Vol. 1, No. 2

os THE BLACK PANTHER cents Black Community News Service VOLUME 1 MAY 15, 1967 NUMBER 2 “eS THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF DEFENSE #2": The Trul ADOUL =: SACRAMENTO To get a clear picture of the significance of Black Panther day - May 2, 1967 -we will quickly run it down, since the mass media has indulged itself in an orgy of distortion, lying, and misrepresentation seldom equajed in the history of racist U.S.A. Uniformly, the mass media has refused to report the chain of events thai led up to the visit of the Black Panthers to the capitol. April 1, 1967, Denzil Dowell, age 22, was killed by a racist cop on the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department force. The press has repreatedly failed to incorpo- rate the outrage experienced in the black community with the subsequent actions of the Black jresivape Party. The facts of no blood was found at the site of the body. The Dowell family was denied the right to take pictures of the body, or to this bAth the Wiehnond nolive 4 Martinez police have refuse to return Denzil's clothes for Li isl further necessary evidence 7 rots pertinent to the findings. No ae REE GREE ROL clearer case of unjustifiable 7 ® 67. "3p RIGHE SLY ARI homicide exists. No entry had 2 BE RIGHTEOUSLY ARKE. been made into the building TO BLOODS If any cop brutalizes you or violates your Human Rights, beats you, threatens you, or that the killer-cop assumed tries to intimidate you, please, Denzil had robbed. Denzil had a hip injury which the cop was please,please, get his picture or his name if he is civilized aware of, as he had arrested him before. Denzil did not have a gun, and this could have been detected by a trained protector enough to give it to you; or get his badge number. As soon as you get all this information, turn it over to the Black Pan- of society. So how could 6 bul- lets have ever been justifiable? ther Party for Self Defense and the Party will deal with it in (continued on page 5) an appropriate manner. 5 WULCL Ey. Br PSS Co the Dowell's attorney, are as follows: 1) The doctor on the case told the relatives that Denzil must have been shot with his hands raised. 2) The cornor's report stated there were 6 bul- let holes, while the newspapers Called the Richmond Independent said there were only 3 bullet holes. White America appears content as a whole to buy the Three Bullet Theory in the Kennedy murder, but black people will not buy the Three Bullet Theory in the Denzil Dowell murder. 3) The Cornor said that death was due to bleeding, yet, 1tsis CUURAGEOUS BROTHERS UNTATIVUS OF THE SPIRIT AND READY FOR ACTION." TO COPS We don't like the way you cops have been misusing the law and mistreating the people. You are civil servants, which means that the people - all the people - have delegated to you the task of securing the people in the daily exercise of their rights. For example: the func- tion of removing waste material from our commodes was delegated by the people to those we call (continued on page 2 ) OF THE TWENT TO RACIST SHERIFF YOUNGER DENZIL DOWELL IS JUST ANOTHER DEAD NIGEL! HE WHITE COMMUNITY THE BLACK COMMUSITY SZALE OF B.Y.P BY MINISTER OF DEFENSE TO THE BLACK WORLD Below is the statement prepared by Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense, and delivered by Bobby Seale, Chairman, of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, May 2, 1967, at the state capitol in Sacramento, California. When this statement is read carefully, it becomes obvious that all that is here is TRUTH. ‘mowing full well they were legally exercising their constitu- tional rights, the Panthers made fools of the cops who tried to ‘take the guns away from them, and suffered the humiliation of heving to give them right back. The dumb Capitol cops didn't even know their own gun laws. Continued on page 2 STATEMENT BY MINISTER OF DEFENSE (continued from page 1) Three blocks away from of Sacramento moved in and made happens to Black men when they THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF DEFENSE CALLS UPON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN GENERAL AND THE BLACK PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR TO TAKE CAREFUL NOTE OF THE RACIST CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE WHICH IS NOW CONSIDERING LEGIS- LATION AIMED AT KEEPING THE BLACK PEOPLE DISARMED AND POW- ERLESS AT THE VERY SAME TIME THAT RACIST POLICE AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ARE IN- TENSIFYING THE TERROR, BRUTALI- TY, MURDER AND REPRESSION OF BLACK PEOPLE. AT THE SAME TIME THAT THE |AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IS WAGING A RACIST WAR OF GENOCIDE IN VIETNAM, THE CONCENTRATION (\CAMPS* IN WHICH JAPANESE AMER- ICANS WERE INTERNED DURING WORLD WAR TWO ARE BEING RENO- VATED AND EXPANDED. SINCE AMERICA HAS HISTORICALLY RE- SERVED THE MOST BARBARIC TREATMENT FOR NON-WHITE PEOPLE, WE ARE FORCED TO CONCLUDE THAT !THESE CONCENTRATION CAMPS ARE | |BEING PREPARED FOR BLACK PEOPLE ‘WHO ARE DETERMINED TO GAIN |THEIR FREEDOM BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. THE ENSLAVEMENT OF BLACK PEOPLE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF THIS COUNTRY, THE GENOCIDE PRACTICED ON THE AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE CON- FINING OF THE SURVIVORS ON RESERVATIONS, THE SAVAGE LYNCHING OF THOUSANDS OF BLACK MEN AND WOMEN, THE DROPPING OF [ATOMIC BOMBS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI, AND NOW THE COWARDLY MASSACRE IN VIETNAM, ALL TES- TIFY TO THE FACT THAT TOWARDS PEOPLE OF COLOR THE RACIST POWER STRUCTURE OF AMERICA HAS BUT ONE POLICY: REPRESSION, GENOCIDE, TERROR, AND THE BIG STICK. 18 BLACK PANTHERS AFT HELP US HELP YOU Dig, Brothers & Sisters: By this time you must have heard about that scene we put down in Sacramento. If you haven't heard, then the bag you are in is so outofsight that you are hard to deal with. Anyway, 23 members of our org- anization got framed up on some chickenshit charges and the man- your enemy -is out to do our organization under. One of the guiding principles of our organization is that we believe in going all out to rescue our brothers from the clutches of the racist cops. So we moved rapidly to get them out on bail, even though we had to get them out on cre- dit. Now we want to fight this case and win it. And we want to keep all the brothers out on bail. We believe that this case should be fought hard be- . MUNICIPAL COURT BUILDING the capitol, the scurvy cops the false arrest. This is what have not broken a law. BLACK PEOPLE HAVE BEGGED, PRAYED, PETITIONED, DEMON- STRATED AND EVERYTHING ELSE TO GET THE RACIST POWER STRUC- TURE OF AMERICA TO RIGHT THE WRONGS WHICH HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN PERPETRATED AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE. ALL OF THESE EFFORTS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED BY MORE REPRESSION, DECEIT, AND HYPO- CRISY. AS THE AGRESSION OF THE RACIST AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ESCALATES IN VIETNAM, THE PO- LIVE AGENCIES OF AMERICA ES- CALATE THE REPRESSION OF BLACK PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE GHETTOS OF AMERICA. VICIOUS POLICE DOGS, CATTLE PRODS AND IN- CREASED PATROLS HAVE BECOME FAMILIAR SIGHTS IN BLACK COM- MUNITIES. CITY HALL TURNS A DEAF EAR TO THE PLEAS OF BLACK PEOPLE FOR RELIEF FROM THIS INCREASING TERROR. THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF DEFENSE BELIEVES THAT THE TIME HAS COME FOR BLACK PEOPLE TO ARM THEMSELVES AGAINST THIS TERROR BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. THE PENDING MULFORD ACT BRINGS THE HOUR OF DOOM ONE STEP NEARER. A PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUF- FERED SO MUCH FOR SO LONG AT “THE HANDS OF A RACIST SOCIETY, MUST DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE. WE BELIEVE THAT THE BLACK COM- MUNITIES OF AMERICA MUST RISE UP AS ONE MAN TO HALT THE PRO- GRESSION OF A TREND THAT LEADS INEVITABLY TO THEIR TOTAL DE- STRUCTION. HUEY P. NEWTON MINISTER OF DEFENSE * See "Concentration Camps U.S.A." by Charles R. Allen, Jr. and "American Concentration Camps" by Boswell. ER ARRAIGNMENT IN SACRAMENTO cause it is going to help us snatch the covers off of the racist police. To do this, we need money. So we know damn well that you've got some bread. You certainly will be capable of putting down a hustle. What may be harder for you is to give up your hard- hustled coins to a bunch of cats whom you may think arn't hitting on anything. We can dig that. But can you dig this: the racist police will blow your head off and then all his brothers and two or three Uncle Toms will get together and rule it justifiable homicide. This Just happened to a brother last month over in Richmond. We think we know how to put an end to that bullshit. At least we are wi to give it a try. So why don't you send us some bread so that we can afford to continue our work. We are not jiving and you should under- stand that. Get all your soul brothers and sisters together and nake them give up sone TO RACIST COPS (continued