{"id":89439,"date":"2024-05-26T23:13:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T04:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindseyemag.com\/magazine\/?p=89439"},"modified":"2024-05-26T23:13:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T04:13:31","slug":"power-anywhere-where-theres-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindseyemag.com\/magazine\/power-anywhere-where-theres-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Anywhere Where There\u2019s People!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written:<\/span>\u00a0Speech delivered at Olivet Church, 1969<\/em>
\nSource:<\/span>\u00a0Pamphlet printed by the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party<\/em>
\nTranscription\/Markup:<\/span> 2020 by Philip Mooney<\/em><\/p>\n

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Power anywhere where there\u2019s people. Power anywhere where there\u2019s people. Let me give you an example of teaching people. Basically, the way they learn is observation and participation. You know a lot of us go around and joke ourselves and believe that the masses have PhD\u2019s, but that\u2019s not true. And even if they did, it wouldn\u2019t make any difference. Because with some things, you have to learn by seeing it or either participating in it. 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. Right? Because you can have as many degrees as a thermometer. If you don\u2019t have any practice, they you can\u2019t walk across the street and chew gum at the same time.<\/p>\n

Let me tell you how Huey P. Newton, the leader, the organizer, the founder, the main man of the Black Panther Party, went about it.<\/p>\n

The community had a problem out there in California. There was an intersection, a four-way intersection; a lot of people were getting killed\u2014cars running over them, and so the people went down and redressed their grievances to the government. You\u2019ve done it before. I know you people in the community have. And they came back and the pigs said \u201cNo! You can\u2019t have any\u2026.\u201d Oh, they don\u2019t usually say you can\u2019t have it; they\u2019ve gotten a little hipper than that now. That\u2019s what those degrees on the thermometer will get you. They tell you \u201cOkay, we\u2019ll deal with it; why don\u2019t you come back next meeting and waste some time?\u201d<\/p>\n

And they get you wound up in an excursion of futility, and you be in a cycle of insaneness, and you be goin\u2019 back and goin\u2019 back, and goin\u2019 back, and goin\u2019 back so many times that you\u2019re already crazy.<\/p>\n

So they tell you, they say, \u201cOkay niggers, what you want?\u201d And they you jump up and you say, \u201cWell, it\u2019s been so long, we don\u2019t know what we want\u201d, and then you walk out of the meeting and you\u2019re gone and they say, \u201cWell, you niggers had your chance, didn\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n

Let me tell you what Huey P. Newton did.<\/p>\n

Huey Newton went and got Bobby Seale, the chairman of the Black Panther Party on a national level. Bobby Seale got his 9mm\u2014that\u2019s a pistol. Huey P. Newton got his shotgun and got some stop signs and got a hammer. Went down to the intersection, gave his shotgun to Bobby, and Bobby had his 9mm. He said, \u201cYou hold this shotgun; anybody mess with us, blow their brains out.\u201d He put those stop signs up. There were no more accidents, no more problem.<\/p>\n

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Now they had another situation. That\u2019s not that good, you see, because its two people dealing with a problem. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, no matter how bad they may be, cannot deal with the problem. But let me explain to you who the real heroes are.<\/p>\n

Next time, there was a similar situation, another four-way corner. Huey went and got Bobby, went and got his 9mm, got his shotgun, got his hammer and got more stop signs. Placed those stop signs up, gave the shotgun to Bobby, told Bobby \u201cIf anybody mess with us while we\u2019re putting these stop signs up, protect the people and blow their brains out.\u201d What did the people do? They observed it again. They participated in it. Next time they had another four-way intersection. Problems there; they had accidents and death. This time, the people in the community went and got their shotguns, got their hammers, got their stop signs\u2026.<\/p>\n

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Now, let me show you how were gonna try to do it in the Black Panther Party here. We just got back from the south side. We went out there\u2014we went out there and we got to arguing with the pigs or the pigs got to arguing\u2014he said, \u201cWell, Chairman Fred, you supposed to be so bad, why don\u2019t you go and shoot some of those policemen? You always talking about you got your guns and got this, why don\u2019t you go shoot some of them?\u201d<\/p>\n

And I said, \u201cYou\u2019ve just broken a rule. As a matter of fact, even though you have on a uniform it doesn\u2019t make me any difference. Because I don\u2019t care if you got on nine uniforms, and 100 badges. When you step outside the realm of legality and into the realm of illegality, then I feel that you should be arrested.\u201d And I told him, \u201cYou being what they call the law of entrapment, you tried to make me do something that was wrong, you encouraged me, you tried to incite me to shoot a pig. And that ain\u2019t cool, Brother, you know the law, don\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n

