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“I dissuade Party members from putting down people who do not understand. Even people who are unenlightened and seemingly bourgeois should be answered in a polite way. Things should be explained to them as fully as possible. I was turned off by a person who did not want to talk to me because I was not important enough. Maurice just wanted to preach to the converted, who already agreed with him. I try to be cordial, because that way you win people over. You cannot win them over by drawing the line of demarcation, saying you are on this side and I am on the other; that shows a lack of consciousness. After the Black Panther Party was formed, I nearly fell into this error. I could not understand why people were blind to what I saw so clearly. Then I realized that their understanding had to be developed.”

― Huey P. Newton :huey-wut:

Huey Newton, born on the 17th of february in 1942, was a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who, along with fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party (‪1966 - 1982‬). Together with Seale, Newton created a ten-point program which laid out guidelines for how the African-American community could achieve liberation. In the 1960s, under Newton's leadership, the Black Panther Party founded over 60 community support programs (renamed survival programs in 1971) including food banks, medical clinics, HIV support groups, sickle cell anemia tests, prison busing for families of inmates, legal advice seminars, clothing banks, housing co-ops, and their own ambulance service.

The most famous of these programs was the Free Breakfast for Children program which fed thousands of impoverished children daily during the early 1970s. Newton also co-founded the Black Panther newspaper service which became one of America's most widely distributed African-American newspapers. In 1967, he was involved in a shootout which led to the death of the police officer John Frey. Although arrested for the murder of Frey, the charges were eventually dismissed.

In 1970, after his release from prison, Newton received an invitation to visit the People's Republic of China. Newton made the trip in late September 1971 with fellow Panthers, Elaine Brown and Robert Bay, and stayed for 10 days. At every Chinese airport he landed in, Newton was greeted by thousands of people waving copies of the "Little Red Book" and displaying signs that said "we support the Black Panther Party, down with US imperialism" or "we support the American people but the Nixon imperialist regime must be overthrown."

By mid-decade, Newton faced more criminal charges when he was accused of murdering a 17-year-old sex worker and assaulting a tailor. To avoid prosecution, he fled to Cuba in 1974, but returned to the U.S. three years later. The murder case was eventually dismissed after two trials ended with deadlocked juries, while the tailor refused to testify in court in relation to assault charges.

Despite graduating from high school not knowing how to read, he taught himself literacy by reading Plato's Republic and earned a Ph.D. in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness program in 1980. In 1989, he was murdered in Oakland, California by Tyrone Robinson, a member of the Black Guerrilla Family.

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death. We will have to be driven out with a stick.”

― Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide :huey-wut:

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  • My spotify ads be like "hey you poor fuck have you thought about gambling" 🤑, please I live my life on the edge everyday I don't need the cheap thrills of scratching a lotto ticket 🙄

    • you should get into pokemon cards instead. it's like scratch cards, but you keep the overpriced cardboard at the end and put them all in a big binder

      • I will once I got good job tbh, got a good Gardevoir tin from the thrift store that yearns for cards. Still have my old cards in binders packets

        • honestly, if you want to get into pokemon cards, I am happy to show you the ropes and different types of engaging with the hobby. it's really not worth it unless you have like a thing you care about with the cards. for me, I am trying to slowly make a pokedex binder, picking up old cards in cheap bulk is how I have been doing that rather than ripping packs. but I also like to play the actual TCG, and in that case they do sell premade full decks of 60 cards with like 2 copies of EXs and trainer cards and other shit that's gonna take a LOT of packs to get, and that shit is like £20 for those decks.

          I have spent... idk at least £300 on the hobby over the past 6 months with my wife combined on buying new packs. that being said, at current market rate, the rarer cards I have pulled are actually worth more than I have spent on the cards so in girl maths terms I have actually been paid to open the packs. now sure, I am never gonna sell my full art cards, but I could and thus I have not lost any money

          • I'd be up to learning I always see old romhacks for the TCG gameboy game and been meaning to get around to learning but only so much a game can teach. For me my old cards date all the way back to elementary and I'm reluctant to take them out of their binders, probably should since I'm afraid of them getting moldy or anything. I don't know if I'd do a national pokedex if I had to do one it probably be gen one tho since the bulk of my cards consist from that gen. I imagine the meta or whatev from then to now has changed a lot and some cards might not be valid to play, idk going by yugioh experience.

            There are a few places I can think about where I could play my physical cards irl but hit me up if you ever want to do something on tabletop

            • honestly, the unlimited format is more popular than the set rotation right now lmao. so your old cards genuinely still have a use in the unlimited format. get sleves for the cards as well, I have some hard plastic ones for the ones I want to protect and the soft ones for the ones I play with

              gen 1 had the 151 set released last year, and there's supposed to be a big reprint of that soon so you might be able to pick up some of those packs in a few months

              • gen 1 had the 151 set released last year, and there's supposed to be a big reprint of that soon so you might be able to pick up some of those packs in a few months

                my I find gainful employment before then, I do prefer the older style art work, love me some fat pikachu

                • they actually did a bunch of retro art style cards, even with new pokemon, in a recent set. it looked so peak.

                  also, if you actually want to get a hold of retro cards, they are not that expensive. outside of like a graded charizard from the first printing, most of them go for pennies to a few bucks I'm not even joking

                  • Ain't exactly looking for the sacred holographic charizard but I'd take a regular one just to complete that line. I do got a lot of duplicates and some I suspect may or may not be legit idk back in the day we hold them up to the light to see how solid they were. Gen 1 was my shit tho I do remember collecting a few baby pokemon from 2 just because of how cute they were.

    • there's something called "block the spot" on github if you're using it on a computer. might be something similar for phones

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