Henry Louis Gates and Peniel Joseph are the best examples of black
establishment historians, spinning tales of black history whose happy
ending is always the election of Barack Obama in 2008, omitting, bending
and distorting inconvenient facts as needed along the way, and swapping
marketing constructs for explanations of social forces to achieve their
happy ending. In the final chapter of Gates' PBS series, Many Rivers To
Cross, they ascribed the success of the Black Panther Party mostly due
to the romantic appeal of big naturals and black people with guns.
-- Bruce A. Dixon, "From the Bullet to the Ballot: An Unfavorable Review of a Work on the Black Panther Party" (Black Agenda Report).