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Good morning. They the gentleman. I want to thank both who are responsible for inviting me here today. I want to thank Mickey Mouse. Now Reagan. Was. The Dow dropped rapper. And Big Mama on rapper making it possible. I'm pleased to be here in the big band in Sacramento today. This is the man. Where the race is. No press is not there. Genocide no crimes against the people. Someone told me that when Ronald Reagan entered the capital here they changed the name of the capital to the Ferry Building. I think that's very appropriate. I want to congratulate
whoever came up with that thought. I have a threshold word for round in the morning. But you're not a baby. It. Might have been. And I believe the router is a sissy and a coward and I challenge him to or do. I care and want to do it to the deaf and he can weapons to be a baseball bat. And a nice marshmallow beat him to death with a marshmallow.
You know I lived in this area for a number of years. Folsom Prison of about 20 miles from here and there. And I had occasion I had reason to keep my own home and gone to Sacramento to prevent them the adult authority has its headquarters here in Sacramento a property here in the pig pen. I know that my parole officer has his comrades here today. His agents here around Reagan authority are all the wardens of all the prisons all the pig who patrol the prison but few. Have never dared say that it's necessary to say that they're going to threaten me with prison again. They're telling me that I didn't go along with their program. They warned
me when I was released from prison that there were two things I would not to do. I would not to say anything right in it being derogatory about the prison system about any big crowd of Titian and where I want to know how can you say anything relevant today without talking about the power structure. How can you do that. Totally cannot go wrong. We cannot go along with their program. We feel in fact that there prevents our press must be turned against them because they are the criminals they are the ones who are honor and been the ones who need rehabilitating and who will never stab me with it put me in prison and not saying what I want to say because it's none of their business. They are public servants. I'm a taxpayer you dig it and they receive their paychecks out of my pocket and I'm going to do it. All those who see their paycheck out of my pocket
in the order they must be and this is the problem in the world today particularly here in Babylon. We have a problem here in Babylon. Arrogant public servant. These big uniforms your local police stop all forces are public servants. Politicians are public servants yet they have gotten the attitude they've become so arrogant that they pretend to act right being on the people directly on the government and that there's nothing the people can do about it. I say that there Bushehr that there is something the people can do about it. There's always been that the people can do about it and that is we can walk into those veges they do have them by the ears by the scruff of the neck and drag them out brawl in the gutter where they belong. We can do that except by half the other. Tell
you that the Black Panther Party Eldridge Cleaver is the range that he represents the threat to white people and the white people are becoming more and more races that in fact the president is a racist from Alabama Georgia. We know it because we see in the papers to become you and ask you what you found out about George Wallace. They did come to me and ask me what I thought about the motherfucker. Go there what they're doing what they're doing is using propaganda to confuse people and to sway public opinion to make people think that this is the tree and so that everybody will want to hop on the way. But that's not what's happening. I believe that Richard Nixon finances all the public.
Because what he did have is fair George want except from right wing extremists which can be and it pains him as a middle of the roader. So he the very slippery. He's been in that game a long time and you know how to ease his way through a tight squeeze. He's trying to be this way into the White House. But really the whole election this year the relevant is that you have a chart and on. Every. Chart. That guy that people have. Thank you. That's not a charge that we can feel comfortable. The next four years because of the tensions of the well the tensions within this country have reached a point where something has to give you each of the people who are going to have to cave in under the pressure put upon them by the peers of the
power structure or we're going to turn that pressure around and make the kids cave in today. We think that the part of the solution or you're part of the problem. There is no more middle ground. There's no more middle ground because the black liberation struggle in this country which is really the motive force behind all the boat rocking is going on has reached a point where it can't turn back. Nonviolence has grown away with Martin Luther King. When the rains the shad Martin Luther King would have to give him fuel nonviolence this song to me the black people reached the point where they're fair no more no more. If you shoot me I'm shooting back. If you put your stick of fat in my hair I will put something up bad your hair don't come to me talk about you going to spray maze in
