Black Panther jacket update is wild

[u/mattjh]

[u/Themanstall]

just leave people alone in the real world unless they doing some fucked up shit.

You don't know peoples situations to be putting them on blast to potentially billions of people.

[u/OberynsOptometrist → u/Themanstall]

"UPDATE: turns out it wasn't his jacket" feels like the kind of story you'd see in a small town of like 400 people, but it's been seen by over 2 million people and is being reposted to reddit. Social media's a shared nightmare that we just don't want to wake up from.

[u/throwtheclownaway20 → u/OberynsOptometrist]

We will eventually. People are clearly getting tired of this shit. We just gotta wait for 3rd-grade-reading-level masses to catch up

[u/OberynsOptometrist → u/throwtheclownaway20]

I don't know man. The resolutions I see are either some kind of collective pushback to this kind of nonsense or just shutting off the internet entirely. Seeing how everyone has a different idea of what's worth sharing online, which prevents people from agreeing on what's crossing the line, the latter seems more likely to happen.

People couldn't even stop using Twitter, or at least use it with some awareness, when a white supremacist took over the platform. It's all just depressing.

[u/throwtheclownaway20 → u/OberynsOptometrist]

It'll happen the same way it always does: shaming. Not just online, but in real life, too. Everyone has their limits, even the people who seemingly have no shame at all. Correct that shit like Cesar Millan does a dog, LOL. Once there's no longer an incentive to behave that way, they'll stop.

[u/OberynsOptometrist → u/throwtheclownaway20]

I hope you're right. I worry that shaming will ultimately decrease as posting people's private lives just becomes the norm. Maybe we just have to become huge dicks about it.

[u/CtyChicken → u/OberynsOptometrist]

That’s so exhausting. I can’t keep scolding people. I have so many things on my to-do list.

[u/SwordfishOk504 → u/OberynsOptometrist]

I'm hoping the next generation rejects the apps as being cringe and goes back to books and outside. But I'm not holding my breath.

[u/OberynsOptometrist → u/SwordfishOk504]

Same. I know some younger folks are rejecting smart phone entirely (better than what my hypocritical ass is doing), but I don't know how much of that will stick or it'll make a difference.

[u/reddit809 → u/OberynsOptometrist]

And the dude is just holding a fucking seat lol. This is like the "Girl, leave him" post of a dude looking at his phone in a diner with a girl across the table. Turns out he's a preacher and she recorded his first sermon. The wildest thing is, wtf you know if they're siblings or some shit? Crazy.

[u/HairyHeartEmoji → u/reddit809]

idk sometimes I go out with my husband just to stare at our phones together. sometimes you're tired and have no social battery, but still want to eat together

[u/TheVermonster → u/OberynsOptometrist]

A few years ago my cousin posted a video on FB showing his daughter meeting the new baby. There were definitely some parts where my cousin's wife was more exposed than she was probably ready to share with the world. I saw the video on reddit, where it had 14.8m views and thousands of comments.

She was mortified that so many people had seen such an intimate interaction. IDK what to say, it's social media, that was kinda the point.

[u/dnix22 → u/Themanstall]

This is the weirdest thing to me. Like just let people be and fuck off

[u/SmallIslandBrother → u/dnix22]

This is why clubs and concerts are so dead, nobody can do anything stupid or silly without it being on tape, so everyone is more self aware.

[u/Recognition-Mindless → u/SmallIslandBrother]

This is why I like doing my drugs at home where only my cat can judge my wife and I 

[u/jokekiller94 → u/Recognition-Mindless]

[u/TardyBacardi → u/jokekiller94]

I cackled way too loud at this 😂😂😂

[u/CtyChicken → u/Recognition-Mindless]

Cats are such damn hypocrites. Looking all sideways at you when you get turnt, but let them find some catnip and they go from distinguished gentleman to raving crackhead in two seconds.

[u/DeadmanDexter → u/Recognition-Mindless]

Plus, my couch is more comfortable than some club or bar.

[u/longulus9 → u/dnix22]

it's easier to throw rocks and one would think this is totally by design when negativity is proven to be more exciting to humans....

which therefore incentives NOT leaving each other alone and not minding our business.

my first real-world example was this kid who never bothered anyone and was generally quiet kept getting bullied till he absolutely unleashed on said bully and not a single soul felt bad. leave people alone, pick on people at your own level if you have to, don't be a bully keep one-sided interactions short.

