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“Mr. Patterson never specifics what he means when he talks about the desperateness of the Party’s ideological and political struggles. Were they “desperate: or merely intense, as we sought to confront the enemy and move the struggle to a higher level? What does Patterson mean when he refers to Blacks as “reserves” in the fight against imperialism? If Blacks are the “reserves” then who is the forefront of the struggle? It is apparent to any sane person the aBlacks are the vanguard of the struggle against imperialism in the U.S.
Patterson tries to make the people think that the Black Panther Party thought that police terror could be “readily brought to and end” if it was “sharply challenged.” This ties in with his earlier notion that the Party was organized by fools who were just reacting on the gut level to the police brutality they had seen all around them. He forgets or dismisses all of my early writings and all of Eldridge Cleaver’s early writings about who the police are, and implies that the Party did not understand that the pigs are an agent of the ruling class.