Labor Day Bobby-que

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Bobby Seale: Barbeque’n With Bobby Seale What was his secret? What was your uncle Tom like, as a man? Do you think that influenced you later, when you got into self-defense and started the Black Panther Party? In the 60s, once you had started the Black Panther Party, was there a lot of barbecueing going on then? Weren’t Bobby Hutton and Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver on their way to help out with a barbecue in ’68 when they got into a shoot-out with police and Bobby Hutton and a policeman were killed? So Eldridge and Hutton and those guys were just pissed, and wanted to go get some? Actually, I also read where Minister of Defense Huey Newton wrote somewhere that in 1967, when he got shot and shot a cop, he was on his way to get barbecue in Oakland. What was Eldridge like? What does “Catechism of a Revolutionary” say, exactly? Back then, was there ever any problem with the Muslims and Nation of Islam people who were around about people eating pork? Homo sapiens Do black people make the best barbecue? I heard that some former Black Panthers are marketing hot sauce? Are you involved with that? Have you tried it? How have you responded when people have said that you’re selling out by doing this barbecue stuff? Malcom X To order the revised edition of , visit Bobbyqueseale.com.

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Bobby’s Spicy Barbeque Sauce TO MARINATE RIBS CHARCOAL-WOOD PIT FIRE GAS GRILL METHOD: SEAR SEASONING PIT BASTING
SAUCING Makes 7 to 12 servings QUICK PIT-BASTE MARINADE GOOBERED* FRUIT COTTAGE-CHEESE SALAD Makes 6 servings