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Wedlock....is not an Issue for the Black Community Dreadlocks....is a mere topic of conversation regarding style and preference. Obesity....is not a threat but a concern. Violence....is an Issue of the White Community Pure Propaganda. Again this is a matter of preference and style...Which if it does run afoul of a particular Dress Code, Hygiene or Grooming - is inconsequential. That Depends on who has...The Gold(Power) And that's no accident...Check out Food Desert/Apartheid and Environmental Racism. Eat Your Ethics: Food Apartheid Trying to Eat Healthy in a Food Desert Why eating healthy is so expensive in America Cheat Sheet: What Is Environmental Racism? Environmental Racism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) Really only a misinformed individual would think as you stated....blaming the victim for their victimization. The Black Panthers CHANGED Breakfast (The Free Breakfast for School Children) #onemichistory Free Breakfast For School Children was one of the most effective. It began in January 1969 at an Episcopal church in Oakland, and within weeks it went from feeding a handful of kids to hundreds. The program was simple: party members and volunteers went to local grocery stores to solicit donations, consulted with nutritionists on healthful breakfast options for children, and prepared and served the food free of charge. School officials immediately reported results in kids who had free breakfast before school. “The school principal came down and told us how different the children were,” Ruth Beckford, a parishioner who helped with the program, said later. “They weren’t falling asleep in class, they weren’t crying with stomach cramps.” Soon, the program had been embraced by party outposts nationwide. At its peak, the Black Panther Party fed thousands of children per day in at least 45 programs. (Food wasn’t the only part of the BPP’s social programs; they expanded to cover everything from free medical clinics to community ambulance services and legal clinics.) For the party, it was an opportunity to counter its increasingly negative image in the public consciousness—an image of intimidating Afroed Black men holding guns—while addressing a critical community need. “I mean, nobody can argue with free grits,” said filmmaker Roger Guenveur Smith in A Huey P. Newton Story, a 2001 film in which he portrays Newton. Bill Whitfield, member of the Black Panther chapter in Kansas City, serving free breakfast to children before they go to school. (Credit: William P. Straeter/AP Photo) BILL WHITFIELD, MEMBER OF THE BLACK PANTHER CHAPTER IN KANSAS CITY, SERVING FREE BREAKFAST TO CHILDREN BEFORE THEY GO TO SCHOOL. (CREDIT: WILLIAM P. STRAETER/AP PHOTO) Free food seemed relatively innocuous, but not to FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, who loathed the Black Panther Party and declared war against them in 1969. He called the program “potentially the greatest threat to efforts by authorities to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for,” and gave carte blanche to law enforcement to destroy it. The results were swift and devastating. FBI agents went door-to-door in cities like Richmond, Virginia, telling parents that BPP members would teach their children racism. In San Francisco, writes historian Franziska Meister, parents were told the food was infected with venereal disease; sites in Oakland and Baltimore were raided by officers who harassed BPP members in front of terrified children, and participating children were photographed by Chicago police. “The night before [the first breakfast program in Chicago] was supposed to open,” a female Panther told historian Nik Heynan, “the Chicago police broke into the church and mashed up all the food and urinated on it.” https://www.history.com/news/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party