• not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I understand black Panthers or for blacks folks. But it’s it also open to other folks like Hispanics?

    There’s a lot of vets that are Hispanic that could and would help, but again I understand if this is only a black folks only thing.

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      Hispanic protestors used to have the Young Lords and the Brown Berets, who the Panthers have partnered with in the past.

      Both, as far as I know, are no longer active, but I’m sure there would be support for reviving them today.

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      Wasn’t MC5 part of the White Panthers?

      When people talk about “the boomers” as one big monolith, I have to chuckle because they are clearly overlooking things like this…

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      Historically, there were a few contemporaneous Panthers equivalents for other minority groups. The Hispanic one was The Young Lords