my face but I'm not going to have it record narrated you're not Superman you're not Superman you just another man you have a uniform on. You have a badge on and this is the goal of the frightened people. We have been indoctrinated to fear you. We have been indoctrinated to respect authority no matter whether they've been perverted by peers or not but we recognize today that we're not dealing with authority government authority is something that people do that to us you have no respect for authority. That's not true. Authority comes from some of the stop the rise when the people authorize something they submit to it because that's an expression of their will. But we have been for the power structure exercising power and this name and that of Bharti. They have power based upon force. Guns in the hands of Sandown to enforce
the law the rule in the regulations for the larger prison outside wall the fold for them. If it were not for the policeman with his gun with his with his gas chamber of the body back and all that. Who would have any care or who would have any respect. For these visions that are written on the books here in the pig pen of Sacramento headbangers in the legislature in the face of it all there proved to be nothing but tarted paver. If it were not for the fact that they have the brains to stop opening forces to send in to brutalize the people in the forced him to go along with the program. But something has happened to change all of that. Ministry of Defense of the Black Panther Party brother who have. Recently been railroaded through the court of Alameda County now in prison. He was here he was listening. Brother Malcolm X was here write it down
Brother Malcolm X proper found. Black people have been placed in a position where they had no choice. They had know of our turn to do but to arm themselves against the aggression of the power structure. Malcolm X was here talking about that I was an embolism prevented this being brother Bobby Seale in Oakland California this being people all over the country and also white people with this being young white people have this thing with more of an open mind and these old head reprobate races will flow ingrained with racism that even though they recognize what Barry and what they do is destructive and that they don't change. They're not going to change and we have to realize that they're not going to change that the only way the situation could be found it is with
those who understand. It not Debro teetering on the brink of chaos and destruction and that it has to be salvaged by people who are women to recognize each other as human beings to decode the book of American history up until this point and to write a new history. Heretofore we've had a history of the pig or the pig and buy the pig after we've had we've had. I mean we've had a government and government that have become so now so corrupt so degenerate that even the president had been repudiated by his own party. They call that a credibility gap. What they were going to say and the Lyndon Baines Johnson is a motherfucker that ever they were there they were banned they were banned in his reports
cannot be relied upon by the people and that report put out by his various cabinet cannot. Not be relied upon by the people. That's not their thing. But in accordance with American history where everything is relevant in the trough over LBJ they've got a credibility gap. And being a stiff necked Arab It raises the pig. I mean he didn't he didn't try to change it. He just continued to get it. But then the message got through his hair that the streets were NKF young white people were out there demonstrating against his war against his genocide of Vietnam and he finally get that he was fouled so he made an offer to the American people to
give you back your government I go run no. Matter. Where he go run some more. All the pain is gone. They don't run for their lives. They don't run for their lives the way but these derivatives out of Cuba the way change China the way all tyrants all presses. We have to run for them because eventually the people will rise up against them. Put them up against the wall up against the motherfucker. They will do that. And be able to bring it just is upon them for all of the evil they perpetrate upon the heads of the people. They would do that. They would do that. Now a lot of people Eldridge you shouldn't because. I mean. Of the people particularly. Middle class American white people. When I say this
that the term motherfucker is the did him a term every father does that but that's not the part of the fun we talk about. You dirty mother you know of course and you know. We have it down and have the MPEG have it of pungent pointed that I did see the term the term has a history that made this need to be understood. I don't think the people need to be ashamed when they use the term motherfucker because what that does that refers to history. It means that black people have been subjected because of the experience of reform of the family that in the family that we've had here the mother became the central figure because the father here they're here around there. And oftentimes because you couldn't deal with the shit.
