Richard Aoki: Committed Revolutionary or FBI Informant? Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2012
- We interviewed Richard Aoki in 2008 as part of our documentary "Merritt College: Home of the Black Panthers". In light of recent allegations that he was an informant for the FBI, we are presenting the entire interview, to provide insight into this complicated man.
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This dude definitely informant
Wow! As a former Peralta college student, I highly advise the Peralta board supervisors to promote these videos more our websites.
Some of the stories I heard the Black Panthers had black informants running amok. Aoki definitely wasn't the only one because back then you give a brother some mad green they would turn on even their own mama.
A lot of us was real to our cause
You sound stupid.
The FBI had a program called CoIntelpro( which is still around today)Where j Edgar Hoover told every agent to have at least 1 informant in the black community & that included Shop owners to Pool Hall....I don't see it being hard for the fbi to get those informants just like I don't see it being a problem for the BP to use those same informants to get / give up information that would benefit them
What do you mean "back then"?
Anyone focussed on Aoki are simply simple minded? Black Americans don't have friends and nobody should be trusted who you personally cannot punish! Everything starts from Grassroots and nobody should be trusted without receipts?
There are two many evil people in places of power who are just as corrupt as Hoover, if not more so. At least if they're vetted we have a chance that justice will prevail!
The thing is the fbi literally stated the same thing aoki did in this first part he was a fascinated young soldier who wanted to always do more he had information that could help the fbi so he told his superiors who then hooked him up with the feds aoki expects us to believe he was offered everything he ever wanted in his second go round to a unknown future..cut it out bro he’s a informant in the phone interview he was asked about it and didn’t deny it he jus said it was conmplicated then not too long after he kills himself with his army and panther coats on the bed
Yeah, "kills himself".
This story would make a great historic film.
If you take Liberal Studies Seriously then enjoy your Augmented reality of Victimization Complex of Snowflakery.
Aoki was an FBI informants
samaikur Aoki was an FBI informant
Aoki would make a problematic protagonist.
Right
Such a smart brother. Not sure about his motivations, or to what extent he was a double-agent (playing game with FBI but shifting the info back to Huey and Bobby). On You Tube a video Exist of the FBI trying to get Malcolm X to be an informer. Malcolm taped the conversation. For sure, many of those women on the Panthers were on the payroll -many of them even attended Ivy League universities after the end of the Panthers (while the brothers ended in gutters on drugs).
Jack Brown say that 100 everybody tends to overlook the women in the BPP
He was an (agent) for J. Edgar Hoover....this man was a backststabber, traitor to the (Black Panther) cause, informant, charlatan, scoundrel, sneaky, pretender, lying, weasley, worm, low-life!
I give him these labels because of (his)...betrayal of the Black Panther Party!
You can't serve two masters!👈👈👈 Duality is a major cause of destruction, in any movement!
#COINTELINPRO
Zelda Williams teach
Eazy e would never have had the finance to start his record label had he not worked for the fed
@@Zeldarw104 anything to get the heat off the women. He probably was an agent, doesn't mean that the women weren't easily corrupted.
This man knew what he was doing he was playing chess with the FBI giving black panthers information ✊🏽
Why the FBI too embarrassed to release his file till this day
He was an FBI informant.
No it's the other way around he was working for the FBI.
@@macewbee How do you know?
You wish.
I didnt know too much about Mr. Aoki. Thanks for the Upload!
He was 🐀
Thanks Peralta, good documentation
there us something about this story. i have knowing about aoki for years. but i have just learnt about his FBI informant scandal. one thing that standout the most is that, why was his name the only name that is not concealed in the FBI files released yet they concealed every informant names. and the other part is that the FBI still has over 4000 files on aoki they haven't release. again why?. they didn't have a problem releasing files with his name as an informant but yet they refused to release the files on him. maybe he was an informant but the story just seems an FBI work of character assassination.
Apparently my mother & he attended Berkeley high at the same time 1957 .
FBI Got Rid Of Him After He Made Interviews
This man is such a G. He has values, morals, principles and shit tone of amazing stories to tell.
