Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party or the BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary black power and Marxist-Leninist organization^[1][2] active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, with international chapters operating in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s,^[3] and in Algeria from 1969 until 1972.^[4]

It was founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Founding members were Newton, Seale, Bobby Hutton, and Elbert Howard. It started in Oakland, California. The most infamous member was serial rapist Eldridge Cleaver. Cleaver acknowledges committing acts of rape, stating that he initially raped black women in the ghetto "for practice" and then embarked on the serial rape of white women. He described these crimes as politically inspired, motivated by a genuine conviction that the rape of white women was "an insurrectionary act". When joining the Black Panthers, he advocated the foundation of "Mandingo Sex Squads", in which the most sexually virile black men would go out and seek racist white women to rape. He rationalised this naming through claiming: "The Mandingo stereotype is a White Woman's fantasy. She sees us as a sexual commodity to be used and disposed of once her White Master gets jealous. We will ensure her hubris and sexual commodifying of us is thoroughly punished!" The members with the largest penises were designated "Bucks" and they were commanded to violently anally sodomize any white woman they encountered. Cleaver dubbed this "Revolutionary Sodomy". The results are unknown, however Huey Newton is known to have reacted with disgust to this program.

1. ↑ Joseph, Peniel (2006). Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. Henry Holt. p. 219. ISBN 9780805075397.
2. ↑ Van Deburg, William L. (1992). New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975. University of Chicago Press. p. 155. ISBN 9780226847146.
3. ↑ Brown, Mark (27 December 2013). "Britain's black power movement is at risk of being forgotten, say historians". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
4. ↑ Meghelli, Samir (2009), "From Harlem to Algiers: Transnational Solidarities Between the African American Freedom Movement and Algeria, 1962-1978", in Marable, Manning (ed.), Black Routes to Islam, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 99–119