Though the mother became the central figure she became the object the veneration of the worst thing that a person could do would commit incest and have carnal knowledge of his own mother. So this is meant to be a profound putdown and when a brother didn't love the put it another down he inflicts that upon him and calls him a practitioner of incest in honor of dishonor of the head of the family. They could if they had a father fucker you know but I mean I don't think that we need to be uptight about those terms. Nothing disgraceful about that. I don't feel that I don't feel a disgrace. I like to say a little thing OK. I have a situation on my hands where I was invited to go to the camp of the universe of California burglary and say motherfucker
to a student there who want to hear that. Now this was supposed to be an experimental car for what the students did they left out in the community and they saw something happen in their baseball that the Black Panther Party was very actively involved with the question of racism trying to deal with racism. And they wanted to relate to that. We've spoken on the campus of Berkeley many times. We've visited many classes there. Right. OK so that they wanted to bring this into the classroom. This would be beneficial. That perhaps a series of lectures could be structured around that and maybe sent the beneficial come out of it. Well you have to remember that this is an election year. You have the Democratic Party the Republican Party fighting over the public trial fighting over the money bag
fight over control of the hydrogen bombs with guns and they need issues. So pretty. Public supervisor of Public Instruction public education minister of education George Murray told me last night that Max Rafferty had a Ph.D. in physical education. You know we often hear that he had to have a doctor's degree you know what he did in football baseball basketball and football. But here here is a man. Here's a man who's running for the United States Senate. Here's a man who had a career ending in attacking certain aspects of the education system in California. Your tax textbooks mention black people in a favorable light. I read a quote in the newspaper this morning when they asked him about law and order the law and order
candidate and he said. That he would never disobey and in no there be live do in the days of slavery. He would have been aided by the fugitive slave love bit of a black slave a thought of refuge in his house. He would turn him over to the slave owner because he is dedicated to law and order. What kind of a motherfucker is that I mean what kind of man is that. The bone headed buffoon of a criminal depriving people of their human rights. Going around saying that Eldridge Cleaver definite qualified to talk about the crisis in the city. He's just as qualified as the tip of the Hun would have been to discuss international mass murder. Here's a man who endorses mass murder. Here's a man who wants to drop hydrogen bombs on China. Here's a man who wants to increase the occupation of black communities by these Gestapo standing armies police department
and he put himself forward as a rat I'll turn it back are you going to turn it off. Yeah so that being people need an issue and they found out that I had been offered this particular course respected at the University of California and they proceeded as demagogues in the state of California have done traditionally to use the campus of the university as a whipping boy. Just barely have the right wing political sentiment hoping for their comrades and themselves to ride to victory at the polls in November. Resulted. This is valid and I think that has to be repudiated since they have used the
machinery of government. We can't do it at the ballot box because what do we have we have a choice between. So the students on that campus have no choice but to but the officials to the millionaire's ex-prime interest on the border ranges. Cough up the abolition of the border regions turning over the ministration of the university to the students and the faculty members and the hobos that use the hole that coarse weather around a ring in a match referee a Jesse Unruh member of the John Birch Society like it or not to far. Thanks good thanks to the demand to deliver to the actors. The region that I could only deliver one too many for you motherfucker. That's what it is. Bismarck does that now
and I'm working with the students on this to deliver 20 whether they like it or not. Thank God none of their business. Thank you. And around me. And Max Rafferty will not be allowed to audit the Cav. It will not be allowed to do that. Even though they are the ones who need it most. But I think that in some sense we may be a little too hard on Ron Reagan because the boy is not responsible for the fame he said. You want to thank you only thing the only thing he can do is regurgitate the scripts that are placed before him. That's all he can do so that if you took away the script and praised him here before the microphone the only sound that would emanate from his lips would be a series of oh it's all right and a high soprano. We have to look behind these puppets and see who is right in their script.
What do they represent and what impact what results of their actions and that we're having. The body politic. That should be our edges. The Black Panther Party the Peace and Freedom Party is interest that as I said closing the book on our history here in this country up until the point we date the closing of the book back to March the 15th when the Peace and Freedom Party in the Black Panther Party formed a coalition in Richmond California at the founding convention of the Peace and Freedom Party. We want to start a new history a history of the people for the people and by the people. A history that could be taught to black students black children and white children not to lie in history. Not one of the bad to try to clean up for the deeds of the past. We say that. Guilt can be inherited if you persist in the lives
of your forefathers but there's not been a Congress about Brame and those who are here today are things that have been done in the past and they don't really have any direct control over the only guilt that could be attributed to white people continuing to run down Democrats again. If they do it by their forefathers those who make a firm and unequivocal break with that past are considered a comrade in the struggle rather the assistive of humanity should be respected the same respect that we give to each other. There has to be that type of respect across the board across the various ethnic divisions and around the world because of the well-off today of the community. It's a community. All of this talk about separation and integration is nothing but political propaganda. It's irrelevant when you look at the real situation because the whole world has become a neighborhood you have a division of
labor in the world now you have a division of resources and we only have political problems that we have technology that is able to enact the basic birth of the Black Panther Party and that is that every man woman and child on the face of the planet Earth today is there the highest the best standard of living that human knowledge and technology is capable of producing. Period. We say that every man wanted to go out of our vet. Anything and anything and everything that stand in the way of that has to go by fair means or foul by any means necessary. The oppressors have no rights which the press the boundaries no rights the exploited businessman control the capitalistic system our criminals the politicians who defend the interests. Of criminals.
