Panther (for real)
Yesterday, I met Bobby Seale, founder of the Black Panther Party, in Dyson's class today. **WOW**, the *living* history! I thoroughly enjoyed it when he set the record straight about many things. A lot of my perceptions of the BPP were distortions by a romanticist Afrocentric (college) past combined with the hostile rhetoric of the "power structure" preserved from those days. Having the privilege to converse with this man really set a lot of things straight. I learned that militancy doesn't have to equal wonton, racially charged, violence or that real "power to people" comes from "coalition politics" and "humane interactions" with *all* groups.