In Huey P. Newton’s article, A Letter from Huey to the Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters, he underlines the idea of the homosexual community and the black community joining together to form an alliance in order to fight for the rights of both oppressed groups. Newton was ahead of his time by insisting that the community unite the blacks and homosexuals because this is a change we are now witnessing today. All lives do matter and each person should have the same human rights as another, however at this particular time, African-Americans had not acquired their own rights from the unjust system. The proposition for equalizing homosexual’s rights was definitely risky and disruptive considering blacks had not obtained equal rights yet. Not only does discrimination against a black person differ from that of a gay person but also essentially it would shift the focus from the black community disparities to another agenda. This article was published in the Black Panther Newsletter in 1970 when the black community was still experiencing violence and injustice over their basic human rights. …show more content…
They were also struggling economically and politically in society and were fighting for change. Huey P. Newton suggested that blacks and homosexuals unite in a “revolutionary fashion” to fight the system. “The women’s liberation front and gay liberation front are our friends, they are our potential allies, and we need as many allies as possible,” says Newton. His call for allies meant he needed numbers for his agenda or perhaps he truly cared for the causes of oppressed homosexuals and women. Unfortunately, the black communities were oppressed because of something they could not