- by any means available . . . (217). Any means available. So, nationalistic thoughts of finally prevailing in victory reappear. Rage, as is evident, has neither subsided nor been appeased. Nor has the momentum to overcome ceased from pressing upward against white social dominance.One organization that aims to channel black rage militantly beyond the efforts of others is the Black Panther Party. The Party holds that only a true revolution will effect the changes required to rid black society of white oppression (Straub 66). One goal of the Panthers is to organize blacks in a common effort to overcome despotism. Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Party, explains in a 1968 address that black people should not sit down and let a spontaneous riot happen in the streets where we are corralled and a lot of us are shot up, unorganized. . . . He exhorts, Black people, organize! (185). No doubt, rage is present. But how to channel it? Could blacks organize? Concerning the task of organizing, Eldridge Cleaver, a militant revolutionary of the Black Panther Party, explains, Black people have never been able through any mechanism to express what their will is. People have come along and spoken in the name of black people; they have said that black people want to be integrated; they have said black people want to be separated; but nowhere at no time have black people been given the chance to register their own position. (68)The leaders of the Black Panther Party seek to provide the avenue, the means, and the organization for militant mass-resistance. Expressing an any-means-necessary mind set, Stokely Carmichael proclaims, Were going to organize our way. The question is how were going to facilitate those matters, whether its going to be done with a thousand police men and submachine guns, or whether its going to be in a context where its allowed by white people. (41)Regardless of the means, RAGE will be heard. As Carmichael points out, whi...
