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Black Panther Party — Part 22
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(§. We want ecece: @ for our people tbat
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deeasent American stlety. We want
We believe in an educational Sisto tral RHt give to our people a know
edge of solf. If a man does not nave kroattedee of himself aid bis fcsiti
in society and Ube world, then he has HO tua. recut to
nary sersice.
of to Richton the al
We believe that Biack people shut
tary service to defend a racist zove bl th urs HOt protect tts
will not fight and kill ather people of catur in the world who, like be
people, are being victimized by the w must povorament of A
We will protect ourselves from Uw: Sure. wir! ciclonce of the racist pativ
and the racist military, by whatever means i ary. .
7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY aud MURDER
of black people. .
Vack community by - +
cated to defending ons . wd
ac tality. The Second ~
tes gives a right fe bear *
le should arm themselves
We believe we can end police bottais
ganizing black self-defense proups that
black community from racist police opp.
Amendment to the Constilution of the Uatted 5!
arms. We therefore believe that al! Mack po
for self-defense.
8. We want freedom for all black men bei! ko oderai, fate | nty
eud city prisons cnd Jalls. .
We balicve that all black people should be released from the many “
Jails and prisons because they have nol received a fair and impartial trial. ‘
B. We want all black people when brought fu (rial to be tried {n court by Ror
& Jury of their peer group or people fron: their bleck eansmurities, as... t wen baat
defined by the Constitcttan of the United States. ° . .
We believe that the courts should fi the Usitod Stutes Constitution
8c that black people will receive fair righ. The J4:h Amendment of the
US. Constitetion gives aman a right to be toed Ly his peer group. A peer
is a person from a similar ecstiurnic, social, petipivis, geographical, en-
vronmentel, historical and rocial background. To do this the court will be
forced to select a jury froin the ble F .ominuanty from which the black
Gefundant came We have been, and are ting tried by all-white juries a
that have no understunding of the “averaue reasoning mun” of the black ra
community. ‘ oe
10, We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. ‘
And as our major polltical objective, a Unitud Nations-supervised plebls-
cite to be held throughout the black colony in ehich only black colonlal -
subjects will he allowed ta participate, fur the purpose of determining tae ?
will of bizck people as to their natiunal destiny. ;
When, in the course of human events it tomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political band: whica hace connerted them with
another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth. the separate and
equal station to which the laws cr. God entitle then, a
decent respect to the opinions of mowkiid requ at they Should declare
the causes which impel them to the separaiton,
We hold these truths to be self evident, thet ali met are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator wits certain cnalicuatle rights:
(that among these are life, liberty, aml pursuit of happiness. That, to
secure these rights, governments are institaied among men, deriving their
Just powers from tke consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of
government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of the people
to alter or ta eholizh {t, and fo institute a new government, laying ts .
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fonudatica on such principles, and organizing its powers {2 such form, as &
to them shall soess inost Ekely to cffeed thal: safety and hepplness. Prue :
dence, indeed, will dictate that governments Jong established should not “f
be changed for light anc (rausieni causes: and «curdingdy, all experience a
hath ghown, thet mankind are mog d dots suffer, while evils are 4
sufferable, than to right themsvices i& abolishing the forms to which they +e
are accustomed. But, when 2 long train of abuses and wusvrpations, pure at
suing Invariably the samme object, evieces 4 desis tu reduce thew under ab- 2
Solute despotism. It fs thelr right. ft Is their duty. t
ment, and to provide new guards for Weir Qeiare
dhrow off such govera-
one en
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