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Reminder that gun control was originally kicked off in reaction to the Black Panthers arming themselves, so yeah.
One of the hardest going pictures in American history.
Please come back
create a new trans gun toting group of people; make sure that they got LOTS of publicity; and call them the t-panthers.
Why not the pink panthers, it comes with it's own Theme music
trans tigers rise up
that's WAY better than t-panthers!
Black Panther my love 😍
The working class and other marginalised people really must learn them and bring back a movement like this. America and the world really needs them.
Absolutely. But they'd be openly murdered and their organization systematically infiltrated and dismantled even faster than what happened with the original Black Panthers. Certainly at least if it were in the US and it was a BIPOC-led organization. Or am I being too doomerist?
Nah, you are right. Any organisation and method that can actually change the society in a meaningfully better way will have the state try their best to kill them. But if we work for the masses and the masses realise that, then they will also be part of the movement, and the state cannot kill everybody.
We need to learn from their weak points so that we won't make the same mistake and last longer, and then the successive generation will learn from our weak points so that they won't make the mistakes that we do, and last longer. That's how I guess things might go forward.
But we also need to remember that after the Black Panthers, there has not been any organisation in the USA or any other urban area that have stayed as long and made as much of a difference, so we must also see where they went right, and emulate that in our current scenario as well.