By the time we started our revolution, the Black Panthers of America had mostly been destroyed by the police and the government there. In a time of no mobile phones and internet, we mobilised people across Maharashtra by the thousands. In three years, we did what many are not able to do even today. We formed the Dalit Panthers and our first action was to take a rally into Brahmangaon and restore the dignity of the two women who were stripped. “Dhasal and I wanted to give a radical response to the atrocities that were growing. Pawar said that he and Namdeo Dhasal, the firebrand anti-caste poet, were extremely unhappy with the response of the other Dalit groups of the time which were in talks with the government of the then Chief Minister Vasantrao Naik. He recalled the incident in Brahmangaon village of Parbhani district of Maharashtra in 1972, when two Dalit-Buddhist women were stripped and flogged with branches of the thorny Babool tree for trying to access water from a well, claimed by the local caste Hindus. “We were active only for three years but we caught the country like wildfire in that time,” he said to rapturous applause, “We rattled the government of Indira Gandhi who was all-powerful at the time.” The body language of Dalits has been constricted by centuries of Brahminism.” The beginning of a radical responseīack on-stage, the co-founder of the Dalit Panthers, JV Pawar set the tone for the historic conference during the inaugural session by reminding the audience of the contributions made by the Panthers.
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When I reported back to the group with news of what “Aiiieee…yiyiyiyiyiyi… aiyeeeiiiiooooo!” meant, the others laughed as the PhD scholar responded sagely, “He is a free soul, not governed by White propriety. As for profundity, he reserved it for the intense video interview he gave TNM with his mate Henry Gaddis in which he spoke about mass incarceration and the dangers before young African American children. He couldn't walk a step for the next two days without somebody asking him for a selfie, a chat, a bearhug. McCarty got all of that love back, and some more. His love and laughter having a mesmerizing effect on people here as they line up for selfies with the legend /DRBFYLdX4Y- Sudipto Mondal May 29, 2022 Dalits at the Black Panthers Dalit Panthers meet at Nanded cannot get enough of the Black Panther Michael McCarty.
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