McCartney Times

In 1972, on The Mike Douglas Show, John Lennon and Yoko Ono invited the Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale to share their audience of millions of Americans. This revolutionary moment was an exemplar of the daring stance that Lennon and Ono took by voicing their open philosophical views. At the time, the Black Panthers had been mired in several controversies, many of which have since sadly been revealed as externally engineered, but Lennon and Ono boldly vowed to ignore all the outside noise and get to the core of the movement by meeting with an originator of the socialist party.

While many other artists would fear that ties to the party would attract issues and affect their own footing, Lennon and Ono recognised that Seale was an important voice to hear, and they lent him their platform. Therein, Seale elucidated the core philosophy of the original Black Panthers movement. “Our philosophy is basically what we call inter-communalism,” Seale began. “We’re not nationalists. We don’t believe in nationalism. Nationalism […] is akin to superiority, is akin to racism, is akin to sectarianism.” At which point Lennon excitedly interjects and calls out in agreement, “That’s what I said in my song! Imagine no countries.”

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