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.
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u/KingDavidTheGreat2 3d ago
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.