And the race is to stop all occupying armies that back them up are criminals and they have no rights with the people about to respect the capitalistic system of control of this country. Is the chief obstacle to progress in the world today. Roman oppression all over the world. Financing arming every repressive oppressive regime on the plains the planet Earth from South Africa to the puppet regime in South Vietnam. To the occupying regime in the black community right here in Babylon is the government the economic system that is doing that is the government. The economic system that had to be changed it has to be changed or the world is going to go up in flames because on the one hand you have people in the Sultana's well who have liberated themselves from capitalism and who are not going to return to capitalism no matter what the revisionist and check off but try to do no matter what the
CIA tries to do around the world no matter what the FBI tries to do no matter what the Marines and the Green Berets tried to do no matter what I want to be they just combined to give a try to do the work I'll have to be liberated from an anachronistic system that is not capable of the fulfillment that is that the needs of the people. We need an economic system that functions on the basis of the needs of the people not the struggle of the triple realm going along according to the margin of profit and loss of business and they end up in a white suburb. That's not what we need. You play that be expropriated must be expropriated that here in America we're not going to turn America over to the Soviet Union. Chairman Mao although they could deal with it. But we need a specific application of the universal principles of socialism. Home grown Yankee Doodle Dandy
American version of socialism that can provide a lie a good lie qualitatively good for the people. The people have a right to that. They have a right to bring all of the intelligent investigations of the past to bear on the present problem. No longer can we afford this we come our under the rug. The man was heavy. He had a lot to say. The man was the scientist the man with the genius and he knew what he was talking about. He has yet to be refuted. You cannot be refuted because what he talked about what he had to say could be verified by experience. We know that the capitalistic system based on the institution of private property is asinine and absurd particularly for black people. How can black people relate to a world. Writers have a new piece of paper that tells them that if you want milk
if you want bread if you want meat if you want clothing if you want to shout do you got it then to the tune of the white racist power structure the white racist power structure of the pings who compose that structure from Rockefeller to Reagan who have mama they came here they came in naked from the womb like everybody else. They didn't come here from the womb with the the trust of the land to the resources they came in naked like everybody else they did. They came here that way. They didn't come here within a blue chips that didn't do it. The earth and the earth was here. Earth are still here and things we need access to these resources in order to live. We have a right to it and no man is going to stand up. And tell me that I can eat that I can have a
place to shelter and I can have clothes if I want bad Be got a paedo to provide a way for me to get through the economic system. If you don't want to put me on welfare as Mickey Mouse Reagan doesn't want to do. If he doesn't want to provide me with medical attention I mean the best medical attention that the Bagobo. I mean if they're passing out heart. If I need one I will. I mean if they're hired debatable. I don't think that only the rich should be allowed to have heart. I think that everybody has an equal right to the heart of it by heart. I want to tell me that we don't want to hear that. And so it has to be done whether they want to hear it or not whether they like it or not because really there are they
can do about it because there are more people in this country than there are paid. The only way that they can win through the technique of divide and conquer by making white people think that is the radical militant crazy niggas would go out and get it to come through the why I thought it would kill the babies. That's the only way they can put out by frightening black people with the specter of genocide that the white people now in their racism surface and that they're going to support therefore to support Nixon and sat still with four more years of the Bush years and we don't have to go for it. And we have the general resort that's always reserved to the people of having another Boston Tea Party.
