“Let me start again. Paradox is not new. In this unsteady
moment, being okay with uncertainty is what I
need to do to have a calm sense of anything. “
Abecedarian at the Threshold, Laura Van Prooyen (SWWIM)
Winter Worm, Summer Grass, Mimosa Echard. Longlati Foundation.
Arizona, John Edgar Wideman (NewYorker). Always!!
The community programs obviously addressed real needs. Objectively, however, they were more important to the existence of the party as an organization than they were to the survival of the black community. Survival programs were originally instituted not only to serve the people but also to improve the party’s image in the black community by providing positive, disciplined activities for the membership.
The Panther Party also envisioned the community programs as introducing socialism in practical and concrete terms. Donations solicited from businesses were a means of redistributing wealth from the haves to the have-nots.
Survival pending revolution : the history of the Black Panther Party, Paul Alkebulan. 2007.
