I wonder if being so cinematic, in its tie to spectacle, had a double effect of making the Black Panther Party highly visible and a political player as well as also limiting the the social effect of the BPP due to the bounding effects film/television has.
Has the cinematic aspect of the construction of Black Nationalism an the BPP made both a overwhelming utopia to be taken in from the safety of a spectator decision?
Is the vision of BPP akin to a narrativized fiction isolated and not representative of the real world?
will the televisual "black" forever only "reveal time's differentiation into presents that pass and pasts that are preserved" (Fanon qtd. in Keeling 71). Could the BPP only conjure up past images and was this a limiting factor in their political success
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