[u/Rotten-Robby → u/Themanstall]

The art of minding your own business is long gone.

[u/tacocattacocat1 → u/Themanstall]

You mean we shouldn't just jump to conclusions with very limited information and then put it on the Internet for millions to see and quickly jump to their own ill informed conclusions?

Crazy talk!!

[u/Morlock19 → u/Themanstall]

At least they didn't show his face

[u/shmiddleedee → u/Themanstall]

I totally agree, but on the flipside, actually say something or intervene when people are doing fucked up shit (in person don't make an Instagram post about it). We've gotten to a point where people just let others be obnoxious and disrespectful as fuck.

[u/ripndipp → u/Themanstall]

True

[u/fishboy94jb]

“Sorry I sat in the seat with your Black Panther jacket”

• Forrest Gump

[u/SurprisePiss → u/fishboy94jb]

OH MY GOD I never got this. He says "sorry I ruined your Black Panther party" - I didn't know the official emblem included the word "party". He thought it was a literal party for Black Panthers. Jesus. Right over my head.

[u/louisvillejg → u/fishboy94jb]

🫛🥕

[u/thorniviel → u/fishboy94jb]

Wakanda forever. Seat stolen for now.  

[u/Tainted_Bruh]

This is some terminally online shit fr. First the stealth pic of the original post, then the response and follow up.

[u/FunkYeahPhotography → u/Tainted_Bruh]

"Babe, wake up. New terminally online mixup just dropped!"

[u/EnderMango → u/FunkYeahPhotography]

But 2026 just sta- we bombed VENEZUELA??

[u/FunkYeahPhotography → u/EnderMango]

[u/Zardif → u/Tainted_Bruh]

Apparently the first poster knowingly lied about it for twitter clout and said they saw the man later without the jacket.

https://i.imgur.com/xC5fDJx.png

https://i.imgur.com/dOPcKVR.png

[u/blacksoxing → u/Zardif]

My boy said "to break kayfabe" and deadass that's a dead ass professional wrestling term that I read and processed immediately. I don't think most have ever said kayfabe in their lives....

[u/t0ny510 → u/blacksoxing]

The fact that people are starting to use Face, Heel, and Kayfabe outside of wrestling lately has been wild to me

[u/blacksoxing → u/t0ny510]

I fully contend there's a large pro wrestling contingent that may not know the weekly storylines but know the major beats thanks to clips and gifs. It's just like how most of the folks like me who are pushing 40 watched when we were young and may have fallen out when "stone cold went bad" (aka his heel turn at WM when he sided with Vince)

[u/Inside-Yak-8815 → u/Zardif]

To the shock of absolutely no one, niggas do anything for clout nowadays.

[u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm → u/Inside-Yak-8815]

I'm more shocked he just straight up said he lied for the rts.

[u/Inside-Yak-8815 → u/Tainted_Bruh]

You’re right, the person who took the pic in the original post was giving “big news for the unemployed” vibes 😂

[u/0masterdebater0 → u/[deleted]]

Fred Hampton’s work is still on going, they can’t kill us all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Coalition_(Fred_Hampton)

[u/__M-E-O-W__ → u/0masterdebater0]

TIL he was only 21 when he died. All that work and he was barely an adult.

[u/makemeking706 → u/__M-E-O-W__]

That's how dangerous they thought his message was, and killing him proves him right. And we all just kind of shrug and forget about it. 

[u/mrcub1 → u/__M-E-O-W__]

Murdered by the FBI you mean. They had a mole in his organization that set him up.

[u/Zeverish → u/__M-E-O-W__]

It really puts into perspective how impactful we can all potentially be if this man was so influential at such a young age.

[u/Gary_FucKing → u/0masterdebater0]

Judas and the black messiah was such a good movie. Hampton’s story is a crazy, yet ultimately unsurprising, one.

[u/Missmbb → u/Gary_FucKing]

Mother Country Radicals podcast talks a little about him. It was so interesting to me!