I told that pig that, I told him \u201cYou got a gun, pig?\u201d I told him, \u201cYou gotta get your hands up against the wall. We\u2019re gonna do what they call a citizens\u2019 arrest.\u201d This fool don\u2019t know what this is. I said, \u201cNow you be just as calm as you can and don\u2019t make too many quick moves, \u2019cause we don\u2019t wanna have to hit you.\u201d<\/p>\n

And I told him like he always told us, I told him, \u201cWell, I\u2019m here to protect you. Don\u2019t worry about a thing, I\u2019m here for your benefit.\u201d So I sent another Brother to call the pigs\u2014you gotta do that in a citizen\u2019s arrest. He called the pigs. Here come the pigs with carbines and shotguns, walkin\u2019 out there. They came out there talking about how they\u2019re gonna arrest Chairman Fred. And I said, \u201cNo fool. This is the man you got to arrest. He\u2019s the one that broke the law.\u201d And what did they do? They bugged their eyes, and they couldn\u2019t stand it. You know what they did? They were so mad, they were so angry that they told me to leave.<\/p>\n

And what happened? All those people were out there on 63rd Street. What did they do? They were around there laughing and talking with me while I was making the arrest. They looked at me while I was rapping and heard me while I was rapping. So the next time that the pig comes on 63rd Street, because of the thing that our Minister of Defense calls observation and participation, that pig might be arrested by anybody!<\/p>\n

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So what did we do? We were out there educating the people. How did we educate them? Basically, the way people learn, by observation and participation. And that\u2019s what were trying to do. That\u2019s what we got to do here in this community. And a lot of people don\u2019t understand, but there\u2019s three basic things that you got to do anytime you intend to have yourself a successful revolution.<\/p>\n

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A lot of people get the word \u201crevolution\u201d mixed up and they think revolution\u2019s a bad word. Revolution is nothing but like having a sore on your body and then you put something on that sore to cure that infection. And I\u2019m telling you that were living in an infectious society right now. I\u2019m telling you that were living in a sick society. We\u2019re involved in a society that produces criminals, thieves and robbers and rapers. Whenever you are in a society like that, that is a sick society. And anybody that endorses integrating into this sick society before it\u2019s cleaned up is a man who\u2019s committing a crime against the people.<\/p>\n

If you walk past a hospital room and see a sign that says \u201cContaminated\u201d and then you try to lead people into that room, either those people are mighty dumb\u2014you understand me, cause if they weren\u2019t, they\u2019d tell you that you are an unfair, unjust leader that does not have your followers\u2019 interests in mind. And what were saying is simply that leaders have got to become\u2014we\u2019ve got to start making them accountable for what they do. They\u2019re goin\u2019 around talking about so-and-so\u2019s an Uncle Tom so we\u2019re gonna open up a cultural center and teach him what blackness is. And this nigger is more aware than you and me and Malcolm and Martin Luther King and everybody else put together. That\u2019s right. They\u2019re the ones that are most aware. They\u2019re most aware, cause they\u2019re the ones that are gonna open up the center. They\u2019re gonna tell you where bones come from in Africa that you can\u2019t even pronounce the names. That\u2019s right. They\u2019ll be telling you about Chaka, the leader of the Bantu freedom fighters, and Jomo Kenyatta, those dingo-dingas. They\u2019ll be running all of that down to you. They know about it all. But the point is they do what they\u2019re doing because it is beneficial and it is profitable for them.<\/p>\n

You see, people get involved in a lot of things that\u2019s profitable to them, and we\u2019ve got to make it less profitable. We\u2019ve got to make it less beneficial. I\u2019m saying that any program that\u2019s brought into our community should be analyzed by the people of that community. It should be analyzed to see that it meets the relevant needs of that community. We don\u2019t need no niggers coming into our community to be having no company to open business for the niggers. There\u2019s too many niggers in our community that can\u2019t get crackers out of the business that they\u2019re gonna open.<\/p>\n

We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I\u2019m talking about the white masses, I\u2019m talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We\u2019ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don\u2019t fight racism with racism\u2014we\u2019re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don\u2019t fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.<\/p>\n

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We ain\u2019t gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we\u2019re gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we\u2019re gonna fight reactionary pigs with INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. That\u2019s what it has to be. The people have to have the power\u2014it belongs to the people.<\/p>\n

