![]() ![]() ![]() He enables Van Peebles to describe black aspirations, and also white fears as embodied by Brimmer, the Oakland police inspector ordered by the FBI to infiltrate and crush the Panthers. Judge, who is assigned by Newton to work as a double agent, is a useful device. It did not, however, fulfill any government needs and was quickly targeted for infiltration by the FBI and by local police as well. The movement is portrayed as fulfilling a community need. ![]() Although the novel's protagonist, Judge, is fictional, many of the other characters are not, including Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver and Herbert Hoover. Writer, director, actor and singer (he wrote, directed and starred in Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song), Van Peebles has now written an engrossing novel about the early days of the Black Panther movement in '67 and '68. ![]()
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