![]() ![]() Tech was remarkable for its legacy of brainy, introverted graduates, including poet Rod McKuen (Class of ’51) and Ronald V. Three miles away, Huey attended Oakland Technical High School, graduating in 1959. ![]() (Photo courtesy Darian Avelino)Īt Berkeley High, one of Paul’s classmates was Robert George Seale, better known as Bobby Seale, who cofounded the Black Panther Party with Newton. in Oakland, which will open to the public as a Black Panther Party museum called the Mini Museum the Mural starting on Saturday. The mural was painted on Vest’s Victorian house, at 831 Center St. Newton Way, was designed by Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith and curated by homeowner and activist Jilchristina Vest for the West Oakland Mural Project. The Women of the Black Panther Party Mural, visible from Dr. Mooney’s influence emerged from the political ferment that unfolded in East Bay high schools in the 1960s. You get niggas drunk so you can sell ‘um.”) But listening to Mooney, you’d laugh till your ribs hurt. Dave Chappelle acknowledged this when he wrote the forward to Mooney’s 2010 memoir, “Black Is the New White.”īefore Mooney, civil rights and the Black struggle were no laughing matter. He stayed in the background, but he was the comic brain trust for 40 years, feeding scathing ammunition to the other comics who went on to stardom. Mooney never got a Showtime or HBO special. ![]() More on that later.Ī post shared by Paul Mooney influenced the so-called Black Pack of comedians, which included in the 1970s Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Robert Townsend, Keenan Ivory Wayans and Arsenio Hall and eventually the later generation, Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock. Maybe, just maybe, Mooney’s jarring comedy style may have played a role in redirecting some of that anger. It flared up again after the Rodney King verdict in 1993, but large-scale urban violence subsided. “It’s time to stop singing and start swinging,” he said.Īnd sure enough, violence broke out, first in Watts in 1965, and it spread to other big cities. In 1964 Malcolm X, a leader of the separatist Nation of Islam, said America had to choose between the ballot and the bullet. The bean pie was the most popular pastry sold in the Nation of Islam bakeries. Paul Mooney had another kind of anti-racist weapon, his wit, which proved sharper than a serpent’s tooth. The Black Panthers and Newton envisioned turning America’s urban ghettos into armed, self-sufficient Black bastions. Paul and Huey channeled their anger in different ways. Posters by Black Panther Party artist Emory Douglas will be featured at the West Oakland Mural Project’s Mini Museum the Mural, opening at 831 Center St. ![]()
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