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Comparisons betweenthe Black Panther Partyand The Young Lords

The Young Lords, founded by Jose Cha Cha Jimenez, was a territory gang and one of many militantcivil rights groups that originated in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s that the Black Panther Partyinspired. The unity of these two groups was powerful. They showed the prevalence of oppression andpolice harassment in African American and Puerto Rican communities. Although the Black Panther Party,which formed in California, was considered a threatening organization by some because the groupleaders, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, advocated for open carry of guns and self-defense againstpolice, many black and brown people recall the community programming and services the BlackPanthers and Young Lords provided in cities all around the country. The Black Panther Party 10-point Program set guidelines for the Black Panther Party and stated theirideals and ways of operation, a "combination of the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence."The Ten Point Program comprised two sections: The first, titled "What We Want Now!" described whatthe Black Panther Party wants from American society leaders. The second section, titled "What WeBelieve," outlines the philosophical views of the party and the rights that African Americans should havebut are denied. It is structured similarly to the United States Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution. TheYoung Lords also created a 10-point program modeled after the Black Panthers' 10-point program. TheNew York office created a 13-point program after they split from Chicago National Headquarters. Introduction

The Black Panther Party createdposters and flyers that depicted policebrutality and other forms of oppressionfaced by black people. These imageshelped to raise awareness about theissues they were fighting for and tomobilize their supporters. The Young Lords Party also used visualart to promote their message of socialjustice and to raise awareness aboutthe struggles faced by Puerto Ricans inthe United States. They created postersand flyers depicting the poverty anddiscrimination faced by Puerto Ricansand their efforts to organize and resist.

The Free Breakfast for Children program was a crucialpart of the Black Panther Party's activism, and ithelped to raise awareness about the issue of hunger inblack communities and to build support for the Party'sbroader political goals.

"THE DUTY OF EVERY PUERTO RICAN IS TO MAKEREVOLUTION!QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE! Iris Morales

The Black The Black Panther 10-Point Program We want freedom. We want full employment for our people. We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our Black Community. We want decent housing fit for the shelter of human beings. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and the MURDER of Black people. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county, and city prisons and jails. We want all black people, when brought to trial, to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace, and as our primary political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, to determine the will of black people as to their national destiny.

Huey P. Newton Bobby SealeA Pig "A Pig is an ill-natured beast who has no respect for law and order,a foul traducer who's usually found masquerading as a victim of an unprovoked attack." The Black Panther , May, 1967

REMEMBER SISTER TRUTH!FORWARD SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN THESTRUGGLE!!!LIBERATE PUERTORICO NOW!!!

"It is important to understand that urban guerrilla offensives canonly occur when all revolutionary groups--Puerto Rican, Black,Asian, White-- are clear as to their role and how they participatein bringing the system to a crash. This simply means that,eventually, all revolutionary groups will have to think beyond theboundaries of their own communities if they want to bevictorious." Felipe Luciano Jose Cha Cha Jimenez"I think our organization just by thepeople, just by the content, just by beingPuerto Rican, you just have to understandits a class struggle because we have red,we have yellow, we have all kinds ofpeople, a rainbow of people. And this iswhy we can easily understand it iscommon sense to us that this is a classstruggle."

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MALA K EL H AL AB I M A L A K E L H A L A B I"All power to the people," "That meansblack power to black people, whitepower to white people, brown powerto brown people, red power to redpeople, yellow power to yellow people,and Panther power to the vanguard." Fred Hampton Afeni Shakur Elaine Brown"I'm not going to change theworld. You're not going tochange the world. But we canhelp- we can all help.""We took the position that in orderfor us to be free, that system had tobe dismantled. We cannot be free ina system that oppressed us in thefirst place, so you have to get rid ofthat system."

In conclusion The Black Panther Party and The Young Lord Organization were two similar movements based on each other. They both were fighting for the exactcause, which is Freedom. They worked as close but separate organizations; the only difference was the member of the organizations and whoprotected whom. The B.P.P. were fighting for black people, and the Y.L.O. were fighting for the Puerto Rican rights. ReferencesNelson, S. (Director). (2015). The Black Panther Party {Video}. PBS.Retrieved March 14, 2023, From Kanopy.Joseph, J. (2012). Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention.United States: Algonquin Books.Foner, P(2014). The Black Panthers Speak. United States: HaymarketBooks.Enck-Wanzer, D. (2010). The Young Lords: A Reader. United States:New York University Press.By: Joanna (jojo) Broomfield