A person with morals dont tell or inform on their constituents!
This man killed him self how can you respect it
His legacy is a bit tarnished, I hope that he was not the informant that is being portrayed here
morals isn't being a fucking rat
That's why you would've been the first one he sold out on. 😂
It seems that he worked for both sides,the FBI and the black panthers.
Then that would make him a double agent, keyword there is still "agent".
The fact that an FBI agent voluntarily contacts a journalist to tell him that Aoki is his informant tells me that he WAS NOT an informant.
And an enemy of the FBI just conveniently "committed suicide". Where have we heard that before.
@@airtioteclint nah he definitely was a infromt lol idk why yall sticking up for Asian people lol
He was really on the black panther side. There was no information that give to the FBI by him at all. Even he was a FBI he never turn his back on the black panther. He not the only Asian in the black panther. Mike Tagawa he also in the black panther too and there another one that I forgot his name.
I was so surprised to hear him refer to Asians as Orientals. I always thought that was a derogatory term. More importantly, I wish he never committed suicide to hear his rebuttal of this accusation.
Ayana: It did not use to be. When I was a kid in the sixties, my father told me it was the correct word to use. Only later did it become a derogatory word.
I had to go ask mama bout this cus her and my dad were black panthers.
Shawnee Bey heyyyy go to the source i feel u 100 BLAC POWER
And what did they say? Lol
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@@WestSideBarson 😂😂💯
hey, what did they say?
We have no allies!!!
He wasn't the only one he was just one of the asians.
No allies what about the Sicilians?
@@dame5372
Well, generally speaking, and I'm not talking about all Italians, but the history of Italy and Sicilians were not good when it comes to blacks, even though there is that little dark secret about the bloodline of Sicilians.
I know some friendly Italians, and I know some racists ones too. I grew up in New York when there was a lot of tension between blacks and Italians. Back then New York was a racial powder keg ready to explode after two racial attacks. One was the "Howard Beach murder" and the other was the "Benson murders". But there were many more incidences between the two. Blacks couldn't even walk through an Italian neighborhood without being attacked back then.
I never understood why the two don't get along due to the fact that Italians were mistreated when they were coming to Amerikkka from Italy as immigrants. Racist whites didn't even consider them "white" back then.
Back in the early part of the 1900's there was an incident in New Orleans were a group of Italians were lynched by a mob of white locals because they didn't like the fact that the Italians controlled the shipping docks. Even the local Sheriff had a problem with it, and he ended up getting shot by one of the Italians. That's what started the whole problem that caused those Italian men to get lynched. There is information about that incident.
But now, Italians act like they were never treated poorly in America because they are a part of white Amerikkka.
MADNEW YORKER my father came here on a contract Roman Catholic with a Quran was raised a certain way I feel blessed was a ranger and combat medic in Vietnam and had friends or brothers in Vietnam feel blessed to been around great men he wasn’t Americanized I knew a Sicilian family in Europe and they act different than here in a America being Americanized ain’t a good thing my father was neither of this NWO was from the old world Roman Catholic with a Quran ever wonder the connections goes against the NWO there is a difference between Italians and Sicilians and being Americanized and not
@@dame5372
I feel you!!!
But, the Roman Catholic Church was highly supportive of slavery. And your father was telling the truth about Americanization is a bad thing. Nothing but racist, self entitlement, and greed, is what Amerikkkans are all about.
There ain't no paperwork on him. Just police claiming aoki is informant. You believe the police? I don't
He said he was as close as being one of the founding members of the Party, so he should have gone down with the ship just like all the other founding members, something stinks rotten
Bobby Seale didn’t go down and he wasn’t an informant
@@wayne47able I'm not talking about Bobby Seale
@@kimrobinson4016 you said he should’ve went down with the other founding members and Bobby Seale was actually the main founder, the co-founder. He didn’t really go down.
@@wayne47able whattttt!!!! I said I'm not referring to Bobby Seale did u understand my initial comment read it again emphasizing the first sentence okay!!!!
