“[We are] not advocating what the Black Panthers were advocating. Our militia will be about violence. I'm talking actual fighting, bloodshed and urban guerilla warfare.”
Michael McGee is often credited for providing the ideological base for the New Black Panther Party. A former Black Panther Party member, McGee went on to serve in the Milwaukee City Council in Wisconsin as a council member and an alderman in the 1980s. McGee was the representative for a "poor, black neighborhood," although which neighborhood exactly is unclear.
McGee garnered attention when he began to threaten the city's summer festivals; he asserted that if the City Council did not provide approximately $100 million in jobs for the black community. He claimed that he had created a black militia that consisted of "street-gang thugs." He went on to say that, "[these thugs] already know how to shoot. I’m going to give them a cause worth dying for." However, he later recanted these statements as elections neared; McGee was not reelected.
McGee's son, Michael McGee Jr. went on to serve as the alderman of the same Milwaukee neighborhood. He was tried in a Federal Court in 2007 and charged with bribery and assault.
-Abused/took advantage of the black community (taking "thugs who already know how to shoot" and making them into a militia--how does this help the community at all?)
Michael McGee is often credited for providing the ideological base for the New Black Panther Party. A former Black Panther Party member, McGee went on to serve in the Milwaukee City Council in Wisconsin as a council member and an alderman in the 1980s. McGee was the representative for a "poor, black neighborhood," although which neighborhood exactly is unclear.
McGee garnered attention when he began to threaten the city's summer festivals; he asserted that if the City Council did not provide approximately $100 million in jobs for the black community. He claimed that he had created a black militia that consisted of "street-gang thugs." He went on to say that, "[these thugs] already know how to shoot. I’m going to give them a cause worth dying for." However, he later recanted these statements as elections neared; McGee was not reelected.
McGee's son, Michael McGee Jr. went on to serve as the alderman of the same Milwaukee neighborhood. He was tried in a Federal Court in 2007 and charged with bribery and assault.
-Abused/took advantage of the black community (taking "thugs who already know how to shoot" and making them into a militia--how does this help the community at all?)