Onetime Portland Black Panther Percy Hampton reflects on the movement, issues that remain today | OregonLive.com

23.2.11

Onetime Portland Black Panther Percy Hampton reflects on the movement, issues that remain today | OregonLive.com: "He thinks the city could use another Black Panther Party, could certainly use more energetic young people talking about equity, justice and reform. But what he's seen the past few years, through another round of police shootings and gang violence, isn't encouraging.

'The people doing most of the heavy lifting in Portland right now are older, the black ministers or the civil rights activists who were fighting the same fights back in the 1970s,' he says. '... The young people who do say they want to replicate what we did seem to miss the fact that we weren't just about overthrowing the government or ending the war or playing with guns. We talked about specific things that helped people here. That's why we scared certain people. That's why we have a legacy to talk about.'"