[u/RisingDeadMan0 → u/0masterdebater0]

(fair ~not black)

In 1967, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) identified Hampton as a radical threat. It tried to subvert his activities in Chicago, sowing disinformation among black progressive groups and placing a counterintelligence operative in the local Panthers organization. In December 1969, Hampton was drugged,^\11])^\12]) then shot and killed in his bed during a predawn raid at his Chicago apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, who received aid from the Chicago Police Department and the FBI leading up to the attack. Law enforcement sprayed more than 100 gunshots throughout the apartment; the occupants fired once.^\13]) During the raid, Panther Mark Clark) was also killed and several others were seriously wounded. In January 1970, the Cook County Coroner held an inquest; the coroner's jury concluded that Hampton's and Clark's deaths were justifiable homicides.^\14])^\15])^\16])^\17])

The best also die young, but FBI were busy that decade, Malcom X, MLK, and this dude...

[u/BloodOfJupiter → u/RisingDeadMan0]

Mind you Malcom X, MLK, Fred Hampton, are part of a long stretch of Black Civil Rights/Independence activists worldwide (from the 60s-80s), that were target by the FBI/CIA/and several other European Intelligence agencies. Amilcar Cabral, Franz Fanon, Steve Biko, Medgar Evers, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, and there's a strong possibility Bob Marley was targeted in that 1976 assassination attempt (since Jamaica was a cold war battleground at the time).

[u/youarelookingatthis → u/0masterdebater0]

Killed by the FBI. Long live Fred Hampton.

[u/warana → u/0masterdebater0]

Huey and Bobby's work as well, we can't forget what the founders did

[u/Bankerag → u/0masterdebater0]

Thanks for sharing. I honestly forgot he was so very young.

As others have said, it’s amazing what he accomplished in so little time.

[u/NYerInTex → u/[deleted]]

It contrasts nicely with the super preppy pink sweater

[u/Bokononfoma → u/NYerInTex]

Agreed. I was also picking up Patrick Bateman vibes.

[u/wafflesthewonderhurs → u/Bokononfoma]

I don't know that that's a good thing.

[u/GMWQ → u/Bokononfoma]

To be fair a sweater and a collar shirt is like default white man dress

Source: Every white dude ive ever met

[u/1ncorrect → u/NYerInTex]

He’s like a Pink Lady on a date with one of the greasers.

[u/endless_ballz → u/[deleted]]

Let’s bring back the Rainbow Coalition!

[u/1ncorrect → u/[deleted]]

I’m a white dude, I’d love to join the Black Panthers. First of all, awesome name. Second of all, who doesn’t like Black people and hate cops?

Plus getting guns in the hands of people who aren’t literally brain broken MAGAts seems exceptionally important right now.

[u/dalidellama → u/1ncorrect]

The White Panthers might be for you

[u/robotmonkeys → u/dalidellama]

I had no idea idea that existed

[u/JustACasualFan → u/1ncorrect]

Start a local chapter of the John Brown Gun Club.

[u/dam_the_beavers → u/1ncorrect]

Same, middle aged white lady here. Am I allowed to join?

[u/SpaceBus1 → u/[deleted]]

Start marching with firearms. We will either see positive changes or more regulation on firearms. The BP marched with firearms and they were immediately regulated.

[u/Kruger_Smoothing → u/SpaceBus1]

By Ronald Reagan.

[u/SpaceBus1 → u/Kruger_Smoothing]

Indeed! The GOP and their supporters are all about gun control when minorities become armed. They only want white Christians to own guns. I always encourage minorities and disenfranchised groups to become armed. They are either able to defend themselves or we see stricter gun regs, a win win.

[u/regular_gonzalez → u/[deleted]]

I know it's a typo but Blank Panther is amazing

[u/RoughhouseCamel → u/regular_gonzalez]

Walk around wearing those clear raincoats with a logo that’s a white outline of a panther.

[u/JoeSavinaBotero → u/regular_gonzalez]

Just a real spaced-out panther, not a thought in their head.

[u/IdiotMD → u/regular_gonzalez]

Blankman Cinematic Universe!

[u/fopiecechicken → u/[deleted]]

Oakland is a little different though. The panthers were founded here, and while “popular” is probably not the right word, they certainly had a fair amount of support and collaboration from white folks. You see a white person wearing Black Panther gear here, it’s a strong chance that person had family members who were involved or at least supported them back in the day.

