“I dissuade Party members from putting down people who do not understand. Even people who are unenlightened and seemingly bourgeois should be answered in a polite way. Things should be explained to them as fully as possible. I was turned off by a person who did not want to talk to me because I was not important enough. Maurice just wanted to preach to the converted, who already agreed with him. I try to be cordial, because that way you win people over. You cannot win them over by drawing the line of demarcation, saying you are on this side and I am on the other; that shows a lack of consciousness. After the Black Panther Party was formed, I nearly fell into this error. I could not understand why people were blind to what I saw so clearly. Then I realized that their understanding had to be developed.”
― Huey P. Newton :huey-wut:
Huey Newton, born on the 17th of february in 1942, was a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who, along with fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party (1966 - 1982). Together with Seale, Newton created a ten-point program which laid out guidelines for how the African-American community could achieve liberation. In the 1960s, under Newton's leadership, the Black Panther Party founded over 60 community support programs (renamed survival programs in 1971) including food banks, medical clinics, HIV support groups, sickle cell anemia tests, prison busing for families of inmates, legal advice seminars, clothing banks, housing co-ops, and their own ambulance service.
The most famous of these programs was the Free Breakfast for Children program which fed thousands of impoverished children daily during the early 1970s. Newton also co-founded the Black Panther newspaper service which became one of America's most widely distributed African-American newspapers. In 1967, he was involved in a shootout which led to the death of the police officer John Frey. Although arrested for the murder of Frey, the charges were eventually dismissed.
In 1970, after his release from prison, Newton received an invitation to visit the People's Republic of China. Newton made the trip in late September 1971 with fellow Panthers, Elaine Brown and Robert Bay, and stayed for 10 days. At every Chinese airport he landed in, Newton was greeted by thousands of people waving copies of the "Little Red Book" and displaying signs that said "we support the Black Panther Party, down with US imperialism" or "we support the American people but the Nixon imperialist regime must be overthrown."
By mid-decade, Newton faced more criminal charges when he was accused of murdering a 17-year-old sex worker and assaulting a tailor. To avoid prosecution, he fled to Cuba in 1974, but returned to the U.S. three years later. The murder case was eventually dismissed after two trials ended with deadlocked juries, while the tailor refused to testify in court in relation to assault charges.
Despite graduating from high school not knowing how to read, he taught himself literacy by reading Plato's Republic and earned a Ph.D. in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness program in 1980. In 1989, he was murdered in Oakland, California by Tyrone Robinson, a member of the Black Guerrilla Family.
Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death. We will have to be driven out with a stick.”
― Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide :huey-wut:
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Black against Empire The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Waldo Martin (no black panther party emote :angery: )
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Out of Oakland: Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War by Sean L. Malloy
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I cooked some good fucking steaks today. I'm a good cook. I know shit. The recipe for this flank steak usually has us marinate it in chimichurri but today I was like. Nah. Dry rub. Salt it like Im de-icing a road, pepper, garlic and onion powder, a little bit of cumin and red chili flake and that's it. Rubbed it into every steak, into the muscle fibers like some kinda pervert fingering those cracks.
Then I let them sit for an hour even though the sous chef argued with me about it even though that tip is like one of the most widely repeated bits of cooking lore I've ever read. Specifically that you should salt and season your meat and either cook it immediately or let it sit for an hour or more, because the salt breaks down cells and draws moisture out of the meat initially (which will dry it out and make the end product less juicy) but after a while osmotic forces will draw that moisture, plus salt, plus aromatics in the rub, into the meat. But if you do it wrong you'll cook it before that happens but after it's drawn out moisture and have a more dry and less good end result.
Sous chef seems to think that's entirely bullshit but idk my knowledge of chemistry/biology/physics + cooking has me put it in the "Definitely 'Myth Plausible'" category. He mainly argued that in a restaurant setting (not us lol) nobody's got time for that and "nobody is letting 60 dollar steaks sit around salted" but like idk that's not an argument against the premise.
Anyway I had 20 other things to do so the steaks sat for an hour, then got grilled, then baked to mediumish (it's hard to accurately cook 20 flank steaks to the same temp all at once) and sliced real thin. Chimichurri on the side this time because these college kids apparently balk at the sight of "a weird green sauce" on their steak
And it was fucking GOOD and they ate all of it before we closed
That guy sounds like a fool, the restaurant setting is defined by pre-working things.
He's really not so this reaction from him was really surprising. I definitely rate him as the best cook there, better than the executive chef and all the other cooks for sure, so this was weird and unexpected
That’s hella weird in that case, sometimes people just have a weird thing they are stubborn and wrong about.
Asking him why is probably going to get an interesting answer if nothing else
Your science is right and the sous chef is wrong.
I roasted veggies using a butane torch today cause the oven was full for too long. It was pretty fun
It's so fucking weird of him because usually he's on shit like that?? Like i can rely on him to have a scientific understanding of cooking and like have actual answers on things. But then he reacted like that?? He also argued with me about garlic being an emulsifier (it is or toum wouldn't exist lol).
I had fun making the potatoes. I tried to smush them between sheet pans but it wasn't really working so I just started punchin' em, like I beat up those taters like they owed me money. It was cathartic
Of course garlic is an emulsifier, that's super basic stuff. Cooks are a really mysterious people who will have a lot of specific good knowledge but aren't capable of generalizing it or crossing one from another because macro chemistry is hard. The vegan place I used to work at was great for that cause we got to play with tempehs and seitans and get real weird with shit.