Black Panther Blog

While looking over the readings for this week, the thing that stood out to me the most was the political group ‘Black Panther’ and how many people oftentimes may overlook the term black panther for the movies and comics we discussed. According to Britannica.com, The Black Panther group was formed to protect dominantly African American neighborhoods from police brutality in 1966. This group called for many changes within American, which is comparable to what we are seeing today in American with the Black Lives Matter organization almost 50 years later. The Black Panther group wanted to arm all African Americans for self-defense purposes and had a large number of members in many different states around the United States. I think it is really interesting to look into this topic with an extremely similar thing happening currently and how this is still an issue within our society. The above photo is a member of the Black Panther group holding arms, as they were trying to get all African Americans to remain armed and protected throughout their daily lives. This was essentially the strongest African American protection organization of its time, which is seen today as Black Lives Matter being a strong group supporting African Americans. Overall, I never knew that this is what the Black Panther movies were based on and it gives me a new perspective on the movie and comics history.

Black Panther Party. (n.d.). Retrieved November 26, 2020, from https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Panther-Party