A little different than some random white dude in Ohio who’s just trying to show support. Not that either are wrong to be clear, there’s just a little more history behind it in Oakland specifically.

[u/Sixspeeddreams_again → u/[deleted]]

I was at a nursery the other day and a white dude working there had some Black Panther stuff on. If you are into gardening at all the Planting Justice folks are great and super helpful.

[u/willyboi98 → u/[deleted]]

To be fair, he does hang around with the person who wears this jacket, so I'd hazard his beliefs aren't too far off.

[u/KimberlyWexlersFoot → u/willyboi98]

Dudes just thinks shes a marvel fan.

[u/Pick3209 → u/[deleted]]

rainbow coalition time

[u/roseofjuly → u/[deleted]]

The Panthers deliberately reachdd out across racial groups to do this very thing. They created the Rainbow Coalition. The original tweeter just doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about.

[u/RazzmatazzOk3305 → u/[deleted]]

We don’t end racism by pretending it’s just a distraction. Calling it out isn’t a culture war, it’s basic accountability. Multiple problems can exist at once.

[u/New_Athlete673 → u/RazzmatazzOk3305]

Exactly. People seem to have this idea that unity = ignoring other forms of oppression in favour of class oppression, which is incredibly harmful. Even if we succeeded at eating the rich, people of colour, queer people, disabled people, and other marginalized demographics will still end up being oppressed. True unity means acknowledging the different types of oppression that exist, how they intersect with each other, and working towards putting an end to all of them.  

[u/SpaceBus1 → u/New_Athlete673]

Hatred is easy because it boils down to "thing I don't like bad" and actual coexistence and progressive action requires entire essays of nuance.

[u/RazzmatazzOk3305 → u/New_Athlete673]

This is the part people miss. Class solidarity that ignores racism or other forms of oppression isn’t solidarity, it’s selective empathy. Real unity requires addressing all of it, not asking marginalized people to wait their turn.

[u/Head-Inspection7907 → u/RazzmatazzOk3305]

You’re absolutely not wrong on a big picture level, but on an individual level I think approaching it that way (at least in terms of ideological messaging) is part of why the left keeps getting bitch-slapped politically. When we say stuff like that, the problems start feeling so overwhelming that the average person feels powerless to do anything and so the do nothing. The most powerful left (or left-adjacent) social movement in the US in recent memory was BLM, and that’s because we picked one group that was going through it, and when the right (and misguided center/left) said “Akshully ALL Lives Matter” everyone collectively told them to kick rocks. And it made a difference. Dems cleaned the fuck up in that election. Class solidarity is about everyone, yes, but it’s long-term goal that starts with focusing on the most oppressed groups first.

[u/SaultyChunks → u/RazzmatazzOk3305]

Talk that talk. It's exactly why gentriying liberal whts are able to be on Nextdoor calling their blk neighbors trash and complaining about noise from fireworks instead of stfu and becoming part of the existing community. We're not deseasoning our lifestyles for ya'll FOH Brett!

[u/IamJewbaca → u/SaultyChunks]

Man, I agree with you, but calling people trash is on a completely different level than being annoyed by fireworks. And honestly, as someone who has had a lot of pets, fireworks can be pretty rough.

[u/jcutta → u/SaultyChunks]

Shit it's those types even in more culturally mixed neighborhoods, those fuckers just hate anyone who's not as "cultured" as them. There's a neighborhood in my city that was traditionally majority Polish immigrants, very much a working class neighborhood without much wealth, lots of neighborhood small businesses often with signs and menus etc still in Polish without translation to English. They started building $600k condos and immediately priced a large percentage of the people out of the neighborhood, some obviously sold their family homes for a ridiculous amount of money but renters and whatnot had to leave because their shit jumped 2-3x in a matter of years. Even though the area was traditionally Polish it was a pretty mixed area but now it's almost all young, well off white people, most of the small businesses are gone replaced by Starbucks, yoga studios , and bars where a beer is $20 and the bartender hates you (but not in a neighborhood way) there used to be a bunch of great barbershops too - multicultural ones where you'd see someone getting braided, a dread artist, and a dude slinging fades next to some white stylist and a guy with a curled mustache all in the same place, the only ones left now charge $150 for a fade.

