"Later in 1966, riots began in Chicago and San Francisco. By the end of that year, there were growing signs of a white backlash. In October 1966, the New York Times reported mounting "disaffection among white liberals for the Negro cause of equality." Polls taken in the fall of the same year showed white opposition to all civil rights demonstrations and black power. As John Herbers of the New York Times reported in discussing one such poll, whites agreed "that Negroes were moving too fast on civil rights."' At the same time, members of the new black power movement often framed the riots as legitimate and even inevitable forms of resistance. The Black Panther Party (BPP), founded in 1966, emerged as a response to police violence in Oakland, California. In April 1967, McKissick argued that the riots had occurred because African Americans "no longer believe in the white man's promise." After Carmichael left SNCC for the BPP, his successor, H. "Rap" Brown, a Louisiana native and a member of the civil-rights movement since 1960, offered even more menacing rhetoric, suggesting that the unrest in the city would "look like a picnic" compared to the violence that would ensue if blacks organized to take on their oppressors. As he put it later in 1967: "[B]urn this town down if this town don't turn around.""