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Originally posted by FreeBitch
Link me to where did i say that. PLEASE.
BPP will never be equal to the KKK no matter how some white want to believe that. They fought BACK cause their people where being oppressed, killed, abused since the first africans slaves put their feet in america.
Malcom X will always be hero to black people all around the world.
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That's how your post came across. You're literally calling a group of murderers
heroes, downplaying their violence, and justifying their actions with "Blacks have been historically oppressed." Yes, slavery is awful. Yes, the KKK is awful. Yes, the treatment of blacks has been atrocious throughout history.
No one denies that, but this doesn't mean the actions of the Black Panthers is remotely justified. Meeting murder with murder is never the solution. Is it truly THAT HARD for you to admit the Black Panthers are simply wrong for what they do?
I'd also like to point out that comparable does NOT mean the same. Comparable means one can simply compare them on some kind of level. Nazis and Communists are comparable, despite the ideologies being vastly different. Rosa Parks is comparable Susan B Anthony, both are women who fought for the rights of an oppressed group, even if the groups are different and the oppression was different. The Black Panthers being comparable to the KKK means they have traits in common, an objective fact. It does not mean they are the same. It does not mean their history is the same. It does not mean their end goals are the same. The very fact the two are race-related activists groups makes them comparable. The fact they promote their goals through violence and murder means there's objective similaritie.
I don't deny that Malcolm X is important to history or to civil rights. He was. But he shouldn't be glorified either. That man did horrible things and was very much a supremacist. Bad people and bad actions can lead to good results, but they should never be treated as good people or good actions (see: bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Obviously, this was awful and in NO WAY morally justified. However, it did lead to a quicker end to World War 2. Therefore, terrible action, positive result)