University of South Florida Black Panther Party as a Terrorist Organization Paper

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  • RESEARCH-PAPER with 10 CONCEPTS TO ADDRESS ON The Black Panthers, highlighting with the 10 Concepts below its goals, ideology, organization and type of terror tactics used
  • RESEARCH-PAPER’s 10 CONCEPTS TO ADDRESS (RUBRIC):
  • What is the Ideology or Political motivations of this Terrorist/Insurgent group?
  • What type of terrorist/insurgency organization is this group: Domestic or International?
  • What type of terrorist/insurgency organization is this group: Typology of group?
  • What type of terror attacks/strategy or threat are being employed? Why?
  • What is the most infamous terrorist attack associate with this terrorist/insurgency group?
  • Who is the most important leader or leadership structure of this terrorist/insurgency group?
  • Are there any international connections associated with this terrorist/insurgency group?
  • What type of Counter-terrorist strategy you suggest is most effective?
  • What type of international Counter-terrorist cooperation strategy is used against this terrorist/ insurgency group (U.S.-Bilaterals; U.S.-NATO; U.S.-E.U.; INTERPOL; EUROPOL; U.N.)?
  • Any domestic legal/political concerns/backlash over Civil Liberties and possible abuse of power?

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Black Panther Party as a Terrorist Organization
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Black Panther Party as a Terrorist Organization
The Black Panther Party (BPP) entails a revolutionary organization that champions for
black nationalism. It claims the continuity of the BPP of the 1960s as their leader Dr Alli
Muhammad MS, PhD, MD, their Chief-General-In Command. BPP as a revolutionary
organization has been striving to defend as well as protect its people against ethnic cleansing,
genocide, crimes against humanity, as well as race war that is primarily piloted against the
blacks. Presently, the organization is marked with more than 20 social plus community programs
not only in the US, but throughout the world, some of these programs are Political education,
Medical Programs, Free Breakfast Programs, Family Stability Programs, Substance Abuse
Programs, and Self-Defense Programs alongside other programs. Going through the group
enables one to gain solid consent regarding the group (Rhodes, 2017). Again, it becomes
possible for one to draw some concepts based on the group and its goals alongside other
practices associated with the group. To gain solid consent about the BPP terror organization, this
paper presents a research of its concepts, ideology, goals, and the terror tactics type its members
used to facilitate their operations.
Ideology/ Political Motivations of the Terrorist/ Insurgent Group
The Black Panther Party (BPP) was formed with the primary aim of patrolling the
African American neighborhoods to prevent its residents from suffering police brutality.
Eventually, the panthers transformed into a Marxist revolutionary group that encouraged all
African Americans to be armed as well as advocate for their exemption from all sanctions of
white America. Despite the 1960s civil rights legislation that was passed into law, African
Americans who were living in cities were still suffering social and economic inequality. The
urban centers were coupled with poverty along with reduced public services as the residents were
jeopardized to poor living conditions, chronic health concerns, joblessness, violence, as well as
being restricted to change their circumstances (Rhodes, 2017). Consequently, these conditions
prompted urban uprisings in the 1960s and the police were more violent among blacks.
Certainly, based on this context along with Malcolm X assassination in 1965 saw the
establishment of the BPP for Self-Defense in late 1966.
Afterwards, the organization sought to distance itself from the African American cultural
national institutions like the Nation of Islam in conjunction with the Universal Negro
Association of Improvement. While these groups had some tactical features and philosophical
positions that made them look similar, some aspects of the cultural nationalists, as well as the
BPP, made them look distinct. In the illustration, while the cultural nationalists viewed the white
people as oppressors, the BPP differentiated between the racist and the non-racist and allied with
the progressive members of the latter group. Again, while the cultural nationalist associated the
African Americans with the oppressed, the BPP felt that the African American elites plus the
elites ideally exploited and oppressed others, specifically the African American working class
(Rhodes, 2017). Furthermore, while cultural nationalists emphasized on symbolic systems like
imagery and language as a way of liberating the African Americans, on the contrary, BBP
believed that while these systems were significant, they were still ineffective in championing for
liberation. To BPP, symbols woefully insufficient to amend the unmerited material conditions
like joblessness a condition that was necessitated by capitalism.
Reflecting on the BPP, one realizes that various factors motivated its founders to come up
with the organization. First, the cynicism with the Civil Rights Movement non-violent direct
action led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X assassination, plus the riots in the Watts Los
Angeles neighborhood that happened in 1965. These riots were thought to trigger Black

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American politics. The riots lasted for six days and it claimed the lives of 34 people while
leaving more than one thousand people injured. The immediate riots were primarily caused by
the mistreated arrest of a black motorist, though an official investigation made it clear that the
deeper causes were inequality, poverty, as well as racial discrimination (Rhodes, 2017). The BPP
editions encompassed a Ten-Point Platform and a Program, the BPP’s manifesto that sets out its
demand to end oppression among the blacks in America. Originally, the party was called the
BPP for Self Defense to send a message that it has distant itself
Terrorist Organization as an International Group
The BBP organization can be classified as an international group as it had members
across the world. While short-lived, the BBP organization managed to inspire marginalized
people across the world and they even compelled them to join the struggle and fight oppression.
Most people have no idea if the Buddhists in India were affiliated to the organization. Again, it is
hard to tell if the aboriginals in Australia, Jews in Israel, or Polynesians in New Zealand were
members of the group. All the same, all backed the organization and even honored the tenets of
the organization which primarily centered on fighting oppression by developing their movements
to respond to the unique socio-economic conditions plus injustices evident in the localities
(Gibson & Williams, 2019). Regardless, their differences, these international outfits posed as a
reminder that racial tensions were not only...


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