We know Louis Fairforheself-then there is Charley Barron..
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My entry into the white power structure doesn't mean I have to change who I am. I remain a black revolutionary Christian socialist. I grew up in a housing project on the Lower East Side. When I was a teenager, I joined the Black Panther Party because it represented education, children, clothing, survival programs - the same values that the City Council is supposed to want for its people. The City Council is going to have to change, not me. The first thing I am going to do is work with the Fresh Democracy Council to change the rules of the council so that more diverse voices can be heard. Then I am going to lobby the City Council Speaker and the Public Advocate to make sure some more diverse faces can be seen on the walls of City Hall. There are not enough people of color. We should commission an artist to put Malcolm X's portrait up there.
--updated December 17, 2001
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What is happening in East New York is not the way it happens in white communities. In a white community, Trump will build a park or something in exchange for the right to develop something. Little Italy is run by Italians, Chinatown is run by Chinese. Then you look at our community, and it looks like some form of domestic colonialism. We own very little.
gothamgazette.com
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STILL A PANTHER IN HIS HEART
When he appeared on Channel 4, Jay DeDapper asked Barron if he regrets being an ex-Black Panther because of some of the things they've done. "First of all," he replied, "let me correct you. I'm not an ex-Panther. I'm still a Panther in my heart. Why? Because they fed children breakfast. Because they clothed people who didn't have clothing. Because they protected our community by any means necessary."
When you look at what Councilman Charles Barron is doing today you see a person who is still determined to feed the hungry, take care of the disadvantaged, uplift his community, and bring back "Power to the people."
For further information contact Councilman Barron at (718) 649-9495 or cbdynamics@igc.org.
onepeoplesproject.com
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City Councilman Charles Barron cheerfully told crowd of over 400 that his City Council Queen Mother Moore Reparations Bill is now being addressed in the committee headed by Councilman Perkins who was seated on the front pew at what could be called the reparations unity rally. Minister Kevin Muhammed of the Nation of Islam stated that the nation was 100% in support of the organization, aims and purpose of the Millions for Reparations Rally. Muhammed said "All of us are owed reparations. NY will be the strongest contingent in Washington on August 17th."
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