BEYONCE SALUTED A BUNCH OF MURDEROUS THUGS

During her half-time performance at Super Bowl 50, Beyonce and her dancers saluted the Black Panthers and gave the closed-fist black power salute

BarkGrowlBite | February 9, 2016

Beyonce politicized her Super Bowl half-time show. During her half-time performance at Super Bowl 50, she and her dancers saluted the Black Panthers and gave the closed-fist black power salute. How disgusting! She saluted a bunch of murderous thugs.

Beyonce, 34, may be too young to know the true history of the Black Panther party. She has probably been misled by the media which has glamorized a bunch of murderous thugs as an “urban radical movement” that had a “painful birth” in the City of Oakland 50 years ago. The media has referred to Black Panther founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale as “local activists.” Thus the media has made them into folk heroes.

Whoa! The media has been playing really loose with the facts. Oakland was not the birthplace of the Panthers and the group was not formed as an urban movement by local activists.

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was born in 1966 at San Quentin, one of California's maximum security prisons. Its founders and charter members were convicts doing hard time for armed robberies, murders, burglaries, assaults, and other felonies. They had no intention of going straight upon their release from prison. These were "criminal activists," not local activists, who formed the Panthers in order to protect themselves from the police following their release. They were inspired by Mao Tse-tung and relied on many of his quotations in their printed handouts.

The Panthers gained world-wide attention when they entered the State Capitol dressed in black berets and leather jackets, carrying shotguns and bandoleers. They demanded a number of rights and scared the supreme shit out of California's state legislators. That confrontation led to the myth that the Panthers were a group of urban activists seeking justice and equal rights for the black community. In truth, the Panthers continued to commit robberies, burglaries, murders, and assaults. Its members were involved in a number of deadly shootouts with the police, not only in California, but in other parts of the United States as well.

Much has been made of the free breakfast program provided by the Panthers to the poor black children of Oakland. Less well known is the fact that during these breakfasts, the Panthers distributed their Black Panther Coloring Book. In it, the panthers used the term "pigs" to describe all whites and referred to the police as the "pig police." Their coloring book, a copy of which I still have, was full of hatred against all whites and it encouraged brave black children to attack and kill cowardly police officers.

Radical leftists and many blacks want to portray the Black Panthers as a group of civil rights activists who used a radical approach in the black community's fight for justice and equal rights. They believe the Panthers, their folk heroes, became the victims of a racist police force determined to destroy them. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most Panthers killed by the police were shot while committing armed robberies or other felonies.

Panthers also committed a number of deadly attacks against unsuspecting police officers. In 1967, Huey Newton himself shot a police patrolman to death at an Oakland bus stop. At his trial, the State's chief eyewitness, a black bus driver, testified that the shooting was unprovoked. Newton testified that he acted in self-defense when he was attacked by the officer, a claim no one else corroborated. Shades of the O. J. Simpson trial - a black jury refused to convict Newton of first degree murder for that cold blooded killing, despite the overwhelming evidence against him.

And how did the heroic cop-killer Huey Newton’s life end? Alas, poor Huey was killed in 1989, not by the police, but by a black dope dealer during a dispute over Newton's failure to pay for an earlier purchase of cocaine.

The Panthers were started in prison by a bunch of convicted thugs and thieves, The thuggery and thievery continued after their release. Did they accomplish anything in the fight for justice and civil rights? Absolutely not! When their aura faded, the Panthers simply left behind a legacy of unresolved urban conflict, crime, death, and black hatred of whites. What a legacy. Folk heroes, my ass!

I do not think that a football half-time show should ever be politicized except for a show of patriotism. If she was going to politicize her show, instead of saluting a bunch of murderous thugs, Beyonce could have payed tribute to Martin Luther King.

Bryonce is either ignorant of the Black Panthers history, or worse yet, she knowingly ignored it. In either case, her half-time tribute was shameful and disgusting, and no way in hell does her performance deserve the raving praise it got!