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A review by alexsiddall
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton by Bobby Seale
2.0
I read this when I was young, in the early 1970s. I was aware of the plagiarism. Some passages were lifted wholesale from 'Soul on Ice' by Eldridge Cleaver. It felt derivative and offered little new to someone who'd also read Angela Davis's 'If they come In the Morning'.
I was a white, English, naive, easily-led kid, but my sense of the injustices of the establishment has not waned.
Writing this in the wake of watching the Netflix 'Trial of the Chicago 7', I'm outraged again, but also aware at how brilliantly adaptable the establishment is at turning its critics into entertainment. Me, I never stood up to be counted. Now the establishment has digested even my unexpressed protest. Admiring this movie is only an entertainment call - my whole life in the 50 years since demonstrates that it affected my thoughts but not my actions.
I was a white, English, naive, easily-led kid, but my sense of the injustices of the establishment has not waned.
Writing this in the wake of watching the Netflix 'Trial of the Chicago 7', I'm outraged again, but also aware at how brilliantly adaptable the establishment is at turning its critics into entertainment. Me, I never stood up to be counted. Now the establishment has digested even my unexpressed protest. Admiring this movie is only an entertainment call - my whole life in the 50 years since demonstrates that it affected my thoughts but not my actions.