Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale will be in Madison Friday night for a speech on the UW-Madison campus. Now, I'm fine with Seale speaking on campus. But, other than the fact that it's what Jimmy Zoole named his cat in P.S. Your Cat is Dead, I don't know a thing about him.

Seale served time for conspiracy and inciting to riot, in the wake of the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention. Since 2002, he's worked on youth education programs with an organization called Reach!

On one hand, good for him. But, on the other, what exactly is he teaching these kids? Read these paragraphs from his website and tell me what the heck he's saying. I have no idea, although "Bush sucks" is probably in there somewhere:

"All Power To All The People!" Righteous down home peoples power is what I advocated in the sixties, and what I say today. That is, "...toward a future world of cooperational humanism!" Beyond the myopic notions and strict doctrinaire ideologies of past "politburo" state control command economy socialism. More important let's get beyond the present extremist practices of avaricious racist corporate monopoly globalizing capitalism having evolved a system which concentrates 90% of all the political-economic power in to the hands of the one percent cooperate money-rich around this OUR earth.

Democracy? HOW ABOUT Greater constitutional "direct" democracy? i.e. greater peoples' decision making participatory Community Control democracy? This form has a greater three dimensional democratic character. A true peoples' democratic synthesis are ideas to begin to get creative with. "All power to all the people," was my BPP sixties creative protest demand.

I need a lefty to English translator.