Monday, November 25, 2002

Protecting your brand name
The Daily Telegraph amazes with America's ageing Black Panther warriors go into battle again:
More than 30 years after they first went into battle, the leaders of America's Black Panther movement are mobilising again.

This time their enemy is not the white establishment but a black radical group they claim is tarnishing their name.

Surviving members of America's first armed black revolutionary group, led by one of its founders, Bobby Seale, now 65, are suing a Texan group called the New Black Panther Party on the grounds that its politics are too extreme.

On television, the party's leader described the September 11 attacks as revenge for America's "sins against the people of the Earth".

David Hilliard, the original Panthers' former chief of staff, said: "By using our brand name, this group is getting instant validation for its racial hatred and anti-semitism. This dishonours our history."
Has Hell frozen over?