from page { ) ‘plumbers'. Others have been delegated the responsibility of carrying off our refuse and we c@1) them ‘garbage ers People we have hired to deliver our mail are called 'mailmen'. You have been hired by the people to keep the peace. It is your duty to go about your work in a manner least likely to displease your employers and calculated to make the people feel justified in con- tinuing to carry you on the public payroll. But because you have grossly defiled the very name - Peace Officer - by which you are known, you have become the enemy of the people; you have become a cancerous growth on the body politic. You have an image that strikes terror into the hearts of those who buy your bread, pay your and feed your children. Ton suave VECOMe @ pLoviein that must be solved. The BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF-DEFENSE has been summoned by the crys and suffering and pain of the people. We are here to civil; ize you. We are here to teach you how to love and serve the people with a humble and faith- ful attitude consistent with your status. We are goine to do the jok whether you like it or not. You probably won't like it because you are too sadistic in your lust to shed the people's blood; you have become insensitive even to the dying pleas of a child you have just shot down with your vicious service revolver, The BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF- DEFENSE is here to shield the people from your insanity and thirst for blood. You have made yourself the vated yourself unwarrantedly. DAMN VIETNAN Mark Comfort, our great fight er for the rights of black peo— ple, is now. in jail as a result of one battle for human rights, and awaiting trial on another. He has recorded a song against tme war in Vietnam to help raise nongy for his defense. The 45 record sells for $1.25. Order now- make checks payable to Mark Comfort Defense Fund, and mail to 6914 Lockwood St., Oakland, Calif. 94621. ADVERTISING RATES THE BLACK PANTHER will be pub- lished weekly, and is accepting advertising at the following rates (subject to change): Full Page: $350.00 Half Page $200.00 Quarter Page $125.00 Eighth Page: $75.00 One Inch: $25.00 For further information, write to BPPFSD, Box 84,1, Fmeryville Braneh, Oakland, California, PAGE 10 people's master; you have ele- ;the Panthers were a determined ig BLACK PANTHER MAY 15, 1967 GEORGE DOWELL, RICH. George Dowell, brother of the murdered Denzil Dowell, gave the Panthers the following interview, George is the captain of the Black Panther Party for Self De- fense of Richmond. Q. How did you hear about the! Black Panther Party for Self De- fense? A. Mark Comfort told me that the Panthers were a group inter- ested in the problems black peo- ple have with police brutality. My brother was killed by a cop and nothing had been done by the city officials when we asked for an investigation. My sister Ruby called Minister of Defense Huey Newton and they came right over to a meeting at Neighborhood House. The next day Chairman Bobby Seale and some more Pan- thers came over and ran their own investigation at the site of, my brother's death. Q. How did you feel about the Panthers? A. I was really impressed. They made me feel like they were really interested in the people and they knew what they were do- ing. They were the first group I ever seen that have the law down pat. People like support; you know, everyone needs some- one and the Panthers give the people the kind of help and ad- vice that gets results. Most of the time, when you join a club and if something happens they wouldn't do anything in a case like a person's brother being killed. When I listened to Huey and Bobby talk I could tell that they were talking from their hearts. A person can tell when another person is telling the truth and that's what all our people been waiting to hear. When my family and I saw that group, that they didn't just come once and never come back, joined the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. I feel like a man and now I'm acting like a man. I have always had a feeling of wanting to do something for my people and working with a ‘group that I know is working I . or the people is a dream ful- | filled for me. I know the peo- ple of Richmond feel this way too. Like I said, when a per- son hears Huey Newton, the Minister of Defense, talk, know he wouldn't tell you wrong. When some men shout they may rally a crowd but whatthe shouter is saying dont last; people lose it. The way the Panthers speak is honest and what they are saying makes sense. Something lifts inside you and you are proud. I'll tell you one thing that both- ers me is when I talk to a man that won't do his part and I am supposed to protect him. I know I have to be patient, but I believe every man should do his part. This is a organiza- tion that everyone can belong to, you can talk and Panthers listen, you have something to do and you can see something getting done. Q. How did you feel going to the Capitol? A. I felt great because I was part of something that had never been done before. I felt good because I knew I wasn't breaking any law. Now they know that the Black Pan- ther Party for Self Defense wants to be equal. We don't nothing more and we aren't taking nothing less. We are tired of police brutality. We want something done about it. If they won't do something we will. I know going to the Capitol was a big step and the Panthers made the first step. If we hadn't done that first step our people would still be wishing. The Panthers took the first in my brother's investigation and the first to show the world that black pso- ple need protection and we have never had it. That*s why we are arming to protect our- selves. We are just tired of living like this. We want freedom now. I hope it won't come to bloodshed but if it does and if I die, I'1l know I did my part. That"*s a good feeling because up till now there haven*t been too many TLUED ON Pi 4) you (cor The Black Panther Way 15, 1967 FUNCTIONAL DEFINITION OF POLITICS. BY HUEY P, NEWTON Politics is war without bloodshed. War is politics with bloodshed. Politics has its particular characteristice which differentiate it from war. When the peaceful means of politics are exhausted and the people do not get what they want, politics are con- tinued. Usually it ends up in physical conflict which is called war, which is also poli- tical. Because we lack political power, black people are not free. Black reconstruction failed because black people did not have political and military power. The masses of black people at the time were very clear on the definition of political power. It is evi- dent in the songs of black people at that time. In the songs it was stated that on the Day of Jubilee we'd have forty acres and two mules. This was promised black people by the Freedman's Bureau. This was freedom as far as the black Masses were concerned. The Talented Tenth at the time viewed freedom as opera- tive in the political arena. Black people did operate in the political arena during recon- struction. They were more edu- cated than most of the whites in the south. They had been educated in France, Canada and England, and were very quali- fied to serve in the political arena. But yet, Black Recon- struction failed. When one operates in the political arena, it is assumed that he has power or represents (continued on page )) WHAT WE WANT NOw! TO THOSE POOR SOULS WHO DON'T KNOW BLACK HISTORY, THE”BELIEFS AND DESIRES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF DEFENSE MAY SEEM UNREASONABLE. TO BLACK PEOPLE, THE TEN POINTS COVERED ARE ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL TO SURVIVAL. WE HAVE LISTENED TO THE RIOT PRODUCING WORDS “THESE THINGS TAKE TIME" FOR 400 YEARS. THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY KNOWS WHAT BLACK PEOPLE WANT AND NEED. BLACK UNITY AND SELF DEFENSE WILL MAKE THESE DEMANDS A REALITY. WHAT WE WANT 1. WE WANT FREEDOM. WE WANT POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR BLACK COMMUNITY. 2.WE WANT FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR PEOPLE. 3.WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY THE WHITE MAN OF OUR BLACK COMMUNITY. 4. WE WANT DECENT HOUSING, FIT FOR SHELTER HUMAN BEINGS. 5. WE WANT EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE THAT EXPOSES THE TRUE NATURE OF THIS DECADENT AMERICAN SOCIETY. WE WANT EDUCATION THAT TEACHES US OUR TRUE HISTORY AND OUR ROLE IN THE PRESENT DAY SOCIETY. 6. WE WANT ALL BLACK MEN TO BE EXEMPT FROM MILITARY SERVICE. 7. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE. 8. WE WANT FREEDOM FOR ALL BLACK MEN HELD IN FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY, AND CITY PRISONS AND JAILS. 9. WE WANT ALL BLACK PEOPLE WHEN BROUGHT TO TRIAL TO BE TRIED IN COURT BY A JURY OF THEIR PEER GROUP OR PEOPLE FROM THEIR BLACK COMMUNITIES. AS DEFINED BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. 10. WE WANT LAND, BREAD, HOUSING, EDUCATION, CLOTHING, JUSTICE AND PEACE. WHAT WE BELIEVE 1. WE BELIEVE THAT BLACK PEOPLE WILL NOT BE FREE UNTIL WE ARE ABLE TO DETERMINE OUR DESTINY. 