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Social media is having a similar effect on elected Democrats that talk radio had on elected Republicans starting in the 1990's -- viral bits of information that are misleading or outright false get boosted in echo chambers. No one stops to check...Snopes. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/black-panthers-wic-food-program/
The Black Panthers did not invent the idea of charitable breakfasts, lol, but there's a political echo chamber that sends this meme around eachother (I've seen it for years) who don't bother reading any of the history or really care to...
Black Panthers also used their school lunches to promote ethnonationalism and glorification of BP leaders, they'd hang up propaganda of BP leadership and use them for political indoctrination. It wasn't just some charitable program.
One of the most influential people who lead the campaign to expand school lunch/breakfast was Jean E. Fairfax, who served in the NAACP from 1965 to 1984. She chaired a group called the Committee On School Lunch Participation, lobbying for years https://www.childrensdefense.org/child-watch-columns/health/2019/jean-fairfax-raised-the-bar/
These women played a very important role in the expansion of the program by studying the programs that were in place since 1966 (and the 1940's, with respect to the school lunch program) and then reporting to and lobbying Congress
