriously, see how many of these points you disagree with. And it's honestly OK if you don't agree with them all!

Notice the lack of Black supremacy or calls for pogroms.

The Black Panthers provided free breakfast for poor school kids. ♥️👍🏿 Today, the US has a Federal free breakfast program. Black people that know white US history, know where that program started.

The FBI felt so threatened by the Black Panthers' school breakfast program, that they dedicated police resources to violently destroying it.

Imagine. Trained FBI agents, instructing grown men to urinate on Black children's food.

https://www.history.com/news/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party

The Black Panthers also provided free clinics and vaccination for kids. ♥️👍🏿

“First you have free breakfasts, then you have free medical care, then you have free bus rides, and soon you have FREEDOM!” Fred Hampton.

https://time.com/5937647/black-panther-medical-clinics-history-school-covid-19/

How did the Black Panthers, with relatively zero funding, set up free health clinics for Black people, where the government of the richest nation on earth could not?

These are uncomfortable questions, most easily answered by destroying those clinics.

To this day, if you find a white trades person over the age of 50, and ask them what "It's not race, it's class" means, many can tell you. If you ask them "Who is Fred Hampton" many can tell you. If you ask them what a "rainbow coalition" was, many can tell you.

Why does an old, white, union steel worker in Detroit know who Fred Hampton is?

I've pointed out many times, in many threads, that the trope that "poor white people support Trump more" is not supported by data. It's more disinformation

83% of the US population lives in cities. Don't drive to some tiny town in Idaho and point to a poor racist white person. Most poor white people in this country live in places like Los Angeles, or Detroit or Houston, or Chicago or New York.

Jan 6 was the perfect example of the rich, white, racist phenomenon. Stop blaming Trump on poor white people.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/january-6-busts-key-myth-about-trump-supporters-rioters-ncna1287105