2. WE BELIEVE THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS RESPONSIBLE AND _ OBLIGATED TO GIVE EVERY MAN EMPLOYMENT OR A GUARANTEED INCOME. WE BELIEVE THAT IF THE WHITE AMERICAN BUSINESS MEN WILL NOT GIVE FULL EMPLOYMENT, THEN THm= MEANS OF PRODUCTION SHOULD BE TAKEN FROM THE BUSINESS MEN AND PLACED IN THE COMMUNITY SO THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMUNITY CAN ORGANIZE AND EMPLOY ALL OF ITS PEOPLE AND GIVE A HIGH STANDARD OF LIVING. 3. WE BELIEVE THAT THIS RACIST GOVERNMENT HAS ROBBED US AND NOW WE ARE DEMANDING THE OVERDUE DEBT OF FORTY ACRES AND TWO MULES. FORTY ACRES AND TWO MULES WAS PROMISED 100 YEARS AGO AS RETRIBUTION FOR SLAVE LABOR AND MASS MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE. WE WILL ACCEPT THE PAYMENT IN CURRENCY WHICH WILL BE DISTRIBU- TED TO OUR MANY COMMUNITIES. THE GERMANS ARE NOW AIDING THE JEWS IN ISRAEL FOR THE GENOCIDE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. THE GERMANS MURDERED 6,000,000 JEWS. THE AMERICAN RACIST HAS TAKEN PART IN THE SLAUGHTER OF OVER 50,000,000 BLACK PEOPLE; THEREFORE, WE FEEL THAT THIS IS A MODEST DEMAND THAT WE MAKE. 4. WE BELIEVE THAT IF THE WHITE LANDLORDS WILL NOT GIVE DECENT HOUSING TO OUR BLACK COMMUNITY, THEN THE HOUSING AND THE LAND SHOULD BE MADE INTO COOPERATIVES SO THAT OUR COMMUNITY, WITH GOVERNMENT AID, CAN BUILD AND MAKE DECENT HOUSING FOR ITS PEOPLE. MINISTER OF DEFENCE WHAT WE BELIEV . GUARDS FOR THEIR FUTURE SECURITY. PAGE THREE FEAR ANO DOUBT BY HUEY P, NEWTON The lower socio-economic BLACK male is a man of confu- sion. He faces a hostile en- vironment and is not sure that it is not his own sins that have attracted the hostilities of society. All his life he has been taught (explicitly and implicitly) that he is an inferior approximation of hume- nity. As a man, he finds him- self void of those things that bring respect and a feeling of worthiness. He looks around for something to blame for his situation, but because he is not sophisticated regarding the socio-economic millieu and “because of negativistic paren- tal and institutional teachings he ultimately blames himself. When he was a child, his par- ents told him that they were not affluent because "we didn't have the opportunity to become educated", or “we did not take advantage of the educational ‘opportunities that were offered us". They tell the child that things will be different for him if he is educated and skilled, but there is absalute~ ly nothing other than this oc- cassional warning (and often not even this) to stimulate education. BLACK people are great worshippers of education, even the lower socio-economic BLACK person, but at the same time he is afraid to expose him-| self to it. he is afraid benuse he is vulnerable to having his fears verified; perhaps he will find that he can't compete with white students. He tells him- self that he could have done it if he had really wanted to. The fact is, of course, that the assumed ecucational onpor- (continued on page h) 5. WE BEBDIEVE IN AN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM THAT WILL GIVE TO OUR PEOPLE A KNOWLEDGE OF SELF. IF A MAN DOES NOT HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF HIMSELF AND HIS POSITION IN SOCIETY AND THE WORLD, THEN HE HAS LITTLE CHANCE TO RELATE TO ANYTHING ELSE. 6. WE BELIEVE THAT BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE FORCED TO FIGHT IN THE MILITARY SERVICE TO DEFEND A RACIST GOVERNMENT THAT DOES NOT PROTECT US. WE WILL NOT FIGHT AND KILL OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THE WORLD WHO, LIKE BLACK PEOPLE, ARE BEING VIC- TIMIZED BY THE WHITE RACIST GOVERNMENT OF AMERICA. WE WILL PROTECT OURSELVES FROM THE FORCE AND VIOLENCE OF THE RACIST POLICE AND THE RACIST MILITARY, BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY. 7. WE BELIEVE WE CAN END POLICE BRUTALITY IN OUR BLACK COMMU- NITY BY ORGANIZING BLACK SELF DEFENSE GROUPS THAT ARE DEDI- CATED TO DEFENDING OUR BLACK COMMUNITY FROM RACIST POLICE OPPRESSION AND BRUTALITY. THE SECOND AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTI- TUTION OF THE UNITED STATES GIVESUS A RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS. WE THEREFORE BELIEVE THAT ALL BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD ARM THEMSELVES FOR SELF DEFENSE. 8. WE BELIEVE THAT ALL BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD BE RELEASED FROM THE MANY JAILS AND PRISONS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT RECEIVED A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL. 9. WE BELIEVE THAT THE COURTS SHOULD FOLLOW THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION SO THAT BLACK PEOPLE WILL RECEIVE FAIR TRIALS. THE 14TH AMENDMENT OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION GIVES A MAN A RIGHT TO BE TRIED BY HIS PEER GROUP. A PEER IS A PERSON FROM A SIMILAR ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, RELIGIOUS, GEOGRAPHICAL, ENVIR- ONMENTAL, HISTORICAL AND RACIAL BACKGROUND. TO DO THIS THE COURT WILL BE FORCED TO SELECT A JURY FROM THE BLACK COMMUNI- TY FROM WHICH THE BLACK DEFENDANT CAME. WE HAVE BEEN, AND ARE BEING TRIED BY ALL WHITE JURIES THAT HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OF THE “AVERAGE REASONING MAN" OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY. 10. WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS, IT BECOMES NECESSARY FOR ONE PEOPLE TO DISSOLVE THE POLITICAL BONDS WHICH HAVE CONNECTED THEM WITH ANOTHER, AND TO ASSUME AMONG THE POWERS OF THE EARTH, THE SEPARATE AND EQUAL STATION TO WHICH THE LAWS OF NATURE AND NATURE"S GOD ENTITLE THEM, A DECENT RE- SPECT TO THE OPINIONS OF MANKIND REQUIRES THAT THEY SHOULD DECLARE THE CAUSES WHICH IMPEL THEM TO SEPARATION. | x WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN INALIENABLE RIGHTS, THAT AMONG THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. THAT TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, GOVERNMENTS ARE INSTITUTED AMONG MEN, DERIVING. THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED, - THAT WHENEVER ANY FORM OF GOVERNMENT BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE OF THESE ENDS, IT IS THE RIGHT OF PEOPLE TO ALTER OR TO ABOLISH IT, AND TO INSTI- TUTE NEW GOVERNMENT, “LAYING ITS FOUNDATION ON SUCH PRINCIPLES AND ORGANIZING ITS POWERS IN SUCH FORM.AS TO THEM SHALL SEEM MOST LIKELY TO EFFECT THEIR SAFETY AND HAPPINESS. PRUDENCE, INDEED, WILL DICTATE THAT GOVERNMENTS LONG ESTAB- LISHED SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED FOR LIGHT AND TRANSIENT CAUSES; AND ACCORDINGLY ALL EXPERIENCE HATH SHEWN, THAT MANKIND ARE MORE DISPOSE TO SUFFER, WHILE EVILS ARE SUFFERABLE, THAN TO RIGHT THEMSELVES BY ABOLISHING THE FORMS TO WHICH THEY ARE ACCUSTOMED, BUT WHEN A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS, PURSUING INVARIABLY THE SAME OBJECT, EVINCES A DESIGN TO RE- DUCE THEM UNDER ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM, IT IS THEIR RIGHT, IT IS THEIR DUTY, TO THROW OFF SUCH GOVERNMENT, AND TO PROVIDE NEW MAIS TUCHVOLOGY" 3B.P.P.5.D. PAGE FOUR FEAR AWD DOUBT (continued Prom page ) tunities were never available to the lower socio-economic BLACK person due to the uniauc position assigned him in life. It is a two headed none bd haunts this man. First, Hieravereude is that he lacks innate ability to cope with the socio-econOMic problems confronting him, and second- ly, he tells himself that he has the ability but he simply has not felt strongly enough to try to acquire the skills needed to manipulate his en- vironment. In a desperate ef- fort to assume self-respect, he rationalizes that he is lethar- gic; in this way he denies a possible lack of innate ability If he openly attempts to dis- cover his abilities, he and others may see him for what he is- or is not, and this is the real fear. He then withdraws into the world of the invisible, but not without a struggle. He may attempt to make himself vi- sible by processing his hair, acquiring a "boss mop", or dri- ving a long car, even though he can't afford it. He may father several illegitimate children by several different women in SIch OF (Gont'd from page ) power; he is symbolic of a pow- erful force. There are approxi- mately three areas of power in the political area: economic and military power. If black people at the time had received 40 acres and 2 mules, we would Then we would have chosen a representative to represent us 40 acres and 2 mules, surd to have a representative in the political arena. When white people send a representative into the politi- cal arena, they have a power force or power base that they represent. When white people, through their representatives, do not get what they want, there is always a political consequence. This is evident in the fact that when the farm- ers are not given an adequate price for their crops the eco- nomy will recieve a political crops rot in the field; they will not cooperate with other sectors of the economy. To be political, you must have a ipower, land power (feudal power) have developed a powerful force. in this political arena. Because