"As Ancestor Amiri Baraka would say, 'The only reason is no reason'."--Marvin X
Dhoruba Bin Wahad, New York Black Panther Party member, spent 19 years as a political prisoner. From: Sekou Osei
- To: Marvin X
While I never took the NBPP seriously beyond militant "protest theater" of angry symbolism and with "no program." But this leads to some very profane conclusions of "counter-revolution." I gather that Dhoruba wanted to confront the use of the "name" that has nothing in common with the original Black Panther Party, while the New Black Panther Party came out of masonic leadership under the leadership of Khalid Muhammad.
However, what I understood in my E-mal in June and July that the NBPP was having an open round table discussion and Dhoruba felt that what was needed was a full public disclosures of the origins of the NBPP and its false actions of a radical tradition and as a revisionism of the actual radical tradition.
What has to be noted, I guess Dhoruba felt he had to confront these theater imposter himself, because there is no Black radical left to take that on. The best that this so-called left does is call militant protests as base building and relies on spontaneity that never comes. They don't have the ability to analyze or critique and the best that they do is create list of so-called Black radical theorist whose only character is loquacious intellectual narcissism that provide no clarity of anything and only provide academic feel-good speculation.
Perhaps from this, this was the background that Dhoruba felt he had to take action to confront this stench of toads. While, Dhoruba may not of had a full organization to carry out this ideological confrontation, it would be a mistake to belittle Dhoruba confrontation as a silly escapade of an old man and not see the counter-revolutionary character and actions of the NBPP to attack a former political prisoner and never lift a pinky to the agents and extra legal agents of the state that murder Black people without consequence. And has taken this public posture for the last 20 years...
Sekou