>In the words of BPP co-founder, Huey P. Newton, “We don’t hate white people; we hate the oppressor. And if the oppressor happens to be white then we hate him.”Great efforts were made by the Party to form alliances with other ethnic groups so that forces could be consolidated for the ultimate purpose. "There is a startling number of people who, through the miseducation of, and reliance on, biased and outright false media portrayals, perceive the [original] Black Panther Party as an organization of anti-white zealots with a Black supremacy agenda. However, this depiction couldn’t be further from the truth.Misconceptions of these revolutionary vigilantes as Black hatemongers is a prime example of “Panther mythology”. It’s natural for someone to reject, discredit, and fear what they cannot understand. When people are unsure, they tend to assume the worst, and what could be more frightening to a body of capitalist, white supremacist types than a revolutionary-based, anti-capitalist, Black supremacist organization, with paramilitary forces and a Marxist ideology? The fact of the matter is that this fraudulent propaganda induced a fear that was intolerable for the U.S. government, so the myth production began receiving mainstream endorsements by the major media outlets. At the time of the Party’s establishment in 1966, the U.S. government was immediately on their toes. All odds of maintaining a positive reputation were against them."