@@kimrobinson4016 Well since there is no period, coma, or exclamation point, this makes your statement one big sentence. So I am reading the first sentence in fact. And to quote you, “so she should’ve gone down with the ship like ALL the founding members,” which Bobby Seale happens to be which is why I mentioned his name. Not necessarily disagreeing with you on him being an informant but part of your statement was incorrect.
He kinda sound like bizzy bone especially when he laughs lmfao. Maybe I'm drunk
If you have to ask if you're drunk....you probably are.
100% He does lol
He kinda do
He do
He does lol
Thank you
He was snitch-jacketed. Theres no proof that he informed on his comrades. Show and prove otherwise.
Nah he did lol fbi even said it lol
Would like to ask the brothers but they dead. Why do you think he committed suicide?
Black men are too trusting...
Maybe you’re a little too trusting of the FBI and the US government?
@@maestrohiphop Are you high?
Miss Pickles InaCan are you?
@@maestrohiphop No.... Black men are too trusting.
Either he knew how to play the game very well, like chess, or he just like most real ppl trying to help and make change. Guess it all depends how much pros and cons he has helped with the Panther Party. But after hearing the taped Rosenfeld interview, who is misleading to get fame, Richard Oaki is true revolutionary hero and these vultures tarnishing all he has done for lil fame on their own names, gtfoh.
Ok will do some research and check it out, everyone has a role n contributed one way or another to the bigger picture however the position they have to take sometimes i guess, not everything so white and black many shades of grey frfr. Appreciate the heads up tho def interested to find out truth always.
There are hundreds of pages mentioning Aoki, my friend.
Ic thx.
Get the Perspective From another Japanese American named Diane C. Fujino she published the Samurai among Panthers book along with the Yuri Kochiyama(Nippon Friend of Malcom X) and Fred Ho.
What is Asian American Studies None of the Above Fucking Trolls who like to Shill Shit and Ugliness in their Hack-Job Comments that are made of Petty Minorityisms.
@@samaikur great response these trolls are beyond uneducated about Mr. Aoki
Notice that this video is back out right after affirmative action. Showing you the relationship between Asian and Black America. Another ruse for you to see.
😐 Let’s tune in to part II & see if he is or not. Let his own words confirm or deny the allegation.
WOW!
Did anyone else's ears perk up when he said "with the DEPOPULATION of the Japanese"!? Hmmm
Message
Some people pretend well
True
had to be a contracted double agent. There was a reason why they left his name not scratched out.
Could be a clerical error. That document was from a secret file and wouldn't need to be scratched out.
I believe it was on purpose. When you are a trustworthy asset they’ll try their hardest to keep you under wraps. If not you are fair game to both sides.
This reminds me of that movie the Panthers the cartridges church
+Lumi This was an era of "cold" revolutions as much as an era of The Cold
War. Being targeted and handled by the FBI in those times should not
really be any definitive means of determining someone's commitment to
their revolutionary ideologies in those times. Revolutionary movements
and their leaders should have and often did expect to be infiltrated by
Federal agencies and like Huey, the cunning wise ones would actually try
to use that likelihood to their advantage if possible. In fact to
effect changes that most of which had already occurred legally on the
federal level in the first place without making a mortal enemy of
Federal agencies already well known to be ruthless, would have been the
best strategy and I believe initially at least for many perhaps even
Huey Newton this WAS part of their strategy. They knew that the feds
were dangerous and in the position of enforcers of the FEDERAL status
quo, but I don't think that the Feds were widely perceived as "the
enemy" until the feds later betrayed these movement's goals which were
usually up against local and state sociopolitical and cultural inertia.
Because the federal treachery was also covert, they likely didn't even
realize how much they had been betrayed until it was too late to adapt
to that reality. It seems obvious in retrospect to myself but we all
have different perspectives so some analysis in that regard probably
needs to be promoted:
www.thirdworldtraveler.com/FBI/COINTELPRO60s_WAH.html
+majest33 When I say revolutionary I mean in the sense of activists for "change" not overthrow of a government. I don't believe most of the movements of that time were trying to do away with the Federal Government in fact they had every reason to believe the Fed would be their allies. IF they had been real collaborators with foreign governments they would not have been taken down so easily, or fooled into believing they could effect and be integrated into policy systems by becoming informants. Also they would not have appealed to the legal systems as often as they did. There would have been an armed resistance "plan B" already in place before any of their public activities even began.