We can have another tea party. We can take it into the street. We can build a revolutionary movement that detail the pain that you have usurped the machinery of government. You pervert of the chair of the redress of grievances. You leave us no redress. You leave us no avenue for redress so that we are going to take it into the street and debate this issue through other means through other means. Now the people who supported the late Senator Kennedy people who supported the late Senator McCarthy. Had been brought home to them that they use the credit they had a McCarthy faction within the piece to fit a party and they were always criticized because of the peak period. They were fans of what you do. The moderate white people but I noticed when they went to Chicago all try to support their candidate a man who had
taken a courageous stand within certain limitations against the war in Vietnam. When I went to Chicago to the party Him daily taking his orders from me. And. Really don't know with their baseball bats their chemical and efficient service revolvers and they gave the support of Eugene McCarthy left and and and what we thought was that the support of the car to become the paid staff told the chairman of the delegation of Wisconsin said that he had gone to Chicago thinking that he was going to participate in a democratic process and he went there to find out that the Democratic Party had turned into the Nazi party. And I mean we have been saying that all along. But he just didn't see it for the bowl is a little bit
of bad because the pig page ended up doing that themselves. Is there anybody in the audience besides the pig who get have kind we call a pig a pig. Tender hearted baby when they crack your head crack your head. Call in law and order comment regarding your column the guardian of the law. Come on the guardians of the law. That's. How they go about doing it. Should be the first company that nationalized. The telephone company the telephone company should be the first of the means of communication. The mass media should be taken out ahead of the mass media placed in the hands of control of the people.
Let me give you one example. I don't know anyone who is not uptight about their phone bill. I don't know anybody. What that represents is a terrible communication because the rich people can afford those phone bills. They have all kinds of sophisticated devices. Sacramento is Sacramento. What you going to do what you can do. Can you hear me. When I'm not on top of the turn that motherfucker back. Where the pig is doing that. If I want to talk about the phone company and a very important point because. Today I want to talk about the phone company. Do that right. It is very important very important when you recognize that when you have a
country with about 200 million people in it that one of the key thing the whole people together and allow them to have an understanding communication communication and transportation so that we know to the people who are fluent. Only the people who have big money are able to stay in contact with their graduating grads with their childhood friends with their neighbors with their relatives with their roots. That when you start talking about a new nation you're talking about people who cannot communicate with each other. So that when they have the character on the telephone you can afford to call your mother in Mississippi. You can't afford to talk to the members of your graduating class. You cannot afford to continue a lifelong friendship or relationship with large numbers of people because you get can afford the price. So they create a situation where only the rich people.
People with money with me are able to maintain a communication and then create a new nation. This creates confusion and this does unite people from each other so that at a very minimum any self-respecting government has a duty to see to it that the people are able to communicate and downed in transportation. I think that's very clear. I think that very clear communication and transportation is essential to civilization that is the duty of those that we set up to manage the public affairs to provide that sort of the telephone companies in this country should further nationalize the telephone service should be made free to the people because the machines are the only thing they require the cost of maintenance pain of a living salary for those who work to keep the machinery functioning and we don't need to pay these large inflated dividends to the leisure class. We don't need
any more we never did have it don't need it now we have it don't need to have a tariff placed on communication in order for them to go on the Riviera. We don't need that. If in fact it is ridiculous when you walk onto an airplane and have to pay $200 $300 across this country this country only the people with big money can really afford that the transportation communication very clearly should be made to the people and the only cause of the damage is the cost of producing it on a car and the only car in any of the other functions of an economic system a technological system is the cost of maintenance the cost of continuing to function but then fade in profits that go into the pockets of the rich families of the 400 and their backers of the Nixon than their backers the Rockefellers the melons and all
that money and the money that they're wasting on these murderous weapons of war. Here domestically to do away with the ills that have been inflicted upon the people how can you look in the mirror have a good look at your face when you sit around and allow the government of your state to castrate a program of medical care for the aged. What kind of medical treatment of those who need it most. What kind of FIFA knew of it that he was the girl in San Diego who had an addiction and he needed an iron Gnome were available but he didn't have to have 3000 dollars with which to pay for it and the government took no notice of that. If it hadn't been for people not rich people but a poor man in New York who would have an add on for his wife who had died and was willing to donate that to this young girl.
But not for that the government was one of about a move to provide her with that. So how can we live under a system that will deny an iron lung to someone because they don't have the price to pay for it. I say that a system that is the part of both is illegitimate and has to be changed what do you think about that. When you say what do you say about them. Do we have to change a system that would deny medical attention to children do we have to change that. Do we have to change a system that denies medical attention to all people. Do we have to change a system that's willing to spend millions and billions of dollars to murder people across the water to murder people here at home and refuse to authorize anything but welfare we have attained that. Do we have to put a stop. Do we have to put a stop to these. Do we have to put a stop to that. Can we do that do we have the will.