We have to understand very clearly that there\u2019s a man in our community called a capitalist. Sometimes he\u2019s black and sometimes he\u2019s white. But that man has to be driven out of our community, because anybody who comes into the community to make profit off the people by exploiting them can be defined as a capitalist. And we don\u2019t care how many programs they have, how long a dashiki they have. Because political power does not flow from the sleeve of a dashiki; political power flows from the barrel of a gun\u2014it flows from the barrel of a gun!<\/p>\n

A lot of us running around talking about politics don\u2019t even know what politics is. Did you ever see something and pull it and you take it as far as you can and it almost outstretches itself and it goes into something else? If you take it so far that it is two things? As a matter of fact, some things if you stretch it so far, it\u2019ll be another thing. Did you ever cook something so long that it turns into something else? Ain\u2019t that right? That\u2019s what were talking about with politics.<\/p>\n

That politics ain\u2019t nothing, but if you stretch it so long that it can\u2019t go no further, then you know what you got on your hands? You got an antagonistic contradiction. And when you take that contradiction to the highest level and stretch it as far as you can stretch it, you got what you call war. Politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with bloodshed. If you don\u2019t understand that, you can be a Democrat, Republican, you can be Independent, you can be anything you want to, you ain\u2019t nothing.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t want any of those niggers and any of these hunkies and nobody else, radicals or nobody talking about, \u201cI\u2019m on the Independence ticket.\u201d That don\u2019t mean nothing. Democrat means you sell out the Democrats; Republican means you sell out the republicans; Independent means you\u2019re out for graft and you\u2019ll sell out to the highest bidder. You understand?<\/p>\n

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We want people who want to run on the People\u2019s Party, because the people are gonna run it whether they like it or not. The people have proved that they can run it. They run it in China, they\u2019re gonna run it right here. They can call it what they want to, they can talk about it. They can call it communism, and think that that\u2019s gonna scare somebody, but it ain\u2019t gonna scare nobody.<\/p>\n

We had the same thing happen out on 37th Road. They came out to 37th road where our Breakfast for Children program is, and started gettin\u2019 those women who were kind of older, around 58\u2014that\u2019s, you know, I call that older cause I\u2019m young. I ain\u2019t 20\u2014right, right, right! But you see, they\u2019re gonna get them and brainwash them. And you ain\u2019t seen nothin\u2019 till you see one of them beautiful Sisters with their hair kinda startin\u2019 gettin\u2019 grey, and they ain\u2019t got many teeth, and they were tearin\u2019 them policemen up! They were tearin\u2019 em up! The pigs would come up to them and say \u201cYou like communism?\u201d<\/p>\n

The pigs would come up to them and say, \u201cYou scared of communism?\u201d And the Sisters would say, \u201cNo\u2014scared of it, I ain\u2019t never heard of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou like socialism?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I ain\u2019t never heard of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pigs, they be crackin\u2019 up, because they enjoyed seeing these people frightened of these words.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou like capitalism?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, well, that\u2019s what I live with\u2014I like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou like the Breakfast For Children program, nigger?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the pigs say, \u201cOh-oh.\u201d The pigs say, \u201cWell, the Breakfast For Children program is a socialistic program. Its a communistic program.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the women said, \u201cWell, I tell you what, boy. I\u2019ve been knowing you since you were knee-high to a grasshopper, nigger. And I don\u2019t know if I like communism and I don\u2019t know if I like socialism. But I know that that Breakfast For Children program feeds my kids, nigger. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast For Children program, I\u2019m gonna come off this can and I\u2019m gonna beat your ass like a\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they be saying. That\u2019s what they be saying, and it is a beautiful thing. And that\u2019s what the Breakfast For Children program is. A lot of people think it is charity, but what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that\u2019s revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change. Honey, if you just keep on changing, before you know it\u2014in fact, not even knowing what socialism is\u2014you don\u2019t have to know what it is\u2014they\u2019re endorsing it, they\u2019re participating in it, and they\u2019re supporting socialism.<\/p>\n

And a lot of people will tell you, way, \u201cWell, the people don\u2019t have any theory, they need some theory. They need some theory even if they don\u2019t have any practice. And the Black Panther Party tells you that if a man tells you that he\u2019s the type of man who has you buying candy bars and eating the wrapping and throwing the candy away. He\u2019d have you walking East when you\u2019re supposed to be walking West. Its true. If you listen to what the pig says, you be walkin\u2019 outside when the sun is shining with your umbrella over your head. And when it\u2019s raining you\u2019ll be goin\u2019 outside leaving your umbrella inside. That\u2019s right. You gotta get it together. I\u2019m saying that\u2019s what they have you doing.<\/p>\n

