“I dissuade Party members from putting down people who do not understand. Even people who are unenlightened and seemingly bourgeois should be answered in a polite way. Things should be explained to them as fully as possible. I was turned off by a person who did not want to talk to me because I was not important enough. Maurice just wanted to preach to the converted, who already agreed with him. I try to be cordial, because that way you win people over. You cannot win them over by drawing the line of demarcation, saying you are on this side and I am on the other; that shows a lack of consciousness. After the Black Panther Party was formed, I nearly fell into this error. I could not understand why people were blind to what I saw so clearly. Then I realized that their understanding had to be developed.”
― Huey P. Newton :huey-wut:
Huey Newton, born on the 17th of february in 1942, was a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who, along with fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party (1966 - 1982). Together with Seale, Newton created a ten-point program which laid out guidelines for how the African-American community could achieve liberation. In the 1960s, under Newton's leadership, the Black Panther Party founded over 60 community support programs (renamed survival programs in 1971) including food banks, medical clinics, HIV support groups, sickle cell anemia tests, prison busing for families of inmates, legal advice seminars, clothing banks, housing co-ops, and their own ambulance service.
The most famous of these programs was the Free Breakfast for Children program which fed thousands of impoverished children daily during the early 1970s. Newton also co-founded the Black Panther newspaper service which became one of America's most widely distributed African-American newspapers. In 1967, he was involved in a shootout which led to the death of the police officer John Frey. Although arrested for the murder of Frey, the charges were eventually dismissed.
In 1970, after his release from prison, Newton received an invitation to visit the People's Republic of China. Newton made the trip in late September 1971 with fellow Panthers, Elaine Brown and Robert Bay, and stayed for 10 days. At every Chinese airport he landed in, Newton was greeted by thousands of people waving copies of the "Little Red Book" and displaying signs that said "we support the Black Panther Party, down with US imperialism" or "we support the American people but the Nixon imperialist regime must be overthrown."
By mid-decade, Newton faced more criminal charges when he was accused of murdering a 17-year-old sex worker and assaulting a tailor. To avoid prosecution, he fled to Cuba in 1974, but returned to the U.S. three years later. The murder case was eventually dismissed after two trials ended with deadlocked juries, while the tailor refused to testify in court in relation to assault charges.
Despite graduating from high school not knowing how to read, he taught himself literacy by reading Plato's Republic and earned a Ph.D. in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness program in 1980. In 1989, he was murdered in Oakland, California by Tyrone Robinson, a member of the Black Guerrilla Family.
Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death. We will have to be driven out with a stick.”
― Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide :huey-wut:
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Black against Empire The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Waldo Martin (no black panther party emote :angery: )
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Out of Oakland: Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War by Sean L. Malloy
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I would say i love my job if I didn't have to fucking clean so much. Fuck. I just want to cook. What happened to "i cook you clean" I have to cook and then clean up the whole fucking kitchen. I had help Monday Wednesday and Thursday but now she's like "i don't wanna work Thursday" so now it's just Monday Wednesday and Sunday (when another person helps me. I was so excited to finally have help 4 out of 5 days and now woops) that i have help and Thursday and Friday I'm by myself after dinner goes out. And it's ass.
How the fuck am I supposed to prep ahead for Sunday if I'm by myself and have to be keeping up with constant random demands during dinner service? We ran out of rolls, ran out of kale, ran out of sliced steak, and ran out of the fucking potatoes that I was assured would 100% be enough, causing me to have to drop whatever Im doing at the time to get more shit ready. I need to be cleaning at that point so that I don't have to stay super fucking late mopping later but woops had to get more fucking shit ready.
I wasn't even told we needed more potatoes until they were fucking entirely out and they take like 30 ffucking minutes to steam and then like 10-15 more to roast (and that's assuming I skip properly oiling and seasoning them and can magically instantly smash them) and woops we were open for another hour so like. Great thanks. If I started prepping any there wouldn't have been a point. In retrospect I should have just turned on the deep fryer or started baking fries but I didn't want to add cleaning that shit to the list of shit Ihad to do
I think the other chefs think i'm a whiner when I say this is a two person job but idk I really think it is and fuck anyone who says otherwise. Especially when LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE FUCKING ONE OF THEM keeps leaving me fucking messes. If it's not a messy greasy floor it's a dirty knife or three in a sink or a dirty fucking table i have to clean WHEN I COME IN just to have a place to work. And none of them have to clean up the whole fucking kitchen like I do because they're all doing breakfast or lunch and then fuck off out of there while I have to do dinner and then clean up and shut down. Being responsible for the cleanliness of the whole fucking kitchen and all these messes I didn't make really feels like some unpaid supervisor work.
