"There is no new black panther party" :
Criticism from former panthers
"As guardian of the true history of the Black Panther Party, the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, which includes former leading members of the Party, denounces this group's exploitation of the Party's name and history. Failing to find its own legitimacy in the black community, this band would graft the Party's name upon itself, which we condemn. [T]hey denigrate the Party's name by promoting concepts absolutely counter to the revolutionary principles on which the Party was founded. The Black Panthers were never a group of angry young militants full of fury toward the white establishment. The Party operated on love for black people, not hatred of white people"
"The Black Panther Party Inc does not wish to be confused with the 'New Black Panthers', a group preaching racial division and the inappropriate use of arms to promote social change." - Fahim Minkah, leader of the Dallas branch of the original Panthers. He also accused the new Panthers of "race-baiting and bully tactics."
"These new groups are not consistent with what we were about. They are only spouting rhetoric." - David Hilliard
"Just to hate another person because [of] the color of their skin or their ethnicity—we don't do that. That's not what the goal objective is. The goal objective is human liberation. The goal objective is the greater community cooperation and humanism. The goal objective is to get rid of institutionalized racism." - Bobby Seale
"The Black Panther Party Inc does not wish to be confused with the 'New Black Panthers', a group preaching racial division and the inappropriate use of arms to promote social change." - Fahim Minkah, leader of the Dallas branch of the original Panthers. He also accused the new Panthers of "race-baiting and bully tactics."
"These new groups are not consistent with what we were about. They are only spouting rhetoric." - David Hilliard
"Just to hate another person because [of] the color of their skin or their ethnicity—we don't do that. That's not what the goal objective is. The goal objective is human liberation. The goal objective is the greater community cooperation and humanism. The goal objective is to get rid of institutionalized racism." - Bobby Seale