• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Look into the Black Panthers, the original iteration was founded on the idea that black people who know their rights and are carrying guns could watch arrests and make sure police weren’t engaging in racial brutality. They also wound up doing stuff like free breakfast programs for kids to ensure they’d have the energy to pay attention in school and free healthcare in predominantly black areas focusing on underserved issues that predominantly impact black people like sickle cell disease