Rumour Control.
Lots of videos of pictures from the Georgia‘s Stone Mountain Park protest the other day going on about the Black Panther Party.

Not every black Person with a gun is in the BPP (which was dissolved in the '82)

This is the "Not Fucking Around Coalition" (NFAC).
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The NFAC milita formed after the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, primarily out of military and ex-military as a direct response to the murder of black men. They have been keen to cut their own path and state they are not part of BLM organising.

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This whole "oh that must be the Black Panthers" has cropped up a few times now, from that troupe of actors LARPing as militia before taking pics with the cops to well, pretty much everything a black dude has turned up with a gun to a protest.

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The reality is the movement for civil rights, black liberation and the current BLM are compromised of a wide array of groups and networks with often very different politcs.

Reducing the entire black community to "That's the Black Panthers" serves brevity but... 4/
... It continues on this racist bias which results in a rather vocal "all black people are the same". You see the confusion on the faces of white middle class suburbanites find themselves chatting the black dudes who are right wing as fuck. S H O C K I N G. 5/
Further to this it's serves the right wing narrative.

While some BLM organisers are Marxists, others are not. The Black Panther Party had a distinct political voice and regardless of what you might think of it, in right wing circles it is one they wish to project on all. 6/
Whether it's liberals and democrat voters to radical Anarchists, they want to paint every black voice (thats against them) as "commies". A term which stirs up something deep in most of Americans who live in the residue of the "Red Scare".

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They don't want the viewer at home to know that the movement against police brutality and racist heritage is diverse and is populated everyone from by patriots to tankies, Bernie stans to militant ANTEAFA...

It muddies the waters and confuses their message of hate. 8/
So next time you see a picture of a black man with a gun at a demo, do a quick google. You might have some @SocialistRA folk or maybe it's the @HueyPNewtonGun or any of a dozen clubs, militias and organisations various across America. 9/
Might be radical marxists, could be Anarchist or Libertarians, might be Soros security or a proud democrat.

Fuck knows.
The presense of armed people at demos itself is controversial in one place and not in another.

It's a hella diverse movement.
Know and respect that.

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