My Life
However, over time their ideals changed with their behavior, the social programs they put on, and the view they had towards the government and other power. As some people closely observed them over time they noticed a softer and more social side, such as California chief deputy attorney general Charles O'Brien in this statement: The Panthers seemed to be in deliberate, open, provocative confrontation with police departments. In their early periods they used revolutionary language, provocative language and seemed to be deliberately seeking to confront established authority particularly police authority. But then we observed . .. they seemed to have a social side a concept of doing something beyond these angry confrontations. 1 “The Black Panther Party since its inception has always used the weapon of example to educate the masses. When the Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton, sent a delegation of armed Panthers to the California State Capitol this was a process of educating the people by example that Blacks did not have their right guaranteed by the constitution to bear arms in defense of their lives against racist mobs of fascists in or out of uniform. ” 2 Society often saw the Panthers as an extremist group that was a major threat to society and the government.