We have a method of doing that. And I want to talk now to the ladies in the audience. Some of the. Women. I want to talk now about our. Political Power grow louder and want to break down. The part of the solution you're part of the problem. And all the native in the audience I don't give a damn if the man I mean I know you can relate. But I want to say this that if you have to be part of solution how can you get the
part of the problem. I'm saying the love and the fact progress can be revolutionary revolution. And then of allowing some of the willing now to become a warrior and try to get all of the evil and all of the people in jeopardy. If you do that you are giving comfort to the enemy. That's what you're doing and you don't have to do that because if you have you have the Revolution to the fence between whether you know that or not. We have all these males running around. Talking about them.
But when it comes to defending their rep with them or talk them out they're not talking about what they want to do the weather the work or not. We say that when they come to you drive them away. Hang the telephone up in their face not to come knocking on your door are not the right. Gavin to get themselves together. And come back and if you don't do that you talked about you want to have all these babies in the future. You're not doing it to help create a whirl for your baby can grow up to be a human being so I repudiate the counterrevolutionaries the revolutionary name in your phone number on the bulletin board and then either help them to call you back to feel good.
So I hope that the put into practice put together. The word around because it has to be done. Right. I have one more thing I want to talk about with the
Nawabs died with Martin Luther King. Now we may be wrong and it may be. When we very well may be. Going to the races. To my desire whenever that is if I find myself before the throne before the throne of God. The long hippy beard me me for not following Martin Luther King. I'm not advocating violence in the face of it. For that I cast me down. I do that. What I'm going to do is look around. But the Advocate the push for the member of the Black Panther Party the revolutionary who assured me that with
a coalition going to get the devil the devil. I am God and God in His wisdom form the coalition with the devil again. Then we have to deal with him. He knew then that the spirit of the people greater than the mass technologies. We have to move beyond the technology overcome the technology and the human spirit to never be Christ beneath any octopus beneath any monstrosity no matter what name they have better to have an arc than to have a system of oppression and I GONE WITH THE FUCK who was cast out of heaven and who said better to be rude and hail than to serve in heaven. That's when you got asked to knuckle under to his new constitution. Go to a race that we'd rather be safe
in our own country strange dress and free dress fails than to be slaying to the French to be oppressive to the appeared to be rather perish in our poverty and our own government and our own freedom to bow down to kowtow to the pig of the power structures that have to be the spirit of the people. It has to be because their number of things that we have to do the number one thing for the Black Panther Party is freeing our leaders. You must be fat free. Now the pig the pig carted out I mean a county. What they did they decided which judge they wanted to be fat over that case so they didn't have a black judge over there to give it to the baker to bring back the verdict they wanted so they picked what historically considered to be next to a black man's country. They had a Jewish judge Judge
Munroe Friedman the day of Yom Kippur that right the Day of Atonement. And if our prayers were aborted there should be a demonstration going on before our judgment of freedom within a doc today in memory of those who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto. A car in the kitchen for those who presided over the final solution to the Jewish problem. They have a Jewish judge. The goyim race is hiding behind Jewish heritage. Because he thought that people that they would see that man he has some knowledge and some history of dealing with oppression and racism so that they have a definite give a fair verdict. This is what they want to believe. But I went to that court and I watched that paint preside over that trial I watched them when evidence was presented and the defense brought forward witness the testimony I watched if in a jury out though they could hear it and listen to it and then say that that's not relevant and would no
doubt to come before the jury. I watched him do that and I watched him when the attorney discovered that the district attorney that falsifies had found the document by an eyewitness who had said that he didn't see the man and he couldn't identify the man who had done the shooting. Is that you read that he did see the man and that he could identify the man who did the shooting. Because what they did they found the fire that they changed it and that was before the jury. And when the attorney discovered it and try to bring the new discovery before the jury I watched this big Jerry Monroe Freedman refuse to allow that to go before the jury. So he's a murderer he's a pig and he is a disgrace to the memory of his brother that festers. His relative who perished in Nazi Germany in the Warsaw Ghetto and this is the Day of Atonement and I have no faith that out of that big of the tone and matter of fact I had better be doing
getting ready to go but going to trial before him. That same court charges that I tried to ambush the Oakland p. You can imagine that they had all these weapons they had the value of the Vienna and they set the ambush the pig. The great because that practice. I have long practice and I know that I can shoot straight and I know that the people who bear charge as my code if it is I know they can shoot straight. And if we had tried to ambush those P They wouldn't dare. But what they did they shout out. They murdered Bobby honey and they shot me and it charged me with trying to try an ambush so that when you're dealing with a situation like that when you're dealing with the Dragon peed on a police department. Poor fellow. Even if. The
fifth hole of the window of the picture is you know in my cell and of Bob you have live already. Drunken open being charged enough with doing to them what they've been doing to us. And again that you know about where the sheriff's office several of the profiles that have been doing I have a long list I have a pain about. Because we complain about in the past what they said with the publicity stunt by the Black Panther Party that we were trying to get our name into the paper. But on this particular night they came back to the office and other people start not the members of the Black Panther Party although some of them thought but they were still a bit but they came by in a convoy and again the local Police Department appealed to the people not to condemn the problem as a whole because there are a few bad apples in the barrel.
