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A review by dawnshaee
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
5.0
I’m not sure how anyone could rate this book less than five stars. Also, five stars isn’t enough for how well Huey painted his life experiences up to and during the Black Panther Party era.
To understand the black community, is to understand the history and how disheartening it is to see how hard our predecessors fought for revolutionary change and we are still fighting for it to this day. As I read along, I understood Huey’s heightened sense of self and community awareness but also why so many people seen it as arrogance. The fight will always been seen as arrogant or overtly dismissed by those who don’t put in the effort to comprehend, empathize, or are uncomfortable knowing that there is always room for criticism.
Huey P. Newton was remarkable, even through his pride growing up and his sense of self worth in the journey to manhood. This is a must read and I wouldn’t be mad if it became apart of the public school curriculum - this is foundational knowledge. The way that Huey has been painted as an agitated aggressor throughout the decades does not sit right with me. But, I’m so fortunate to have read this as a means to debunk all of the fallacies that the mainstream and US history teachers have told about this man.
To understand the black community, is to understand the history and how disheartening it is to see how hard our predecessors fought for revolutionary change and we are still fighting for it to this day. As I read along, I understood Huey’s heightened sense of self and community awareness but also why so many people seen it as arrogance. The fight will always been seen as arrogant or overtly dismissed by those who don’t put in the effort to comprehend, empathize, or are uncomfortable knowing that there is always room for criticism.
Huey P. Newton was remarkable, even through his pride growing up and his sense of self worth in the journey to manhood. This is a must read and I wouldn’t be mad if it became apart of the public school curriculum - this is foundational knowledge. The way that Huey has been painted as an agitated aggressor throughout the decades does not sit right with me. But, I’m so fortunate to have read this as a means to debunk all of the fallacies that the mainstream and US history teachers have told about this man.