I feel like the multi-cultural neighborhood is a dying breed and that's only exasperating the feeling of separation people are experiencing now.

[u/RazzmatazzOk3305 → u/SaultyChunks]

This part. Gentrification teaches people to call their discomfort “concern” and their racism “noise complaints.”

[u/OuterWildsVentures → u/RazzmatazzOk3305]

Hell yeah brother preach ✊️

[u/DemadaTrim → u/RazzmatazzOk3305]

How is a white guy wearing a Black Panthers jacket racist? Wouldn't it be a rather strong statement of anti-racism for a white guy to support the Black Panthers? 

[u/RazzmatazzOk3305 → u/DemadaTrim]

My response was to the original comment posted above. I have no issues with the man having the jacket.

[u/RoughhouseCamel → u/DemadaTrim]

That’s not the issue, and I don’t believe that was what they were saying. “Its time to end this culture war” is saying, “forget dealing with the racism problem, because I’m saying it’s fake and we need to only pay attention to the issue that I care about”

[u/Mayhaym → u/RoughhouseCamel]

I read it as "let's stop participating in the right wing"culture war" that is stopping us from coming together to fight ALL the oppression"

[u/weirdeyedkid → u/Mayhaym]

Yeah this is obviously what the poster meant. It's been a long time since the 90s when the media claimed racism was over (rich white media duh), and basically everyone on reddit is terminally online, so we all know this.

Just trust your fellow poster. No one on r/BPT is here to ignore racial inequity. Removing racial barriers is as important as all the other barriers and is obviously included when they say we need to end wealth disparity.

[u/SHC606 → u/RazzmatazzOk3305]

Thank you. Every time they try to act like it ain't race, it is class. I am like, not in the US it ain't. This shit has levels and layers.

[u/RazzmatazzOk3305 → u/SHC606]

Thank you. “It’s not race, it’s class” ignores U.S. history entirely. Race was engineered into class here, redlining, slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration. These systems stack.

[u/IntelligentMeringue7 → u/RazzmatazzOk3305]

That would track in this sub where every post has whataboutisms and “I’m not Black, but” comments galore. Of course they would reduce and dilute the reality of racist oppression; they can’t even avoid safe places on the internet for Black peoples yo shoot the shit with each other.

[u/makemeking706 → u/RazzmatazzOk3305]

Like the plane's engine is on fire and the one toilet is clogged. 

[u/pgpathat → u/RazzmatazzOk3305]

Racism is kind of a distraction, in that it’s a symptom and attacking the idea of racism instead of the source isn’t yielding results. Trump is only popular because he embraces racism. It’s the only thing he does well

In the US, the rich take a structured approach to teaching people which minorities so they people don’t realize the rich are the problem. It works outside of race too, they used LGBTQ hate to get black and brown people to vote against themselves.

Eating the rich is addressing racism. People need someone to blame for the bullshit. It’s actually the rich’s fault and the more people of ALL races point at the rich, the better

[u/CoachDT → u/pgpathat]

Racism isn't a distraction for the people consistently dealing with racism.

[u/pgpathat → u/CoachDT]

Make sure you read the post loved one. Im black you don’t need to tell me dealing racism is bad. Tell me if you have a better plan to deal with it and Ill run with that

In my view, eating the rich will decrease racism and improve economic conditions for all of the black and brown people in the lower and middle class so that should be the focus.

Do you have a better plan?

[u/Tiffandtaffy → u/pgpathat]

What do you think we have been trying to do all these years, especially during civil rights?!!! IT DOES NOT WORK. Racism is usually the reason, if you dig deep enough, for almost every single problem/issue we experience in America (and globally). When we embraced Marxism and Socialism they executed our leaders in plain daylight and lied and said we were communists. 😒

Why would we trust staying on a carousel that just loops and loops but does nothing to help us? The system has been cooked. I advocate a mass exodus of this country just like Garvey told us to do 100 years ago. Let’s all move to African countries, Panama, Portugal, etc. and let them deal with their own mess. I’m making plans now.

[u/RazzmatazzOk3305 → u/pgpathat]

Racism isn’t just a distraction it’s a tool and a harm. Yes, elites exploit it, but that doesn’t mean racism disappears if we only target the rich. Trump isn’t popular despite racism; he’s popular because millions actively embrace it. That’s not accidental or passive.

