READ THIS NOW!! The Lil' Bobby Hutton Memorial

The Bobby Hutton memorial that will soon sit in Lil' Bobby Hutton Park (aka De Fremery Park) will serve as one of the few enduring symbols in the United States honoring the Black Panthers. Currently, there are no streets named after Panthers, no statues and no publicly funded institutions. Although Bobby Hutton was the third Black Panther member he is an excellent choice to serve as the first Panther to be immortalized in a statue.

A week before Lil' Bobby's 18th birthday and three days after The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, Bobby Hutton was shot 12 times and killed by a contingent of over 40 Oakland Police officers while standing, shirtless, in flood lights, with his hands in the air in the act of surrendering.

Lil' Bobby started in the movement as little more than a child and in a few short years, he evolved into a well-read, politically aware Revolutionary. Lil' Bobby's evolution was repeated thousands of times over, across the nation in the 43 Black Panther chapters that sprang up in response to Huey P. Newton's call for a generation of fearless Black men to step forward and take their place in the front lines of the struggle.

Huey P. Newton stated that the true revolutionary engages in "Revolutionary Suicide" which is the sacrifice of ones life and efforts, for the revolution, but not ones life.
Huey also said, "Revolution is a process, not an event", meaning the revolutionary must fight for freedom while creating a new society that can embody the means necessary to sustain a perpetual post-revolutionary society. Huey's vision was of a new consciousness for Black American that would transform future generations to safeguard the hard fought freedoms of the revolution.

The Lil' Bobby Hutton statue will stand for everything The Panther's achieved, the dangers they faced, and the sacrifices they made in the enduring struggle of Black Americans to rid themselves of neglect, discrimination, and crushing disparity. The Statue will also serve as a reminder that the Black community needs more Bobby's, more Huey's, Malcolm's and Martin's from the next generation, so that they can serve as the leaders of the future and finish the work that to this day, remains undone.

For those who would like to become literate in order to open up a world of opportunities, the Bobby Hutton Adult Literacy Program (insert date, address, time, phone number). For those of you who would like to become a part of the Bobby Hutton Memorial, then attend the (insert date of event, fee, address, phone, web address, etc), and your contribution will be used to make the memorial a reality.