black people did not receive the it was ab- consequence. They will let their order to display his masculinity|political consequence when you But in the end, he realizes that/do not receive your desires - he is ineffectual in his effortsjotherwise you are non-political. Society responds to him as a thing, a beast, a non-entity, something to be ignored or stepped on. He is asked to res- pect laws that do not respect him. He is asked to digest a but not for him. He is confused and in a constant state of rage, of shame and doubt. This psycho- logical set permeates all his interpersonal relationships. It determines his view of the soda ment has been prematurely arres early age and continues through life. The parents pass it on to the child and the social system reinforces the fear, the shame, and the doubt. In the third or fourth grade, he may find that he shares the classroom with white students, but when the class is engaged in reading exercises, all the BLACK stu- dents find themselves in a group at the table reserved ‘for slow readers. This may be quite an innocent effort on the part of the school system: the teacher may not realize that the BLACK students feared (in fact feel certain) that BLACK means dumb and white means smart. The children do not realize that the head start the white children got at home is what accounts for the situation. It is generally accepted that the child is the father of the man; this holds true for the lower socio-econo- mic BLACK people. With whom, with what can he as a man identify? As a child he had no permanent male figure with whom to identify; as aman he sees nothing in society with which he can iden- tify as an extension of him- self. His life is built on mis- trust, shame, doubt, guilt, in- feriority, role confusion, iso- lation and despair. He feels that he is something less than aman, as is evident in his conversation: the white man is “THE MAN", he got everything, and he knows everything, and a nigger ain't nothing." In a society where a man is valued according to occupation and material possession, he is without possessions. He is un- skilled and more often than not either marginally employed or unemployed. Often his wife (who is able to secure a job as a maid cleaning for white people) is the breadwinner. He is, therefore, viewed as quite worthless by his wife and chil- dren. He is ineffectual both in and outside the home. He cannot provide for or protect his family. He is invisible, non-entity. Society will not acknowledge him as a man. He is a consumer and not a pro- ducer. He is dependent upon the white man ("THE MAN") to feed his family, to give him job, to educate his children, to serve as the model that he tries to emulate. He is depen- dent and he hates "THE MAN", a a When black people send a re- presentative, he is somewhat absurd because he represents no political power. He does not represent land power because we do not own any land. He code of ethics that act upon himjdoes not represent economic or industrial power because black people do not own the means of production. The only iway he can become political is to represent what is com- ljmonly called a military power- system. His psychosocial developjwhich the BLACK PANTHER PARTY -|FOR SELF-DEFENSE calls Self- ted. This doubt begins at a very|Defense Power. Black People ican develop Self-Defense Power by arming themselves from house to house, block to block, community to community, out the nation. Then we will choose a political representa- tive and he will the black masses. are not met, will receive a political conse- cally non-profitable for the p wer ructu e oO 10 on wit its oppressive ways. We will then negotiate as equals. There will be a balance be- tween the people who are eco- nomically powerful and the people who are potentially economically destructive. The white racist oppresses black people not only for racist reasons but because it is also economically profita- ble to do so. Black people must develop a power that will make it non-profitable for racists to go on oppressing us. If the white racist imperi- alists in America continue to wage war against all people of color throughout the world and also wage a civil war against blacks here in Ameri- ca, it will be economically impossible for him to survive. We must develop a strategy that will make his war campaigns non-profitable. This racist United States operates with the motive of profit. He lifts the gun and escalates the war for profit reasons. We will make him lower the guns be- cause they will no longer serve his profit motive. Every man is born, there- fore he has a right to live, a right to share in the wealth. If he is denied the right to work then he is denied the right to live. If he can't work, he deserves a high stan- dard of living, regardless of his education or skill. It should be up to the adminis- trators of the economic sys- tem to design a program for providing work or livelihood for his people. To deny a man this is to deny him life. The controllers of the economic asystem are obligated to fur- ek each man with a livelihood. and he hates himself. Who is he? Is he a very old adoles- cent or is he the slave he used to be? What did he do to be so BLACK and blue? through- ese ——— 2 flake to the power structure the desires o If the desires the power structure quence. We will make it economi- (continued from column two) If they cannot do this or if they will not do this, they do not deserve the position of administrators. The means of production should be taken away from them and placed in the people's hands, so that the people can organize them in such a way as to provide themselves with a livelihood. The people will choose capa- ble administrators motivated by their sincere interest in the people's welfare and not the interest of private pro- perty. The people will choose Managers to control the means of production and the land that is rightfully theirs. Until the people control the land and the means of produc- tion, there will be no peace. Black people must control the destiny of their community. Because black people desire to determine their own destiny, they are constantly inflicted with brutality from the occu- pying army, embodied in the police department. There is a great similarity between the eccupying army in Southeast Asia and the Occupation of our communities by the racist police. The armies are there not to protect the people of South Vietnam, but to brutalize and oppress them for the inter- ests of the selfish imperial power. The police should be the people of the community in uniform. There should be: no division or conflict of inter- est between the people and the police. Once there is a divi- sion, then the police become the enemy of the people. The police should serve the inter- est of the people, and be one and the same. When this princi- ple breaks down, then the po- lice become an occupying army. When historically one race has oppressed another and policemen are recruited from the oppressor; race to patrol the communities of the oppressed people, an intolerable contradiction ex- The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or fac the wrath of the armed people. TO RACIST COPS (Continued from page ) But we will see to it that you are brought up to the level of men. Justice is on our side. have abandoned the law. You have transformed the law into a snare in which the people stumble. You are a peace- breaker, an outlaw - you have become Public Enemy Number One and it is a policy of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF- DEFENSE to deal with first You things first. by PANT“RA LURANTGA GUORGE DOWELL (continued from page 2 ) men or women that could say that. Q. What kind of things have you been doing since you joined the Party? A. I have been raising money for the Panther Defense Fund, telling people why we have to pay that $5000.00 bail because we were not guil ty of breaking any law. I go to the churches and tell them that the Panthers are the answer to their prayers. If you want a tree cut down you may ask God to help you but you have to get out there and cut it yourself. I also tell the people that Panthers can't break the law and we're going into every city to make sure the cops don't either. I would never break the laws of the Panther Party but to be honest with you I hate the cop that killed my brother bad enough to kill him. I know one thing, he better not kill another black brother. THE BLACK PANTHER MAY 15, 1967 by WARREN TUCKER ly neme is Warren Tucker. I am a Captain in the Black Panther Party For Self-Defense. I know.you've heard everybody talk about unity; talking about {'we got to get together’. Well, jas for myself, I got sick and {tired of hearing people talking labout that word. I guess I tnever knew what the word really ‘mennt, and cared less, because I was too busy trying to make it in this white world. But, Sisters and Brothers, I know {what it means now. What the 13.P.P.F.8.D. did and accom - }plished at the State Capitol | showed me whet the word meant. Brothers and Sisters, I don't know of any way to express how