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Monday, July 18, 2005

Burn Baby Burn: Come Get Your Black Panther Hot Sauce!

Media Orchard entered the day fairly confident that every anti-establishment organization and credo of the '60s had long ago been absorbed (and rendered absurd) by the triumphant capitalist system. Well, we were wrong -- until now.

As Smoking Gun reports, the heirs of the Black Panthers are seeking to trademark the phrase "Burn Baby Burn" to market hot sauce.

For a little historical context, Huey Newton, founder of the Panthers, is the same political pundit who once said: "We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism."

While spinning in his grave, Newton might at least find some solace in the fact that this new capitalist venture is minority-owned.

1 Comments:

  • Hey, if people can make money exploiting the image of Che Gueverra to sell t shirts then so much the better that people with some direct connection to the Panthers should make money off their iconography. Besides, the Panthers are rather irrelevant at this late date anyways.

    By Blogger Tim, at 7/19/2005  

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