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Black Panther Party — Part 19
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On WD « oportcs that, when
prospective members appear at the Black Panther Party (BPP)
Headquarters, 1210 East Sth Street, Winston-Salem, North
Carolina, they are asked a number of questions, including
whether or not they are willing to die for their people and
whether or not they would willingly kill a relative to
further the revolution. They are also advised that they
must learn the Ten-Point Program of the BPP, its rules,
and will be taught how to shoot a gun and take physical
training.
le os
ording mace of what was billed as a Cc nther Party
rally for BOBBY SEALE held May 3, 1970, at the “Tower of
Power," Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Due to the necessity
of conserving tape, SER not get all of the speeches or
comments by each individual with the exception of the guest
speaker.
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Review of the tape indicates the guest speaker was
Brother DARUBA, described as a member of the "New York 21."
Among his comments were the following statements:
"We'll say to them, either free our people !
who are political prisoners in jail, we we'll
institute a pirate nightmare from one end of
Babylon to the other. And your national guards,
your national] guards, well weekend reactionaries,
your part-time imperialists, and your regular arnay, '
your 82nd Airborne, and your Marine Corps, and
your Special Forces, and your Air Force, your
guided missiles, your atomic bombs, are all in
left field and don't mean anything. You see,
because you got niggers in the army, in the
Special Forces, in the National Guard.
"And that is what every black man must stop
to think about. And that is the issue of survival.
And that issue of survival clings very crucially
to the issue of whether we would allow the pigs
to railroad us according to their laws or murder
us in their jails. Whether we would allow that,
So, if you're in the army, we're not saying come
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