In January 1968, in Los Angeles CA, USA, Bunchy Carter unfurled a poster of Huey Newton on his wicker throne at a poetry reading to declare Huey Newton was the leader of the Black Liberation Struggle.

In January 1968, Bunchy attended a poetry reading organized by the Black Congress to announce the launch of the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party, the first outside the Oakland Bay Area. He brought twenty street-hardened soldiers dressed in black leather jackets and gloves and carrying armed pistols and sawed-off shotguns. Uninvited, Bunchy and his “wolves” stormed the hall midreading and surrounded the Black Congress members who were there. Conversation stopped, and someone called for Bunchy to “blow,” to recite a poem. After reciting the fierce “Niggertown” and tender “Black Mother,” both of which he had written, Bunchy thanked the audience for letting him “blow.” Next he gestured to one of the wolves, who unfurled a poster of Huey Newton on his wicker throne. Bunchy declared that Huey Newton was the leader of the Black Liberation Struggle and announced that he was forming the Southern California chapter of the Black Panther Party:

“[Huey] set the example and showed us that we, too, must deal with the pig if we are to call ourselves men. We can no longer allow the pig’s armed forces to come into our communities and kill our young men and disrespect our Sisters and rob us of our lives. The pig can no longer attack and suppress our people, or send his occupying army to maraud and maim our communities, without suffering grave consequences. . . . From this point forward, Brothers and Sisters, if the pig moves on this community, the Black Panther Party will deal with him.”

(Bloom 2016, 144-5)