Now, what do WE do? We say that the Breakfast For Children program is a socialistic program. It teaches the people basically that\u2014by practice, we thought up and let them practice that theory and inspect that theory. What\u2019s more important? You learn something just like everybody else. Let me try to break it down to you.<\/p>\n

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You say this Brother here goes to school 8 years to be an auto mechanic. And that teacher who used to be an auto mechanic, he tells him, \u201cWell, nigger, you gotta go on what we call on-the-job-training.\u201d And he says, \u201cDamn, with all this theory I got, I gotta go to on-the-job-training? What for?\u201d<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cOn on-the-job-training he works with me. I\u2019ve been here for 20 years; when I started work, they didn\u2019t even have auto mechanics. I ain\u2019t got no theory, I just got a whole bunch of practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

What happened? A car came in making a whole lot of funny noise. This Brother here go get his book. He on page one, he ain\u2019t got to page 200. I\u2019m sitting here listening to the car. He says, \u201cWhat do you think it is?\u201d<\/p>\n

I say, \u201cI think its the carburetor.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says, \u201cNo I don\u2019t see anywhere in here where it says a carburetor make no noise like that.\u201d And he says, \u201cHow do you know its the carburetor?\u201d<\/p>\n

I said, \u201cWell, nigger, with all them degrees\u2014as many as a thermometer\u2014around 20 years ago, 19 to be exact, I was listening to the same kind of noise. And what I did was I took apart the voltage regulator and it wasn\u2019t that. Then I took apart the alternator and it wasn\u2019t that. I took apart the generator brushes and it wasn\u2019t that. I took apart the generator and it wasn\u2019t that. After I took apart all that I finally got to the carburetor and when I got to the carburetor I found that that\u2019s what it was. And I told myself that\u2014fool, next time you hear this sound you better take apart the carburetor first.\u201d<\/p>\n

How did he learn? He learned through practice.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care how much theory you got, if it don\u2019t have any practice applied to it, then that theory happens to be irrelevant. Right? Any theory you get, practice it. And when you practice it you make some mistakes. When you make a mistake, you correct that theory, and then it will be corrected theory that will be able to be applied and used in any situation. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve got to be able to do.<\/p>\n

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Every time I speak in a church I always try to say something, you know, about Martin Luther King. I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced. And I listened to anyone who speaks well, because I like to listen to that. Martin Luther King said that it might look dark sometime, and it might look dark over here on the North Side. Maybe you thought the room was going to be packed with people and maybe you thought you might have to turn some people away and you might not have enough people here. Maybe some of the people you think should be here are not here and you think that, well if they\u2019re not here then it won\u2019t be as good as we thought it could have been. And maybe you thought that you need more people here than you have here. Maybe you think that the pigs are going to be able to pressure you and put enough pressure to squash your movement even before it starts. But Martin Luther King said that he heard somewhere that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And we\u2019re not worried about it being dark. He said that the arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward heaven.<\/p>\n

We got Huey P. Newton in jail, and Eldridge Cleaver underground. And Alprentice Bunchy Carter has been murdered; Bobby Hutton and John Huggins been murdered. And a lot of people think that the Black Panther Party in a sense is giving up. But let us say this: That we\u2019ve made the kind of commitment to the people that hardly anyone else has ever made.<\/p>\n

We have decided that although some of us come from what some of you would call petty-bourgeois families, though some of us even one day aspired to be petty-bourgeois, some of us could be in a sense on what you call the mountain top. We could be integrated into the society working with people that we may never have a chance to work with. Maybe we could be on the mountaintop and maybe we wouldn\u2019t have to be hidin\u2019 when we go to speak places like this. Maybe we wouldn\u2019t have to worry about court cases and going to jail and being sick. We say that even though all of those luxuries exist on the mountaintop, we understand that you people and your problems are right here in the valley.<\/p>\n

We in the Black Panther Party, because of our dedication and understanding, went into the valley knowing that the people are in the valley, knowing that our plight is the same plight as the people in the valley, knowing that our enemies are on the mountain top\u2014our friends are in the valley, and even though it\u2019s nice to be on the mountain top, we\u2019re going back to the valley. Because we understand that there\u2019s work to be done in the valley, and when we get through with this work in the valley, then we got to go to the mountain top. We\u2019re not going to the mountaintop because there\u2019s capitalism on the mountain top. We\u2019re going to the mountain top because there\u2019s a motherfucker on the mountain top that\u2019s playing King, and he\u2019s been bullshitting us. And we\u2019ve got to go up on the mountain top not for the purpose of living his life style and living like he lives. We\u2019ve got to go up on the mountain top to make this motherfucker understand, goddamnit, that we are coming from the valley!<\/p>\n

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