They leave knives in the sink? You absolutely NEVER do that. Do you have dishwashers cause I'd put them on that stuff. Also other chefs? There should be one chef, so that's a problem right there. Cleanliness absolutely should not be up to you aside from your own mess, people should never ever be leaving a station without clearing all the cutting boards and whatever, wiping down the surface and sanitizing, you are not done that prep task until you have cleaned up, everything should have a place and always be returned there etc. that is bare bones basic ass kitchen etiquette. I would go Gordom Ramsay about this subpar half asked bullshit, unless cleaning is your job you should never be cleaning up after someone else.
That being said it is a very very important skill to know how to work clean and efficiently, the time it takes to get organized will save you like 5x that time in the long run. Prioritize tasks ahead of time and don't take on too much at once or you end out stuck with 6 things partially done and deeper in the hole than if you had 3 finished and 3 not even started. If someone tells you different they are deeply unserious people which is next level common in kitchens. Make sure you know your shit top to bottom before calling it out though because kitchens are full of idiots who are completely stuck in their ass backwards methodology because they never ever applied any logic or thought to what they're doing and brute force everything, these are the people that stress themselves into a lather while failing to deliver. Also once you cross the age 30 barrier and a decent amount of the staff are now younger than you it's much easier to demand respect and have things done right. It sounds like your kitchen needs to hire deep cleaners and a better system and discipline regarding cleanliness be figured out. It also does sound like an extra person consistently is necessary but you shouldn't need to walk into a mess ever. Your setup seems really fucking wack. But if it isn't dishes you do have to clean up after yourself, wipe up your spills, waste food from chopping and all that, cooks are generally responsible for keeping their own station clean. Also clearly people aren't ordering enough, they should cut that out.
I know you get summers off but you would be sooooo much happier in a real kitchen the rest of the time.
i mean I'm just a cook but I try really hard to make the good food (and my chef friend insists I'm a better cook than anyone there) and some of my coworkers call me chef and I'm just calling myself chef until it's real but I don't actually have a chef title. There's just the sous chef and the executive chef. But I do feel like I have a lot of autonomy over what I cook, I kinda feel like I can kinda do whatever I want as long as I'm not wasting ingredients or making bad food (unless the chef insists on something specific). Like I'll have a menu diagram that'll show the like 6 dishes I've gotta get ready but how I specifically season and cook everything is generally up to me. idk I feel cheffy
yeah but I mean I do it too. Not the dishwashing sink, like already dirty production sinks, idk if I have a dirty knife that's covered in chicken bullshit and I don't have time to clean it I'll throw it in the chicken sink. But not sinks anyone has any business reaching their hands into obviously and like, I will always clean whatever knives I used. Other people will just leave their shit in the sink and then go home. We don't have the dishwashers wash the knives because of some fear of the dishwashers cutting themselves (but I mean they wash the food processer parts and could cut themselves on that so idk).
damn dude i started this shit at 32
Yeah I mean obviously I have no problem cleaning up my own messes (I mean, it would be nice if I didn't have to clean the grill, fryers, steam kettles and tilt skillet because sometimes I have to do 2-3 of those in one night and it fucking sucks) but it's all the random shit that people just "forget" and leave that I see when I'm closing down that really get to me. And the floors. Sweeping and mopping every night when I hardly ever see the breakfast/lunch people even do a light pass over before leaving.
I need to just be an asshole about it but it's hard for me to be assertive and tell people they need to do more when they've consistently helped me out a lot in prepping stuff for my shift. But I would rather they fuck off and clean their shit and leave me to prep and be stressed about that than leave me shit to clean
aside from the steak which literally did run out (because tbh we needed to be serving it to these kids instead of letting random assholes take half a fucking steak at a time) the other stuff we technically had it just wasn't ready to cook and would require prep. So like we ran out of the potatoes I'd cooked a 50# case of but we had other cases. It would have just taken too much time to get ready
part of the difficulty is that I'm not trying to waste food but I am basically guessing every day how much of whatever item these people are gonna eat. In the case of the potatoes I was told "if it's not mashed or fried they won't eat it" and generally 1 case has been fine for like potato wedges. But woops, they ate they shit out of them (I did make them look p. good ngl)
I worked a college before and the food waste is pretty enormous unfortunately. It can be hard to avoid when what moves can vary so dramatically and unpredictablly.