PANTHER OR WEASEL?

According to my memory, and Melvin and Mario Van Peebles’ fiction-based-in-fact very entertaining movie “Panther,” Bobby Seale was once a brave, principled and articulate revolutionary.

But after reading Seale’s egocentric comments about the movie, a movie which Seale said he’d never seen (“Seale Has Own Plans Cooking,” by Kristine McKenna, April 30), he sounds more like the J. Edgar Hoover of 1995 than the freedom-fighting hero he once was.

Instead of “seizing the time” to applaud the positive, prideful and thought-provoking messages this film delivers, Seale has succumbed to becoming a pawn in the “man’s” game himself, and has chosen to seize a cheap, counter-revolutionary opportunity instead to hawk his own wares to Hollywood.

SHELLEY R. BONUS

Marina del Rey