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Black Panther Party — Part 8
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“And sn we're going to have to start dealing with them, but
we ne2zd your cooperation also, because our party, the Black Panther
Farty, 123 not a party for itself. it is a party for the people.
Wu consider curselves as nothing but people's servants. We don't
ernsider ourselves as ging all out, yOu know, just putting our
lives on the line. We're realy, this is our duty to do this.
It's our duty to do this. And you better believe it's our duty.
Sc when we start talking about ways of strugle and time, it's time
te really be a public servant, let's start talking about I'ma
(unintelligible). We're out here every day trying to
bring people to their consciousness to what's going on. We're
just warning, if you don't have your shit uptight then don't have your
giv together, you stay away. Don't come around trying to talk this
stuff to me or any other pers-n who is a hard-working servant of the
pecple, in a nice community trying to tell us how you believe in
this. We say theory is cool, but theory without practice ain't
shit. So when you come to me trying to talk that stuff, don't
(The tape skips here for a few seconds and the LITTLE's
speech goes cn as follows.)
"Racoanize it and see slavery Out of a social system
that is really killing us. Panthers (phcnetic) is called revolution
and you think of it now when you start calling yourself a
revelutionary. It's Spiro Agnew, it's Spiro Agnew. It's Mayor
Pig Benton.- It's Mayor Pig Justus Tucker. It is anybody who is
standing in the way of our damn freedom, because we'l! get our
damn freedom by any damn means necessary.
“Youaren'’, ready for that. No, you aren't ready for
that. I don't know, I told you I was going to talk, I told you
when I was taking over the rally. And I told you I didn‘t know
what I was going to say when I got up here. So, next you're just
geing to have to make me a sp2aker because you should have let me
be the emcee. That's what I was supposed to have been, the
emcee.
“Now I get carried away. I say you're party. You aren't
ready fer those songs. JAMES BROWN can get us that. He's talking
black and proud and having black people work in his restaurant,
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