He was lying because there were not just two offices of the convoy a freer for cars and the only way to be to get a car. Some citizen Mexican-American woman wrote down the number of the car one car with a black and white car with a number on the sign. The rest of them playing cards as you could see the license plate in the dark but the pig came down stopped in front of the office 5 the shout went down and made a U-turn. And came back and shot the more. When they shot the first shot. The report of the gun of the people I have and when it came back it was the amazement of the office and I shared them with firing guns into our building and buy property have been inhabited by people charged them with your human murder because in fact their apartment above our office apartment behind our office and a high powered rifle that they were using penetrated to
the wall going through several walls and went into the apartment where people with sleeping men women and children. So why are they charged with attempted murder. You go down and shoot a hole in the plane departed window if you have a car you with. They don't hear you have a thing I'll do it all I figured out how lightly and why she did the police getting. Come out and say that not because Danny a child will be private when you know that a mother to have to devolve to feed them when you know that 200 members of the local police department threaten not to show up but what if those two men would defend. That's what they do is they threaten to go on strike if they would if it didn't have to commit to the outrage that there is nothing right in their private everything to give them that ability. Not the book not the back of the P-5 in the room who are recruited. So because Michael
said that he was going through Bigfoot Alabama one day he went to the post office and he thought that hide it from the open but he divined that the people have come to hope and receive $10000 your job as a police officer so that we have a racist murderer to write your minute kook of Crandon on the people. And we see a phenomenon developing I don't know whether they're random luck and get out of hand. What you have to understand is that the police have developed a calf caste consciousness just as the military have a consciousness that they are charged with certain noble duty. They're defended of the people to them if our view of the mystique involved in that they have a guardian angel standing guard over the people against the barbaric harms from the south they feel sounds
like the first peak in history. Michael the archangel the teeth of the following that time about a pile up after that time to the people there would have been five little freewheel with there would be aflame if our father the AF after other prisoners and drove the people out of our city and out of. Their tradition the tradition of flow from that in the left and the founder of the Guardian Angels. Phil I think they're motivated by honor and self-sacrifice and they feel compelled to be misunderstood and so they want to be made to live in their own image. There you know I was in a village a politician in a Bay Area we have a politician running for the Assembly and he the candidate of the open Police Department he doesn't have all the police department and you talk about a military industrial complex
you guys talk about a military industrial complex because the police perform domestically but the military internationally to function this is might have talked about as an occupying army because they're in control of the same people who control the military the same people. After Lyndon Johnson playing the part of the black community and the Pentagon after that here are my feet to fire them. He didn't say that of the Department of Health Education and Welfare. Tell him get over to Rob a strange Macnamara of the head of the Defense Department and now they have the back of my hand. They've gone over the Pentagon and the police with a blueprint and a phantom out go in on the country they have got better plans and anybody coming out of there
none of them now the police are going to have the country on a military bases or do they have a top to bottom. They have an ideology they have a different paper and they have no machinery. You heard of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and they got big money and they. Without any motivation and their combined with power and they're moving to get found they didn't follow me and they're on their turf and people must be tired and we must return it to the people that have to be done. I know that there that we recognize that we have got to have freedom for everybody. Yes we will participate democratically in the destruction of the country.
I want to tip of a democratically in every generation of the country is largely up to might be brought up and I think that the myth of young people out of the jungle is about to get into out of the jungle that there is something going on there or something happening and you don't know what it is. Do you miss a job where you don't know don't know that I will get half the whole aircraft over there to get that thing to him. That's why we have to come here. Then I might have put the flowers. That's why our power to the people because they are never banned. Government of the people for the people via the people there have been that we say our power to the people that power to black people. Left alone FEMA people ran afoul of the people. Yep our young people. Brown power the brown people. And I found a way people will get up to about that. My people never have life our They have the power they have. Been in their name.
