The Black Panther Party grew from a seed in Huey Newton’s heart during his life on this planet. Along with Bobby Seale they created a party which shocked all of America, blacks and whites, and its sole purpose was to overthrow the oppression the black people had suffered under the United States government through history.

Huey P. Newton was born the youngest of seven children on February 17, 1942 in Oak Grove, Louisiana. At just three years of age his family moved to Oakland, California, where his father a minister took up a role with a local church. His livelihood was confined to the ghetto l

It is this concept of the lower class against the bourgeoisie, which I wish to look at in terms of the Black Panther Party’s ideology. The ideology of the Black Panther Party is the historical experiences of Black people in America translated through Marxism-Leninism theory. It was the Marxist idea of a class system revolt between a bourgeoisie (US government and its officials) and a proletariat (Black and other oppressed people) which appealed to Huey Newton and his partner Bobby Seale. Under Marxist theory, the rising of the proletariat would cause a revolution of society and an overthrow of the system in charge. This is what Newton and Seale hoped to achieve through the Black Panther Party. “Black Panthers believe and believe profoundly, that black dignity and black liberation are not possible in the United States without profound changes to the system, changes which run so deep that only so strong a word as ‘revolutionary’ will do to describe it.”

Point number five looks at the view that Black history and the studies of the Black society be incorporated into the education system. Thus Black society gains a sense of belonging and knowledge of where they have and do fit in historically.

Point number four looks at the view that if landlords aren’t prepared to provide suitable housing for the Black and oppressed communities then the government should build and provide decent housing.

In the words of Huey Newton himself “I think that before the Black Panther Party my life was very similar to that of most black people in the country. I’m from a lower class, working class family and I’ve suffered abuses of the power structure and I’ve responded as black people are responding now, so I see very little difference to my personality than any other black person living here in racist America.” This view of his life is the view that he wanted the whole of Black America to realize. Newton wanted to see a united front fight of its oppressors. However in the formation of the Black Panthers, Huey Newton stressed that it wasn’t a racial fight, but a fight of the lower class against the bourgeoisie of America. In the words of Malcolm X, a black leader, who Huey was most commonly referred to in the same breath, “the Negro revolution is not a racial revolt. We are interested in practicing brotherhood with anyone really interested in living according to it”

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