But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party- whose members for the most part come from the ghetto- seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people's language.
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Bobby Seale was a contemporary co-founder of the black panther party. Bobby Seale is an African American revolutionary, political activist and author. Seale is widely known for co-founding the Marxist–Leninist and Black power political organization the Black Panther Party (BPP) with fellow activist Huey P. Read more on Wikipedia →

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