I have been there nine telling to go that they are here and have the will of my people when it is carried out the way on into the fatty that you have it ready for them to know the operation of their trying to Sheen and racism comes second. Patience primarily because when you are playing by one microphone when around you do get investigated and out of Europe with the bash a few weeks off microphone and drive in a china Cadillac. With that damn good air ticket and a Chinese name on a piece of filth and I feed the pilgrims. Didn't come to America on the Queen Mary the president's line came in for the right to vote. And they now have an array of men you know in the book if you look at the first five years the ran a tough call on him and taught him to survive in the wilderness are not
America and we know how they are going to pay for that. But you also know that whenever Clinton up and the account of a cartoon around the well they didn't have their philosophy of life that they found out they had a couple of them each that when they got gunpowder from China they have the idea of putting it together in a day that could defeat the spirit of the Arab defeat the other caucus and they found an opportunity to move and they did and they found brainwashing people with their religion. Thinking that wow this is a really game we got going. Around this. So that the preacher than the Pope. Can come from the mouth of God Himself. So to some of the people who believe. Who went out there we didn't tell the other people around the world.
And turn them into Christian. Faith that many people have followed. But it again if I was here. The burden that they were to live in them and we're doing them a favor for all the favor that they're doing what it is that in the beginning but then I think the whole race of the never given the day after we get a day I hope that the very people in the country today may for them the flame of a black if you are. And I'd be really
proud to have you. And we did a good. I noticed that I mean I don't have a I don't care don't have the natural. Yeah but they don't have that. I know that. But and everybody don't have to come out revolution is going on with the young people. Assume in the white man's burden of trying to find a way to move into another into another one. And we can do it. I want to say that when I was 22 and I got out a little older than that and I think I finally stopped and then I want out. Time five years after that so we
have to really feel young people there we have to be a movement that will unite young people don't provide young people with machinery if they need to save the way our faith and to save the people and we cannot know God. I have a Dear John I did. We're over there now from doing what you have have to be done. So if you shoot me now today if you drive me back to the day I am going to be done whether I am going to be what I will be later for the flea problem down with the fire you know if our young people and then they run
up. Thank you.
Episode
Eldridge Cleaver in Sacramento
Title
Racism in America : past, present, future symposium
Producing Organization
KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.)
Contributing Organization
Pacifica Radio Archives (North Hollywood, California)
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cpb-aacip/28-gh9b56dh9r
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An address by the Black Panther Minister of Information and 1968 Presidential nominee for the Peace & Freedom Party at the Racism in America symposium held at Sacramento State College in 1968. He covers a variety of subjects, including the 1968 elections, the telephone company, Social Analysis 139-X, the Panther office shoot-up, and the police and court systems. Contains sensitive language. The pitch of the recording goes up from about 25 minutes in through to the end, so that Cleaver's voice sounds very different by the end of the recording.
Broadcast Date
1969-02-17
Created Date
1968-10-02
Genres
Event Coverage
Topics
Social Issues
Race and Ethnicity
Public Affairs
Subjects
Race relations -- United States; African Americans--Civil rights--History
Media type
Sound
Duration
01:06:14
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Producing Organization: KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.)
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Pacifica Radio Archives
Identifier: 9933_D01 (Pacifica Radio Archives)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
Pacifica Radio Archives
Identifier: PRA_AAPP_BB1772_07_Racism_in_America_symposium_part_7 (Filename)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Generation: Master
Duration: 1:06:09
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Chicago: “Eldridge Cleaver in Sacramento; Racism in America : past, present, future symposium,” 1969-02-17, Pacifica Radio Archives, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed March 29, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-28-gh9b56dh9r.
MLA: “Eldridge Cleaver in Sacramento; Racism in America : past, present, future symposium.” 1969-02-17. Pacifica Radio Archives, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. March 29, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-28-gh9b56dh9r>.
APA: Eldridge Cleaver in Sacramento; Racism in America : past, present, future symposium. Boston, MA: Pacifica Radio Archives, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-28-gh9b56dh9r