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We don’t care whether anybody likes it or not.

Let’s initiate the decentralization of the police….The only real thing is the people, because pigs bite the hand that feeds them and they need to be slapped. "And Dred Scott couldn't understand this. Why don’t they go back home to thinkin’ what you’re wearin’ is going to change you?

They were laughing at Malcolm. When they do that, when they come in there with tanks and those tanks are tools, those tanks are tools of war, they’re declaring war on the community. That if Malcolm came back, he’d walk pas a million Klansmen to get to Stokely and whoop his motherfuckin’ ass. And like Chaka said, when you catch them in you’re house, hit ‘em with anything. And it’s on three stages, we call it the three-in-one: avaricious, greedy businessmen; demagogic, lyin’ politicians; and racist, pig fascist, reactionary cops.

Because they know when they comin’ to a Panther’s crib that we might talk a lot of rhetoric, but we deal with the same basic jargon that the people in Babylon deal with. We know what pigs don’t like. And when you see those two Brothers who picked up them guns and went out into Babylon in ’66 when a lot of us were scared to do anything except lock ourselves up in the closet and listen to Coltrane—ain’t that something for woopin’ a motherfucker’s ass.

We say it’s no longer a question of violence or non-violence. Because you’re not doin’ nothin’ for nobody but Florsheims and Stetsons or Stacy Adams and anybody else, because you’re gonna wear your soles out—your metaphysical souls and the soles on your shoes.

Did you think Buckney was white? Because Doug and them they criticized us for our liberal stand. We say that the oppressor—fuck Judge Taney—the oppressor has no rights which we, the oppressed, are bound to follow.If you get a chance, come see about Bobby. We’re saying that unless people show us through their social practice that they relate to the struggle in Babylon, that means that they’re not internationalists, that means that they’re not revolutionaries, truly Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries.

Hand me one of them posters, Brother. Chairman Bobby Seale says that as long as there’s black people, there’ll always be the Black Panther Party. You heard your Field Lieutenant talking about a fire in the room, didn’t you? I’m gonna tell you the whole story in a minute. We call them ideological servants of United States fascism. Fuck John Wayne and all this other shit.Alright. This is something we got from slave masters. And we say if you can’t relate to that, then fuck you.Because our line’s been consistent. We already qualified that.” That’s why these apologists like Wesley South come on the air, and to rap that sophistry that the Sister was talkin’ about. The Sister made a beautiful speech as far as I'm concerned. We’re not metaphysicians, we’re not idealists, we’re dialectical materialists. And you Brothers holdin’ a .357 Magnum in your hand, there ain’t nothin’ that feels like a .357 Magnum, except one of these beautiful black Sisters.

No does everybody know where 16th and Springfield is at?

Let’s get all the white folks out of here.” Got all the white folks out, and now he’s oppressing all the black folks. You might think, you might say you’re chauvinistic, organizational chauvinistic you might call it.

And we ought to drive them out. But they didn’t know. So we'd like you, if you'd like to do that, so people ask you "Have you been to the trial," tell them that you've been down or heard about the hecatomb, because that's what it is. Why don’t they go back home where they belong.” When that beat started last November a year ago in Chicago, Illinois, at 2350 W. Madison, when me and Chaka and Bobby Rush and Che and some more Brothers and Jewel got together and said we’re gonna start a Black Panther Party right here. Then this made us black enough to get out and launch a blanket indictment at the murder-mouthin’ rest of the black people.

Cause that’s what we relate to, that’s what’s happening in Babylon. It said we need to draw the line of demarcation.