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My Life and the Black Panther Party
Atria
July 2006
On Sale: July 11, 2006
320 pages ISBN: 0743482662 EAN: 9780743482660 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Amid the social turmoil of the 1960s and ,70s, a young man
in California found his purpose in the rise of the Black
Panther Party, made a deadly mistake that cost him his
freedom, and ultimately got his life back, having learned
the true lessons of the Buddha Samurai. By the time Flores Forbes was twenty-five years old, he had
just a GED and sixty college credits to his name. But he had
gone far in his chosen profession as a revolutionary. In
1977, Forbes had been in the Black Panther Party for almost
a decade and had become the youngest member of the
organization's central committee. In this remarkable memoir,
Forbes vividly describes his transformation from an angry
youth into a powerful partisan in the ranks of the black
liberation movement. Disillusioned in high school by the
racism in his native San Diego, he began reading Black
Panther literature. Drawn to the Panthers' mission of
organizing resistance to police brutality, he eagerly joined
and soon found himself immersed in a culture of Mao-inspired
rigor. His dedication ultimately earned him a place in the
Party's elite inner circle as assistant chief of staff,
charged with heading up the "fold" -- the heavily armed
military branch dubbed by Huey P. Newton the "Buddha
Samurai." "My job was one of the most secretive in the
party," writes Forbes, "and to this day most of the people
who were in the Party over the years had not a clue as to
what I really did..." With intimate portraits of such BPP leaders as Elaine Brown,
Eldridge Cleaver, and Huey P. Newton, Will You Die with Me?
is a riveting firsthand look at some of the most dramatic
events of the last century and a brutally honest tale of one
man's journey from rage to redemption.
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