+majest33 Aoki is not the traitor here..Its the paranoid Federal officials of that era, racial supremacists from the very beginning,and actually the state,local and the fascist judicial systems that have betrayed and continue to undermine the people and communities of the USA and usurp the ideals and powers of the people that were once embedded in the US constitution and later the Geneva convention. This is possible because in an oligarchy, hypocrisy and nepotism are hardly even frowned upon.
a snitch is a snitch is a snitch is a snitch is a snitch is a snitch is a snitch is a snitch
......is a snitch
@@majest33
No he was indeed a traitor. The Federal government was doing what it has always done.....destroy and oppress. Aoki was a charlatan 🐀 POS!
He volunteered for the Green Berets, and had a buddy who was an "advisor," before the war in Vietnam started? 🤔
The fact that an FBI agent voluntarily contacts a journalist to tell him that Aoki is his informant tells me that he WAS NOT an informant.
And an enemy of the FBI just conveniently "committed suicide". Where have we heard that before.
Two can keep a secret if the other person is dead
Aoki WAS undoubtedly an informant. He had practically admitted it himself, anyways- when he was asked if he was an informant for a pre-taped interview, the response was “oh.. that’s all I have to say.”
the FBI definitely snitchjacketed plenty. But they would never do that directly. Aoki wasn’t the target of some plot to assassinate his character or smth
@netflix WYA monetize a film producer to do something on his story
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how come he was walking free when most of the bpp got taken to jail if he was working for them?
He was a FBI informant. So like Whitey Bulger and Lefty Rosenthal, he was immune from arrest and prosecution.
Divide&Conquer CointelPro tactics smh
TEACH! I will not let the FBI nor dupe Seth Rosenberg snatch one of our heroes. Period.
How can he be a founder
Apparently he lived in the same neighbourhood as Huey Newton and they were great friends and Huey asked him to join the party.....another infiltrator was another friend of a panther and FBI informant. Coerced into providing and setting up members as well....that dude was a black man !
This interview gives no new information at all about his being an informant!?
Bro the fbi even said he was lol wtf you a clown
Crazy to think segregation was so recent.
Fbi have him the guns and that’s how he rose in rank so fast fbi gave them those type of guns so they can have a reason to do what they did. My opinion
He’s the first Vlad and Tekashi69
Lol snitch or not, this man mind was far more advanced than many, They don't compare.
@@Erudito_Ra He played us. Everybody plays us because we give them too much credit.
🙏🏽Damn the Blackman ain’t got a chance😢
I do not think this man was a rat they do anything to make it look as if African Americans are alone in this country, but they're are plenty of other people from other races including Caucasians who are tired of the b.s and have been tired.
You know he was never on FBI side even though he a FBI. He was 100% on the black panther side. He not the only Asian in the black panther party. There some more Asian in the late 70s and early 80s. Mike Tagawa, Richard Aoki, James Lee, W.E.B Du Bois, Mao Zedong, Thich Nhat Hanh, Yuri Kochiyama, Simmy Makhijani, Daryl J. Maeda, Ho Chi Minh, the there more Asian in the black panther party. Is all facts Asian was alway a big part of the black panther party. It just this new generation forgot about Asian in the Black Panther Party. Is what a shame that some black poeple hate Asian. When Asian alway stand up for black people. Google Asian in the Black Panther Party and research Asian Black History or Black Asian History.
R.I.P. Richard, you helped change the world! Thank you
Change the world??! 🤔 For being a typical POS 🐀 and informant for J Edgar Hoover?? For helping white supremacist? I don't care how old your message is.......that charlatan can R.I.H.
