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     Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 3479 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
Richard Masato Aoki, a former member of the Black Panther Party, died Sunday morning at his home in Berkeley from complications from dialysis. He was 70. Aoki is a legend in activist circles because of his role in the Black Panthers as one of its first members and field marshal. Born Richard Masato Aoki in 1938 in San Leandro, Aoki was uprooted when his family was interned in a "concentration" camp in Topaz, Utah, during World War II. The family resettled in West Oakland, by then a mostly black neighborhood. He befriended Huey Newton and Bobby Seale at Merritt College. When Newton and Seale founded the Black Panther Party in October 1966 they created the Ten Point program and showed their plans to Aoki, who transferred to UC Berkeley around that time. "He was one consistent, principled person, who stood up and understood the international necessity for human and community unity in opposition to oppressors and exploiters," Seale said.... Full story: http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/ci_11953825 | ||
| Ntfs_encryption "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Ntfs_encryption Post Number: 3585 Registered: 10-2005 Rating: N/A |
As usual, nice informative post Ms. Yvettep...... | ||
| Libralind2 AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Libralind2 Post Number: 1212 Registered: 09-2004 Rating: N/A |
I just watched the movie Panther..Im going to watch it again LiLi | ||
| Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 7847 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
They tried to put out the lie that the Black Panthers were a racist organization. They probably were the least racist Black run organization ever. Right or wrong, they had to go. |
