The Untold Truth About the Black Panther

I get uncomfortable when people start talking about 'blacks' like a separate species. I know they don't mean it but that's how it comes across. People are people, not hive-minded drones. I guess it's the patronizing vibe I get from it. Might just be me.

I'm not surprised that a black character and a black organization both settled on the idea of a black panther as a logo, group name, or hero persona. Panthers are scary, lithe, sleek, dangerous to enemies, and black. I wonder how many people were turned off of the comic character because of the reputation of the group, which was that of a violent and racist group who wanted to 'push Whitey into the sea'. Technically, IIRC, that was the Black Muslims who said that, but in all the turmoil of the 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement with its dueling personas of MLK Jr. and Malcolm X, things got confused.