proud I was end still am and ~— always will be. I'll try to give you « run-down. ; As we walked up the steps e@ of the Capitol Building, 1 é& glanced at each Brother. They |were all prepared for the worse, but they stuck together. They had such beautiful unity. As we left the building, Bobby Hutton, Treasurer of our organization, and nyself es- corted Bobby Seale, Chairman, — to the car. I felt Unity and Tf must say I felt good, When we stopped at a gas station and the cops came, all the Brothers spreaded out and got 2 good position. I placed myself on the corner, so when the cops came across to us I would get behind them so I had 2 shot at all of them. All of us were united in a common goal, for Self-Defense. p After we were arrested, booked and finger printed, we were all put into the Drunic Tank, u large room with nothing in it but US. No bed, no blank- ets, nothing. This kind of treatment you expect from the racist dog. Then the beast called us out, one by one, to make a statement, but 211 the brothers told the racist dog to go to WiLL. This is what I call BLACK UNITY. ; When we were released, all of us walked out of the jail with our heeds held high and proud of what we hed done. This I call BLACK POWUR. Unity, my Brothers d Sisters, is whuts appening. Sincerely yours, Warren Tucker THE BLACK PANTHER WAY 15, 1967 PAGE FIVE TRUTH ON SACRAMENTO| BROTHER Mask Comfort Cantinued fron pase 1.) > ver ired i FR ethe Chi sacti E If no bullets were fired in go together. This reaction was OAKLAND, CALIF -- Mark Comfort, with the cops. He's gone into militant black organizer in East hiding now; we can't find him." self defense? similar to that of white America The Black Panther Party was generally to the slogan of BLACK Os@iands Soulhie second cour’ A bead GhegcneeL Ge ae victory last month. Testimony 4MONTAS TO GO called into Richmond by the POWER. The logic of the racist family. There we found that the just can't put those two words ff a ; . Dowell family had gathered 1200 together. Were someone to raise zeae pcre stoi eee ies On May 9 or 10, Comfort must signatures on 2 petition which the slogan, BLACK WEAKNESS, it ae ga Ocak atest ee Ptr go back to prison on a sentence called for a Grand Jury invest- would appear very logical and astra resulting ssn his arrest. given him last year, for his = = | prea deacele Bator aren activity at the Oakland Tribune on chargesof Interfering wit demonstrations. Comfort's ap- igetion. 5 aot aes i cat Se pepe dae ae wo! the headline ARM . , Tuesday, April 18, the Black NWHGROEZS INVADE Ti CAPITOL. an Officer and Resisting Arrest. 041 to the U.S. Supreme Court Panthers went armed to see the ‘The point is that in America BesnadacuT ae Bs eee at was not considered. He has over Richmond D.A., Nejedly. We the color of power is white ana |/Might to defend a neighboring q 4 months to serve. "We haven't voiced our grievances and he black is the color of weakness. |]/f2"ily who were being assaulte stopped fighting," Mark told said he would do all he could What was clear from the by the Osh Lae POLES Ajury us. "My lawyer is filing a writ, to set up an investigation. He appearance .f armed black men Found Aim Seatee eee so I may be in and back out also said he would recommend te at the capitol is that blacks 3 Bus, She Oaklan Be nage again. R.J. Engle, my lawyer is Sheriff Young of Irtinez that are no longer ruled by fear, Bere rmed 0 set se ior amet a beautiful cat. He's handled he remove the killer-cop fron that not only are blacks still Shortly after the thrst inci- all three of these cases and dent, Comfort was called up by he's been great." Ja man named Gil Williams. Wil- (reprinted from THE MOVEMENT the force until the investiga— ready to die but now they are tion was over. ready to kill. On April 19, the Black Pan- From another point of view liams oe Comtoae ous pees May, 1967) thers und concerned citizens the hysterical reaction of the Ne ie Soa eee ence went to have a meeting with legislators was ludicrous, who) would give Comfort money Mark Comfort was one of the for his legal defense. He of- 23 armed Black Panthers who fered to drive Comfort there. were arrested in Sacramento on Then he asked Comfort to bring may 2nd, and are now charged a gun “because the neighborhood ith conspiracy. This is the is pretty rough." latest example of Mark Comfort's| Comfort, very aware of gun continual participation in ev- regulations, brought a sinall ery significant and vital action derringer pistol, which he stuck ¢o5, the freedom of black people. in his belt, visibly. Williams ark is now in the Alameda drove home, stayed inside for County Jail at Santa Rita. The |} several minutes and reappeared Supreme Court turned down his with a shotgun. He then sug- appeal on a case two or three gested that they go to Jim's years old, growing out of the Place, an Oakland bar, before courageous struggle waged a- going to San Francisco. Within gainst the racist Oakland Tri- 15 minutes after they entered bune. Mark was offered a ‘deal’ J the bar, police had pulled up, by the racist Power Structure. and arrested Comfort for having paced with a four and one-half a “concealed weapon." month sentence, Mark was offer- One of the arresting officers oq two years of probation if Wtestified at the trial that the pe would agree not to associate head of the Criminal Investiga- \j+h members of the Black Pan- tion Department gave him a war- thers or carry a gun. Mark rant and told him that Comfort scorned the insulting ‘deal’ would be at Jim's Place within and chose instead to sufter an hour. "I had never been to imprisonment. Black people must Jim's Place befor Comfort work harder for the day when we } told THE MOVEMENT. "It turns can prevent the racist Power out that the bar is owned by Structure from inflicting un- 2 white Oakland cop. When my just punishment on black people. attorney asked the cop on the Mark Comfort is one of the great stand if he knew Gil Williams, eroes of the struggle for Black he didn't say a word for a long“) iperation. when his name is time and then said ‘uh, no, I | sooken, we should feel proud to don't believe I know the name.'* : 5 i be his brothers and sisters. Jere pretty sure he's working... a = : LAWYER OF LECAL FIRST AID Sheriff Young and Undersheriff because if the Black Panthers Ramsey. The Sheriff had agreed had come to the capitol with to this meeting, but refused to evil intentions, there would allow Panthers into his office have been a lot of dead cops with guns. Huey P. Newton, and legislators. The Panthers Minister of Defense, agreed to are an orgenization dedicated talk with the Sheriff without to defending Black people from guns present, because it was the wanton aggression of the more important to demonstrate cops in particular and this to this racist Sheriff that the white racist society in gen- Panthers are willing to exhaust eral. all available legal channels in Huey P. Newton, our Minister an attempt to give the Dowell of Defense,sent a delegation family visible support. to the capitol to deliver a This meeting ended in frust- es e to black people, to ration, as Sheriff Young re- zn them of the enveloping fused to remove the killer-cop fascistic trend of this sick pending investigation. He also white society we live in. Black refused to give any assurance people received the message and whatsoever to the black communi- history has been altered. A new ty that he would exercise his standard has been raised, a new exclusive authority to adopt challenge has been thrown out the policy that members of the to black people. The trumped up police force be instructed to charges which have been lodged refrain from killing suspects nageinst the members of the de- when only property is involved ation are a joke when con- in a suspected robbery. The pared to the lesson black people citizens and the Black Panther ‘e drawn from thet beautiful Party Por Self-Defense saw this it refusal ag totul lack of co cern for black people exp ing a desire to rd a more’ unwarranted deaths. Undersheriff Ramsey then made two ridiculous statements. first he said, "I don't know why you're so upset - this is the first death we've hed in the county." Secondly, Ramsey Said, "If you people want the policy changed you should go This pocket lawyer is pro- If you do not consent, the any statement to the police, nor| through the Legisleture." This vided as a means of keeping police will have the burden do you have to sign any state- is exuctly. This is exactly black people up to date on in court of showing probable ment you might give them, and what the Black Panthers did. their rights. We are always cause. therefore you should not sign Yet, in the assembly, Under- the first to be arrested and i anything. Take the fifth and sheriff Ramsey spoke in favor the racist police forces are 4. You may not resist arrest the fourteenth amendments, be- of the Mulford gun bill. This constantly trying to pretend forceably or by going limp, cause you cannot be forced to time he seid,"This kind of that rights are extended even if you are innocent. To testify against yourself. legislation