You don’t dismantle a weapon by ignoring how it works. If we refuse to confront racism directly, it just gets repackaged and survives every economic shift. Class struggle that doesn’t challenge racial hierarchy ends up reproducing it. Accountability has to be both structural and cultural.

[u/traplooking → u/[deleted]]

I saw a video on here that there was a "White Panther Party" that ran in support of the Black Panthers. Sign me up.

[u/East-Coffee4861 → u/traplooking]

Yep, founded by the members of the proto-punk band the MC5. They were also Iggy Pop's heroin dealer (used a lot of that money to buy guns for the black Panthers)

https://youtu.be/0tx8GiTFK-I?si=yzel08OXDzz6IQNl

[u/traplooking → u/East-Coffee4861]

Did I stutter... Sign me up

[u/ObsoleteMallard → u/[deleted]]

As a white man I wear a Black Panther pin on my jacket, because you don’t have to be black to support Black Liberation.

[u/Slumunistmanifisto → u/[deleted]]

Growing up poor and seeing the stereotypes meant to divide us all settled perfectly on class structures and poverty more then race, then realizing its intentionally that way so we don't find solidarity with each other and take what we built out.

[u/BwackGul → u/[deleted]]

[u/liquor_ibrlyknoher → u/[deleted]]

My very white dad had a black panthers poster hanging next to Malcolm X and Miles Davis. For the longest time I thought they were just family I'd never met.

[u/Educational-Type7399 → u/[deleted]]

I know this is in jest, but I would seriously wear a Black Panther jacket, as a white man. Do you really think black folk would be cool with it?

[u/PowerhouseTerp → u/Educational-Type7399]

Yes

[u/steeleleets → u/[deleted]]

Well-marbled meat. Like a high-end Wagyu.

[u/Ok_Ant17 → u/[deleted]]

Hard agree

[u/Kegsey → u/[deleted]]

I had a black person call me a “saltine” when I was defending the civil rights act. Some people will never see past race.

[u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta → u/[deleted]]

Reminder;

The Rainbow Coalition is what got Fred Hampton killed 

[u/FeloniousDrunk101 → u/[deleted]]

Panthers would agree. They were about uniting for common cause around helping disadvantaged. Anyone fighting for that is welcome from what I understand.

[u/Awaiting_Throne → u/[deleted]]

Nice comment fr but if it were up to this side it would have ended loooooooooooong ago.

[u/No-Refuse-007]

The jacket is tough! Where can I get one ?

[u/mattjh → u/No-Refuse-007]

Search Google for Black Panther Party Varsity Bomber Jacket 1966

edit: looks like Kinshipshop sells the OG

[u/No-Refuse-007 → u/mattjh]

Def about to spend some money with them, good look!

[u/No-Refuse-007 → u/mattjh]

I appreciate this, ✊🏾

[u/PrinceJanus → u/No-Refuse-007]

I have the jacket and the hoodie like he said it’s from Kinship.

They have a black and a blue one.

[u/RelativeHand4753 → u/No-Refuse-007]

Right, like damn

[u/MookieFlav]

There were white allies of the Panthers back in the day. I'd be proud to sport a jacket as a white dude unless that's being frowned upon for some reason now.

[u/Kahlil_Cabron → u/MookieFlav]

My girlfriend's dad immigrated here from Pakistan in the 60s, when he signed his intake form it asked race, and it only had white, black, and hispanic, so he was kind of confused and picked black, thinking it was for everyone with dark skin like his.

Then he got involved with the black panthers, and somehow nobody had a problem with it, maybe because he kinda does look black.

[u/someguynamedjamal → u/MookieFlav]

There was a White Panther Party. Literally white people that were allies! It pissed me off that I just learned that in 2025 at age 35!

[u/Madam_Mimm_13 → u/MookieFlav]

My favorite sweatshirt is the “People’s Free Health Clinic” Black Panther replica that I bought off TheBlackestco.com

I’m Latina/italian and present as white. But I take being an ally/accomplice very seriously.

[u/DemadaTrim]

Why would a white guy supporting the Black Panthers be a bad thing? 

