Amazon Prime Video recently issued a movie entitled Seberg, which depicts the life of Jean Seberg, an American in the 1960s who became a famous actress both in the United States and France.
The Jean Seberg story, however, is much more than just about film. It also is a very timely reminder, given the recent police killings of George Floyd and other black Americans, that police brutality of blacks goes back a long way. Equally important, it is a reminder of the dangers to a free society posed by a national police entity like the FBI.
Seberg was a leftist who became aware in the 1960s of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, a socialist group founded by two Marxist college students, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in California. The organization was active from 1966 to 1982 with chapters in several large American cities.
According to Wikipedia, “At its inception on October 15, 1966, the Black Panther Party’s core practice was its open carry armed citizens’ patrols (“copwatching”) to monitor the behavior of officers of the Oakland Police Department and challenge police brutality in the city.”
Opposing police brutality, however, was not the only reason the Black Panthers was formed. Wikipedia states: “In 1969, a variety of community social programs became a core activity. The Party instituted the Free Breakfast for Children Programs to address food injustice, and community health clinics for education and treatment of diseases including sickle cell anemia, tuberculosis, and later HIV/AIDS.”...........read more..........
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