What and who for what reason killed Huey Newton

[UndergroundConnexion]

What and who for what reason killed Huey Newton?

[Hampton]

A drug dealer killed Huey. He was a cocaine addict at the time that he died a several years before.


A 27-year-old man was sentenced on Tuesday to 32 years in prison for killing Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party. The body of Mr. Newton, 47, shot three times in the head, was found Aug. 22, 1989, in an impoverished Oakland neighborhood known for drug dealing. The defendant, Tyrone Robinson, said he had shot Mr. Newton in self-defense, but prosecutors contended that his motive was to bolster his standing with a prison gang.

[UndergroundConnexion]

ok no political motive then...stragne yet that somebody like huey, who was apparently relatively involved in "anti drugs" and was aware of the danger, eventually went to drugs....

[RNK]

If that's what you choose to believe.

[UndergroundConnexion]

that was full of arguments, very enlightening...

I choose to believe that indeed because the black panther late 60's were doing that "dope + capitalism = genocide " idea. It therefore surprises me that one of the minds behind got killed over dope.

[RNK]

Given the amount of CIA and intelligence interfering the US government did against the BPP, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it was something more than a mere drug deal gone wrong, particularly given the history the BPP had with drugs.

Afterall, what better way to discredit AND remove someone, than to shoot him and have it look like he was into drugs?

Anyway, I'm paranoid.

[UndergroundConnexion]

yes but huey newton wasnt realll active anymore that much in the years preceding his death

[Hampton]

Huey was heavy into drugs in the late 70's until his death. Some of his actons because of the drugs were a result of the collapse of the Panthers because of his ego and stupid actions, like being accused of killing a prostitute, although he was never convicted of that offense. During the decline of the Panthers they were into shaking down drug dealers and taxing them, almost like the Mafia when they ask for "protection" money.

I doubt any government actions were involved in his death, although I could be wrong.

[Ander]

I've become inspired to learn more about the black struggle (thanks in part to you Hampton) and I was wondering what the best material to read about the BPP would be.

I picked up the Malcolm X biography as a precursor to all of this but if you could recommend some black liberation texts to me I would be very happy.

Thank you.

[Hampton]

I started with the autobios of Panther members. Stuff like:

Huey- Revolutionary Suicide(although out of print I think)
Bobby Seale- Seize the Time
David Hilliard- This Side of Glory
Elaine Brown- A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
George Jackson- Soledad Brother, Blood in My Eye
Assata Shakur- Assata
H. Rap Brown- Die Nigger Die
Kwame Toure- Ready for Revolution
Angela Davis- autobiography
Flores A. Forbes- Will You Die with Me
Earl Anthony- Spitting in the Wind
Nuh Washington- All Power to the People
Mumia- Live from Death Row, We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party
Eldridge Cleaver- Soul on Ice, Post prison Writings

And I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

Books about the Panthers:

Black Panther Speak
Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their Legacy
The Black Panther Party [Reconsidered]
Huey P Newton Reader
Huey: the Radical Theorist
Huey: Spirit of the Panther
A Panther is a Black Cat
The Black Panthers by Stephen Shames (all pictures)
Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas (great book)
In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement
Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making And Unmaking of the Black Panther Party
Murder in the Model City: The Black Panthers, Yale, And the Redemption of a Killer
THE Dragon has Come (conversations with George Jackson)
The Briar Patch- Murray Kempton (about Panther 21)
Stokely Speaks

There's a lot of books out to say the least.

[Vargha Poralli]

Originally posted by Jello
I've become inspired to learn more about the black struggle

One more to add from Marxists.org's Reference Archive
Toussaint Louverture (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/toussaint-louverture/index.htm)

The “Black Jacobin” who led a slave rebellion in Haiti in 1800 and created the first Black Republic, inspired by the French Revolution.

Balck Pather Party (http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/index.htm)

A whole history of black pathers in a nut shell with link to their works,speeches and FBI's role in their downfall(form FBI's site itself).

Malcolm X (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/malcolm-x/index.htm)

Key works of Malcolm X with other links.

[Ander]

Thank you very much both of you, this will come in good use :)