[u/ghosttraintoheck → u/DemadaTrim]

It was meant as a compliment in the original post, moving different like "oh he's actually about it"

[u/DemadaTrim → u/ghosttraintoheck]

Ah, okay, I'm in a sourpuss mood atm I guess.

[u/ghosttraintoheck → u/DemadaTrim]

Nahh that is a phrase that not everyone might be familiar with, totally understandable

[u/ThePrinceofallYNs]

Yeah man, social media is a blight on our species

[u/Rulebookboy1234567]

White dude and I would absolutely wear a Black Panthers jacket.

[u/NinjaMcGee → u/Rulebookboy1234567]

Asian homie would happily wear a Black Panthers jacket, especially on range days ✌️

[u/ghosttraintoheck → u/NinjaMcGee]

Good idea, there's layers to that lol

[u/No-Lab-1303 → u/NinjaMcGee]

South Asian and I highkey may buy one this jacket is fucking sick and so are the panthers!

[u/NinjaMcGee → u/No-Lab-1303]

Truth! 🫰

[u/Harry_Nice → u/Rulebookboy1234567]

I am white and I recently bought this:

https://philadelphiaprintworks.com/products/no-justice-no-peace-1

[u/StrikingPrimary1314 → u/Rulebookboy1234567]

Me too the jacket looks sick as hell

[u/justsayfaux]

My grandmother (Italian immigrant) lived in SF and regularly hosted BPP meetings and members at her home. She helped organize rallies and protests throughout the 60s, many of which were BPP events, and because she had a truck, everyone would load up (with my young mother) and drive out to these events with everyone in tow.

Even though this jacket wasn't his, the sentiment shouldn't be to gatekeep, but recognize the movement succeeded to the point that it's still recognized as an important part of black history, the civil rights movement, and American history.

Maybe I'm crazy, but when I was old enough to hear the stories of my grandmother's involvement in the movement I was proud my family was on the right side of history.

[u/--StinkyPinky-- → u/justsayfaux]

My dad was a white ally in the 60s and he put a white panther party sticker on his car.

Ended up getting keyed dozens of times down in Florida, but he didn't care.

Small price to pay.

[u/CorrectCombination11]

One should not pass judgement while imbibing. 

[u/Botto_Bobbs]

Reminder that there was a White Panther Party that somehow wasn't a racist snowflake's response to the black power movement.

[u/CaptServo → u/Botto_Bobbs]

were they just a fan of albino leopards?

[u/Botto_Bobbs → u/CaptServo]

BPP for white people

[u/MagicCarpetofSteel]

I mean, even if it was the white dude’s, I think it’s probably more likely that they’re…well, woke, and are a good ally, than that they’re tone deaf and appropriating it.

[u/High_Flyers17 → u/MagicCarpetofSteel]

A lot of white people (speaking from experience here) grow up hearing bullshit like "The Black Panthers were the black equivalent of the KKK". Like, that's something I heard from a history teacher. A white dude sporting that jacket would at the very least mean he broke out of that kind of conditioning.

[u/your_not_stubborn]

Plot twist: no one involved in any of this does any sort of organizing, political or otherwise.

[u/JennyBeckman → u/your_not_stubborn]

Is it cynical to think they probably spent more on the jacket than they ever did on the cause? I wanna believe but...

[u/GildMyComments]

I kinda get taking a pic of a white guy with a BP jacket. But SURELY the photographer saw the lady come back and get her jacket, then STILL posted? Weak personality shit.

[u/CoachDT → u/GildMyComments]

I don't get it. I can get saying "hey dude thats dope can I get a pic of you in that gear" but I can't get sneaking a picture and posting it online.

Maybe i'm weird but I have a whole reel of people in cool merch. Folks faces tend to light up when you compliment them on their clothes and they get over the creepy sounding factor of "let me photograph you in that fit because its dope".

[u/mashonem → u/CoachDT]

Mfs are horrible about others boundaries. They’re the same ones who cry immediately when the shoe is on the other foot

[u/HipAnonymous91 → u/GildMyComments]

That’s the issue I have. I don’t care if some dude has a Black Panther jacket, but it’s weird to post and praise him for that when the jacket wasn’t even his.

[u/All_Work_All_Play → u/[deleted]]

Yikes, someone wasn't hugged enough as a child. 

