I consider myself pretty under-read on black history, particularly black radical history, but I can’t imagine being so callously noncurious about the subject that I would openly comment that I don’t know who the Black Panthers were. You couldn’t pay me to admit that
God I remember having to explain to me white (former) friends about what I thought were the basics of black history. Had to explain
The Black Panthers
Fred Hampton
Malcom X
Trayvon Martin
13 Amendment
Emmett Till
And more, which is so crazy to me! How?? First was dis belief and then envy. I was jealous that they never had to think about their rights were something fought and struggled for, how it was paid in blood. To them it was natural