They tell you “Okay, we’ll deal with it why don’t you come back next meeting and waste some time?”Īnd they get you wound up in an excursion of futility, and you be in a cycle of insaneness, and you be goin’ back and goin’ back, and goin’ back, and goin’ back so many times that you’re already crazy. That’s what those degrees on the thermometer will get you. And they came back and the pigs said “No! You can’t have any….” Oh, they don’t usually say you can’t have it they’ve gotten a little hipper than that now. There was an intersection, a four-way intersection a lot of people were getting killed-cars running over them, and so the people went down and redressed their grievances to the government. The community had a problem out there in California.
Newton, the leader, the organizer, the founder, the main man of the Black Panther Party, went about it. If you don’t have any practice, they you can’t walk across the street and chew gum at the same time. Right? Because you can have as many degrees as a thermometer. And you know yourselves that there are people walking around your community today that have all types of degrees that should be at this meeting but are not here. Because with some things, you have to learn by seeing it or either participating in it. And even if they did, it wouldn’t make any difference. You know a lot of us go around and joke ourselves and believe that the masses have PhD’s, but that’s not true. Basically, the way they learn is observation and participation. Let me give you an example of teaching people.
#WHO SAID POWER TO THE PEOPLE ARCHIVE#
Transcription/Markup: 2020 by Philip MooneyĬopyright: This work has been made available to the Marxists Internet Archive with the permission of the copyright holders. Source: Pamphlet printed by the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party Written: Speech delivered at Olivet Church, 1969 Power Anywhere Where There’s People!, by Fred Hampton
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