1. Who's Huey?
Newton was familiar with the California penal code and the state's law regarding weapons and was thus able to convince a number of African-Americans of their right to bear arms. ... In his opinion, "every day they kept me there I grew as a symbol of the brutalization of the poor and Black as well as a living reproach to society's indifference to the inequities of the legal system."" ... Carmichael announced that Huey Newton was "part and parcel of black people wherever we are on the world,"" removing Newton's specific identity and encouraging the audience to view him as not just...
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