Black Panthers
Anarcho-Pantherista
by Ashanti Omowali
In the Black Panther Party, when someone said, “Power to the People!” the response would be “ALL Power to the People!” After many years of political imprisonment, employing the easy-to-use Malcolm-Eldridge Educational Super-charger, that call/response would take on more anarchistic meaning. This is about my experience in the Now as an anarchist (a baby one) within a generally hierarchical Panther formation.
It was just this year, Jan. 1995, that I decided to publicly identify myself as anarchist. In playing around I came up with a term to identify me fully: @narcho-pantherista (thinking about the word Sandinista, ha!). Though, just in fun, I decided to keep it. It’s me. Silly, anarchistic, for real.
