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Black Panther Party — Part 17
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Joncer confined to a certain
ruphical area, (the South). W
that we are spread throujh the
- confines of racist America. We
See thar once we were confined
to ,a certain area, expluited and
oppressed in the foul clutches of
slavery. We fought our way out
of this lower form of slavery, we
expanded to the
We see that our peopte sre no
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Qh ag <
the abolitluntsts that’*s better Life™”
awaited us. We moved North, but -
became entrenched in a different,
higher form of slavery based not
on jand, but in the factories. This
is called capitalism, So now we
see that we are struggling in all
parts of the country, in all sec-
tors of the economy, on all fronts
in this society, if we understand
that, then we can understand that
nothing is isolated, the struggle
isn’t just happentng in the North,
in the cities, 4a California, In the
South, that the struggle isn’t just
happening in the courts, in the
schools, in the factories, that the
struggle doesn’t just invotve the
Black Panther Party, and Black
people, thatthe strug aie ts happen-
ing everywhere. Because the con-
ditions and basis for a revolution
exist’ everywhere in racist Baby-
Jon, We can see thacit is necessary
fur the whole people to rise up
against the eppressor, the enemy,
and smash him into non-existence.
We can seo that we cannever allow
+ the enemy to force us to think in
terms of the part, and place pri~
* mary focus on the pert, to loc+
alize the struggle, to reglonalize
it, to confine it to a certain area,
We should always think and act
in terms of the whole, the whole
country, the whole people, the
whole problem, the whole sclution.
We must do ft this say, simply:
becsuse this is the culy way to get
total and complete libsrstion for
our people. ~
As we begin the final stage of
this revolusionary thrust, we cee
it havin.: its beginning in the South,
where the conditions andthe people
were the most backward, As this
was happenin, we can see the
enemy trying sarewdly to confine
the struggle to a certain area, to
kecp ir from spreading to the rest
of the oppressed masses, the maj=
ority, the whole people. We tye
them trying to tell us thar the reo-
ple are fighting conditions tt ace
perticulurte their own tow, their
city, their revion, We see them
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