If the intent of the New Black Panther Party was to come to Cincinnati and light fires under the 10 or 20 people who actually listened to them, they failed. See, to mobilize people you must first have a platform, and that isn't just a tall thing you stand on. Secondly, to best articulate that platform you must be, well, articulate. If you're not passionate or intelligent enough to speak about something as critical and titillating as police brutality without reading from a poorly constructed speech, then sit down or step aside. Finally, peppering that speech with stereotypically derogatory terms and phrases is lazy and irresponsible.
Time is a valuable commodity.
The New Black Panther Party and their few local supporters wasted everyone's time on April 5. And to that, I flip the script. It's equally as myopic and inflammatory. So the two should make like Survivor and vote each other off the Earth. The views expressed in these pages do not necessarily represent those of the publishers.