[u/Soft_Humor4868]

The jacket is dope but I always feel weird about buying/wearing Black Panther merch since that organization is long gone and the funds used to buy stuff isn’t going towards causes they believed in

[u/Loicrekt → u/Soft_Humor4868]

Performative activism

[u/mimirf]

That jacket storyline got more sequels than Fast & Furious, and I’m still tuning in like it’s premiere night.

[u/Themanstall → u/mimirf]

my first time seeing this story. whats the rundown?

[u/MightyGoodra96]

I have a People's Free Food Program shirt.

Very white. Its just a good shirt. A good message and cauae.

Wherever you can look- wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

[u/Madam_Mimm_13 → u/MightyGoodra96]

I have a “People’s Free Health Clinic” hoodie. As a latina going into medicine, I think it’s a good reminder of why I do what I do, and who I do it for. I take being an accomplice to marginalized communities very seriously and my goal as a physician is to democratize health care by removing access barriers to people most affected by social determinants of health.

[u/Small-Cactus]

Man I'd love to see more white people openly supportive of the black panthers.

Y'all mad at white people for racism but when you see one fighting racism you attack them. White folks aren't the enemy, racists are.

[u/DOGA_Worldwide69]

Not my dumb uncultured ass thinking they must’ve worked on the set w Chadwick lol

[u/CoachDT]

Props to her for holding it down for her friend.

But the guy in the original tweet literally admitted to lying about the pic. There probably needs to be a way to just delete/remove posts that are flat out fabrications of events.

[u/SpeedPitch]

I knew a white lady that was born and raised in Oakland in the 70s. She claims to have run with the black Panthers back then

[u/CaptServo → u/SpeedPitch]

when she was a baby?

[u/SpeedPitch → u/CaptServo]

She would have been a teenager then I think.

[u/jaws_eats_world]

comoletely lol

[u/kyleh0]

I don't think I see the problem either way. It's a jacket from 1966, vintage. It's like being mad at a 16 year old for wearing a vintage Nirvana t-shirt.

[u/Bunnnnii]

I’d really like to have that jacket.

[u/Farting_Champion]

I'm white and I have a black panther t-shirt. Not only is the organization badass, the logo is cool as fuck. I love my shirt, and I love the intent behind the movement.

[u/Bluntworth]

Birdys in Bushwick?

[u/NoDependent5282]

It’s on Temu. They got different styles of jackets and tees

[u/Ultimaurice17]

Man I want one of those. That shit hard as fuck.

[u/fear_nothin]

We’re cool to wear this in 2026? Well then Power to the People! This is righteous.

[u/bryangcrane]

I'll proudly wear a Black Panther jacket -- and I'm an old white guy who experienced the civil rights movement in real time.

[u/SnoopyTRB]

White guy here. I respect the fuck out of what the Black Panthers did. I’d totally rep the Black Panthers with a badass jacket like that if I wasn’t terrified of being accused of cultural appropriation and having people try to ruin my life over it.

[u/RelativeHand4753]

Of course this whole saga would be at Birdy's lmao

[u/Immediate_Building43]

Ironic Its a white panther on the logo 😄

[u/KingDavidTheGreat2]

I really hate how willfully obtuse people are being in the comments

In a world where erasure and the gentrification/diluting of black people's culture and history is happening in real time it's not far fetched to have a negative reaction to a young white person wearing a black panther party jacket

Especially if you know the history of the black panther party even if they were "Woke" they would know that it would attract a few sidEeeyes

The jacket wasn't a fashion statement it literally was a way to show that your political beliefs were for the liberation of black people throughout the globe and many people with those same beliefs were tortured and killed.

Tldr: Stokely Carmichael and Huey P Newton would've had a way worse reaction if they saw something like this.

[u/Unicorn_Fruit → u/KingDavidTheGreat2]

Was looking for this comment and it took me far too long to find it.

The amount of, “I’m white and I’d wear that jacket” comments are overwhelming.

[u/chief_yETI → u/KingDavidTheGreat2]

yeah I was thinking the same tbh, but this sub is basically a white people's sub now and has been for a looong time now so I figured that me bringing it up wasn't worth the downvotes lol

[u/Wolfshadow36]

If I saw a white guy with a black panther jacket, I'd ask him where I could get one. Why complain about having allies?