The Black Panthers haven't existed for a couple of decades now.
If you're talking about the New Black Panthers, they've got about 100 members worldwide, are a complete and utter joke, and I don't know of anyone on "the left" who supports them at all.
They're no different than the KKK. They show up armed at polling places to intimidate whites -mostly inner city old people and the poor- from voting. They're gangsters and cowards. Small wonder our coward-in-chief has never disowned them. BTW, if the KKK changed its name to the NewKKK, they'd be all fuzzy and cuddly and...new, and stuff?
They showed up at exactly one polling place in Philadelphia,
"armed" with sticks, and stayed there for 2 hours before they were removed.
Who did they "intimidate", exactly?
You seem to give them a lot more credit than they deserve.
1 stick, which is perfectly legal to open carry in that state, and only one left, even though he didn't have to, but left because the cop asked him to leave, the other was a registered poll watcher for that polling place and was supposed to be there. The FOX camera crew were also asked to leave by the same cop, but they refused and continued to harass voters by pushing their cameras in the voters faces.
So on that day the Panther was more gentlemanly than the Foxes!!!
http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203550604574361071968458430
Wow, the Murdoch Street Journal, Johnny Boy Fund and Bartle Bullshit, now there's reputable pack for you!
Bartle Bullshit was a McCain campaign worker who staged the whole thing and paid the videographer to come from LA to record everything, and yet he had no video to prove the racist claim he made that he was called a "cracker." How is that possible? The whole event was staged by the GOP and paid for by the GOP for consumption by suckers like you! Funny how they have no video of the Panther "brandishing" a nightstick, or pointing it at voters or intimidating anyone even though they PAID a videographer to come from Los Angeles and they could not find one single voter in that district who said they were intimidated by the protective Panthers. Imagine that, paying a videographer to fly in all the way from LA and yet they have no video of any of their claims.
From your link:
One of them, they say, brandished a nightstick at the entrance and pointed it at voters and both made racial threats. Mr. Bull says he heard one yell "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!"
Full Video Of New Black Panthers Scene Reveals GOP Attorneys Orchestrating The Affair Crooks and Liars
Soon an individual seems to grab Morse's arm or his camera -- the screen moves erratically.
"I'm a fucking professional videographer," Morse tells the person trying to stop him from filming. "I was paid... to come from L.A. today."