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What lies beneath

he friends. This segregation just helped in raising the question Arent we all the same? Explanation from the parents for this dividing process came from the 1930s, for which they were saying that segregation was strong and existed even then, and that there is nothing wrong with it. At those days while growing up, she could smell white superiority, which was coming out through the chimneys of most American households. She says that here parents told her that even back in 1930s it was segregation between black and white people. Black people worked the fields and poor whites mild it. Moving westward, Police Departments in each city made military raids on BPP offices or homes in Philadelphia, Chicago, Newark, Omaha, Denver, New Haven, San Diego, Los Angeles, and other cities, murdering some Panthers and arresting others. Because Dexter was lonely, she started making friends with black guys by playing basketball with them. Even though she was a tall blond girl at that time, they led her play with them. Dexters parents were really scared for her safety. They didnt allow her to play and interact with others who were from a different race then them. Since at the same time the leadership of BPP was getting corrupted, as a result of corruption the lack of unity within the cities was growing. COINTELPRO eventually intimidated and corrupted all of the BPPs top leaders: Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver. Each, in their own way, caved in to the pressures and began acting in a manner that was deliberately designed to destroy the BPP, and to disillusion not only Party members but African people in America for years to come. COINTELPRO's hopes were that Africans in America would be so disillusioned that never again would they trust or follow any African leader or organization which advocated real solutions to Black oppression. Combining above and underground was the most serious structural flaw in the BPP. Party members who function...

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