Daddy Famlittle he literally was an activist for other parties too what u talkn bout. He’s also the first ones that gave guns to black panther. So why is he a 🐀? I’m pretty sure the ops wouldn’t want u giving guns to the enemies of you were a white supremacist.
melanated melanated lemme ask u something if you were a white supremacist or the feds you wouldn’t want to give your enemies a gun, you instantly lose if you did. Plus those guns he gave were really high quality and were really good. So tell me why would the feds want him to give the black panther good ass guns for them to lose a fight.
melanated melanated and he was a part of other activists parties that he also supported.
@melanated melanated
Word!!!
And I want to know where did he get those guns???
...and if the BPP was full of them will determine the answer to the critical question.
If it was true, why would he lay out a Black Panther uniform?
He was playing both sides most likely. And getting benefits from both. I wonder which side he did more harm to, the feds or the black people? Nah I know. He didn't put a dent in the feds..so what does that tell you.
This is not true. Aoki was a dedicated Panther. He was not an informant
@@christiinamariie413 so y did he kill himself
Nobody "plays" a government agency, we keep playing ourselves is what happened.
@@christiinamariie413 the fbi a 221 page document proofing he was a informant for 16 years
So he 🐀 on the Panther Party after supplying them
Yes think about it. If he supplied them, the cops could shoot them and the shooting would be justified, because of the weapons. Its crazy
@@Precisepete They didn't have gun laws back then, you could open carry in CA. at that time. That theory doesn't correlate! He may have gotten squeezed because they feel he armed and military trained the Panthers, so he could have played a double-agent role. Telling the Panthers what the Feds were planning and who they were targeting etc.
Maybe there are factions in the FBI that wanted to genuinely arm and help the BPP? Just a thought.
Highly unlikely
I believe he was an informant. He seems too easily persuaded for money.
He didn't do it for the money. The FBI during that era didn't pay informants very often. He informed for psychological and/or ideological reasons.
He is most definitely a ci for the fbi !!!!!!!! He mocks the ppl he studied...... He is a agent dayum that ci , informant hog wash int he label 🤨 the more I watch this - this is agent of the FBI ....... he was to eager to be white!! He is happy to talk about him being a real G I joe
He was not an informant do your homework 📚.
@@christiinamariie413 I don’t need to do homework I’m listening to what he’s saying and how he’s saying it.... well I think he’s an FBI agent I think informant do not explain who he is..... that’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it.... it’s things we will never know the truth about so doing homework won’t help cause someone who is just like them are the ones that wrote whatever you read.... nothing that is taught is what it really is anyway.... look at this world.... they complain about black on black crime but no one ask how the hell poor ppl get guns in the first place.... how ppl that was being refused education know how to whip up dope.... all I’m saying is just when you think you are right think again because selfishly and foolish ppl create this world to be set up like this they just wasn’t looking forward to it biting them in the ass!!!!
He was not an FBI informant lol 😂 you definitely need to do your homework 📚 if you think he was working with the FEDS. I’m apart of the party knowing facts your just assuming and passing judgment. Again GO DO YOUR HOMEWORK 📚 🏡
まさとっ！！！lol
Hoover
There’s nothing funny. He finds lot funny. Tells you a lot about what and how he feels. This should be a sign fir my Black Americans. This is a message.
I don't see it as snitching more like {Look at what we did HEHE HAHA WHAT U GOIN 2 DO ABOUT IT}
Revolutionary or FBI informant? regardless he was a U.S. Army Veteran 👍🫡🇺🇸🪖
FBI INFORMANT! 🐭🐁🐀🖕🏿✊🏿
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How he free
He’s dead bro lol
Lol only FBI knows what he was
Fkn snitch
Son of a bitch infiltrate my culture
Cia
I get it. Theres probably 5 other informants at any given meeting giving the bureau the same info youre giving them. Might as well get paid.
The latter
Rat. How many people died. Rat. Smell the Rat all over him
Stooge.....
Fast forward, the same thing 6ix9ine is doing now
Nowhere near
Stfu
Dude said he started the black Panthers 🤣💀 foh
He's a founder, a childhood friend of Huey P. Newton
@@Tayy1800 naw
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