will be necessary ecually to all people. Cut do so is a separate crime of because first they were in Mar-] this out, brothers and sisters, Which you can be convicted 11. You must be allowed to post tinez with guns, causing a and carry it with you. Until even if you are acquitted of bail in most cases, but you must disturbance; today they're here we arm ourselves to righteous- the original charge. Do not be able to pay the bail bonds- and who knows where they will ly take care of our own, the resist arrest under any cir- man's fee. if you cannot pay the show up next."He had forgotten | pocket Lawyer is what's hap- cunstances. A false arrest fee, you may ask the judge to his own advice. pening. ~ ‘i may be corrected later. release you from custody with- Contrary to what the news- . out bail or to lower your bail, papers have reported, the Black 5. If you are stopped, you but he does not have to do so. Panthers were escorted to the 1. If you are stopped and/or should try to get independant Assembly hall by 2 horde of arrested by the police, you witnesses to observe the pro- 12, The police must bring you 7.V. men with cameras, and the may remain silent; you do not ceedings, and get their names, into court or release you with- Capitol police. There is an have to answer any questions addresses, and telephone num- in 48 hours after your arrest observer box in the Assembly about alleged crimes. You bers. Try to do this, if pos- (unless the time ends on a week- and it was to this area thet should provide your name and sible, before any arrest takes end or a holiday, and they must the Panthers, the members of address only if requested place. bring you before a judge the the Dowell family, and the con- (although it is not absolute- first day court is in session.) cerned citizens were directed. ly clear that you must do so), ©: If you are stopped and/or The first words that cane But then do so, and at all arrested, the volice may 13. If you do not have money to from the Assembly sp times vemenber the £22th search you for weapons by hire an attorney, immediately mucrophone were, "Will the aménament. patting the outside of your ask the police to get you an guards please remove those TV clothing. You can be stripped attorney without charge. cancra from this Assembly!" If |:2. 1£ a police officer is not of your versonal possessions. it was the men with guns who in uniform, ask him to show Do not carry anything that im 14, If you have the money to his identification. He has no cludes the name of your employ hire a private attorney, but do authority over you unless he ex ox friends. not know of one, call the Natio! speaker should have been, "Will properly identifies himself. al Lawyers' Guild or the Alameda the men with the weapons pleuse | Beware of vers y as 7. Do not engage in "friendly’ County Bar Association (or the renove themselves from the police officers. wavs get conversation with officers on Bar Association of your county) Assembly." his badge nwaber and his name. the way to or at the station. and they will furnish you with NEGROES WIH GUNS! Thet wes ‘2 Once you are arrested, there the name of an attorney who the only issue at the Cupitol. 3. Police have ne right to is little likelihood that any practices criminal law. The antique rucists in the search your car ome thing you say will get you re-’ power structure were ‘disturbed'| unless they have leased. mot because of any overt or threatening action by the 31 Panthers; they were disturbed by their own guilt-ridden white racist psyches in which they suffer nightuzres of the «ried ses somedcy rushing in upon while they sre in the sct of plotting their chereectcri Cc} asseults upon the Lifc, vert, warrant, vrobable your consent. duct no explorat that is, one f£ erime generally dence of a er with the one y guestioned abe stop for an auto does not: 8. As soon as you have been hbonked, you have the rig complete at least two pho calls —- one to a relative, fciend or attorney, the other to a bail bondsman. If you ean, call the 8LACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SRLEF DEFENSE, and the Party will vost bail if wit of Ueppiness of the | search ¢ vossible. In the cri of their hot reausirea to c . : they know % an ‘- SSP 2. You must be allowed to hire R ss search; theres : Fi necrve the not consent a nd see an attorney tmmediate- Jy ané uneguiva : that you dq not consent front of witnesses f. You Go not have to give PAGE SIX THE BLACK PANTHER MAY 15, 1967 SISTERS’ SECTION SISTERS UNITE by Barbara Auther WHITE BOY ARRESTED FOR LYING ON PANTHERS ¢ The papers have been full of wild stories about one of the witnesses who appeared before the Assembly Rules Committee that launched an investigation into security at the capitol in an atmos— phere of white hysteria which greeted the visit to the capi- tol by armed members of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. This white man once was a Sergeant-at-Arms, a cop, in the Assembly. According to the stories put out by the po- lice, Tom McKay, 22, told that he was taking a legislator's carto a gasoline station Zor servicing May 2nd, when "this big fellow grabbed hold of ny cont and says,'We're going to get you white boy.' I said to him, I'm just a flunky, I just ONCC WORKER SPEAKS 10 A SISTER A LETTER SISTER BALDWIN I am very concerned about your mind, so I have sent you some literature about SNCC and black people hoping that you will read it and it will help you to get your mind to- gether so you can understand what the struggle is all about. I don't want you to go out in the world and be a tool for white folks, or go and teach other children to deny their blackness, deny their people, and become whitewashed. Sister Baldwin, there are not very many good minds like yours in work here." this North American wilderness, We are not surprised to therefore I urge you, plead { learn that a white cop had with you, lose your white mind | told lies, while under oath, and get your black mind togeth-{ designed to get black people er. Therefore I urge you not into 'trouble'. ihat surprises to read just the material I am j us and what we can't figure sending you, but read these out is why did the cops arrest five black books: Autobiography} this white man for lying on a of Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks,| 'bunch of niggers'? One paper The Wretched of the Earth, by quoted the arrested man as say Franz Fanon, Black Bourgeoisie,} ing that "The Panthers voiced white man, who has already been by E. Franklin Frazier, and a threat against a certain exposed as lying on the Black Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. | legislator, who was not iden- panthers, scheduled to appear DuBois. tificd at the request of Ass— in court on May 18, the same You have been put in the emblyman Don lulford, R-Pied- day the Black Panthers are SISTERS UNITE. The Black Panther Party is where the BLACK IN are. I know every black woman has to feel proud of black men who finally de- cided to announce to the world that they were putting an end to police brutality and black genocide. Then they were ar- rested even though they had not broken a law. The reason they were arrested, Sisters, is the white power structure does! nt want any brave men with guts enough to say, "Hell No," to the police force in self de- @ense of their women, then— selves and all our children. That's really telling the power structure "Like it is", 3ecome members of the Black Panther Party for Self Defanse, Bisters, "we got a good thing going." A REVOLUTIONARY SISTER SISTER WILLIAMS same trickbag by the white mont." scheduled to appear? Because man that thousands of other Now this is very interest- this is an peeee operation 5S AYS black people have been put in; | ing. Here we see a known liar that has not all been made try and get out of it. There engaged in keeping something public, we wish to alert the Respect and dignity have long are very few sisters on A&l's secret between himself, the public to the fact that we been abstractions to the ma-— campus. Thank God you are one of them. Therefore I urge you to remove the cataract from cops, and Assemblyman Mulford. +hink that racist Assemblyman How many more secrets do they jon Mulford, in conjunction have which they are keeping with the racist police and a jority of Black Men. This is no longer the case. The Black Panther Party for Self- your eyes so that you might from the people? lying white man, are involved Defense are Black Men with see. Why question Black Power Another thing about this in arranging a anton of pride, self-respect and most and don't question why so many | entire affair is why did the schemes designed to enable the of all love for their brother blackmen are in jail in this ~ | cops arrange to have this-—————wnite power structure to deal These Black Men who express country? Why question Black Power and not question why eleven black people were mur- with the Black Panthers. But no matter what lying scheme these racists come up fervor, spirit and boldness of heart kindle in me, a Black Woman, the feeling of teach black’ children the white dered in Chattanooga, Tenn. man's lies? Stop and look at with, the Black Panther Part: wanting to help plan, work alone in: 19652 Or why is it yourself; stop and reconsider. | por Seif Defense is going to Beer GAs. cae host of all that 30% of the men getting grow in numbers, influence and share not only these feelings killed in vietnam are black? Yours for BLACK POWER, power and there a6 nothing with him but the togetherness Or why is it that 500 black BEatNeEakak that a gang of racist dogs can £ wanting and now going about babies die each year in Birm- TOCHEE: RICKS do about it. getting our freedom together. ingham for lack of proper med- cal attention? Why is it that the unemployment rate for black men is rising while the income of white men is increasing? Why is it that the University of Tennessee is better than Tennessee State? Why did the government give Tennessee State only 1% million dollars? Is that all that 6000 black minds are worth? In the same year they gave the University of Tennessee 14 million dollas. Stop questioning Black Power {| and look around you and see | The illustration below is taken from the cover of MUHAMJAD SPEAKS newspaper (April 14, 1967). THE BLACK PANTHER feels that this work of art should be wide spread amongst black people, as it contains a message that must be understood. who is brainwashing you, and who is going to profit from your four years of college? Are you willing to do the same thing the white man has done for 400 years, sit next to white folks and look down at your black brothers and sisters and say, "I am better than you" Who will your education benefit? What are you going to do with your life, let Rockefeller use it or give it to your people? What is your role in the struggle? What is your role in your church to stand by and let white folks beat them out of thousands of dollars and not say anything? What is your role in relation to the thou- sands of your brothers who are being drafted every day to die in the mud of Vietnam for a white man's war? When thou- sands of black children go hungry, ragged and cold, are you one of those who is call- ing themselves an AKA and running around imitating white folks who are responsible for the plight of your people? Therefore I urge you to come on home, Sister Baldwin. Mil- lions of black people are de- pending on you and sisters like you to change their des- tiny. Will you let them down? Will you go somewhere and BLACK ACTIVISTS IN The black american has tried to play the game of the reason- eble peaceful man only to find that he has been dealing with ja ruthless despot clothed in the sanctions of state or fed- eral laws that are invariably footnoted: "But not for the Negro." The Constitution of U.S.A. was written for white folks; not for black folks. nerica has found it necessary sar after meaningless yaas) pass or debate the passages "civil rights legislation" for its oldest Americans (sec ond only to those of American Indian ancestry). Histo the Negro has been view thing, not as a man w given rights, and this thinking seems to perme even the thinking of today. During the Constitutional Jon- vention (May to September, 1787) the founding fathers did not concern themselves with the Negro Man, but rather the iizgro Beast oz Burden. The major question regarding him was sat human rights or even the aost minimal protection, but rather, who would regulate slavery~-— s or the Federzl gov- In spite of all an for. iy the Negro has tri to deal with whites in a the Yeace— ful process. He has trivd us et geal with the white man the ballot; that hasn't He has tried reason and i ty; that hasn't worked. tried integration; that ix worked. Marcus Garvey evu nh at- tempted a mass exodus but was sabotaged by the white ian. ck 3 have been sys atically ed any chance to gain eco nomic power. Slave labor and ck idabor has been the rule than the exception. In spite of all this the biuci n has tried to be at vouce Bae the system—-even ; eedom movement 13 | come (all else hav if to use soue stronger gout. time of the bai.v She black man, like the ither, having retrea- ited as far as possible within | the realin of honor, can no jionger retreat (he will not {turn and run), he mist stand j{and fight. Me retreated for {the sake of peacc; this having |failed, and finding himself gee crowded by his eneny, is preparing to spring. And when he springs, there is no retreat. Let there be life or let there be death; what does it matter? vor life is death and to die is to live; d that's where it's at. “he young black activists are be- he ginning to say the black man jwill not be the tool of a sys jte en that only uses hin for its own pe srpetuation while it con- { tinues its violations of the eae! of black people. The me has cone when-the black | is turning to his black ‘other in an effort to meet | @ man head on. He is not go- to take any nore bull shit; is beginning to think ia j terns or living or ‘iying as a yWan. Youthful blacks (and some ‘not so youthful) are beginning }to venlize that the black can- not beg or reas chains, he “more and more heavily popu- ow gain through social progress. THE BLACK PANTHER Votir Litics z is politics wi out bloodshed, war is po 2S meen blood The bla that both may te pane d in his struggle for human rights. A political act must carry con- sequences; if it does not, then it is not truly a political act. must become a po- THE WORDS OF BROTHER MALCOLM xX ool SPEECH The black man litical inan who forces conse- quences when his political de- sions are not honored. This c is the attitude of the black activist of today. This at the symbol (Black Panther) n it is catching on and it € militant sroups are ng forth across the States. (e.g. OAAU on Coast---~Black Panther rROM the southern United "@HB BALLOT US and the Black Pan- BULLET", cree In y for Self Defense on Coast) and unless things t+ better (and fast), it is reasonable to expect them to grow--to spread. The core city is becowing CLEVE SLAND, APRIL 3,1964. «eel must say this con- cerning the great controver- sy over rifles and shotguns. the only thing that I've ever said is that in areas where the government has proven it- self either unwilling or un- able to defend the lives and the property of Negroes, it's tine for Negroes to defend themselves. Article number twoof the constitutional amendments provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun. It is constitu- tionally legal to own a shot- gun or a rifle. This doesn't mean you're going to get a rifle and form batalions and go out looking for white folks, although you'd be within your rights - I mean you'd be justified; but that would o3 tilegal. If the white wan doesn't want the nan buying rifles and juna, then let the gov- cto its job. That's 4on't let the white $v you and ask you ui Gudnk about what sya - why, you old sa would never ag thought you lated by black people; as a result, his political power will be felt there. He will be able to elect political repre- sentatives and he will be able to hold such political repre- sentatives accountable to the black comminity. Uncle Tom will be dead...there is no room in tha dDlack comaunity for a "white man's nigger." The black activists are at— tempting to show the black man how to m positive use of close proximity to his own people. Black people are in a strange and hostile land; the ghetto must be used as a bie tion (physically, politically, and spirituslly). The ghetto must not be a brothel which affords kicks for frustrated or perverted whites. It wust no longer allow itself to ‘.eet the sadistic needs of the ucp, the masochistic needs of Miss Ann, the carthartic needs of iy. Charley. That day must end. Such are the aims of the new black activists who are Medals of Honor, with shoul- ders this wide, chests this big, muscles that big- any time you and I sit around and read where they bomb a church and murder in cold blood, not some gro’ aps, but four little girls wi.ij.o they were praying to the sme god the white man taught them to pray to, and building on the program laid 5 $0 say, "Amen}" you and I see the government down by Malcolm x. Truv, thes 27 — ae -vuking-a—Tom-out-of———-zo-down and can't Pind whe aid programs are still in the uuk- you. it. ing. They are being worked out so, this doesn't mean forming Why, this man-he can find rifle clubs and going out look- ing for people, but it is tine, in 1964, if you are a man, to let that man know. If he's not joing to do hig job in running the government and providing you and me with the protection that our taxes are supposed to be for, since he spends all those billions for his defense budget, he certainly can't be- grudge you and me spending $12 or 315 for a single-shot or double-action. I hope you under- stand. Don't go out shooting people, but any time, brothers and sisters, and especially the men in this audience-some of you wearing Congressional step by step...in action as well as t} « They are not erystal cleus, not absolutely predictable. wut let us not delude ourseives; the black man has set affot a new wan. He knows his enemy; he knows the