The Real Black Panthers (2021)
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Forrest Gump is a satire almost of, you know, like historical materialism. It's him passing through the American past, importantly starting with the founding of the Klan. This image of black militants who are rabidly, rabidly anti-white and irrational contains really all of the myths of the black panther party. We're not a racist organization because we understand that racism is an excuse for capitalism. They were self-identified Marxists. And they believed in class struggle as well as the right of black people to organize and form their own institutions.
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