Huey Newton's 'Revolutionary Hot Sauce': Burn, baby, burn

[quaoar]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0718051burn1.html

Black Panther Heirs Seek Spicy Trademark
60's historians may find proposed hot sauce hard to swallow

JULY 18--Former Black Panther associates of Huey P. Newton, the late co-founder of the militant organization, are seeking to trademark the phrase "Burn Baby Burn" so they can slap the words--long associated with conflagrations that left cities like Watts and Newark in cinders--on hot sauce. According to pending filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (which you will find below), the Huey P. Newton Foundation also wants to trademark the phrase "Revolutionary Hot Sauce." The Oakland-based group, which is run by Newton's widow Fredrika and ex-Panther David Hilliard, submitted the trademark applications late last year and, according to USPTO records, appears close to securing government approval of its requests. On the foundation's web site, the Newton group describes itself as a "community-based, non-profit research, education, and advocacy center dedicated to fostering progressive social change." It is unclear exactly what role spicy condiments play in this noble multicultural pursuit. In 1966, Newton co-founded the Black Panther Party, which would later be called "the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States" by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. In 1989, he was convicted of stealing money earmarked for a Panther-affiliated public school. Newton was murdered later that year, at age 47, by an Oakland crack dealer who shot him three times in the head. Now that "Burn Baby Burn" is close to being trademarked, perhaps an entrepreneur would consider "Black Power" for a minority-owned electric company. Or a courier service might make a run at "By Any Means Necessary."

[MadHound]

1. I'm sorry, even though I've supported and admired the Panthers

This is just way too over the top. It cheapens the memory of Huey, and degrades the good works done by all Panthers. Sad to see this going down. Of course it doesn't suprise me that the USPTO is about to approve of this monstrosity, the government has always been complicit with corporate America in the degradation and commercialization of leftist symobols and slogans.

This is just wrong, wrong on many levels.

[quaoar]

2. It's like using a John Lennon song

in a car commercial.

[Rich Hunt]

3. I guess things are so bad that...

we have to teach history through advertising.

[Kraklen]

4. I'll buy some.

I wonder if a portion of the proceeds are going towards anything.

[BrotherBuzz]

5. I'll stay in Bobby Seale's camp when it comes to BARBEQUE'N

I believe he IS the last word when it comes to hot sauces and I don't expect him to condone this blatant bit of commercial exploitation of a noble experiment that ran its course. Besides, he says the Black Panther party is DEAD. Time to move on, folks.

http://www.bobbyqueseale.com/declare.html