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Pros And Cons Of The Black Panther
James punched the Black Panther's son out of frustration. He was unable to warn his mother about what he viewed as a threat to her: a Black Panther standing next to her. James's racial makeup tore him in two directions. The black power movement of the 1960s made James and his friends proud to be black. But his mother was white, and the potential enemy of such revolutionary black thinkers. James often felt guilty, thinking of his mother, when he would agree with his friends that white people were evil. But he felt significant pressure to conform to the rhetoric of the time and to try to repress her fears about its consequences for his
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