Panther Vision: Essential Party Writings and Art of Kevin "Rashid" Johnson, Minister of Defense

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"For the rising youth who see the bankruptcy of what today passes as Black leadership. As a blueprint and inspiration for you in creating the needed leading organization to achieve liberation for us and all oppressed peoples. With eyes wide open, I dedicate these writings. Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win! All Power to the People!" - Rashid "The original Black Panther Party for Self-Defense challenged the prevailing socio-political and economic relationship between the government and Black people. The New Afrikan Black Panther Party is building on that foundation, and Rashid's writings embrace the need for a national organization in place of that which had been destroyed by COINTELPRO and racist repression. We only hope this book reaches many, and serves to herald and light a means for the next generation of revolutionaries to succeed in building this movement." - Jalil Muntaqim, Prisoner of War "All Praise due to Brother Kevin Rashid Johnson, for his courage, determination and commitment from deep within the belly of the beast. For using his pen as a weapon to put forth his vision and perspectives, to inform and enlighten, to be discussed and evaluated." - Emory Douglas, Revolutionary Artist & Former Minister of Culture, Black Panther Party 1967-1981 "The U.S. is a society that originally based itself on a form of prison labor called slavery. Then it based itself on a form of slavery called racial segregation. Now it sets at the core of its political culture a form of racial segregation called the prison industry, run by a judicial machine. Each of these phases of U.S. history has used its racialization of class relations to render its class exploitation extreme. As with all exploitation, there is resistance. Today, Rashi'd is one of the most powerful voices of that resistance." - Steve Martinot, author of The Rule of Racialization