Huey P. Newton Gun Club

Huey P. Newton Gun Club
Co-Founders Babu Omowale
Yafeuh Balogun
Rakem Balogun
[1][2]
Founded August 20, 2014
Headquarters Dallas, Texas, United States
Ideology Black empowerment
Gun rights
Slogan Freedom
Website
hueypnewtongunclub.org

The Huey P. Newton Gun Club is a group[2] named after Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton.[3] The group teaches self-defense and often stages armed protests in favor of African American gun rights[2] and against police brutality.[4][5]

The club was founded by Yafeuh Balogun[6] and Babu Omowale.[7][8] The group garnered national attention in August 2014 for its open carry patrols. Balogun expressed the hope that the club would continue to grow and eventually become a mainstream gun-rights organization.[9]

Activity

In August 2014, the Huey P. Newton Gun Club staged their first openly armed patrol through a predominantly black neighborhood in South Dallas, where police killed an unarmed black youth named James Harper in 2012.[10][11] Since then, Balogun reported that donations to the club have poured in from around the country, and their membership has more than doubled. The club staged another protest in October of the same year.[9]

In July 2016, Huey P. Newton Gun Club co-founder Babu Omowale stated on "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio", a radio show broadcast on New York's AM 970 The Answer and News Talk 990 AM in Philadelphia:[12]

"The end game is land ownership. The endgame is our own government in a nation within a nation. Okay. So we claim the states of Louisiana, we claim the states of Mississippi, we claim the states of South Carolina, we claim the states of Alabama, and we claim the states of Georgia. We just need to start migrating back to those states and taking control of the economics in those states. If black people move in, most definitely white people will move out. So it’s not a hard process for us to have our own country within a country."

In 2016, the coalition held a counter-protest at the Muhammad Mosque in South Dallas in response to a demonstration by the anti-Islamic Bureau of American Islamic Relations (BAIR). BAIR organized the protest against the Nation of Islam, which runs the mosque. Both parties were armed and police were present during the protest which ended shortly without any violence.[13][14][15][16][17]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "On the ground with America's Black Power soldiers". bbc.co.uk. BBC Online. 18 May 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Subramanian, Courtney (11 July 2016). "Are US black separatist groups on the rise?". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
  3. ↑ "Police Shootings Highlight Unease Among Black Gun Owners". The New York Times. 9 July 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Black Open Carry Protesters Are Marching On Capitol Against Police Brutality". Counter Current News. 2015-03-18. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
  5. ↑ "Huey P. Newton Gun Club leads open-carry rally in South Dallas". Retrieved 2016-07-06.
  6. ↑ "Dallas Shooter Followed Black Militant Groups". news.sky.com. Sky News. 9 July 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  7. ↑ Atkinson, Khorri (9 July 2016). "Black Gun Owners in Texas Decry Racial Bias". texastribune.org. The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  8. ↑ Steele, Tom (10 July 2016). "Black militia says Dallas shooter 'shall be celebrated one day'". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  9. 1 2 Smith, Aaron Lake (5 Jan 2015). "Huey P. Newton Gun Club in Dallas Are Responding to Police Brutality with Armed Community Patrols". VICE Media. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
  10. ↑ Rajwani, Naheed (20 August 2014). "Huey P. Newton Gun Club leads open-carry rally in South Dallas". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
  11. ↑ Chadde, Sky (2014-08-21). "Armed Huey P. Newton Gun Activists and Black Panthers Marched Through Dallas Yesterday". Dallas Observer. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
  12. ↑ Klein, Aaron (July 10, 2016). "EXCLUSIVE–New Black Panther Leader: Blacks Need to Migrate to Five Southern States, Form 'Country Within a Country'". Breitbart News.
  13. ↑ "Armed clash over black mosque triggers anger in South Dallas". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  14. ↑ "New Black Panthers in armed showdown with anti-Muslim militia in Texas". RT. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  15. ↑ "Planned Anti-Islamic protest causes confusion". fox4news.com. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  16. ↑ "Racial Showdown In Dallas: Black Panther Muslims And White Anti-Mosque Activists Face Off With Guns In Texas". International Business Times. 4 April 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  17. ↑ "Armed hate group met at Texas mosque protest by gun-toting worshipers". The Raw Story. Retrieved 9 July 2016.

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