By 1970s the dominant caste-controlled media had nearly four years of producing coverage of the Black Panther Party that portrayed them as arrogant, ignorant, and dangerous. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called the Panthers a threat to the internal security of the country and secretly colluded to use the resources of the federal government to exterminate them and the expansion of their programs across the country. In contrast, most lower caste African-American journalist depicting party members as the smartest and most courageous of their generation. They praise them for protecting the rights of the poor in their communities and helping them meet their food needs. The party and their supporters warned that that the dominant caste often used inadequate access to nutrient rich affordable food and healthcare and restricting people to the worst living conditions as a strategy to slowly kill lower caste people and thereby maintain control of political power and resources. The Panthers pointe to the nations federal farm bill and criticized US policy makers for stockpiling food for the benefit of elites who owned the nation’s largest agricultural producers instead of prioritizing the need of hungry citizens.
