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Black Panther Party — Part 8
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a _ SF. PYACK PANTHEn PARTY
“And we want to play this song, and this is in memory
ef all Fanthers, all hlack pecple, all poor oppressed people, who
dicd in the struggle. There still has to be a struggle for
complete emancipation.
“And now, we're trying to get the album down here. The
album, it is not fancy. It is put out by Vote (phonetic) Record
Cerpany and has a lot of beautiful songs on it.- I think that you
really have to be completely in the struggle to understand what
this sister is coming from. She has a beautiful voice.
“you know, you don't know how long we're going to be
on the set. \ecause this American Government is moving into open
Fascism. You got to understand that they aren't just attacking
Chairman BOBBY SEALE in Connecticut. They're attacking black
pecple period. And see, that's what you got to understand. RALPH
ABERNATHY, the head of the Southern Christian Lex dership
Conference, said that the government is now dealing with the
Black Panther Party and pretty soon they'll be dealing with SCLC
and the NAACP. Anyone who's in opposition to the way this power
structure is treating our people and who acts in a revolutionary
manner. The power structure is going to try to deal with them. The
power structure is gg@ing to try to deal with them. And you better
understand that. You had better understand, that times we get
up about 6 o'clock in the morning, at least 7 o'clock, I don‘t
know what's going « wn, but it seems like we're always cal led
away, you know, on an «mergency or something of some kind.
"I may have to reach one of the brethren, you know, some
kind of emergency is coming up. You know, I'm going to have to
1 eave.
you know, 6 o'clock in the morning, feeding little children in
the black conmunity if we possibly can, free brezkfast every
morning. This is not, we're not concerned about just trying to
shew off or trying to get any glory for this. We just simply
know that these children have to be fed and so we're roving to
feed them by any means necessary. This next song, I know you're sort
of tired of songs. You say well I didn't come here for all of that.
"But getting back to what I Said before, you get up,
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