terrain; he knows the dan- ger, but he will not be cowed. Where ionally the o¢ has concentrated oF statutes to his defense ig now turns to his brothers in suffering...the nasses have the most to sichmann hiding down in Argen- tina somewhere. Let two or three American soldiers, who are minding somebody else's business way over in South Vietnam, get killed, and he'll send battleships, sticking his nose in their business. He wanted to send troops down to Cuba and make them have what he calls free elections-this old cracker who doesn't have free elections in his own country. Ho, if you ever see me another tine in your life, if I die in the morning, I'll die saying one thing: the ballot or the bullet, the ballot or the bullet. who He can be found teaching his brothers in basements, store fronts, shacks, and street corners. He speaks of Chairman Mao, Malcolm X, and Franz Fanon. The black man represents the hope for a new Anerica... a truly democratic America. If he fails, America will become truly a zombie...a blind, worn out, crippled whore with no place to go. Glenn Holmes Bail Bond AGENCY 2975-35 ™ STREET SACRAMENTO CALIF. DAY oo» NIGHT Born May 19, 1925 Assinated Feb 21, 1965 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE BROIGING YOUR DREAMS TO REALITY leew ts once } May 15, 1967 UNDAUNTED RELATIVES OF THE VICTIMS OF SACRAMENTO POLICE PERSECUTION (The following article was written by a black man who felt that for the time being it would be best for him to remain un- naned. ) There are different kinds of law. Some laws are on the books but never enforced while others that are enforced have never been written. Policemer have a habit of charging peo- ple with crimes of their own invention. Sometimes a police department gets so far out that one of its unwritten laws is declared unconstitutional by a court. Most of the time, police don't get hung up with the Constitution. They know that modern police work demands that they be goc 1 at bending existing laws to meet their purposes. And, when the bending gets tiresome, they lobby to get their law passed. When a delegation of Black Panthers showed up at the San Francisco International Air- port in February to protect Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's widow, policemen went running to their law books. They knew there damn well ought to be = law preventing black men who didn't even wear uniforms from going around armed. They were so shocked to find that there wasn't a law to cover that situation that they allowed the Panthers and Betty Shabazz to leave unmolested. Even the Richmond police couldn't find the proper law, and they have effectively usei law tp control the actions of Negroes for a number of years. Richmond police met a 30-man armed Panther group in April. They had gone to Richmond to discuss with police the pro- blems that develop when white cops shoot unarmed Black boys. Richmond police, like the San Mateo Sheriff before them, discovered that the law covers concealed weapons. The Panth- ers' firepower was very much in evidence, something that was frightening to the police, but not yet illegal. Assemblyman Mulford, who usually acts as though his ambition is to become Fuhrer of Berkeley, decided to do something about this. He pro- posed a law that would make it a crime to display guns as the Panthers had been doing, there- fore inspiring a Panther visit to Sacramento. They felt, and announced, that the law was another item helping to prove that white power wiélders pre- fer their Blacks totally un- armed and completely availablo for whatever terror might be directed toward them by police men, National Rifle Associatio boosters, Minutemen or stray racists who want to fill an idle hour. Well, Assemblyman Mulford almost swallowed his napalm chewing gum when he Looked up to find that the Panthers had revived an early American protest. You might call it a gun-in. The state police were comp- letely unprepared. Those in the capitol are supposed to protect the assemblymen from harm. Ap- parently there aren't enough people in the state who really know what their assemblymen ire doing in Sacramento to con- stitute a threat. Guarding the assembly became the nearest hing to retirement. Suddenly they were jolted to see 23 men, very Black and very armed, moving into the assembly cham- bers. To add to it, the Pan- thers didn't even remove their hats. The police rallied, maneu- vered the Panthers into one room and for a short time sep- arated some of them from their guns. This last step was easy, as the Panthers didn't resist. The Panthers were demonstrating that whites react with power to orevent even token demonstra- tions of power on the part of Blacks. The State Police didn't find a law to cover the situa- tion, gave the Panthers back their guns and the group left. But then, a law was found. Minutes after leaving the Capitol building, Sacramento City Police arrested 23 Pan- thers on a variety of charges. Later, these were dropped, and they were all charged with conspiracy to disturb the as- sembly. Conspiracy is a fel- ony, and what places like So- ledad and San Quentin are all about. It has already been demon- strated that a law is not a law when it protects Negroes. That's why equal hiring laws, public accomodation statutes and equal educational codes are not enforced. Blacks are expected to be happy just seeing that there are laws for them. The Panthers went out of their way to prove that when there is no law, that somebody will create one. This demonstration means that they now face trumped up fe- lony charges. Separate bu equal used to be the law of the land. It didn't work out that way, as Negroes are becoming con- vinced that equality and an equalizer have something. in common. They are suspicious of a set of laws which ends up with only certain classes of people carrying guns. When some of these are Black, they have white officers. The Black experience with the law is that it is often used to the disadvantage of the race. The lessons of his- tory, the possible threat of racial annihilation and the very real concentration camps that have been prepared to make Negroes even more aware of the way the law works. There's a logical answer, if Blacks want laws to work for them. We've got to start wri- ting a few of our own. That's the position of the Black Pan- thers--it's also tqday's law lesson. In the past, black politi- cians have, more often than not, been nothing but sleek, groveling jumping jacks for the white man. They were placed in office by white political machinery and have served no other function than that of vote-getters for white politi- cians at election time. When the white man wanted to pull a fast one on black people, he called out his boot- licking black politicians to voice an opinion supporting Are you with us? Check one or m coupon, enclose a check or mone [J one month at $1.00 (J six months at 35.50 (J one year at $10.00 (1 33.00 if you have it CI 50¢ if you don't Convere is my contribution to BLACK PANTHiR PARTY FOR Box 8641, Hmeryville Branch Oakland, California CJinter my subscription to the "BLACK PANTHER" for PAGE EIGHT THE BLACK PANTHER the action taken or contem- plated. These conscienceless black tools did not care about the suffering of the black masses. All they were concerned with was their own standard of living - which was very high ycompared to that of other blacks. While the black masses wasted away in the slums and ghettoes, dying from lack of adequate clothing, shelter, and | proper medical attention, livig worthless lives because of the lack of proper educational facilities, black politicians ate good food, wore the best of clothes, lived in fine homes and sent their children to the best schools. It is true that not all 'black politicians were always this way, but it has been true often enough to make the ex- ceptions in history stand out like blonde hair on a black woman, But times have changed. The black masses are on the march for Black Power. We hope that black politicians do not think that the cry for Black Power offers them another ticket to a higher standard of living while the black masses remain stuck in the mud of white America. Neither should black politicians think that they can get away with paying lip-service to the rhetoric of Black Power while actually continuing to play dirty white politics with the welfare and destiny of the black masses. Such corrupt games are no longer possible. Politicians who are stupid enough to think that they can still get away with tricks and lies are in for a rude awaken- ing - to say the least. The best advice we can give to black politicians is for them to come home and stay home. Those who do not heed the call are going to suffer ruthless exposure and merciless opposition. The time of buck- dancing for the white man is over. Those who do not heed this call are going to find themselves in the position of Brook Benton's boll weevil - “looking for a home". Can you dig it? ore of the boxes, fill in the y order, and mail it today to: SELF DEFEN I want to join the Black Panther Party for Self Defense B.RePeP eek