The Black Panther Party Research Paper

In our society races are given a general identity some are good some are bad, many traits of the identity cause stereotypes and prejudice against the races of America. African American men and women have been negatively identified and this has caused discrimination and hate towards them as a race. From slavery to present day African American males have been looked upon as savage, violent, threatening and a menace to society sexually overlooking the efforts of people such as Malcom X and martin Luther King also groups Alpha Phi Alpha who have created programs to help the youth and put them on a path to success, The Black Panther Party that was identified as a menace to society but was only created to aid the black community in a time when they
Malcom X a leader notable for his work through the Nation of Islam during the Civil Rights Movement was a firm Believer in self-defense or defense which is defined by Webster’s dictionary as “the act of defending someone or something from attack” and this way of thinking, which is only human nature has labeled him with the stereotype of being violent and menacing. Malcom X not only stood for the rights of blacks but the rights of all during a speech he gave in New York he was quoted as saying “We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for . . . human rights." (Speech in New York, 1964) And this part of his philosophy and him are not talked about, what is widely discussed and debated is his moto “by any means necessary” meaning that he was will do what it takes to get where he wanted African Americans to be to be in society, he also spoke on revolution principles saying "Revolution is bloody, revolution is hostile, revolution knows no compromise, revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way." (Malcolm X: quote on revolution) this statement has been true throughout history, for there to be a revolution there must be sacrifice and the ones that sacrificed themselves where Blacks standing up for their rights and trying to prove that they’re not what society pictures them to be “As Malcolm X toured the nation in the early 1960s promoting the Nation of Islam, the civil rights movement, one of his favorite topics, reached full force. Malcolm X regularly attacked one of the fundamental goals of the civil rights struggle: integration. Instead he endorsed separatism, advocating that each African American "should be focusing his every effort toward building his own businesses, and decent homes for himself . . . patronize their own kind, hire their own kind,